Be a king for a day at Romanov's house
Four centuries may have passed since the Romanov's ruled Russia, but their family home still looks just as it did all those years ago.
The building still stands proud in the centre of Moscow and after some careful restoration now offers visitors the chance to get a taste of life in the 17th Century.
The Socially Disadvantaged Children's Circus. Upsala-Circus. St. Petersburg, Russia
Upsala-Circus is one of the best social projects in Russia. Founded in 2000 in St. Petersburg. The one and only circus for rebels and works with children from various groups of social risk and children with special needs like a Down Syndrome.
It is not a traditional circus. Upsala-Circus performances organically combine acrobatics, juggling, contemporary and pantomime, parkour and break-dance. In the circus kids can find a healthy alternative to street life.
Upsala-Circus
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Екатерининский дворец (Пушкин)/ Catherine Palace (Pushkin) - 1917
Царскосельские интерьеры в автохромах
Екатерининский дворец
Андрей Андреевич Заест
1917
Tsarskoye Selo interiors in autochromes
Catherine Palace
Andrey Andreevich Zeest
1917
Music: Sad waltz from Children's Suite No.5 by V.A.Ovchinnikov
On the night of 1 (14) August 1917, the family of the last Emperor left the Alexander Palace, which four hours later received G. K. Lukomsky as Chairman of the Commission for the reception and accounting of the property of the Tsarskoye Selo Palace administration.
At the same time, realizing the memorial value of the items entrusted to him, he appealed to the Commissioner of the Provisional government over the former Ministry of the Court and the Destinies FA Golovin: For a better cataloging of equipment of artistic value, it would be desirable to photograph all the most valuable items in the palaces, as well as the consolidation for posterity and science of order and type of furniture arrangement in 1917, that is by the time of the end of the Russian monarchy.
Lukomsky received permission to shoot in the palaces of Tsarskoye Selo. For this purpose the former stable Colonel photographer Andrey Andreevich Zeest was invited.
Between June-August 1917 colour images of interiors, objects of decorative and applied art and paintings in the Catherine and Alexander palaces were phtographed in autochromes. After that 83 plates were transferred for tthe planned three-volume work Art treasures of Tsarskoye Selo by the publishing house Kopeyka. In 1918 these plates disappeared without a trace. Most of the remaining colour images Lukomsky took with him when emigrated. Only after the end of the Great Patriotic War were parts of this collection began to be returned to Russia.
Amusement Park For Children. Real Russia ep.81
Amusement Park on the example of Ivan Yakutov Park, located in the center of Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia.
Autodrome, electro mobiles, trampolines, carousels, waterball and candyfloss.
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Coming Soon in ep.83. Real Russia
In next episode of Real Russia we'll go to Tavtimanovo, the village located in 60km far from Ufa, the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan of Russia.
Summer house, storage, garden house, street toilet, bath house (banya), ice bucket, tea from natural grasses. Watch in ep.83
The House of Cybersport. Real Russia ep.85
The House of Cybersport in Ufa, Russia, is some sort of electonic games club but dedicated only to sport games like NHL, FIFA and other's.
There 18 places for players in the main area of the House. Each place have a tiny table with monitor and X-box360 on it and an ottoman instead of chair. Ottoman is very comfortable because can adapt to any form of your body.
It cost 50 Russian Roubles (~$1,30) an hour to play in the House of Cybersport. For scholars and student an action 1+1 is avaible all the time. They gets second hour for free.
The House of Cybersport in Ufa, Russia became the result of an activity of the Federation of Cyber Hockey of The Republic of Bashkortostan.
Sport №1 in Russia is always been and still is an ice hockey. So mostly everyone in the House of Cybersport in Ufa, Russia are playing in NHL14 from EA Sports company.
The Federation of Cyber Hockey of Bashkortostan organize a hockey tournaments all the time - the cups of Ufa, cups of Bashkortostan, cup of Russia and once even the World Cup featuring the best NHL cyber players from Finland and Sweden.
One of such tournaments went in the day we filmed this episode. It was a Farewell with EA Sports NHL14 Tournament because EA Sports company just released NHL15, the new version of the game. After this Tournament the House of Cyber Sport will update the games.
The Prize for the Winner became a personal stick of Alexander Pankov, professional hockey player of Salavat Yulaev KHL team which twice in 2008 and in 2011 won the Gagarin Cup (Russian Stanley Cup for the win in play-offs).
