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The Youth of Peter the Great (1980) movie

The movie tells about youth of Peter the Great, about formation of his nature and about the immediate circle. The tsar resolutely refuses a number of patriarchal values and aims to propel the country he loves and to which he is devoted with all his youthful ardour, to the most educated ones.

The Youth of Peter the Great (1980) movie

Genres: Biography, Drama, History
Production Co: Gorky Film Studio

Directed by Sergey Gerasimov
Writing Credits: Sergey Gerasimov, Yuri Kavtaradze, Aleksei Tolstoy (novel)
Music by Vladimir Martynov
Cinematography by Sergey Filippov, Horst Hardt
Production Design by Boris Dulenkov, Jochen Keller, Aleksandr Popov
Costume Design by Ella Maklakova

Cast:
Dmitriy Zolotukhin as Peter the Great
Tamara Makarova as Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina
Natalya Bondarchuk as Sophya
Nikolay Eryomenko as Aleksandr Menshikov
Oleg Strizhenov as Vassily Golitzyn
Vadim Spiridonov as Fedor Shaklovityi
Mikhail Nozhkin as Boris Golitzin
Peter Reusse as Franz Lefort
Ulrike Mai as Anna Mons
Yuriy Moroz as Aleksey Brovkin
Eduard Bocharov as Ivan Brovkin
Lyubov Polekhina as Aleksandra Brovkina
Lyubov Germanova as Yevdokia Lopukhina
Roman Filippov as Fedor Romodanovskyi
Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina
Olegar Fedoro as Monk
Pyotr Glebov
Nikolay Grinko as Nektaryi
Hannjo Hasse
Rolf Hoppe
Vladimir Kashpur
Aleksandr Komarov as Brovkin
Marina Levtova
Vitaliy Matveev as Iuda
Klaus-Peter Pleßow
Helmut Schreiber
Yekaterina Vasilyeva

Russian Art - 4 Architecture: Late Muscovite Period

Fourth video about the Russian Art serie. Any doubt? Send me a message.

Historia del Arte:
Land of the Art:

Russian culture is an hybrid generated from habits of many civilizations that shaped this great multicultural state, and it is the result of its development for several centuries, being deeply rooted in the culture of the first eastern slavs.

The Late Muscovite Period goes from 1630 to 1712. After the Period of Troubles, the church and state were in bankrupt, and they couldn't pay more constructions.

The rich merchants of Yaroslavl financed many cathedrals in XVII century, with many bulbous domes and tended roof.
Elijah the Prophet, Yaroslavl: the first churches were asymmetric, like this. It follows the tradition of Middle Muscovite Period. The interior has frescoes of byzantine influence. They were commissioned by Ulita Makarova in 1680, and were painted by a team of 15 people leaded by Guriy Nikitin and Sila Savin. They represent scenes of the life of Elijah and also normal life scenes.
St. John Chrysostom, Korovniki: it follows the aesthetic of the previous one but greater. The bulbous domes are very big compared with the own building.
St. John the Baptist, Yaroslavl: it is the best of all these churches, and the most beautiful. It has fifteen domes. The belltower was built later, in mid-1690. The interior has more than five hundred frescoes about christian saints, St. John the Baptist and biblical themes. They were painted by Dmitri Pleyanov and Fiodor Ignatiev in 1694-1695.

The churches of Moscow of XVII century are very well decorated, but they are more little.
Ascension of Uglich: I'm not even sure if the image I put is of this church to be honest...
Hodegetria, Vyazma: one of the most beautiful buildings. It has three tended roofs, similar to candles. It is called so by Virgin Theotokos Hodegetria, the Virgin that guides saying that the Child is the path to salvation.
Nativity, Putinki: many tended roofs, following the aesthetic of the one of Vyazma.

The Patriarch Nikon said that tended roof constructions were not byzantine-typical, and so he declared them anti-canonical. The tended roofs were forbidden.
Voskresensky Monastery: this is the residence of Nikon. It is also called New Jerusalem Monastery or Resurrection cathedral. Byzantine forms are recuperated.

When the tended roofs were forbidden, the muscovite architects used bracket arches, called kokoshniki.
Kazan cathedral, Moscow: do not confuse with the one in St. Petersburg. It is in the Red Square. It is a reconstruction, because Stalin destroyed it in 1936.
Holy Trinity, Nikitniki
St. Nicholas, Khamovniki
Trinity, Ostankino
Great Cross, Kitai-gorod: this one was destroyed by Stalin and was lost.

Russian architecture became purely decorative, influenced by ukrainian and polish baroque. The first russian baroque churches were little chapels built in zones of family Naryshkin, near Moscow, so the name of Naryshkin baroque is frequently used in this style. Some of these churches are similar to towers, with cubic or ortogonal floors.
Protection of the Theotokos, Fili: composition similar to a stair, with belltower.
Ascension, Pokrovka: it seems more like a jewelry work than a building.

