Volkhov Swamps Soviet Union 1942 diorama in 1/35 scale
Ever since i found some interesting pictures of Panzer IV´s of the 12th Panzer Division at the Volkhov front, North Russia, i felt like building a diorama with such a tank. Now i finally got round to do so!
The Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausführung F2 and the officer figure are from Dragon, the tank crew figures are from Stalingrad.
I painted the miniatures with acrylic paints from Revell.
The tree is handmade, but not by myself. I bought it from a person who is doing that as a hobby. Overall the quality of every kit i used for this diorama was superb.
I created the wet mud effect in the usual way: I mixed dirt from my garden with water and wood glue and applied this paste on the diorama. Later i applied a lot of glossy varnish and used cast resin for the mud puddles.
The diorama shows a scene during the German counter offensive in summer 1942 in the Volkhov Swamps, a marshy area nearby the Volkhov river which is covered by a primeval forest.
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Novgorod The Great, Russia. Founded in 859. Father of Russia
Novgorod The Great (“Veliky Novgorod”, don’t mess with Nizny Novgorod) is one of the oldest Russian cities founded accoding to the first mention in the History at least at the 859 year. It is located along the Volkhov River which downsteam from Lake Ilmen.
The history of Russia started in Veliky Novgorod at 862 after it’s residents invited Rurik, the Scandinavian Varangian to manage their matters. Rurik laid the foundations of the future Russian statehood. The dynasty of Rurik ruled Russia for over 700 years after him, until in 16th century, the Romanovs came the Russian authority.
That’s what Novgorod The Great considered as the “Father of Russia”. Tsar Alexander II at the 1000’s year of Russia (1862) ordered to open The Monument to Millenium of Russia at the Kremlin of Novgorod The Great.
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Tour to Vsevolzhsk is interesting, first of all, by opportunity to get acquaintance with historical and cultural monuments, churches and museums. Russia : Leningradskaya oblast' (弗谢沃洛日斯克, Vsevolozhsk, فسيفولوجسك).
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Veliky Novgorod is a city in western Russian, on the Volkhov River. Within Novgorod Kremlin’s red-brick fortress walls is the 5-domed, 11th-century St. Sophia Cathedral.
Nearby, the Millennium of Russia monument erected in 1862, shows historical figures and events. Housed in several buildings, the Novgorod State United Museum-Reserve has exhibits from the city’s past, including Russian icon paintings.
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Novgorod and Vitoslavlitsy, Russia. View from above.
In this video we visit Velikiy Novgorod and Vitoslavlitsy, Russia.
Velikiy Novgorod is considered to be the origin of Russia. It emerged as a political centre of slavic tribes. It was one of the most important trading centres of Eastern Europe during 9th and 10th centuries. The construction of Kremlin began in 1044 on Volkhov River.
The nearby village of Vitoslavitsy is a museum of folk wooden architectures. It is a must visit, and is just a short bus ride away. While there make sure to visit St Georges (Yuriev) monastery built in 1030 by Yaroslav Mudriy.
THE BIGGEST SIMULTANEOUS GO GAME IN EUROPE WAS PLAYED IN ST. PETERSBURG
This day simultaneous Go game took place: 27 strongest Go players from all over country fought with 191 competitors. The match became the largest Go game in Russian Go history and was registered by the expert from the Russian book of records.
Simultaneous Go game last for 2 hours, 252 participants played Go during this time. 41 games were finished not in favor of Russian Go professionals, so almost each sixth player has beat the seansery. The lucky players were rewarded with additional prizes.
There were very different players by tables that day: well-known professionals and new players, who have played their first Go match offline not online, the citizens and guests from different cities of Russia – Chelyabinsk, Petrozavodsk, Vladivostok, adult and young Go fans. There were also new guests – people who heard about the game for the first time – they had a chance to learn theory and practice of Go game with the Russian Go federation specialists.
Opening the event, the president of the Russian Go federation Maxim Volkov reminded that the game was organized on the threshold of the jubilee European Go Championship – 60th Polymetal European Go congress, which will be held in St. Petersburg this year, and probably will be the biggest by the number of participants. The City Administration and Consulate general of Japan in St. Petersburg has support the event, and their representatives took part in the opening ceremony as well.
The new vision of the game was introduced on the event – a large board with the big stones for playing on it – the game was very popular with the youngest Go fans, who as well were participating in the Team Championship of St. Petersburg between players before 18.