More than that, he personally came in the House of Cyber Sport to gift his stick to the Winner and made a photosession for everyone.
In a Farewell of NHL14 Tournament also participated Azamat Muratov, the main inspiret and founder of the Federation of Cyber Hockey of The Republic of Bashkortostan and the House of Cybersport. Very productive person who is also a radio and tv presenter, showmen, composer, musician and the most popular commentator of Salavat Yulaev KHL games during a live broadcasts at BST (Bashkortostan Satellite Television), the government channel of Bashkortostan.
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Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo
The last residence of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. This is the only wing open to the public. The video explores each open room in the wing. I shot this video on September 2, 2009
The Day of The First-Former. Real Russia ep.113 (4K)
The Day Of The First-Former is an original holiday invented and managed by Ufanet, the largest provider of Internet and cable television in the Republic of Bashkortostan.
This is a special event celebrated at the first Sunday of September and dedicated to all children who are just started to study at school (first-formers).
It is starts with a volunteers of Ufanet coming to all schools of Ufa and many other cities who joined this idea, and photograph all of them. They also write down their names and who they wants to be in the future.
Then, just for a couple of days, Ufanet workers are making a huge efforts to print out all of those photographs on a big wide canvases and mount them all to the long fence of the Kashkadan Park of Ufa, Russia.
These canvases consisted of the photos, names and preferable professions of the first-formers are sorted by schools and their grades (classes). So, finally it creates a huge Alley of the First-Formers.
But, still it’s only a little part of the whole holiday in the Kashkadan Park.
During the holiday there works many areas dedicated to different professions and interests.
The areas of the Fire and Police Departments, Ambulance and Emergency Service.
Concert scene for perfomances of children’s collectives.
Dance floor for master classes and competitions of dance schools of Ufa, presenting all kinds of styles and genres.
The Animal’s World for pet’s exhibition.
The City of Creativity for hand craft, arts and robotechnics.
Portable TV and Radio studios where kids can record their greetings for future’s broadcast.
And many other interesting things to do.
In the culmination of the holiday are salut and thousands of balloons launch.
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Walking through the halls of the Winter Palace
The Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was, from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of the Russian monarchs. Today, the restored palace forms part of a complex of buildings housing the Hermitage Museum. Situated between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great's original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late 1730s and 1837, when it was severely damaged by fire and immediately rebuilt. The storming of the palace in 1917 as depicted in Soviet paintings and Eisenstein's 1927 film October became an iconic symbol of the Russian Revolution.
The palace was constructed on a monumental scale that was intended to reflect the might and power of Imperial Russia. From the palace, the Tsar ruled over 22,400,000 square kilometers (8,600,000 sq mi) (almost 1/6 of the Earth's landmass) and over 125 million subjects by the end of the 19th century. It was designed by many architects, most notably Bartolomeo Rastrelli, in what came to be known as the Elizabethan Baroque style. The green-and-white palace has the shape of an elongated rectangle, and its principal façade is 250 meters (820 ft) long and 30 m (98 ft) high. The Winter Palace has been calculated to contain 1,786 doors, 1,945 windows, 1,500 rooms, and 117 staircases. Following a serious fire, the palace's rebuilding of 1837 left the exterior unchanged, but large parts of the interior were redesigned in a variety of tastes and styles, leading the palace to be described as a 19th-century palace inspired by a model in Rococo style.
In 1905, the Bloody Sunday massacre occurred when demonstrators marched toward the Winter Palace, but by this time the Imperial Family had chosen to live in the more secure and secluded Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo and returned to the Winter Palace only for formal and state occasions. Following the February Revolution of 1917, the palace was for a short time the seat of the Russian Provisional Government, led by Alexander Kerensky. Later that same year, the palace was stormed by a detachment of Red Army soldiers and sailors—a defining moment in the birth of the Soviet state.
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Tsarskoe Selo: main residence of the Romanovs
Tsarskoe Selo was the Romanovs’ permanent residence. They lived, hosted balls and formal parties and eventually experienced house-arrest there.
Hospital Room In Russia. Real Russia ep.53
Sergey Baklykov still staying in hospital where he recover from cholelithiasis (stones in his bile duct). However, even in this situation we did everything we could to film the new episode about the real Russian life with no fake and no bullshit!
