House-museum of the Tsvetaev family in the village of Novo-Talitsy Not far from the city of Ivanovo, in the village of Novo-Talitsy, there is a house-museum of the Tsvetaev…
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Photographer Sergey Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Photographer Sergey Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky 19th century photos It is known that, being a pupil of the 1st Cadet Corps, Mikhail Prokudin-Gorsky at the age of 17 left this educational institution…
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Tatar jewelry
Tatar jewelry art is entirely associated with the decoration of a woman’s costume, which quite clearly reflected the peculiarities of their life, culture and artistic taste. Like most of the…
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The Olovyanishnikovs
The Olovyanishnikovs foundry dynasty The Olovyanishnikovs began their family with monastic peasants. That is, from the same serfs, only without a chance to be redeemed free. So even before the…
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Director of world only gypsy theater Nikolai Slichenko
Director of world only gypsy theater Nikolai Slichenko was born December 27, 1934 in Kharkov. He grew up in a large gypsy family of five children. His first impressions –…
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Prilutsky monastery
Spaso-Prilutsky Dimitriev Monastery The Russian North is the promised land of our monasticism, ours, the northern, Thebais. Many renowned ascetics asceticised here, there are many places significant for the spiritual…
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