For information: The biggest simultaneous Go game in Europe was held in 1991. Haruhiko Shirae, 8 dan pro, played simultaneous Go on 102 boards in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris. The match last more than three hours, but the majority of the games still remained unfinished.
Veliky Novgorod Russia's origins HD
Veliky Novgorod Russia's origins HD
Almost half a way on the road from modern Russian capital (Moscow) to former one (St. Petersburg) there is the ancient city of Novgorod Velikiy (the Great). By now it is a conglomerate of historical, cultural and spiritual monuments worth seeing.
Velikiy Novgorod - one of the most ancient cities of Russia located in its North-West, near the site where the Volkhov river takes its waters from Lake Ilmen, emerged as a political center of Slavic and Fino-Ugric tribes in the mid-9th century, while as a town it was formed in the middle of the 10th century.
The history of Novgorod is closely linked with all major stages in the life of the Russian state. In those times, when the statehood of Rus was just in the making, the Novgorodians invited Scandinavian prince Rurik to keep law and order, thus giving birth to the prince Rurik dynasty that ruled over all Russian lands throughout more than 750 years
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*0.56 Novogorod's museum of Russian icons. - You are always welcome at the expositions and exhibitions of one of the most ancient and richest museums of Russia - Novgorod State United Museum, that offers visitors a unique collection of historic, cultural and art relics.
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Russia : Novgorod extra muros : Hanseatic fountain, Museum of Wooden Architecture, Yuriev Monastery
Veliky Novgorod, also known as Novgorod the Great, or Novgorod Veliky, or just Novgorod (meaning newtown), is one of the oldest and most important historic cities in Russia, with more than 1000 years of history. UNESCO recognized Novgorod as a World Heritage Site in 1992.
At its peak during the 14th century, the city was the capital of the Novgorod Republic and was one of Europe's largest cities.
The city is known for the variety and age of its medieval monuments. The foremost among these is the St. Sophia Cathedral, built between 1045 and 1050 under the patronage of Vladimir Yaroslavich, the son of Yaroslav the Wise. It's probably the oldest structure still in use in Russia and the first one to represent original features of Russian architecture (austere stone walls, five helmet-like domes). Its frescoes were painted in the 12th century and renovated several times, most recently in the nineteenth century. The cathedral features famous bronze gates, which now hang in the west entrance.
The Novgorod Kremlin, traditionally known as the Detinets, also contains the oldest palace in Russia (the so-called Chamber of the Facets, 1433), which served as the main meeting hall of the archbishops; the oldest Russian bell tower (mid-15th century), and the oldest Russian clock tower (1673). Among later structures, the most remarkable are a royal palace (1771) and a bronze monument to the Millennium of Russia, representing the most important figures from the country's history (unveiled in 1862).
St. Nicholas Cathedral, built by Mstislav I near his palace at Yaroslav's Court, Novgorod, contains 12th-century frescoes depicting his illustrious family.
In Vitoslavlitsy, along the Volkhov River and the Myachino Lake, close to the Yuriev Monastery, a museum of wooden architecture was established in 1964. Over twenty wooden buildings (churches, houses and mills) dating from the 14th to the 19th century were transported there from all around the Novgorod region.
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The St. George's (Yuriev) Monastery (Russian: Юрьев монастырь) is usually cited as Russia's oldest monastery. It stands in 5 kilometers south of Novgorod on the left bank of the Volkhov River near where it flows out of Lake Ilmen. The monastery used to be the most important in the medieval Novgorod Republic. It is part of the World Heritage Site named Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings.
According to legend, the monastery of wood was founded in 1030 by Yaroslav the Wise (whose Christian name was George); the first historically reliable reference to it is from the early 12th century when the stone building of the main church (the Church of St. George, Georgieveskii Church) was started in 1119 by Prince Vsevolod Mstislavich of Novgorod and Pskov and Hegumen (roughly equivalent to a western prior) Kyuriak (Kirik) and built by the master Peter.
By the first third of the 13th century the hegumen had been raised to the status of an archimandrite.
The monastery played the role of Novgorodian princes burial place.
The monastery was an important source for historical information on medieval Novgorod, as part of the Novgorod First Chronicle (the Synodal text) was compiled in the monastery.