In this video you will see a typical hospital room in typical Russian state hospital.
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Rare Facts about The Alexander Palace in Russia - PART 1
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Home Of The Romanovs: 25 Things To Know About The Alexander Palace In Russia PART - 1
From a summer residence to a favorite and permanent imperial home, Alexander Palace has been through as much as the people who owned it. Romanov Russian Royal Family
Since its construction which took almost four years (1792-1796), the palace survived many turbulent events. From a summer residence to a favorite and permanent imperial home, Alexander Palace often changed owners. They are now on display in the Alexander Palace museum where people can come and get an insight into what the imperial life was like
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THE EMPEROR'S FAVORITE PLACE
Alexander Palace, located just 30 minutes away by train from St. Petersburg, was the favorite residence of the last Russian Emperor and his family. Nicholas II enjoyed spending time in this beautiful palace. Emperor Nicholas or Nikolai II (Saint Nicholas II of Russia) ruled from 1984 until he was forced to abcate in 1917. This imperial residence is set in Tsarskoye Selo, near another larger palace called Catherine Palace.
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IT WAS ALSO HIS JAL
Emperor Nicholas II loved this palace, the Romanov dynasty in 1917,The Romanov family was later moved from the palace to Tobolsk in Siberia. siberian
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IT WAS COMMISSIONED BY CATHERINE THE GREAT
The imperial palace of Tsarskoe Selo was commissioned by Catherine the Great who ruled between 1762-1796. It was a gift for her grandson Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich for his wedding to Grand Duchess Elizaveta Alexeevna. Grand Duke Alexander would later become emperor Alexander I of Russia. Giacomo Quarenghi, famous for neoclassical architecture, made the construction of the palace. The palace was built between 1792 and 1796 and it is believed that this was Giacomo's greatest masterpiece.
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THE ORIGINAL PLAN
The Alexander Palace looks marvelous and it certainly is an architectural masterpiece. However, the palace was supposed to look quite different. Catherine the Great actually wanted the palace to resemble the chateau at Ferney where one of the greatest thinkers of his time lived. His name was Voltaire. But when Quarenghi presented Catherine with a different project in 1792, he managed to convince her to change her mind. When the palace was finally finished in 1796, the Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich and his wife moved in.
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IT WAS USED AS A SUMMER HOUSE
Despite the grandeur and elegance of the New Palace, as they referred to it back then, Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich didn't live in the palace. He and his wife used it as a summer residence during the reign of his grandmother Catherine and his father Paul. When he became Emperor, he decided to reside in a larger mansion-the Catherine Palace. The Alexandr Palace would become a real home for the last emperor of Russia, Nicholas II.
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NICHOLAS II WAS BORN THERE
Alexander III and his wife Maria Feodorovna also spent time in the palace and had their apartments in the western wing of the majestic palace. It was here, in the palace, that the future and last emperor of Russia was born-Nikolai II or Nicholas the II. It is no wonder that he would grow up to be so fond of this place. Nicholas was their eldest child and the then Tsarevich Alexander was overwhelmed by joy when h was born.
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THE LEGENDARY SUNDAY
to Tsar Nicholas II and his family. Therefore, they were obliged to move elsewhere and this happened to be the Alexander Palace. It was then when the palace was remodeled.
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THE NEW CHANGES
Many changes were made to the palace during the reign of Nicholas II.
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IT WAS INTENDED FOR ST. PETERSBURG
The great Alexander Palace located in Tsarskoye Selo St. Petersburg, to be more precise.
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THE FOUNDATION
The foundations of Alexander Palace Tsarskoye Selo. It would not look good.
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REDUCING COSTS
When Catherine the Great decided to simplify the plan for the construction of Alexander Palace, St. Petersburg as the palace would be used all year round.
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THE CHALLENGES
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Russian Summer House. Real Russia ep.3
In the summertime, the favorite place most of Russian people loves to move on Friday after the hard working week are their Summer Houses, where they can just relax on a Nature, take a bath in their bath houses, grill the bbq and grow different plans on their gardens.
In this episode we will show you how is the typical Summer House looks like.
Also you will see the Russian Gas Station, check out the prices for petroleum and will see Sergey Baklykov's Mum.
We are Sergey Baklykov and Sergey Pichugin, two Russian video bloggers. Both living in Ufa, Russia and showing you the real life in our country.