The Stroganov patronized many baroque buildings.
Nativity, Nizhny

At beginning XVIII century it is interesting to name the wooden churches in the north of Russia.
Intercession, Vytegra: it has 24 domes.
Kizhi Pogost: the legend says that the carpenter Nestor only used one axe, that when the building was done, he threw it into the lake Onega while he said there wasn't and won't be other church like this. The most important building of this complex is the Transfiguration church, with 22 domes. Near it is the Intercession church, with 9 domes. The amazing thing of these constructions is that they were built without any nail.

As an add...
Palace of Aleksei Mikhailovich: the artistic reconstruction of interiors was based in historical sources and authentic prototypes.

Take a look at this link for more russian wooden churches:

Music: Pólyushko-Pole by Irfan Kaya [Полюшко-Поле]

Photos taken in Google images.

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Profundos and Oktavists, Vol. 3

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Here is my third compilation of profundos and oktavists. You'll notice I haven't featured any of the extremely famous Russian oktavists (V. Miller, V. Pasyukov, Y. Wichniakov, etc.), since my first two videos have featured these singers. For this compilation I wanted to feature some less well-known oktavists from all around the world.

0:00 Let us not underestimate the power of a low C when sung by a decent oktavist section. Here we have the closing chords of Let My Prayer Arise by Chesnokov (pictured), sung by unknown oktavists in the Choir of the Church of All who Sorrow.

0:17 American profundo Glenn Miller sings down to a low B with Conspirare during a performance of Barber's Agnus Dei.

0:44 From Great Britain we have profundi Richard Savage and Adrian Peacock singing a contra B flat with Tenebrae.

1:02 Romanian profundo Stefan Voicu sings down to a B flat at the close of this piece. Choir director and arranger is Florian Costea.

1:20 Here Andrey Kurilov performs the original, lower ending of Chesnokov's Do Not Reject, albeit pitched up a half step. The only profundo to have recorded the original ending it its original key is Glenn Miller.

1:53 Finnish profundo Tuukka Haapaniemi is famous for his work with a capella group Club for Five, but here we have him singing Rachmaninov's We Hymn Thee in Finnish with the Cantors Minores Ensemble, ending on a contra A flat.

2:07 Romanian profundo Cristian Deheleanu signs down to G1. This was the very first video clip I saw of a profundo in action.

2:27 Next basses James Moellenhoff (pictured first) and Julian Rodescu (pictured second) sing down to G1 with the Millenium Choir on this recording of Bortniansky's choral concerto # 32. Both Rodescu and Moellenhoff are more typically operatic basses, but here serve in the role of oktavists.

The next two oktavists I have included in previous compilations, but without knowing their names. I thought I'd add them in this video.
2:47 Here we have Alexey Gdeshinsky singing down to G1 with the vocal group of the Church of Elijah the Prophet in Yaroslavl.

3:05 Pavel Myakotin singing down to F#1 with Kovcheg in Uglich. You'll notice that Gdeshinsky is also singing with Kovcheg in the latter clip—he sings 1st bass with this choir.

3:27 The Male Choir of the Moscow Representation Church of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra perform Gorbik's original arrangement of Grechaninov for a male choir beautifully with oktavists Sergei Baybikov and Oleg Bardinov reaching a contra F at the close.

3:54 Finally, we have Stefan Voicu (pictured first) and Dan Spatariu (pictured second) singing down to a contra E flat with the Performers Group of Turnu Monastery.

Kovcheg - Oh, You Wide Steppe (2016)

Vocal Ensemble Kovcheg performs this classic Russian folk song with oktavist Alexey Gdeshinsky down to G1 at the end.

Russian Male Choir

Sorry for weird angle, it couldn't be helped.

Archimandrite Christopher Calin sermon

Archimandrite Christopher Calin sermon
Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection,New York, NY, February 3, 2013
Readings for February 3, 2013
Holy and Righteous Simeon the Godreceiver and Anna the Prophetess (1st); Prophet Azariah (10thBC); St Simeon, bishop of Tver (1289); Martyr Vlasios of Cappadocia (3rd); Martyrs Papius, Diodorus, and Claudianus at Perge; Martyrs Adrian and Eubulus at Caesarea; Holy Hierarch Ansgar, archbishop of Bremen and Hamburg, enlightener of Denmark and the North (865); Blessed Prince Romanus of Uglich (1285); Right-believing Great Prince Sviatoslav, in baptism Gabriel; Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Nicholas, archbishop and enlightener of Japan (1912)
9:00 am Hours & Divine Liturgy
35th Sunday after Pentecost
Matt 25.14-30
For it will be as when a man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted to them his property; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them; and he made five talents more. So also, he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.' His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.' And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.' His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.' He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, 'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not winnow; so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.' But his master answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather where I have not winnowed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.'
Col 3.12-16
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Russian Male Chorus

@Hermitage Museum 02/07/2015
The song of the Volga boatmen
Эй ухнем!