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Astrakhan Kremlin after the Restoration
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, History, Travel
The Astrakhan Kremlin is a historical and architectural complex, which is an integral ensemble of monuments of defense architecture, cult and civil architecture.
Today, it is not only a monument of Russian architecture. There is an ethnographic museum with a very rich collection of exhibits. Photos by: Dmitry Gazin.
take a stroll in the Astrakhan Kremlin
Tags: Astrakhan city
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Military Historical Museum of Artillery in St. Petersburg
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Army, History, Technology
Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps located in St. Petersburg is one of the largest military museums in Russia. In total, the collection includes over 850 thousand exhibits.
The exposition was started by Peter I, who founded Zeughaus – a place for storing historical, unique and experimental artillery pieces. Today, the exposition covers the time from the 15th century to the present day. Photos by: deletant.
Tags: museum · Saint Petersburg city
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Stalin’s Soviet Union – Moscow in 1953-1954. Part 2
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in History, People, Photos
The second part of unique photos taken by Major Martin Manhoff, who spent more than two years in the Soviet Union in the early 1950s as an assistant to the military attache in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
View of the Kremlin from Moskvoretskaya Embankment.
Tags: Moscow city · Soviet past
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The image of a woman in Soviet propaganda
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Art, History
Soviet propaganda was diverse and influenced the minds of people all the time. Let’s see how the image of a woman was used and gradually changed on Soviet posters. Source: humus
Woman! Learn to read and write!
Oh, mother! If you were literate, you could help me! (1923)
Tags: propaganda · Soviet past
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Stalin’s Soviet Union – Moscow in 1953-1954
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in History, People, Photos
Major Martin Manhoff spent more than two years in the Soviet Union in the early 1950s. He worked as an assistant to the military attache in the U.S. Embassy, located near Red Square.
Manhoff, being a gifted photographer, shot hundreds of scenes from everyday Soviet life – both in Moscow and in other regions of the USSR.
Construction of the hotel “Ukraina” from the roof of the U.S. Embassy on Novinsky Boulevard. On the left you can see the Church of the Nine Martyrs of Cyzicus (1954).
Tags: Moscow city · Soviet past
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Kolomna Kremlin – ancient Russian defensive architecture
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, History, Travel
Kolomna is a city with a population of about 143 thousand people located about 113 km southeast of Moscow. This is one of the oldest (the first mention in 1177) and the most beautiful cities of the Moscow region.
One of the main attractions of Kolomna is a partially preserved rare monument of ancient Russian defensive architecture – the grandiose Kolomna Kremlin (1525-1531). Photos by: maximus101.
Tags: Moscow city · Moskovskaya oblast
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Russian Empire in color – Vytegra and surroundings
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in History, Photos
Today, Vytegra is a small town (since 1773) with a population of about 10,000 people standing on the banks of the Vytegra River, 337 km north-west of Vologda, in the Vologda region.
You can see how this place looked like 108 years ago, in 1909. It is possible due to unique color photographs made by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. Source.
General view of Vytegra and the Vytegra River.
Tags: Russian Empire · Vologda oblast
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Saint George Cathedral in Yuryev-Polsky
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, History, Regions
St. George’s Cathedral, a white-stone church located in the central part of the ancient Russian town of Yuryev-Polsky in the Vladimir region, is an outstanding monument of ancient Russian architecture.
The cathedral was built by Prince Svyatoslav Vsevolodovich in 1230-1234. In 1326-1327, on the model of St. George’s Cathedral, the first stone church was built in Moscow – the Cathedral of the Assumption. Photos by: Pavel Labutin.
Tags: Vladimir oblast
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Ekaterinburg, the Capital of the Urals: Then and Now
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Cities, History
Ekaterinburg (in 1924-1991 – Sverdlovsk), the fourth largest city of Russia, is an administrative center of the Sverdlovsk region and the Urals Federal District. It is the biggest administrative, cultural, scientific, and educational center of the Urals.
Over almost three hundred years of its existence, Ekaterinburg was rebuilt several times. The project “Ekaterinburg. Then and Now” shows how much the city has changed over the 100 years. Photos by: Slava Stepanov.
Ekaterinburg – past and present
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Museum of Wooden Architecture “Malye Korely”
No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Culture, History, Travel
“Malye Korely” is a state museum of wooden architecture and folk art of the northern regions of Russia. The area of the museum is 139.8 hectares.
The museum is located in the rural settlement of Uyemskoye in Primorsky district of the Arkhangelsk region, on the right bank of the Northern Dvina River, 25 km south of Arkhangelsk. Photos by: Denis Spirin.
Tags: Arkhangelsk oblast · museum