And we call it the Real Russia reality video blog.
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Communal Apartment Of The USSR. Real Russia ep.18
Communal Apartment appeared in the Soviet Union following the Russian revolution. They are emerged as a response to the housing crisis in urban areas and were a product of the new collective vision of the future. A communal apartment was typically shared between two to seven families. Each family had it own room, which served as a living room, dining room, and bedroom for the entire family. The hallways, kitchen, bathroom and telephone were shared among all the residents. The communal apartment was the predominant form of housing in the USSR for generations, and still exist in the most fashionable central districts of large Russian cities.
In this video we used the fragment of absolutely great and popular Russian movie Stilyagi (2008) directed by Valery Todorovsky.
English lyrics of the song Man And Cat
A man and his cat, crying by the window
Grey rain pouring all over the glass
Ambulance is on its way, for the man and cat
That poor man's brain is sick and cramping
The doctor is riding through the snowy plains
Carrying with him the medicinal powder
The man and his cat will take that powder
And their sorrow will be gone, and their anguish too
The man and his cat are counting down the days
Grey ceiling, instead of a blue sky
The man and his cat are flying at night
Only the unprophetic dream doesn't give them wings
Where are you, where are you, where are you white carriage?
The man is shouting, in between the toilet's walls
But the walls can't hear him, pipes run just like veins
And the flush tank rattles, like a crazy heart
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Alexander Park: the last place of life of Emperor Nicholas II
Alexander Park is located in Tsarskoye Selo (now the city of Pushkin) near the Catherine's Park. In the park is the Alexander Palace, which at the beginning of the XX century was the main residence of Emperor Nicholas II.
In this residence were 12 years of the reign of the last Russian emperor and his family.
Here the family of the emperor was taken under arrest after the February 1905 revolution (photo of the emperor's family under arrest: On the morning of August 1, 1917, the family of the Romanovs was sent from this palace to the Siberian exile, and then to Ekaterinburg, where she was shot.
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Exhibit In The Children's Rooms opens at Alexander Palace
Set out in the second floor of the Alexander Palace, in the rooms of the children of Nicholas II. Items included cover period from Nicholas I to Nicholas II.
You will see over 200 objects, many of them unique and displayed for the first time. Of particular interest are the authentic toys of the last tsar's children, including the grand duchesses' favourite French porcelain doll and Heir Tsesarevich Alexei's American Indian wigwam and pirogue.
Opens June 2 to September 11, 2011 at the Alexander Palace (2nd floor), 10.00-17.00 daily except Tuesdays and the last Wednesday of each month. Ticket price 100 rubles, reduced prices for students.
Game room was great, m 60. It fits the railway, lodge, canoe, toy St. Bernard, drums, and it is certainly not an exhaustive list.
Iraida Bott, Deputy Director of the State Museum Tsarskoe Selo in scientific work: Toys and presents from neighbors and distant relatives. Alexei's Grandmother Maria Feodorovna gave him for his birthday a donkey, and a children car.
Here is the crown prince on the photo next to his favorite donkey Vanka. The harness presented by the King Vittorio Emanuele. Massive, brilliant - see it here today at the Alexander Palace, among black and white photographs and colorful toys.
Emil Kapelyush, artist: The task was so to create a feeling as if a boy or a girl just came out into the corridor, and hear their voices. But it is rather felt at the level of sensation.
The story of those toys could hardly be more dramatic. When their owners are taken away, the toys remain. In 1931 the toys were given to different organizations, and, fortunately, most of them ended up in the museum of Zagorsk. What remained of the ceremonial uniforms of the Tsarevich and Grand Duchesses, too, is almost a miracle.
Olga Taratynova, director of the State Museum Tsarskoe Selo: It happened that during the evacuation of the collection of the Alexander Palace in 1941, the items lacked the wrapping material. And things who went to the evacuation, should be packed. And began to turn in their uniforms.
The watercolors show the playing room, the bedrooms of the grand duchesses, not at all similar to the palace chambers, wigwam in the middle of playing room, a toy booth guard and a host of priceless museum staff for details.
So a lot of toys, which were in the Alexander Palace, do not mean that the children mainly played. Quite the contrary: most of the time paid tuition and various other matters.
Miraculously survived the year 1916-1917 schedule. Here we see that classes begin at 9 am and end only at 8 pm. This two breaks for lunch and a walk. Petrov signed a secret adviser.
