Slavic World: commonality and diversity

The great culture of Russia

«Culture is a measure of humanity in man»

Karl Marx

Культура - это мера человечности в человеке.  Карл Маркс

Moscow Kremlin

the main socio-political, historical and artistic complex of the city

  Cathedral of St. Basil

MOSCOW

The cathedral is an ensemble of eight churches of different shapes topped with onion domes that are traditional for the Russian architecture.

MOSCOW

The Bolshoi Theatre

Today, it’s not simply the building of the theatre but it is also an outstanding landmark of Moscow. The neoclassical view of The Bolshoi can be seen on the Russian 100-ruble banknote.

Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin

Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin – is the most significant historical and architectural landmark of the city and its oldest part, the historic center of the city, around which formed a tourist area. Here is the residence of the Governor and the mayor, court and other administrative buildings .

Nizhny Novgorod state art Museum

• basis of the original collection of the Museum were paintings donated by N. A. Koshelev and A. A. Karelin, as well as famous St. Petersburg and Moscow artists.

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin

Вид в окрестностях Дюссельдорфа.

Ivan Shishkin graduated from Kazan gymnasia. He then studied at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture for 4 years, after that attended Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts from 1856 to 1860, graduating with the highest honors and a gold medal. He received the Imperial scholarship for his further studies in Europe.

Солнечный день

Nizhny Novgorod fair

Nizhny Novgorod fair is one of the largest exhibition complexes in Russia, which every year hosts more than 60 exhibitions on various topics (medicine, education, architecture, ecology and others).

Now on the territory of the fair there are six exhibition pavilions and five conference rooms, which accept even the most honored guests. Thanks to its activities, the fair of Nizhny Novgorod brought this city to a new economic level and made it even more attractive to tourists.

We all die. The goal is not to live forever, the goal is to create a thing that will live.

Chuck Palahniuk.

Мы все умрем. Цель — не жить вечно, цель — создать вещь, которая будет жить. Чак Паланик.

Literature is the expression of society, just as the word is the expression of man.

Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Ronald

Литература есть выражение общества, так же как слово есть выражение человека.

Луи Габриель Амбруаз Бональд

Gorky had a good reputation and he supported the nascent Marxist social-democratic movement. As a result both a large number of “conscious” workers and intelligentsia appreciated him and Gorky became famous.

Maxim Gorky openly disapproved the Tsarist regime and was imprisoned many times. He supported a lot of revolutionists. In 1902 Gorky became acquainted with Lenin and after a while made friends with him. The same year he was elected an honorary Academician of Literature.

Nizhny Novgorod state academic drama theatre

The current drama theater is located in one of the most beautiful buildings on the Central street of the city, designed by the chief architect of the Imperial theaters academician V. A. schröter.

Nizhny Novgorod actor

Yevgeny Evstigneev — Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, teacher. Artist and laureate of the State prize of the Soviet times.

Other actors from Nizhniy Novgorod:

• Valentina Telichkina
• Lyudmila Khityaeva
• Sergey "Siskin" Chigrakov
• "Uma Thurman"
• Irina Pegova