Старая Русса / Staraya Russa -1968
Старая Русса
Фотографии Г.Петренко
1968 года
Staraya Russa -1968
Photographs by G. Petrenko
1968
Music:
Adagio from The Gayane Ballet by Aram Khachaturian
The ancient town of Staraya Russa is located near to Veliky Novgorod.
Thought to have originated in the mid-10th century, it was first mentioned as Rusa in chronicles for the year 1167 as one of three main towns of the Novgorod Republic, alongside Pskov and Ladoga.
During the Great Patriotic War, the town was completely destroyed and later restored.......
Staraya LadogaСтарая Ладога
Видео с велопохода по правому-левому берегу реки Волхов
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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Николаев / Nikolaev before the Revolution
Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях
Николаев
вокруг 1900 г.
Pre-revolutionary Russia in photographs
Nikolaev
around 1900
Nikolaev, or Mykolaiv is a city in southern Ukraine and reputed to be the main ship building centre on the Balck Sea.
When this album was made, the city was part of the Russian Empire.
The city's origin was made possible by the conquests of the Second Russo-Turkish War. Founded by Prince Grigory Potemkin, in 1789, Nikolaev was the last of the many cities he established. He created shipyards and named the city after Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of seafarers. By the 19th century the port city was ranked third in the Russian Empire, after St. Petersburg and Odessa.
Music:
Two pieces for violin and piano from Kaleidoscope by Cezar Cui
Ruskeala waterfalls, Karelia region, Russia
Tours to Ruskeala waterfalls can be arranged from Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
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The Volkhov River, Veliky Novgorod, Russia
Vikingferd i Østerled - reconnaissance 2013
Reconnaissancetrip in the summer of 2013 to Russia for the planned expedition 2014/15 that will follow one of the old Varangian trade routes from Scandinavia to Miklagard Byzants/Istanbul
Even before the Viking era had officially started, the Vikings from Scandinavia had a good knowledge of the waterways that led up from the Baltic Sea and over time they established bases in the East. Such as Staraya Ladoga, Novgorod, Gnezdovo and Kiev. From Norway went among others, Harald ' Hardrada ' to Miklagard where he served as one of the Emperor's trusted men in the Varangian Guard for later to return to Norway's and rule the country until his death. With him ended viking age.
What did these men experience on their missions? Can we reconstruct one of the missions in their entirety traveling with the same boat - also over land where needed ? Will we have some of the same experiences as the Vikings in their time?
We went to Russia to check out the white spot on the journey from the rivers that flow to the North and the rivers that flow to the South to see if it is possible to bring the same vessel all the way.
Forundersøkelser sommeren 2013 Russland for planlagt ekspedisjon 2014 som vil følge en av de gamle handelsrutene fra Skandinavia til Byzants, Miklagard/Istanbul.
Allerede før Vikingtiden offisielt startet hadde vikinger fra Scandinavia god kjennskap til vannveiene som ledet opp fra Østersjøen og det ble med tiden anlagt faste holdepunkt i øst. Så som Staraja Ladoga, Novgorod, Gnezdovo og Kiev. Fra Norge dro bl.a.Harald 'Hardråde' til Miklagard og endte opp som en av keiserens betrodde menn for senere å returnere til Norges og styre landet inntil sin død. Med han svant også vikingtiden hen.
Hva opplevde disse menn på sine ferder? Kan man rekonstruere en av ferdene i sin helhet hvor en og samme båt tas med - også over land? Vil man sitte igjen med noe av de samme opplevelsene som vikingene gjorde den gang?
Vi dro til Russland for å sjekke ut den hvite flekk på ferden fra elvene som renner nord og elvene som renner mot sør for å se om det er mulig å ta farkosten med seg hele veien.
Мы идем на Север, а не в Крым! Самостоятельное путешествие на Кольский и Рыбачий - Kola Peninsula
Отчет -
Фильм о самостоятельном путешествии на Север России - Кольский полуостров.