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Sep/10

Soviet knights of Mother Russia

No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Funny, People, Photos

Nice picture to illustrate unpredictable history of Russia :)

Sep/10

Borodino battle reconstruction sceneries

No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in History, People, Photos

Borodino battle or Moscow river battle was the largest battle of Patriotic war of 1812 between Russia and France. The battle took place September 7, 1812 near Borodino village about 125 km to the west of Moscow city. Borodino battle is supposed to be one of the bloodiest one-day battles in history with Russian casualties of about 45,000 and French – 30,000.

The following nice photos were captured during the recent reconstruction of the great battle by Frederick Taer (all the photos are clickable). The second part of the photos – Borodino battlefield sceneries.

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Tags: Moskovskaya oblast

Aug/10

The people of Russian villages photos Part 2

No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in People, Photos, Regions

The second part of photos captured in several villages of Kich-Gorodetsky district of Vologda oblast by Olya Ivanova (Part 1)

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Tags: Vologda oblast

Aug/10

The Middle Ages Festival in Staraya Ladoga

No comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Culture, History, People, Photos

The following pictures were captured during the annual summer festival of the Middle Ages “The first capital of Rus” that took place in Staraya Ladoga town of Leningrad oblast. The photos were captured by S.Chernov.

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Tags: Leningrad oblast

Jul/10

Escaping the forest fire

No comments · Posted by Alex Smirnov in Nature, People, Video

Several Russian regions suffer heavy forest fires because of the extremely hot weather. Here is the video of escaping from the village of Tamboles by the only available road.

The village is located in Nizhegorodskaya oblast. Attention! The video is full of offensive Russian language.

Tags: Nizhegorodskaya oblast

Jul/10

The people of Russian villages photos

3 Comments · Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in People, Photos, Regions

The following photos were captured in several villages of Kich-Gorodetsky district of Vologda oblast by Olya Ivanova

The second part of the photos

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Tags: Vologda oblast

Jul/10

The color photos of Russia before World War I

No comments · Posted by Alex Smirnov in History, People, Video

The following video presents a small number of color photos captured by Russian photographer Sergey Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky in the beginning of 20th century. Unique photos give us the opportunity to see the life of Russian Empire in color just before its end.