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Russia: Art & Architecture
Lies winter in the sunny lights,
Behind this mental whitened bound
Our universe, eternal, lies…
…
Konstanin Vanshenkin (1925-2012)
Photographer Sergey KarpukhinЕще
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Полнолуние в Санкт-Петербурге / Full Moon in St. Petersburg
St. Isaac's Cathedral, St Petersburg, Sculptures of angels on the balustrade of the main dome, by the sculptor Joseph Herman
Photo by Дмитрий Ловецкий
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The Tretyakov Gallery's main building on Lavrushinsky lane in Moscow, the facade by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1902-1904 and the monument to Pavel Tretyakov (1980 by Alexander Kibalnikov)
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Писатель, ученый-фольклорист Дмитрий Михайлович Балашов родился в Ленинграде. Закончил театроведческий факультет. С этнографическими экспедициями объездил север России, записал многочисленные традиционные обряды, голоса последних русских сказителей.
http://tvkultura.ru/video/show/brand_id/32251/episode_id/968259
The Shorin’s House, Gorohovets, Vladimir Region
People "in the know" suggested Gorohovets as a perfectly preserved provincial town, that traces its origins to the time of Katherine the Great. The Shorin’s House built in the early 20th century is one of jewels of this small provincial town. Thanks to its traditional "look" Gorohovets became a popular filming location for Russian cinematographers. Nikita Mihalkov’s ”Exhausted by the sun 2″ (2010) and ”Heat stroke” (2013) were both filmed here.
10 Places you would never believe were in Russia
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Briullov visited the site of Pompeii in 1828, making numerous sketches depicting the AD 79 Vesuvius eruption. The completed canvas was exhibited in Rome to rapturous reviews of critics and thereafter transported to Paris to be displayed in the Louvre. The first Russian artwork to cause such an interest abroad, it gave birth to an… anthologic poem by Alexander Pushkin, and inspired the hugely successful novel The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who saw it in Rome. Another British author, Sir Walter Scott declared that it was not an ordinary painting but an epic in colours.
The topic is classical, but Briullov's dramatic treatment and generous use of chiaroscuro render it farther advanced from the neoclassical style. In fact, The Last Day of Pompeii exemplifies many of the characteristics of Romanticism as it manifests itself in Russian art, including drama, realism tempered with idealism, increased interest in nature, and a zealous fondness for historical subjects.
The commissioner, Prince Anatole Demidov, donated the painting to Nicholas I of Russia who displayed it at the Imperial Academy of Arts for the instruction of young painters. To present the painting to a wider audience the canvas was transferred to the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg) for the museum's opening in 1895.
Stands a birch-tree white,
Under snow in winter
Gleaming silver bright
On the fluffy branches…
Sparkling in a row
Dangle pretty tassels
Of the purest snow.
There the birch in silence
Slumbers all day long
And the snow gleams brightly
In the golden sun.
And the dawn demurely
Going on its rounds
With a silver mantle
Decks again the boughs.
Sergei Esenin (1895-1925)
Photographer Irina GavrishЕще
In middle ages skomoroh or traveling minstrels were ones who were connected with secular or even pagan tradition. They were hated and forbidden by Christian church because they were real rivals for the audience. But at each folk festival and celebration they were welcome guests with their funny songs, jokes, tricks and truth they told in their art. We have saying “You cannot punish a fool” (с дурака взятки гладки). So they pretended to be ones to tell people the truth. There are many legends about them - both good and bad. But their sacred meaning and importance in Russian celebration is doubtless.