The Church of St. George is one of the largest in Novgorod and its immediate environs. It is a tall (105 feet tall) white-stone church 85 feet long by 75 feet wide with three silver domes, which is somewhat unusual for Russian churches which usually have five (the main dome representing Christ, the four smaller ones representing the evangelists). Some remnants of the medieval frescoes remain, but most of the church was refrescoed in 1902. Among the frescoes is a large Christ Pantokrator in the main dome, a full-length portrait of Novgorodian Archbishop Feoktist, and another full-length (although smaller) portrait of Prince Vsevolod Mstislavich on the southwestern pier.
The monastery also has the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross in the northeastern corner of the monastery, with five blue domes and gold stars on it, built in the 18th century. The gateway into the monastery is crowned by a tall gold-domed tower which is visible from the city centre, including the Novgorod Kremlin two miles to the north.
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Located on the banks of Lake Myachino and the VolkhovRiver, at St. George Monastery there is an open-air museum of wooden architecture Vitoslavlitsy. This is one of the most picturesque places in the Novgorod region. Izbas (village houses), chapels and churches form streets like those in old Russian villages. Restorers managed to preserve the unique works of Novgorodian carpenters. The buildings on display are so magnificent that they need no introduction. To get to know how Russian people lived many years ago, one must visit any of the izbas.
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Anton Losenko (1737-1773) A collection of paintings 4K Ultra HD
Anton Pavlovich Losenko Ukrainian: Антон Павлович Лосенко (1737-1773) was a Ukrainian neoclassical painter and academician who lived in Imperial Russia and who specialised in historical subjects and portraits.
He was one of the founders of the Imperial Russian historical movement in painting.
Anton Losenko was born to the family of a Ukrainian cossack in Hlukhiv, in the region of Chernihivshchyna (now in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine). He became an orphan and at the age of seven was sent to a Court Choir in Saint Petersburg.
In 1753, as he had lost his voice but had shown talent for painting, he was sent for apprenticeship to the artist Ivan Argunov. After five and a half years of apprenticeship, he was admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1759. Among the paintings he created there was the Portrait of Ivan Shuvalov (1760) and the Portrait of Alexander Sumarokov (1760).
In 1760, the Academy sent him to Paris to study art under the French neoclassical painter Jean II Restout. There he painted a large painting based on the New Testament story of the miraculous catch of fish. In 1766-1769 Losenko worked in Rome, studying Italian art, especially the paintings of Raphael. There he created his two paintings of Kain and Abel.
In 1769, Losenko returned to Saint-Petersburg. He received an offer to present a historical painting as a way of receiving Academician status in the Imperial Academy of Arts. From an episode of Kievan Rus' history, he painted his classical canvas of Volodymyr and Rohnida. This painting not only brought him the title of Academician but also a professorship position at the Imperial Academ. While in this position Losenko wrote a text book called Short Explanation of the Human Proportions that served a few generations of painters in the Russian Empire. He worked as the Director of the Academy until his death in 1773.
Anton Losenko is regarded as one of the founders of the Imperial Russian historical movement in painting and together with his textbook (which was used until the mid-19th century), he influenced the education of art in the Russian Empire. Painter Ivan Akimov and sculptor Mikhail Kozlovsky studied under him.
Losenko was one of the painters honoured by having his work appear on Soviet postage stamps, with his Portrait of Fyodor Volkov appearing in 1972.
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Woman says she owns icepick used to kill Trotsky
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1. Ice pick owner Alicia Salas
2. Various of ice pick
3. Tilt down from Salas to ice pick
4. Photograph of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in bed
5. Close up of photograph of Trotsky
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alicia Salas, ice pick owner:
But, what price? It has no value except a historical one, I mean... I mean I don't know who, who would want it. I mean I'm not going to act according to facts I do not know.
7. Exterior of Leon Trotsky museum
8. Various of Leon Trotsky monument
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Esteban Volkov, Leon Trotsky's grandson:
(I will collaborate) as long as the final place for it is at the museum. I will not collaborate for commercial uses.
10. Salas shows photograph
11. Close up of photograph
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alicia Salas, ice pick owner:
To begin with, this ice pick is not an orphan ice pick looking for a place to be, and obviously it does not belong to Mr. Leon Trotsky either. The pick stands on its own.
13. Tracking shot inside Trotsky's house where he was killed
14. Newspaper
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Esteban Volkov, Leon Trotsky's grandson:
Marxism is still present. (Q: Even though some people want to sell the ice pick?) Well this is a market economy, right?
