The most beautiful water landscapes of Russia
Never tired of looking at the fire, clouds and water ... Seas, lakes, rivers and waterfalls are a source of inspiration for poets and artists and a place for travelers to relax.
Fresh water sources form the basis of our life: we drink water and build our cities on the water, salt lakes and thermal springs have medicinal properties, swamps, thanks to the production of oxygen, are the lungs of the Earth.
Imagine: in our country there are about 2.5 million rivers and there are more than 2 million lakes, among them the deepest in the world and the largest source of fresh water - Baikal. At 4400 km in Eastern Siberia the largest river of Russia is Lena, and in the south of the country is the largest lake in the world - the Caspian Sea. Natural fountains of hot water and steam can be observed in Kamchatka, where the only valley of geysers is located in the whole of Eurasia. There are all kinds of waterfalls in our country: the most popular among tourists are the Agur waterfalls in Sochi. The powerful and equally beautiful waterfall Uchar is called the youngest masterpiece of the nature of the Altai Mountains, since it was formed relatively recently, in the 1970s, due to an earthquake.
We have selected the most beautiful pictures of Russia's water scenery for you. Watch and enjoy!
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Pyatnitsky Russian Folk Chorus, Moscow, Russia (May 2009) - 10
Moscow - Sergiev Posad with Angel Tour & Taxi - lots to see
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The video shows a small part of what you can see if you take our signature tour to Sergiev Posad with Angel Tour & Taxi. We do our best so that every tourist sees this amazing place.
The first part is mostly about the beauty of the place. The last part (esp. last mins) is about the exercise and practice it takes to create the beauty.
Dedicated to Aleksander Pushkin, the great poet who loved Tbilisi and Georgia...
Welcome to our Liberty Hostel. Liberty Hostel is a budget hostel for backpacker tourists, situated in Niavghari 6, Tbilisi, just under the Tram Furnikulor on the top of the prestigious Mtatsminda and close to the Old Tbilisi, Freedom Square and other tourist attractions. There is a spectacular view of Tbilisi from our hotel rooms and from a large balcony.
Our hostel welcomes all tourists, young and old, budget ones and well established. We guarantee a good service to our tourist guests.
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Aleksander Pushkin, the greatest Russian poet of modern Russian literature loved Tbilisi and Georgia. He was a Russian author of the Romantic era[1] who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
Born into the Russian nobility in Moscow, Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo.
While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov. His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832.
Notoriously touchy about his honour, Pushkin fought a total of twenty-nine duels, and was fatally wounded in such an encounter with Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès. D'Anthès, a French officer serving with the Chevalier Guard Regiment, had been attempting to seduce the poet's wife, Natalya Pushkina. Pushkin's early death at the age of 37 is still regarded as a catastrophe for Russian literature.
Critics consider many of his works masterpieces, such as the poem The Bronze Horseman and the drama The Stone Guest, a tale of the fall of Don Juan. His poetic short drama Mozart and Salieri was the inspiration for Peter Shaffer's Amadeus. Pushkin himself preferred his verse novel Eugene Onegin, which he wrote over the course of his life and which, starting a tradition of great Russian novels, follows a few central characters but varies widely in tone and focus.
Onegin is a work of such complexity that, while only about a hundred pages long, translator Vladimir Nabokov needed two full volumes of material to fully render its meaning in English. Because of this difficulty in translation, Pushkin's verse remains largely unknown to English readers. Even so, Pushkin has profoundly influenced western writers like Henry James.
Pushkin's works also provided fertile ground for Russian composers.
Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila is the earliest important Pushkin-inspired opera, and a landmark in the tradition of Russian music.
Tchaikovsky's operas Eugene Onegin (1879) and The Queen of Spades (1890) became perhaps better known outside of Russia than Pushkin's own works of the same name.
Mussorgsky's monumental Boris Godunov (two versions, 1868-9 and 1871-2) ranks as one of the very finest and most original of Russian operas. Other Russian operas based on Pushkin include Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka and The Stone Guest; Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri, Tale of Tsar Saltan, and The Golden Cockerel; Cui's Prisoner of the Caucasus, Feast in Time of Plague, and The Captain's Daughter; Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa; Rachmaninov's one-act operas Aleko (based on The Gypsies) and The Miserly Knight; Stravinsky's Mavra, and Nápravník's Dubrovsky.
This is not to mention ballets and cantatas, as well as innumerable songs set to Pushkin's verse (including even his French-language poems, in Isabelle Aboulker's song cycle Caprice étrange). Suppé, Leoncavallo and Malipiero, among non-Russian composers, have based operas on his works...
State Anthem of the Russian Federation - Official National Anthem of Russia - HD Photo Slideshow
Can you name all the locations from Russia that are featured in this video? Russia is a land of great beauty, and we are showing but one small chunk of that, with the State Anthem of the Russian Federation.
