A monument to a mother – In – law as people jokingly called it. It’s an exact copy of Tyrannosaurus Rex. It was placed in 1989 as the symbol of Tula’s exotarium. Exotarium is the zoo of reptiles and amphibians. . People love this dinosaur and they dress it in different funny clothes. And in this exotarium there is the unique in Russia – serpentarium. It’s the place where biologists try to breed and revive disappearing kinds of snakes . парк йюрк
A monument to Leo Tolstoy – a famous Russian writer. Everybody knows his famous “War and Peace”. This monument is located in Tolstoy’s square. And in front of him there is a liquor factory and that’s why people called this monument “Leo Tolstoy is going to buy vodka”. This is the monument to a tail. ‘Tails’ students call their “educational arrears”. It means if you failed the exam, you have one more chance to take it and pass it. This monument was placed in 2007. Many students come here every day when they have exams. They bring coopers and rub this lizard to take a little luck on exam. This is the monument to Tula’s honey cake. Tula’s factory of the production of honey cakes is famous all over Russia. It’s two meters high and weighs more than a ton. Of course you can not taste this honey cake but you can take couple pictures with it and touch the history. The monument to Demidov. Demidov was Russian industrialist who founded the Demidov industrial dynasty. Nikita built one of the first metallurgical factories in Tula. Except for this monument which was installed in 1996, a museum is devoted to him in Tula. And people called this monument “Rambo”, I hope you guessed why. “Levsha and steel flea” is a well-known story by Nickolay Leskov. It tells us about left-handed craftsman, who outperformed his English colleagues by providing a clockwork steel flea they’d made with horseshoes. This is the monument to Vladimir Lenin – the leader of Soviet people. Every city and town and village in Russia has such kind of monument from the Soviet Union. All Soviet pupils knew: “Lenin lived, Lenin is alive, Lenin will live forever!” Of course now these monuments are just a part of history that’s why people don’t dismantle them. 00:00:14 Leo Tolstoy 00:00:47 Tail 00:01:18 Lenin 00:01:47 Honey-cake 00:02:08 Mother-in-law 00:02:42 Demidov 00:03:10 Levsha
1. Train Leo Tolstoy express at Kursky railstation
2. Various of orchestra playing
3. Impersonator of Anna Karenina walking to the train
4. Impersonator of Alexei Vronsky standing by the train
5. Actors getting into the train
6. Passengers waving
7. Train leaving
8. Train going
9. Passengers sitting in the carriage
10. Passengers reading
11. Portrait of Leo Tolstoy
12. Train waitress serving
13. Passengers eating the caviar pancakes
14. War and Peace movie on the TV
15. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yun Yong Sun
I read Tolstoy's books in Korea where I live now and it is really great to be on this trip today, I couldn't believe I'm here.
16. Train standing at the Kozlova Zaseka rail station
17. Leo Tolstoy monument
18. Russian dancers
19. Accordion
20. Children in Russian costumes
21. Director of Yasnay Polyana museum Vladimir Tolstoy dancing
22. Women in Russian costumes sitting
23. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vladimir Tolstoy, great great grandson of Leo Tolstoy and keeper of Leo Tolstoy memorial museum
This opening of a new era, of a new opportunity to visit Yasnaya Polyana. People now can use the most comfortable and fast way of coming over here, to Yasnaya Polyana.
24. Opening ceremony
25. Kozlova Zaseka railway station
26. Officials cutting the ribbon
27. Woman standing by the steam train
28. Leo Tolstoy monument
STORYLINE:
The Tolstoy express train made its maiden voyage from Moscow to Yasnaya Polyana on Sunday.
The opening of the new route was timed to coincide with the 173rd birthday anniversary of the great novelist.
Leo Tolstoy had lived in his Yasnay Polyana mansion, some 150 kilometers from Moscow, for most of his life.
The passengers of Tolstoy express are treated with traditional Russian blinis pancakes with smattering of caviar while portraits of War and Peace and Anna Karenina author are hanging from the walls and television sets show film versions of his novels.
Yasnaya Polyana railway station was fully restored to look like in Tolstoy days - now it looks like it was described by Leo Tolstoy in his memoirs.
A great-great-son of the writer and director of the Yasnaya Polyana memorial museum Vladimir Tolstoy believes that the special train will make it much easier for Tolstoy's devotees to travel and will attract scores of visitors in the future.
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At the Beginning of Glorious Days (Episode 1) (1980) movie
At the end of the 17th century Russia sustained huge losses in trade as it had no outlet to the sea. The young tsar Pyotr I begins a construction in Voronezh of the Russian fleet and occupies Azov fortress. At this time among boyars the dissatisfaction with government of the young monarch were engendering
At the Beginning of Glorious Days (Episode 1) (1980) movie
Genres: 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
Cast: Dmitriy Zolotukhin as Czar Peter the Great Tamara Makarova Natalya Bondarchuk Nikolay Eryomenko Mikhail Nozhkin Peter Reusse Eduard Bocharov Lyubov Polekhina Lyubov Germanova Anatoliy Barantsev Roman Filippov Yuriy Moroz Vladimir Kashpur Aleksandr Belyavskiy Nikolay Grinko Boris Khmelnitskiy Marina Levtova Yekaterina Vasilyeva as Antonida Buynosova Ivan Lapikov Ulrike Mai as Anna Evgeniy Markov as Prokofiy Voznitsyn Vitaliy Matveev as Iuda