Orenburg down shawl — finer than silk, lighter than a feather
❤ Orenburg down shawls are known for their fineness and softness. They are knitted from the down of Orenburg goats, which is distinguished by its particular delicacy and fine fibres. The shawl comes out so light that it can be threaded through a wedding ring. At the same time, since the garment was created for the harsh winters of the Southern Urals, it retains heat well.
✨ The down-knitting craft in the Orenburg region took shape from the 18th century. Local craftswomen passed on the knitting techniques from generation to generation, creating shawls with mesh patterns, braids and complex openwork borders. Over time, the items became known far beyond the borders of Russia and turned into one of the most recognisable Russian folk crafts.
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The Imperial Building of Kazan University
❤️ The Imperial Building is one of the most recognisable buildings of Kazan Federal University. It was built at the beginning of the 19th century, when Kazan University was only developing as one of the main scientific centres of the Russian Empire. The building became part of the university complex founded in 1804 by decree of Emperor Alexander I.
📎 The main building is especially interesting for its history as well: Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Lenin studied here, and in the 19th century the rector was the mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky, who created non-Euclidean geometry. Today the building remains the central part of the university complex and a monument of classicist architecture.
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Ivan Kramskoi — a painter for the people
🙏 Ivan Kramskoi was a 19th-century Russian painter, one of the founders of the Association of Travelling Art Exhibitions. In 1870, together with other artists, he opposed the rules of the Imperial Academy of Arts and helped create an association that allowed paintings to be exhibited in various cities of Russia, not only in the capital. Thus, works could be seen by people who rarely visited major art galleries.
🌸 Kramskoi painted portraits of Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Nekrasov and Ivan Shishkin. He also created "The Unknown Woman" and the painting "Christ in the Wilderness" (1872), in which he depicted Christ before a difficult choice. For the Peredvizhniki, it was important to address life and the human being, rather than limit themselves to mythological and historical subjects, which were traditionally valued in academic painting.
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This is one of the oldest surviving wooden churches in Russia. It is not the famous multi-domed Transfiguration Cathedral, but a small, almost «domestic» structure from the 14th–16th centuries.
The church was brought to Kizhi from the Murom Monastery on the south-eastern shore of Lake Onega. It belongs to the simple cage type: a log frame, an altar and a porch, without complex multiple domes or decorative embellishment.
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Chastushki — folk humour to ringing music
🪆 Chastushki are short songs characteristic of the Russian people, usually consisting of four lines, in which a whole story is told within a few seconds. They were sung at village festivities, weddings, gatherings and parties to the accompaniment of a garmon or balalaika. Unlike drawn-out folk songs, chastushki were performed quickly, spiritedly and often with a mischievous smile.
👯♀️ The main feature of chastushki is humour and the ability to keenly observe everyday life. In them people ridiculed neighbours, poked fun at lovers, complained about domestic hardships and commented on events that the whole village was talking about. It was not uncommon for performers to compose new lines on the spot, answering one another in a sung exchange.
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Dmitry Peskov reported that contacts on Donald Trump's proposal to stop strikes on the energy infrastructure of Russia and Ukraine are continuing. Moscow is not yet disclosing the details of the negotiations.
Sergey Lavrov held talks with ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn. The sides are discussing the expansion of interaction in the field of maritime security, combating pandemics, youth exchanges and customs cooperation.
🎬 The international festival «Eurasia.DOC» brought together filmmakers from 17 countries
The 10th festival of documentary films of the CIS countries has ended in Smolensk. 413 applications from 17 states were submitted to the competition, and the Russian film «39th Medical Detachment. The Battle for Life» received the Grand Prix.
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