The State Anthem of the Russian Federation (Russian: Госудáрственный гимн Росси́йской Федерáции, tr. Gosudarstvenny Gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the name of the official national anthem of Russia. Its musical composition and lyrics were adopted from the National Anthem of the Soviet Union, composed by Alexander Alexandrov, and lyricists Sergey Mikhalkov and Gabriel El-Registan. The Soviet anthem was used from 1944, replacing The Internationale with a more Russocentric song. The anthem had no lyrics after 1956, due to the original lyrics having references to former leader Joseph Stalin. New lyrics were introduced in 1977 by Mikhalkov with lyrics placing less emphasis on the Great Patriotic War and more on the victory of communism.
Russia was the only republic of the USSR without its own anthem. The lyric-free Patrioticheskaya Pesnya, composed by Mikhail Glinka, was officially adopted in 1990 by the Supreme Soviet of Russia and confirmed in 1993, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, by President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin. The government sponsored contests to create lyrics for the unpopular anthem because of its inability to inspire Russian athletes during international competitions. None of the entries were adopted, resulting in President Vladimir Putin's restoration of the Soviet anthem. The government sponsored a contest to find lyrics, eventually settling upon a composition by Mikhalkov; according to the government, the lyrics were selected to evoke and eulogize the history and traditions of Russia. The new anthem was adopted in late 2000, and became the second anthem used by Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Public perception of the anthem is mixed among Russians. The anthem reminds some of the best days of Russia and past sacrifices, while it reminds others of the violence that occurred under the rule of Stalin. The Russian government maintains that the anthem is a symbol of the unity of the people, and that it respects the past. A 2009 poll showed that 56% of respondents felt proud when hearing the anthem, and that 81% liked it.
Celje In Your Pocket - Castle Highlights
Arguably the grandest castle in all of Slovenia, while it isn't as completely restored as Ljubljana castle in the capital and doesn't possess the breathtaking alpine cliff top location of that in Bled, its sprawling grounds, eventful history, sweeping views over the city and surrounding countryside, and the generally imposing appearance of its partially restored fortress walls and towers are truly unique amongst any and all of its domestic rivals.
Originally built by the Heunburg family on the hills to the southeast of the bustling medieval market town of Celje in either the late 12th or early 13th centuries, the oldest parts of the castle are the fortified western walls and the central residential buildings which were surrounded by inner walls as well as a moat. Most of the original castle was destroyed in fighting between competing families not long after its initial construction, and eventually came into the possession of the Lords of Sanneck in 1333 - who became known as the Counts of Celje from 1341 onwards and were the most important medieval aristocrats in the territory of present-day Slovenia. Over the next hundred years the Counts rebuilt, expanded and greatly improved the castle and its grounds, however, when their rule ended with the murder of the last male heir in 1456, the property was bequeathed to the Habsburg monarchy in accordance with a previously signed inheritance agreement.
After the change in ownership, the castle managed to maintain its position as one of the most important fortresses in all of the eastern Alps for some two hundred years, but slowly began to fall into disrepair towards the latter half of the 16th century. It ceased to be a residence in 1795, and was purchased by a farmer eight years later, who began to use the site as a quarry. In 1846 the ruins were bought by the regional governor, and restoration work began which continues to the present day - making it easily the longest ongoing renovation project in Slovenia.
Today the castle is the most visited tourist site in Celje with over 70,000 visitors per year, and is also popular with locals, especially during the weekends and for weddings. The grounds are entered from a gate in the southernmost fortifications, where there's a fully-stocked branch of the Celje Tourist Infomation Office and a little further along a pleasant café. The central part of the site is dominated by the rebuilt Fredrick's Tower and an open air theatre, which is the main venue for the various performances that take place during the summer long Living History medieval festival. After crossing a wooden bridge over the one-time inner moat, you reach the upper part of the castle, where most of the buildings are located and where you'll find mesmerising views of the city below and rolling hills and valleys stretching to the alps in the distance. The entire grounds, including some dozen or more sites, are well marked with informative signs giving information and history in both Slovene and English.
Gostilna pri Kmetec on the hill opposite Celje castle is a good lunch option with filling Slovenian delicacies.
For more on Celje check out Celje In Your Pocket
2015 Denmark Scandinavian Trip
We arrived in Copenhagen, visited Christiansborg Palace, Drove past the National Museum, Royal Theater and stopped for pictures of Amalienboreg Palace and the Little Mermaid Statue. We walked around Nyhavn and had a nice lunch on the wharf. We visited Rosenborg Palace and Tivoli Gardens, the city's colorful amusement park. We drove across the world's largest suspension bridge and visited Hans Christian Andersen's Home at Odense. We crossed the Little Belt waterway to Jutland and arrived in Arhus where we visited Den Gamle By, a fascinating collection of completely furnished old Danish townhouses. From the naval town of Frederikshavn, we crossed the beautiful Kattegat by ferry to Sweden to continue our tour. The music we used for this video is Pachelbel's Canon .
SMOLENSK,V.2: WARS, MARAUDERS AND CHURCH (Travelling around Russia,p.2)
When travelling around Russia, one can never guess what might be found, be it a curious monument, an ancient ruin or a freshly looking Lenin! That’s what I like most about my adventures, actually. That, and the fact that wherever I go, I get to taste some delicious food - that’s a nice bonus, I reckon.
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