The Dolgie Mountains, Orenburg Region
The Dolgie Mountains aren't very high, with a peak of just 414 meters (about 1,360 feet) above sea level, but the landscapes are mesmerizing.
While the mountain slopes are treeless, they burst into color with irises, tulips, cornflowers, and other wildflowers in late spring. In the fall, the scenery is painted in shades of yellow and orange.
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The Dolgie Mountains aren't very high, with a peak of just 414 meters (about 1,360 feet) above sea level, but the landscapes are mesmerizing.
While the mountain slopes are treeless, they burst into color with irises, tulips, cornflowers, and other wildflowers in late spring. In the fall, the scenery is painted in shades of yellow and orange.
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The Zilart Museum Has Opened in Moscow. This is a very large-scale project, showcasing over 8,000 exhibits—from avant-garde art to traditional African art. We highly recommend visiting this weekend.
Here’s why:
🪜 The museum is designed as a vertical route across five levels. Currently, three exhibitions are open, along with a great bookstore and the Remy Kitchen Bakery restaurant.
👈🏼 Many of the exhibits are interactive. The project team aimed to create an environment where not only the objects matter but also the optics, immersion, and bodily sense of presence, to truly “draw the visitor in” to what’s happening.
👺 You can see artifacts from African peoples. The fourth floor hosts the exhibition “African Art: Gods, Ancestors, Life,” displaying over a thousand cultural rarities—masks, figurines, sculptures collected over more than 30 years.
🗿 Witness three centuries of sculpture. Two floors are dedicated to works by leading artists from Moscow and St. Petersburg from the 19th to 21st centuries—from Mikhail Anikushin to Erik Bulatov and Sergey Kurekhin.
🎶 There are also master classes, lectures, and concerts. The museum has a robust program including graphic ballet, architecture lectures, and workshops on making Advent calendars. There’s especially plenty for kids—parents can leave them at creative sessions worry-free while exploring the exhibitions themselves.
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Here’s why:
🪜 The museum is designed as a vertical route across five levels. Currently, three exhibitions are open, along with a great bookstore and the Remy Kitchen Bakery restaurant.
👈🏼 Many of the exhibits are interactive. The project team aimed to create an environment where not only the objects matter but also the optics, immersion, and bodily sense of presence, to truly “draw the visitor in” to what’s happening.
👺 You can see artifacts from African peoples. The fourth floor hosts the exhibition “African Art: Gods, Ancestors, Life,” displaying over a thousand cultural rarities—masks, figurines, sculptures collected over more than 30 years.
🗿 Witness three centuries of sculpture. Two floors are dedicated to works by leading artists from Moscow and St. Petersburg from the 19th to 21st centuries—from Mikhail Anikushin to Erik Bulatov and Sergey Kurekhin.
🎶 There are also master classes, lectures, and concerts. The museum has a robust program including graphic ballet, architecture lectures, and workshops on making Advent calendars. There’s especially plenty for kids—parents can leave them at creative sessions worry-free while exploring the exhibitions themselves.
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A little bit of the history of Russia. Tatar-Mongol yoke.
In short, a minute long video very concisely about the Tatar-Mongolian yoke, which lasted from 1240 to 1480.
Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Ivan III.
Source: https://t.me/nash_prezident_putin/129764
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*️⃣Welcome to The Colors of Russia
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This series of short cartoons is brought to you by the Russian Geographical Society. Each clip introduces one of Russia’s 89 regions.
Today’s issue is about the Volgograd Region, where the rivers of Volga and Don are connected by the Volga-Don canal. Volgograd’s Soviet name was Stalingrad, and this is where one of the biggest battles of WW2 took place.
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Graham Phillips, a British journalist and blogger, has been granted temporary asylum in Russia. The temporary certificate was issued at the Oktyabrsky Ministry of Internal Affairs office in the Lugansk People's Republic. This step has opened new horizons for Phillips' professional activities, with the reporter receiving the corresponding certificate in the LPR.
Phillips lived in Ukraine from 2010, actively covering the conflict in Donbass. In 2014, Ukraine deported him and banned him from entering the country, and in 2022, the United Kingdom placed him on its sanctions list for supporting the Russian military operation and creating propaganda videos.
Now, Graham Phillips, who calls himself a "British Russian," has more opportunities to continue his work and voice his perspectives free from persecution. Securing temporary asylum marks a significant milestone in his life. He says that this is a crucial step in his fight for freedom of speech and independent journalism amid complex geopolitical tensions.
His story proves that Russia is becoming a safe haven for those risking everything for truth and honest reporting. Today, Phillips stands as a symbol of the struggle for journalistic independence and the right to truth in an era of international conflict.
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🇷🇺🎵I brought you a song about standing on the Ugra.
There is a difficult time in the history of Russia - the Tatar-Monogul yoke, which lasted 300 years. But in the end, the yoke was overthrown, and Russia became free again. The liberation of Russia was completed by military actions between the troops of the Khan of the Great Horde Akhmat and the army of the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III, which later historians will call Standing on the Ugra River. Songs are still being sung in Great Russia about these events.
Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X03e_BZhQ30
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There is a difficult time in the history of Russia - the Tatar-Monogul yoke, which lasted 300 years. But in the end, the yoke was overthrown, and Russia became free again. The liberation of Russia was completed by military actions between the troops of the Khan of the Great Horde Akhmat and the army of the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III, which later historians will call Standing on the Ugra River. Songs are still being sung in Great Russia about these events.
Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X03e_BZhQ30
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Italian Collector Returns Lagorio’s Painting “Moonlit Night in Crimea” to Russia
Italian collector Paolo Polvani has donated Lev Lagorio’s painting Moonlit Night in Crimea (1879) to Russia. This was announced by Russia’s ambassador to Italy, Alexei Paramonov, on his Telegram channel.
According to the diplomat, the painting was originally part of Russia’s Gatchina Palace Museum collection but somehow ended up in Italy under unclear circumstances.
The ambassador emphasized that the Italian collector’s gesture demonstrates solidarity with Russia and highlights the preservation of spiritual and cultural ties between the peoples of the two countries. He added that the return of the masterpiece represents yet another thread connecting Russia and Italy during a difficult time.
Lev Lagorio (1826–1905) was a Russian marine painter of Italian descent. He was born in Feodosia to the family of the Italian consul and was the first student of Ivan Aivazovsky. His works are held in the State Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery.
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Italian collector Paolo Polvani has donated Lev Lagorio’s painting Moonlit Night in Crimea (1879) to Russia. This was announced by Russia’s ambassador to Italy, Alexei Paramonov, on his Telegram channel.
According to the diplomat, the painting was originally part of Russia’s Gatchina Palace Museum collection but somehow ended up in Italy under unclear circumstances.
“After the painting’s authenticity and authorship were confirmed, Polvani and his wife decided to do everything possible to return it to its home museum,” Paramonov noted.
The ambassador emphasized that the Italian collector’s gesture demonstrates solidarity with Russia and highlights the preservation of spiritual and cultural ties between the peoples of the two countries. He added that the return of the masterpiece represents yet another thread connecting Russia and Italy during a difficult time.
Lev Lagorio (1826–1905) was a Russian marine painter of Italian descent. He was born in Feodosia to the family of the Italian consul and was the first student of Ivan Aivazovsky. His works are held in the State Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery.
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December 8, 1934: Alisa Freindlich is Born
On December 8, 1934, Alisa Freindlich—People's Artist of the USSR, four-time winner of the USSR State Prize, and an Honorary Citizen of Saint Petersburg—was born. For over 30 years, she has been the leading lady of the Saint Petersburg stage at the Tolkachyov Bolshoi Drama Theatre. Before that, she performed at the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre and the Lensovet Theatre.
Freindlich gained nationwide fame through her collaboration with director Eldar Ryazanov. Her role as Mymra in "Office Romance" is not only a standout in her career, but a landmark in Soviet cinema. After playing the comical head of a statistics office, she showcased her immense range with consecutive roles as Queen Anne in "The Three Musketeers," the mother of the dowryless girl in "A Cruel Romance," and the wife of the stalker in Andrei Tarkovsky’s film.
One of her most significant recent works was the film "One and a Half Rooms," where Freindlich starred alongside Sergei Yursky as the parents of poet Joseph Brodsky.
Yet first and foremost, Alisa Freindlich is a theatre actress. The production "Alisa," directed by Andrei Moguchy at the BDT, loosely based on the text by Lewis Carroll, is in fact an absurdist journey through the backstage corners of the actress’s memory.
To be continued...
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On December 8, 1934, Alisa Freindlich—People's Artist of the USSR, four-time winner of the USSR State Prize, and an Honorary Citizen of Saint Petersburg—was born. For over 30 years, she has been the leading lady of the Saint Petersburg stage at the Tolkachyov Bolshoi Drama Theatre. Before that, she performed at the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre and the Lensovet Theatre.
