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City in Russia
Kostroma is a riverside city in western Russia. In the center, the 19th-century Fire Tower overlooks huge Susaninskaya Square and houses a firefighting museum. Clothing and crafts are on display at the Museum of Linen & Birch Bark.
The gold-domed Ipatiev Monastery dates from the medieval era and exhibits sacred icons and relics. There are wooden churches and homes at the Kostroma Sloboda open-air museum.
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Saratov (Things to do - Places to Visit) - SARATOV Top Tourist Places
City in Russia
Saratov is a city in southwestern Russia. It's home to the hilltop Park Pobedy, or Victory Park, an open-air museum with WWII tanks and planes. The 1885 Radishchev Art Museum includes works from the Russian avant-garde period.
At the Einstein Museum of Entertaining Science, tours and performances focus on the laws of physics. The Saratov Regional Museum of Local History features early books and religious artifacts.
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Visiting PROKHOROVKA, Russia (7/2018)
Prokhorovka is remembered as the largest ever tank battle. In the collective Russian memory it was the turning point of the Battle of Kursk when the infamous Liebstandarte II SS Panzer Division was stopped in it's tracks. This point of view is immortalised on the battlefield in the form of the iconic Prokhorovka Bell Tower and the recently installed art works in front of the impressive local museum.
The first mention of Prokhorovka in historical documents dates back to the second half of the 17th century. Polish nobleman Kiril G. Ilyinsky and his son Sava left during the Russian-Polish war of 1654-67 in Poland under the Belgorod, where they founded the suburb Elias. In 1860 Elias Sloboda was renamed in honor of the reigning Emperor Alexander II in the village of Alexandrov. In the 1880s west of the village passed a line of the Kursk-Kharkov-Azov railway. At the same time Prokhorovka station was built, named after the railway engineer names VI Prokhorov responsible for its construction.
In the summer of 1943, Prokhorovka was the site of the Battle of Prokhorovka, a major armored confrontation during the Battle of Kursk of World War II. In July 2013, Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin offered to establish by 2015 a museum commemorating the battle. The display of armored vehicles will be permanent and the technologies shown there will bring up recollections of the events of World War II.
The Battle of Prokhorovka was fought on 12 July 1943 near Prokhorovka, 87 kilometres southeast of Kursk in the Soviet Union, during the Second World War. Taking place on the Eastern Front, the engagement was part of the wider Battle of Kursk, and occurred when the 5th Guards Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army attacked the II SS-Panzer Corps of the German Wehrmacht in one of the largest tank battles in military history.
Alexander Svirsky Monastery (Staraya Sloboda, Russia) 4K
Alexander Svirsky Monastery (Staraya Sloboda, Russia) - Hotels near Alexander Svirsky Monastery, Staraya Sloboda
Alexander-Svirsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery situated deep in the woods of the Leningrad Oblast, just south from its border with the Republic of Karelia. The golden age of this cloister was in the 17th century. It boasts one of the few preserved three-tented belfries and medieval clock towers in Russia.
The abbey was founded in 1487, when a monk of the Valaam Monastery, named Alexander, settled between Roshchinsky and Holy lakes, 20 km to the east from Lake Ladoga and 6 km from the Svir River. During his life in the woods, he had a vision of the Holy Trinity who ordered him to build two oaken chapels dedicated to the Trinity and the Saviour's Transfiguration. These churches gave birth to the twin Trinity and the Transfiguration cloisters, collectively known as the Alexander Svirsky Monastery.
The monastery's founder died on August 30, 1533 and was buried at the Transfiguration cloister, which still serves as a burial place for the local monks. 12 years later, his disciples recounted his life in a biography. The church synod of 1547 canonized Alexander of the Svir, and the new saint became venerated throughout Russian lands. One of the chapels of the famous Saint Basil's Cathedral on Red Square, for instance, was consecrated to him.