Alexandra Feodorovna never loved her children lazy. At least, it concerned daughters. Tsarevich allowed anymore, and he's probably - the protagonist of this exhibition. Who left their toys, and he remained only in photographs: a uniform, zalomlennoy cap zhmuryaschiysya, though the bright sun in the garden of the Alexander Palace.
McDonalds in Russia. Real Russia ep.15
McDonalds is the same everywhere? It's time to check it out!
We have visited the typical McDonald's restraunt in Russia, the one that was opened just some days ago in 4 minutes by walk from the pink house where I (Sergey Baklykov) live in Ufa, Russia.
It was not easy to film this episode because we have no idea why but McDonalds workers was trying to prevent us to film all the time! They said it is FORBIDDEN to film inside and even outside of McDonalds. Finally, they was going to call the Security. But when that happened we already filmed everything we wanted and we've gone. To get it done we was pressured to be kinda umpudent - in response to all of their requirements to stop filming we was affirmatively nod our heads but in real kept filming again as soon as they disattract their attention out of us.
It was a real big surprise for us! Because there the whole virtual 3D-tour available in the Russian version of McDonalds where you can look at any place in the restraunt under any angle, to get literally to any hole of it! Also, all the time they advertise theirselves as the ones who doesn't even have the walls in their restraunts because they have nothing to hide off their visitors! But in real they never let us to film there! Even in the street when we was filming the MacAuto!
But, no matter what, we did our deal, because we've announced it to you! and, finally, you can watch it!
Freedom for videobloggers!
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Pretty Betty American Diner. Real Russia ep.88
Pretty Betty is a growing chain of fast food restaurants, designed in a best traditions of the style of American diners.
Billboard hits of 50's-60's, jukebox, yellow-red sofas, US license plates, comip strip walls, black and white mosaic, all kinds of burgers, steaks and milkshakes. That what Pretty Betty is all about.
Nowadays there are six Pretty Betty restaurants in Russia - 4 in Chelyabinsk and 2 in Ufa.
In this video we are making the deepest insight into the Pretty Betty American Diner located in Ufa, Russia at Mendeleev street, 137
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Catherins' palace and garden in Pushkin, Tsarzkoe Selo, St.Petersburg, Russia.
Pushkin is located 24 kilometers (15 mi) south from the center of St. Petersburg. It was founded in 1710 as an imperial residence named Tsarskoye Selo and received status of a town in 1808.
After the October Revolution, the town was renamed to Detskoye Selo (meaning Children's Village). Its name was further changed in 1937 to Pushkin to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
The Catherine park is named in honor of the Empress Catherine I of Russia. It occupies an area of 107 hectares and consists of the regular Old Garden (1717–1720) and an English garden (1760–1796, architect Vasily Neyelov) separated by large ponds. The park includes numerous pavilions of significant architectural and historical value. Most of them have been restored.
Cheap House Rental Near Olympic Park in Sochi. Real Russia ep.73
Adler is the district of Sochi, Russia.
The place where the Olympic Park which is built special for the Olympic Games-2014 located.
After coming to Sochi on a double-decker Olympic train, we've rented a little house just in 1 kilometer from the Olympic Park where all the venues for skating sports located, like The Bolshoy Ice Place, Shayba Ice Palace, Adler Arena, Iceberg Arena and Ice Cube Arena.
There are many hotels which was built special for the guests of the Winter Olympics Games but after relocating Real Russia from Ufa to Moscow and buying a new equipment, we were very limited in money and for this reason we only had a chance to rent one of the little houses of local citizens than booking a hotel room. It is cheaper.
So that's how we found a cheaper way to live right near the Olympic Park.
There was just one room in that house with two beds and one water mattress for sleeping. There also was a mini bar, flat screen TV, wardrobe, fridge and air conditioner.
Of course, there also was a tiny toilet with a shower.
To say honest, the room for 4 persons is really narrow and small but we never cared about that because most of time we walked by the streets of Adler, Olympic Park and travelled to the mountains in the Rosa Khutor ski resort where was the skiing park of the Games.
Besides that, just in 50 meters from our place there was a great and long embankment across the Black Sea shore. We loved to walk there in the evenings.
In the next video we'll show you an Olympic Park itself. So stay tuned and keep watching!
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