16. Exterior of Trotsky's house
17. Photograph of Trotsky in his house
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After being lost for decades, one of history's most famous murder weapons - the ice pick used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky - appears to have resurfaced just weeks before the 65th anniversary of his assassination on August 20.
But DNA tests that could prove the weapon's authenticity have been delayed due to a dispute between the ice pick's owner - who is shopping it around - and Trotsky's descendants.
The owner of the pick, Alicia Salas, whose father apparently removed the instrument from an evidence room while serving as a secret police commander in the 1940s, is trying to find a buyer, even though the ice pick's value has not been established.
Trotsky's grandson, Esteban Volkov, has said he will only have a blood test to authenticate the ice pick if it is donated to a museum.
I will not collaborate for commercial uses, Volkov said.
Leon Trotsky was an important Bolshevik figure in the Russia Revolution.
He helped to overthrow the Tsarist regime in Russia and becoming an influential figure in the early days of the Soviet Union.
Trotsky was forced into exile in the 1920s after losing a power struggle with eventual Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Always fearful of assassination attempts organised by Stalin, Trotksy was murdered by a Spanish-born Soviet agent at his home in Mexico City in 1940.
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Russian Space Walk
This video is from a digitized version of a 16 mm film copy made at the time the film was developed at Kodak in Rochester. March 18, 1965 Russia conducted the first space walk. Alexei Leonov exited Voskhod 2. Note the nervous wave by Alexei at around 3:00. He did not know if he would come back. He was stuck in the hatch trying to re-enter the capsule and nearly died. US was ready to beat the Russians but waited. This started the space race.
Panorama Battle for Berlin opened in Central Museum of Great Patriotic War
Музей марципана в Сентендре Будапешт
Музей марципана в городе Сентендре.
Сентендре - город художников и мастерских. Пол часа езды на машине из центра Будапешта на север, в сторону Вишеграда.
Veliky Novgorod FINE ARTS MUSEUM Открытие выставки в Великом Новгороде
Открытие выставки Галины Филипповой в Музее Изобразительных искусств в Великом Новгороде. Реставраторы.
Traveling for Art around the World with ArtBeautyTravel: Veliky Novgorod also known as Novgorod the Great, or Novgorod Veliky, or just Novgorod, is one of the most important historic cities in Russia with the oldest temples, the Kremlin, the River Volkhov and beautiful people, who lives here.
Take the look at the opening of the exhibition of Galina Filippova in the Fine Arts Museum and pay attention to ancient Russian churches and the river scenery in old Russian town.
WW2 in Veliky Novgorod / CEMETERY OF GERMAN SOLDIERS IN RUSSIA / KOROSTYN near the Lake Ilmen
THE SCOTS IN CRIMEA, BALACLAVA 1854 КРЫМ, ШОТЛАНДЦЫ В БАЛАКЛАВЕ
РУССКАЯ КРЕПОСТЬ 1330 г. Изборск 2016 // REAL RUSSIA 2016, RUSSIAN FORTRESS IN IZBORSK 1330 WINTER
REAL RUSSIAN OFF ROAD RIDING ON AN ATV / Квадроцикл Yamaha grizzly по московскому бездорожью
Russian California Fort Ross - historic Russian fort, from the early 1800's Русская Америка
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Vladimir Stozharov: A collection of 58 paintings (HD)
Vladimir Stozharov: A collection of 58 paintings (HD)
Description: Vladimir Fedorovich Stozharov lived a brief life but left a lasting mark in Russian art.
Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, Honored Artist of Russian Federation, Laureate of State award after I. Repin ( gold medal ), V. Stozharov was a very talented and efficient artist and created more than two thousand paintings. Landscape, still-life and genre are the central subjects of his creative work.
An artist of great capacity V. Stozharov is known for his still-lives “Bread, Salt and Bratina“, “Flax“( The Tretyakov gallery ), “Bread” , “Green Apples”, “Kvas”, “An ancient Suleya”, “Tea with Kalaches”, and very many others.
He travelled a lot in his country and abroad. In 1960-s V. Stozharov started to do painting trips in Russian North. He was interested in remote corners of the country where the original wooden buildings and uncommon characters were still preserved. He was fascinated with “white nights”, bright sunsets, gloomy lowering clouds of northern skies and original architecture of the countryside, hence his wonderful works “The white night”, “Pokrov”, housed in the Russian Museum in St.Petersburg.