The Russian tsars bestowed many important privileges on Alexander's cloister, including the right to appropriate taxes from the Svir Fair, which was held annually under the cloister walls. During the Time of Troubles, the Swedes sacked and burnt both hermitages on three occasions, and yet the monastery continued to prosper. After the Russian-Swedish border was delineated west of the Svir River, much of the trade between two nations had to pass through the Svir Fair, further augmenting the monastery's importance.
This renewed prosperity was reflected in the monastic structures erected in the 1640s. In 1644, when the five-domed Transfiguration Cathedral was finished, Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich presented to the monks a golden ark for keeping St Alexander's relics there. A belfry of the Trinity cloister was built in three tiers and crowned with three tents in 1649. Most of the monastic cells date back to the 1670s. The roomy Trinity Cathedral was completed by 1695. The last structure to be erected within monastery walls was the hospital chapel of St John of Damascus (1718).
The vast lands of the Alexander Svirsky Monastery were secularized during Catherine the Great's ecclesiastical reform in 1764. The Transfiguration cloister continued as a seat of the local seminary and a residence of the Olonets archbishops, who rebuilt much of the monastery structures for their own needs.
Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, the monks were imprisoned and then executed by the Cheka after trying to resist Bolshevik forces. The relics of St Alexander were desecrated and put on a public display in Leningrad. The medieval monastery buildings housed an infamous gulag known as Svirlag. They were further damaged during World War II. Restoration did not commence until the 1970s.
As of 2005, the Transfiguration Cloister is the home to the local monastic community, while the Trinity Cloister still houses a mental asylum instituted in 1953. The monastery has a subsidiary chapel in St Petersburg, situated some 260 km to the west.
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Trans-Mongolian Railway - Irkutsk
After leaving the capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, we had our last glimpse of the lash green Mongolian landscapes before crossing the border to Russia. This is the last country on our itinerary. Our first stop is Irkutsk and it’s the gateway to the beautiful Lake Baikal and Olkhon Island. We stayed 4 nights in Khuzhir village, the largest village on Olkhon, and made new friends. Note that the journey from Irkutsk to Olkhon takes 6-7 hours and about one third of the ride is very bumpy so staying 4 nights is just right.
Video was shot using iPhone 6s and edited on iMovie app and FlimoraGo.
Drone video clips credit: Micheal
Belarus village walks
A quick look at the Belarusian countryside in early spring. Village population is getting smaller year on year and the nature is getting back at some points. People are still kicking!
The villages are neighbours to the Forest Inn Farmstay forestinn.by
Trinity Lavra of St Sergius Monastery, Russia 4K
Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, Russia 4K - Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, Monastery - Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, Monastery sergiev posad Russia
The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius (Russian: Тро́ице-Се́ргиева Ла́вра) is the most important Russian monastery and the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church. The monastery is situated in the town of Sergiyev Posad, about 70 km to the north-east from Moscow by the road leading to Yaroslavl, and currently is home to over 300 monks.
Undoubtedly, the town's main landmark is the famous Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius. It ‘has been living' an interesting life since its foundation (the middle of the 14th century). The story began when a young man Varfolomey, who was later taken the monastic vows as Sergy and propagated the ideas of non-money-grabbing and diligence, settled in a simple cabin after the death of his parents. Step by step the monastery was becoming bigger and attracting both new devotees and pilgrims from all over Russia. A hundred years later the main stone temple was founded on the spot of the former wooden church. It was built by Serbian monks from Kosovo, who took refuge here after the Battle of Kosovo Field. Later the monastery took the name of the Trinity Sergius Lavra.
Ivan the Terrible himself visited this place to conduct control of the building process and then afterwards False Dmitry tested its durability. And even Stenka Razin is said to have been a prisoner inside one of its monasteries.
