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Photo Legend of the mansion of Matilda Kshesinska

Legend of the mansion of Matilda Kshesinska The mansion was built in 1904-1906 in the style of “Northern Art Nouveau” by architect …

Photo "Rite of the Tatar Wedding!"!

Today, the pre-revolutionary traditions of the Tatar people have been preserved in distant and even in some nearby villages. One o …

Photo Sochi Falls

The mountainous terrain created many wonderful waterfalls for our city. The largest of them are in the area of Krasnaya Polyana. T …

Photo Karga Botkasi

Karga Botkasi or porridge for ravens (rooks) - a holiday of spring! This custom - the holiday is held in late April, early May. Wh …

Photo How do you behave in a mosque? Tourist's allowance.

Hello, dear reader! Every year the number of mosques in the Chechen Republic is steadily growing. They are built in all settlement …

Photo Кофе и Петербург

Как известно культуру бодрящего, ароматного напитка активно продвигал Петр Великий.Первые кофейни появились в Спб ещё в 18 веке, п …

Photo Barange beirem

The feast of potatoes, the so-called holiday after the harvest of potatoes in our region. The villagers quickly found out who had …

Photo Turtles don't care, they have nothing to do with it

The official history of the excursion development of the Crimea began on May 6, 1890 in Odessa, when the Crimean Mountain Club was …

Photo Autumn blues? Nonsense!

Autumn is not the time to crook the soul, the time to rustle foliage, fantasy and drink hot tea from a thermos, looking at the Nev …

Photo Detective Petersburg: detective legends

Bandit Petersburg, so they began to call Northern Venice, after the release of the series of the same name. And more seriously, th …

Photo The story of the Alushta slum captivity

Guides telling about Alushta, necessarily mention the ruins of the fortress of Aluston, as originally, in the Middle Ages, the cit …

Photo The Uskuins are descendants of the Varangians.

The Uskhuins were brave warriors, they skillfully acted both on foot and in horse formation, perfectly owned the main weapons of t …

Photo Orange River and Embankment in Kashira

Kashira is on the high right bank of the Oka. The river is a decoration of the city since ancient times and a place of power. In S …

Photo My God doesn't call me a slave!

Vasily Buslaev. He is known for his strength, rampage and rampage. He's a hero. As a child, his mother gave him to study literacy; …

Photo Typical Smolensk - special signs

Friends and acquaintances constantly ask you not to gack.You call your lips “mushrooms,” and as a child, grandmothers promised to …

Photo Sadko merchant.

Courageous, beautiful soul and appearance, the young merchant charmed everyone on his way with a magical game on the harp and a si …

Photo Natalia Strukova from Smolensk paints paintings at the bottom of the sea

Natalia Strukova from Smolensk paints at the bottom of the sea. Scuba diving, she takes canvases and oil paints with her and paint …

Photo The first newspaper of Kostroma

The first issue of the newspaper Kostroma Provincial Vedomosti was published on January 8, 1838. The first newspapers are not lik …

Photo Monument to A.S. Pushkin. Petersburg, Pushkinskaya Street.

The life and work of Alexander Pushkin are closely connected with St. Petersburg. But, despite this, the memory of the brilliant R …

Photo The trampling of the Persian carpet

We are lucky to live in an era of “remembrance perpetuation”. Not a day goes by that the media did not flash information that some …

Photo The most important thing about winter Baikal

Baikal is a unique place that stores not only 20% of the world’s fresh water reserves, but also a variety of natural areas and bre …

Photo The Night Poem of Smolensk. Excursion with a lantern - invite to the presentation of a new excursion

We love to come up with new excursions, so we are in a hurry to share them with you. The romance of the night, the spirit of crea …

Photo Like a phoenix from the ashes: the Epiphany-Anastasia monastery in Kostroma

The Cathedral of the Epiphany-Anastasiain Monastery is the oldest in Kostroma. It was built in 1559. One of the biggest donors wa …

Photo Sheremetev's castle at the pos. jurino

The castle of the landlords Sheremetev in pos. Yurino on the Volga is the pearl of the Volga estate architecture. The castle was b …

Photo Stars over the city: Planetarium in Kostroma

The stars in Kostroma have been watched for a long time. “Kostromskaya Kulibin”, merchant Alexander Krasilnikov back in the 1820s …

Photo Petersburg in miniature

Have you ever dreamed of reaching the top of the Admiralty spire or looking at the look on the face of an angel crowning the spire …

Photo What's going on in Smolensk?

Everyone around, it seems, only likes to complain that everything is wrong in Smolensk, and everything is wrong, that there is now …

Photo Rescuer: architect Kaleria Torop in Kostroma

Architect Kaleria Gustavovna Torop was born in Kostroma on March 2, 1917. For a long time she left her hometown - studied in Mosc …

Photo Creator of the destroyed flax plant: inventor Ivan Zvorykin in Kostroma

The inventor Ivan Dmitrievich Zvorykin was born on January 26, 1870 in the city of Murom, Vladimir province. He belonged to the sa …

Photo d. Vladimir in fiction. Sollogub V.A. Tarantas

Poor Ivan Vasilyevich went to inspect the city without leadership and was unwittingly amazed by his deep ignorance. How did they l …

Photo How to show Smolensk to friends and relatives

Last week Pasha and Katya came to visit from Voronezh. We met Pasha on an educational trip to America a year and a half ago. Despi …

Photo Chizhov millions: philanthropist Fedor Chizhov and Kostroma

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Fedor Vasilyevich Chizhov was born in Kostroma on February 27, 1811. The family of his father, a …

Photo Budnikov House in Smolensk

Budnikov House in SmolenskOne of the most unusual, simply fabulously beautiful city building of Smolensk is the former house of in …

Photo New tour! Birds and Beasts of the Lopatinsky Garden

Informative biological walk in the center of Smolensk with entomologist Oleg Semionenkova n Cries of birds and animals, how often …

Photo Happy Terem: Artist Boris Kustodiev and Kostroma

Artist Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev was born on February 23, 1878. In 1922, the writer Yevgeny Zamyatin visited his Petrograd apa …

Photo Legends of the Smolensk fortress: Orel Tower

Legends of the Smolensk fortress: Orel TowerThe Smolensk fortress wall is the third longest in the world and the second (after Con …

Photo Homestead and Manor Orekhovno

Sebezh is located on the border with Belarus and Latvia It is a very colorful and atmospheric city, beautiful, lake. The bir …

Photo Portraitist of the provincial city: writer Alexei Pisemsky and Kostroma

Writer Alexei Feofilaktovich Pisemsky was born on March 10, 1820 in the estate of Ramenskoye Chukhlom district of Kostroma provinc …

Photo Cat House in Smolensk.

Cat House in Smolensk.On the Ascension Hill of Smolensk, next to the Ascension Women's Monastery, which gave the name to the hill …

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