The painting trips to Italy ( 1959, 1967 ), France ( 1960 ), and Romania ( 1972 ) brought a great many works. The picturesque and dramatic manner of the artist’s painting is quite original and distinguishing.
Stozharov’s works can be found in galleries and private collections in USA, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Korea, Finland, Austria, other European countries and more than 80 museums and galleries of the former Soviet Union.
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Soviet avant-garde art from Uzbekistan exhibited in Moscow
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A rare exhibition of Soviet avant-garde art from Uzbekistan has gone on display in Moscow.
The show contains many works collected by 1950s painter Igor Savitsky.
STORYLINE
A group of art fans take in Alexander Volkov's 'Brigade entering the field'.
It's one of 200 paintings from the Savitsky State Art Museum of Karakalpakstan to have gone on display at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
This rare travelling exhibit is from a gallery widely regarded as having one of the world's best Soviet avant-garde art.
Vladimir Lysenko's painted bull stares at the viewer with flat, black eyes, one of his horns festooned in a mosaic of bright rectangles, the tip of his tail stretched toward a glowing orange globe that may be the sun.
What he intended with this classic painting of the Soviet avant-garde is unknown; it is from an era when unconventional art was literally arresting. Lysenko was arrested in 1935 and what happened to him afterwards is unclear.
Over the years, the painting has become one of the most renowned images of the artistic ferment that bubbled under the strictures of insipid Soviet social realism.
But until recently, anyone who wanted to see it had to travel to an isolated city in Uzbekistan's desert.
The show also draws attention to the history of the museum, which is as remarkable as the works it holds.
In this museum we have gathered some truly unique collections of things that, first of all, tell the story of Turkistan avant-garde. It is a very special field of study, says Director of The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Marina Loshak.
In the 1950s, painter Igor Savitsky got work in an archaeological expedition in Uzbekistan.
He became fascinated by the intricate weavings and elegant pottery of the local Karakalpak ethnic group and collected extensively. Local officials, flattered by his interest, helped him establish a museum in the city of Nukus.
Savitsky was also concerned about the fate of the works of the Soviet Union's more adventurous artists.
In the early 20th century, Russia had been a hotbed of bold art experimentations: Suprematism, Constructivism and visions too idiosyncratic to fit into any category.
But by the early 1930s, authorities decreed that art must express Soviet ideals and be comprehensible to the average worker.
Bold colours, dancing polygons and strange faces disappeared from the public view, replaced by muscular construction workers and children devotedly presenting bouquets to Josef Stalin.
Savitsky began collecting as much of the unofficial art as he could, reportedly filling train sleeping compartments with paintings to bring them to Nukus, some 2000 kilometres (1200 miles) from Moscow.
Savitsky has been praised as a patron of the Nukus art sanctuary and unknown artists of the region.
Many of the works likely would have been destroyed or become irreparably deteriorated if he had not been able to spirit them to the city far away from the central government's attention.
He collected works without taking into consideration whether this was a well-known name or not well-known. He collected art with an orientation on the art itself, says curator Irina Kim.
Bazarbai Serekeyev is an Uzbek artist whose works was spotted by Savitsky in the 70s:
Savitsky looked at my work and asked Did you paint this yourself?, I said yes. After that he bought three of my paintings and told me that I should paint more. He gave me some recommendations. His words inspired me and I started painting more, he says.
Many of the works in the show had to be lovingly restored before they were displayed.
The exhibition in Moscow runs April 21 until 10 May 2017.
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The Gulag - profile of Russia's first concentration camp
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Solovetsky Islands, July 12/13 2008
1. Ws monastery and churches from sea
2. Ws men sitting on boat
3. Ws pan churches from sea
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Propaganda film from 1927
4. Ws pan churches from sea
5. Ws soldier guarding prisoners on boat
6. Ws prisoners on boat
7. Ws boat draws into harbour
8. Ms harbour from boat
9. Ms prisoners walk off boat
10. Ws same
11. Ws prisoners walk through town
12. Ws prisoners walk past church
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Solovetsky Islands, July 12/13 2008
13. Ws church
14. Ms church domes
15. Brodsky walks with journalists
16. Ms walk up Sekirny hill
17. Ws church at top of hill
18. Ms church on top of hill
19. Ws church from different side
20. Ms windows
21. Ws pan from top of hill
22. Ms set up Brodsky
23. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yuri Brodsky, Historian:
They wanted them to feel responsible for their own deaths. But you can't look for a logic or reason in what happened at Solovki. It was like the theatre of the absurd, a madhouse. There was no logic, because the people who did the shooting today became tomorrow's victims.