The Lavra withstood the 16-year siege of the Polish and Lithuanian interventionists, at the time of the Streltsy Uprising it served as a refuge for tsarevna Sofia Alekseevna, Ivan and Peter tsareviches. This is the place where the massacre of Sofia's supporters took place and Peter the Great left this place as an absolute ruler. By 1763 the Trinity Sergius Lavra, having nearly ‘forgotten' the initial idea of its creation, had become one of the richest monasteries of Russia as well as was considered to be one of the largest landowners and possessed more than 100 thousand of peasants.
However, this is the reason the Lavra have enriched a world treasury of architecture, because it's almost impossible to build and decorate monuments without financial resources.
The most significant iconostasis of the Lavra was created by the famous Russian icon painters Andrey Rublev and Daniil Cherniy. The famous icon The Holy Trinity was painted especially for this iconostasis by Rublev. Totally, the monastery's ensemble includes more than 50 buildings of different purposes, which were designed and decorated by the best masters of the 15th-19th centuries. Since 1993 the architectural complex of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius has been inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
But the Holy Trinity Lavra is not the only landmark of Sergiev Posad. Being surrounded by greenery and standing on the banks of the Kanchura River, this town preserved a lot of ancient buildings and seems to stay in the past. The posads (the districts of the town) were spontaneously built around the monastery and the modern town did not manage to join them altogether. The majority of districts are still bearing charming old names such as Hardware Settlement (Skobianoy Poselok), Peasant Village (Krestianskaya Sloboda) or Birds' Town (Ptitsegrad).
Despite the fact that modern Sergiev Posad considerably depends on the monastery, it still has several surprising and special sides. The only research institute of toys in the country and probably in the world is situated here. Previously, there was the highest 20 meter tall waterfall in the Moscow Region. Isn't it a miracle indeed? At the Soviet Union period the town bore the name Zagorsk in honour of a revolutionary, who had never been here. Moreover, even now the historians can not disclose the relation between them. But thanks to this, the name of the town's inhabitants is more similar to space aliens' name: the Zagorchans (in Soviet period) or the Sergievchans (in old times and nowadays).
All the events that, according to any unfortunate accident haven't happened there, in Sergiev Posad, and taking in consideration its rich history, were skillfully created and imprinted in Art. For example, the adventures of the legendary intelligence agent Tuliev from the soviet hit movie Resident's Fate take place here; a fantastic story about an illiterate peasant girl, who makes her way up from a housemaid to a leading weaver (film Light Way), shot particular here. Even to illustrate the events from Vasilisa Prekrasnaya's life, the walls of this picturesque town were chosen and became the best decorations.
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Cambodia and Singapore trip 2015
Music/Hudba : 00:00 - 03:22 - Phillip Phillips - Gone Gone Gone
03-23 - 06:48 - NONONO - Pumpin blood
Our journey begins in Cambodia and finishes in Singapore, so different countried, but also beautiful both of them in their own way. We spent travling in Cambodia and Singapore more than 3 weeks and we enjoyed every minute of it :) Lets watch few moments from our jorney :)
Predosle video bolo venovane Bangkoku a Laosu, po asi 2 tyzdnoch sme sa presunuli dalej...nasimi dalsimi zastavkami boli Kambodza a Singapur , vsetko,samozrejme na vlastnu past ,pretoze takto je to jednoducho vacsia sranda, vacsi zazitok, ovela menej peniazkov potrebnych na cestovanie a hlavne sloboda, v kambodzi a singapure sme stravili viac ako 3 tyzdne a uzili si kazdu jednu minutu, pozrite si par nasich momentov z nasej poslednej vypravicky :))
Ukraine and its traditions (embroidery, architecture, weddings)
Ukraine
- Kyiv (churches, Podil, The Saint Andrew's Church, Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Saint Sophia Cathedral with House of the Metropolitan, St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Khreshchatyk Street,Berehynia on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Golden Gate, le metro)
- National architecture and life museum «Pirogovo» (embroidery, architecture)
- Rivne (Switzerland Park-Hotel, weddings)
- Dubno (The Dubno Castle, the Ikva River, churches, Pentecost at Ukraine)
2013
weddings in Ukraine