Tag: “Homeland”
Vladimir Putin, speaking about the fight against coronavirus, recalled how Russia fought the Pechenegs and Polovtsy. "Homeland" reminds you of important milestones
In the top of the social networking now the tag #etisalate. The creators of the public recognize that fun is not new. Here is how the paintings and sculptures was used for entertainment in the time of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov
Russian arts and crafts, which in the old days our ancestors were engaged at home, would be useful to us to have something to do during the quarantine
32 735 parishioners, about which there is information in the registers of St. Isaac's Cathedral, only 188 were members of the titled nobility. What are the secrets in the personal lives of the Royal family hold the registers of the Cathedral - says the Museum of the Cathedral
One of the terrible consequences of war and infectious disease. After the great Patriotic war the sanitary-epidemiological units of the Soviet Union traveled to the areas of the epidemics in Poland and in China. This assistance to tell children very young then Ada Kulchitskaya
In recent years, the phrase "political mistake" came out of wide use. But in Imperial and Soviet Russia, an accusation of this kind was particularly grave sin. This is similar to and for the first time published a curious document from the collections of GA RF
Hall of the permanent exposition of ancient Russian icon painting of XIV - beginning of the XVIII century has opened in the Hermitage. There are more than 80 icons, many of which are true masterpieces. Most of them are taken from wooden churches and chapels closed in the 1920-1930-ies
March 7, 1960, American helicopter pilots noticed in the open sea semiflooded barge on which people lay. The rescued people were brought aboard the carrier. They said that they do not need anything but fuel and food, and that they will get home. Soviet sailors had been at sea for 49 days without food and water
In 1932 Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote: "emigration - two of the most popular author in the first place Elena molokhovets, the second Pushkin". If the author of a cookbook has 29 titles with a total circulation of nearly 300 thousand copies. By the early twentieth century the book had already 4500 recipes
May 9, 1960 at the Piskarevskoye cemetery was opened a memorial complex. In the center - a six-meter monument to Motherland, which became a symbol lived through the Leningrad tragedy. Sculptor Vera Isaeva did not live to see its opening just a few days
On 8 March 1942 around 22.30 commander of the 16th army of the Western front Konstantin Rokossovsky went to the headquarters to sign the documents. Bent over sitting at the table chief of staff Mikhail Malinin. At this point right outside the window the shell exploded, the shrapnel flew into the room and hit the back Rokossovsky
Despite the fact that February 29 only happens every four years, in the history of our country this day due to many historical events - from Peter the great's decree about Foundation of the city of Biysk to the liberation of Novorzhev and 310 settlements of the Pskov region and the fatal wounding of General Vatutin
Since the beginning of the war letters sent to the front to the number of field mail, the military unit number and surname, name, patronymic of the addressee. September 5, 1942, open the name of a part has been replaced by a conditional number of APO
During the war, was delivered 10.7 billion letters, 22.9 million parcels 63.9 billion copies of printed materials. Forwarding of correspondence was provided free of charge
Before the war, our country was called the most reading in the world. In the war it became the most writing. During the four years of the great Patriotic postmen delivered 10.7 billion letters. Triangles, postcards, antitheft...
In Voronezh, the building of the post office installed the world's only monument to the front the postman. Bronze soldier with a rifle over his shoulder walks to their destinations. With his left hand he is holding puffy bag, on the right is a cherished triangles, fabulous joy for the people in the war
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