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24. Ws prisoners marching
25. Ws prisoners carrying logs
26. Ms prisoners working with shovels
27. Ws same
28. Various same
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Solovetsky Islands, July 12/13 2008
29. Ws church tower under reconstruction
30. Ws church
31. Ws set up Oleg Volkov points to model of Solovki
32. Cu model of church
33. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Oleg Volkov, Deputy Director Solovetsky Museum:
There are a lot of memoirs from prisoners who were here at the end of the 20's and beginning of the 30's, and many memoirs from prisoners who were in prison here from 1937 to 1939, but there are practically no memoirs from those who were imprisoned here during the mid-30's and that shows that these people were on the whole executed.
34. Ws dirt road with church in background
35. Ms goats wander on road
36. Ws kids playing in front of wooden house
37. Ms window
38. Ms Brodsky looks through photos
39. Ws prisoners photos
40. Cu photo of Stepan Petroshko, prisoner executed
41. Cu photo Valentin Dyagilev, prisoner executed
42. Cu photo Vadim Chekhovsky, prisoner executed
43. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yuri Brodsky, Historian:
Of course I was a bit of a fool back then. I told everyone how clever I was in making them look foolish and then they arrested me again a week later and started all over again. But by then I had learned my lesson and I didn't tell anyone what I was doing, but went about collecting my materials and travelled through the Soviet Union recording people's memoirs.
44. Ws view of Sekirny from bottom of hill
45. Ws wooden crosses in wood
46. ws same
47. Cu wooden cross
SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yuri Brodsky, Historian:
Putin is a former Chekist (KGB) and I don't know what Putin thinks, but when he visited here he wasn't interested in hearing about the history of the camp. I don't know what the Patriarch thought when he came here, but the Patriarch is also a former KGB agent. All our leaders are KGB, the successors of the NKVD (former name of KGB under Stalin).
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Propaganda film from 1927
49. Ws church from water
50. Ws same
51. Ws harbour
52. Ws harbour today
53. Ws churches from water
54. Ws church
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died in Moscow on Sunday night (04 August 2008), was the first person to reveal to the world the full horrors of Stalin's system of forced labour camps - known as the Gulag.
His trilogy 'The Gulag Archipelago' left readers shocked by the savagery of the Soviet state under the dictatorship of Josef Stalin.
More than 400,000 prisoners made the trip to the islands. Few made the return trip home.
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And with the Gulag came torture.
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Marok ' russie veliky novgorod 2014
Russian SFSR
There was not an official anthem of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, so I decided to use The decembrists song as its theme.
Russian power was born after the Mongol invasions of Kiev, bring the political centre to cities like Novgorod and the new village of Moscow(see the video about Ukraine for more info). Having repelished Mongols and Turks from their territories, Russia became a great empire which later origined the Soviet Union, after October Revolution. The sequence shows:
- A woman and warrior
- Military heroes: A. Nevsky, Dmitri Pozharskiy and Kuzma Minin, A. Suvorov and M. Kutuzov
- Greatest writes: The Afro-Russian writer A. Pushkin, F. Dostoyevsky, L. Tolstoy and M. Gorki
- Great musicians: P. Tchaikovsky, A. Aleksandrov, Blanter and Red Army Choir
- The Decembrist liberal uprsing and bolshevik Russian Revolution
- V. Ulyanov(Lenin) and V. Chapaev, Russian revolutionaries
- Russia and legendary monuments
- Military heroes of USSR and Russia: I. Stalin, G. Zhukov, V. Koniev, P. Chuikov, V. Zaytsev, R. Shanina, M. Kalashnikov, L. Litvyak and Y. Gagarin
- An overview of Soviet military power
- Slavic Russian costumization
- Coat of arms and flag of Soviet Russia
10 Best Places to Visit in Russia - Travel Video
Russia, once the largest and most powerful member of the former USSR, remains a fascinating country to visit. It is a country of contrasts, from great subtropical beaches to bitterly cold winter regions in the north. The east may have fewer people, but its lovely cities are among the most interesting in Russia and can hold their own against the west. Russia is steeped in history everywhere a traveler goes, from vicious battles to great classical music and literature. Here’s a look at the best places to visit in Russia: