St. Petersburg, Moscow, Trans-Siberian Railway, Burton Holmes (Russia)
Burton Holmes Travelogues
St. Petersburg
Moscow
The Trans-Siberian Railway
Old Antique Travelogue With Over 350 Photographs !
A partial listing of the illustrations...
A Cossack, Imperial Baggage Wagons, A Magic Dining Table, Park of Tsarskoye-Selo, Station of Peterhof, The Fountains, The Empress and her Children, Daughters of the Tsar, Palace of Peterhof, The Old Guard, The Alexander Column, Hotel De L'Europe, Museum Alexander III, Memorial to Alexander II, The Imperial Stables, A Russian Coachman, A Troika, Summer Garden, Bridge of the Hermitage, On the Palace Quay, The Hermitage Museum, Portico of the Hermitage, Tombs of the Romanoffs, Looking Toward the Citadel, Nearing Kronstadt, Russia's Naval Stronghold, Gulf of Finland, The Neva, St. Isaac's Cathedral, The Nicholas Bridge, The Chapel on the Bridge, Funeral of a Child, The Angliskaya - The U.S Embassy on the Left, Inside the Embassy, Salon of the American Ambassador, The Chancellery of the U.S Embassy, The Winter Palace, Palace of Tsarskoye-selo, An Imperial Gymnasium, In the Great Morskaya, The Nevsky Prospect, The Gostiny Dvor and the Nevsky, A Petersburg Tram, Passengers, Citizens and Signs, A Fruit-Store, Delicatessen, The Catherdral of Kazan, A Datchi, Ielagin Island, The Garden of an Island Villa, On the Fontanka, Canal, Nicholas I, Kvass, Theater Marie, The Conservatory, Quay of the Admiralty, A Bridge over the Fontanka, A Suggestion of Siberia, His Excellency Prince Michael Khilkoff, Salon of the Ministry, Chez Le Prince Ouchtomsky, Young Wild Horses from Mongolia, The Imprerial Loge, Knights and Ladies, Arrival of the Ambassador and Mrs. Tower, Officer of Hussars, Their Imperial Majesties, The Tsar, The Tsarina, and The Empress Dowager, More than Twenty-Thousand Men, The Imperial Cortege, The Review on the Field of Mars, The American Military Attache, Russian Artillery, Cossacks, Lancers, The Calvary Charge, St. Isaac's, Looking toward the Baltic, The Admirality Arch, The Moscow Gate, St. Petersburg, The Kremlin and Moskva, A Courier Train, The Railway Station, The Vladimir Gate, The Ilinskaya Gate, A Promenade, The Soukareff Tower, Hatters, Tailors, The Clothing Market, Bolchaya Moskovskaya Gastinitsa, The Historical Museum, The Slaviandky Bazak, The Grand Theater, In the Aquarium Gardens, The Restaurant of the Aquarium, The Sandounovskaya Baths, In a Russian Bath, Moscow Tram, Peasant Women, A Hilarious Mujik, The Terrace at the Sparrow Hills,
Юсуповский дворец / Yusupov Palace: 1880-1916
Россия на дореволюционных фотографиях
Юсуповский дворец
Набережная реки Мойки, 94
Санкт-Петербург
1880-1916
Russia in pre-revolutionary photographs
The Yusupov Palace
94, Moika embankment
St. Petersburg
1880-1916
Music:
Waltz in A flat major by Anton Arensky
The Yusupov Palace on the Moika River in St. Petersburg is one of two St. Petersburg residences surviving in the city...The land on which the palace stands, in the south of the historic centre close to the Mariinsky Theatre, was originally the site of a wooden palace belonging to Tsarevna Praskovia Ivanovna, niece of Peter the Great. In the mid-18th century it was bought by Count Peter Shuvalov. In 1770, his heir Andrei Shuvalov commissioned the French architect Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe, designer of the Small Hermitage, Gostiny Dvor and the Academy of Sciences, to build a new palace on the site....
In 1830, the palace was purchased by Prince Nikolay Borisovich Yusupov, and it remained in the ownership of the family until seized by the Bolsheviks in 1917. The palace, nowadays is remembered chiefly for its association with the murder of Rasputin in 1916....
After the October Revolution, the palace was handed to the educational authorities, which fortunately opted to preserve many of the original interiors and used the building as a type of clubhouse for the city's teachers.
National Museum of the Republic Tatarstan
The National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan (NM RT) is the largest museum in Tatarstan. It was founded as a Kazan Town Scientific and Industrial Museum in 1894 and opened on April 5, 1895. The basis of the museum is a private collection of 40 thousandth items of Andrei Fedorovich Likhachev (1832-90), a well-known regional archaeologist, numismatist, collector also the exhibits of scientific and industrial exhibition in 1890. Well-known scientists of Kazan University stood at the roots of the establishment of the museum and of the museum's collections formation, such as: A.A. Stuckenberg, N.P. Zagoskin, P.I. Krotov, N.F. Vysotsky, N.F. Catania and others. The museum occupies the former building of Gostinniy dvor (guest house), a monument of architecture and history of Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan.
