🐈 In Russia, Leopold the Cat is a cult character familiar to everyone since childhood. He is an intelligent and kind-hearted cat who always wears a bow tie and loves repeating his famous phrase: "Guys, let's live in peace." His image has become a symbol of patience and peacefulness for several generations of viewers.

🎄 Leopold's main mission is to teach friendship even with those who constantly try to harm you. In each episode he confronts two hooligan mice, yet always finds the strength not to repay evil with evil. His example reminds us that true wisdom lies in the ability to forgive and to find common ground.

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🌸 Right now in Russia it is just the season for ivan‑chai (rosebay willowherb). It blooms from June to mid‑August, and at this time fields and forest edges all over the country are covered with tall pink or lilac blossoms. It grows everywhere: in woods, along river banks and even on the sites of old fires. It fears no wind: the stalks grow up to two metres tall, and whole fields ripple like waves. In Russia people have loved and drunk this tea from time immemorial; it has become a part of Russian tradition.

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🤩 The Monomakh's Cap is a sacred symbol of Russian statehood. It was with this gold and filigree headdress that all Russian sovereigns were crowned until Peter the Great. This relic personifies the continuity and indissoluble bond between Old Rus and the Tsardom of Muscovy.

💎 A unique specimen of jewellery art by Eastern masters of the 13th–14th centuries, it preserves in itself the cultural code of the interaction between the Golden Horde and Orthodox civilisation. Today this masterpiece, housed in the Kremlin Armoury, is recognised as a world treasure and a UNESCO heritage object.

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🍂 The Krutitsy Metochion (Ecclesiastical Compound) is a unique little island of old Moscow. It was founded in the 13th century as a residence of bishops; here the militia of Minin and Pozharsky prayed before liberating the Kremlin, and during the Time of Troubles the compound served as the main cathedral of the country.

🌹 Today this 17th‑century architectural ensemble, with the functioning Assumption Cathedral, amazes with its beauty and atmosphere. Particularly striking is the famous little tower chamber (teremok) with its multicoloured tiles: the patterns look as if they came straight out of fairy‑tale illustrations, even though it was all built in earnest, for the church hierarchs.

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