There are over 800 thousand units in the museum's collection.
Nowadays the museum is in the process of reconstruction, the project of which provides creation of a permanent exhibition on the area of more than 6 000 sq.m. 2001, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan approved the scientific concept of creation of exposition of NM RT in Gostiny Dvor building; consisting of three main parts: History of Tatarstan, from ancient times to present days, Nature and a Man, Culture: the interaction of cultures of peoples of Tatarstan. Now the museum has the following exhibitions: Ancient History of Tatarstan, Money, trade and trade routes in the Middle Ages, Tatar Golden Treasures, Kazan Province in the XVIII century, there are also temporary exhibitions.
Introduction of information technologies in all activity spheres of the museum began in 2001. During these years, a portal Museums of Tatarstan tatar.museum.ru have been created, it contains information on more than 100 museums of the republic.
The National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan won the contest The Changing Museum in a Changing World in 2006. The Internet site of the contest:
White Nights in St. Petersburg
Chronicles of a week in St. Petersburg
Spots of St. Petersburg: The Nevsky Prospekt
Spots, pills of travel!
Nevsky Prospekt is the heart and soul of St. Petersburg. Running right through the centre of the city, it links two of the city's most important landmarks, the Admiralty and the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. Among the scores of notable buildings lining the street are Gostiny Dvor, Kazan Cathedral, Moscow Railway Station and many more.
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Burgertest #4 - Novotel St. Petersburg
Ein russischer Burger gefällig? Damit kann ich dienen :-)
Seryozha.2005.DVDrip__Russian Orphan Documentary
A documentary about Russian Orphans in 2005.In the recent years,it seems that their conditons have been improved.
Mumiy Troll - Lady Alpine Blue
Mumiy Troll - Lady Alpine Blue LIVE at Eurovision Song Contest 2001, Russia.
Mumiy Troll. Redkie Zemli Tour 2011. Part 2
February 2011, Siberia
Video by Punga&Co
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Мумий Тролль. Одесса. Июнь 2009. Контрабанды
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Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, tr. Sankt-Peterburg, IPA: [ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk] (listen)) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015). An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has a status of a federal subject (a federal city).
Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May [O.S. 16 May] 1703. On 1 September 1914, the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd (Russian: Петрогра́д, IPA: [pʲɪtrɐˈgrat]), on 26 January 1924 to Leningrad (Russian: Ленингра́д, IPA: [lʲɪnʲɪnˈgrat]), and on 1 October 1991 back to Saint Petersburg. During the periods 1713–1728 and 1732–1918, Saint Petersburg was the capital of Imperial Russia. In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow, which is about 625 km (388 miles) to the south-east.
Saint Petersburg is one of the most modern cities of Russia, as well as its cultural capital. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world.
Many foreign consulates, international corporations, banks and businesses have offices in Saint Petersburg.
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00:01:30 1 Name
00:03:33 2 History
00:03:43 2.1 Imperial era (1703–1917)
00:12:53 2.2 Revolution and Soviet era (1917–1941)
00:16:51 2.3 World War II (1941–1945)
00:18:42 2.4 Post-war Soviet era (1945–1991)
00:21:29 2.5 Contemporary era (1991–present)
00:25:32 3 Geography
00:29:05 3.1 Climate
00:31:12 3.2 Toponymy
00:35:43 4 Demographics
00:39:59 4.1 Religion
00:40:17 5 Government
00:43:07 6 Economy
00:49:37 7 Cityscape
00:58:06 8 Tourism
01:02:05 9 Dramatic Theatre
01:02:30 10 Media and communications
01:03:04 11 Culture
01:03:13 11.1 Museums
01:05:30 11.2 Music
01:11:14 11.3 Film
01:13:19 11.4 Literature
01:15:54 12 Education
01:16:56 13 Sports
01:20:57 13.1 2018 FIFA World Cup
01:21:30 14 Infrastructure
01:21:39 14.1 Transportation
01:22:37 14.1.1 Roads and public transport
01:25:12 14.2 Saint Petersburg public transportation statistics
01:26:06 14.2.1 Waterways
01:27:15 14.2.2 Rail
01:29:32 14.2.3 Air
01:31:02 14.3 Parks
01:33:13 15 Famous people
01:33:51 16 Crime
01:37:12 17 Twin towns and sister cities
01:37:44 18 See also
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Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, tr. Sankt-Peterburg, IPA: [ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk] (listen)) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015). An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has a status of a federal subject (a federal city).
Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May [O.S. 16 May] 1703. During the periods 1713–1728 and 1732–1918, Saint Petersburg was the capital of Imperial Russia. In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow, which is about 625 km (388 miles) to the south-east.
Saint Petersburg is often considered Russia's cultural capital. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world. Many foreign consulates, international corporations, banks and businesses have offices in Saint Petersburg.