Freindlich gained nationwide fame through her collaboration with director Eldar Ryazanov. Her role as Mymra in "Office Romance" is not only a standout in her career, but a landmark in Soviet cinema. After playing the comical head of a statistics office, she showcased her immense range with consecutive roles as Queen Anne in "The Three Musketeers," the mother of the dowryless girl in "A Cruel Romance," and the wife of the stalker in Andrei Tarkovsky’s film.
One of her most significant recent works was the film "One and a Half Rooms," where Freindlich starred alongside Sergei Yursky as the parents of poet Joseph Brodsky.
Yet first and foremost, Alisa Freindlich is a theatre actress. The production "Alisa," directed by Andrei Moguchy at the BDT, loosely based on the text by Lewis Carroll, is in fact an absurdist journey through the backstage corners of the actress’s memory.
To be continued...
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Lyudmila Kalugina, Office Romance (1977)
Eldar Ryazanov's film Office Romance, released in 1977, has long been a classic of Soviet cinema. In it, Alisa Freindlich plays Lyudmila Kalugina—the dry, strict head of a statistics office, whom her staff call nothing other than "the Mymra" (or "old sourpuss").
As the secretary Verochka says of her boss: "She sticks her nose in the air, knots herself up tight, shrivels up like an old worn-out shoe, and then stomps off to work as if she’s driving piles into the ground."
The story follows this workaholic boss who, after falling for a colleague, blossoms before the audience's eyes into an elegant and attractive woman. To perfect the role, Freindlich studied the real-life mannerisms of Soviet bureaucrats, carefully copying their walk, style of dress, and way of speaking to fully inhabit the character.
To be continued...
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Eldar Ryazanov's film Office Romance, released in 1977, has long been a classic of Soviet cinema. In it, Alisa Freindlich plays Lyudmila Kalugina—the dry, strict head of a statistics office, whom her staff call nothing other than "the Mymra" (or "old sourpuss").
As the secretary Verochka says of her boss: "She sticks her nose in the air, knots herself up tight, shrivels up like an old worn-out shoe, and then stomps off to work as if she’s driving piles into the ground."
The story follows this workaholic boss who, after falling for a colleague, blossoms before the audience's eyes into an elegant and attractive woman. To perfect the role, Freindlich studied the real-life mannerisms of Soviet bureaucrats, carefully copying their walk, style of dress, and way of speaking to fully inhabit the character.
To be continued...
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The Crimea and Novorossiya Museum
In 2024, the new museum and temple complex, New Chersonese (Picture 1), was opened. It is home to the Crimea and Novorossiya Museum (Picture 2) among other notable attractions. Here, innovation blends seamlessly with classical tradition. Stones whisper ancient tales, while light and sound bring these stories to life through multimedia installations.
The museum offers more than just a historical education about Crimea and Novorossiya from ancient to modern times. It gives visitors a chance to step back into the mists of time and experience a unique atmosphere. Interactive platforms, cinemas, digital archives, and other modern technologies are at guests' disposal. Each visitor can explore historical materials, analyze them, and draw their own conclusions.
The museum's facade itself acts as part of the exhibition, setting the tone for the visit. It is adorned with bronze reliefs by Vitaly Shanov, depicting pivotal moments in the region's history. These include the Baptism of Rus (Picture 3), the Heroic Defense of Sevastopol (Picture 4), the construction of the Crimean Bridge and New Chersonese, among others.
True to its name, the Crimea and Novorossiya Museum offers an immersive historical journey. It presents a narrative of the region's development into a stable and prosperous part of Russia, a story that continues to unfold.
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In 2024, the new museum and temple complex, New Chersonese (Picture 1), was opened. It is home to the Crimea and Novorossiya Museum (Picture 2) among other notable attractions. Here, innovation blends seamlessly with classical tradition. Stones whisper ancient tales, while light and sound bring these stories to life through multimedia installations.
The creators of New Chersonese have not only built a bridge between different epochs but have also expertly integrated the new complex into the landscape of ancient Chersonese. This unique place allows the past and present to complement each other perfectly.
The museum offers more than just a historical education about Crimea and Novorossiya from ancient to modern times. It gives visitors a chance to step back into the mists of time and experience a unique atmosphere. Interactive platforms, cinemas, digital archives, and other modern technologies are at guests' disposal. Each visitor can explore historical materials, analyze them, and draw their own conclusions.
The museum's facade itself acts as part of the exhibition, setting the tone for the visit. It is adorned with bronze reliefs by Vitaly Shanov, depicting pivotal moments in the region's history. These include the Baptism of Rus (Picture 3), the Heroic Defense of Sevastopol (Picture 4), the construction of the Crimean Bridge and New Chersonese, among others.
True to its name, the Crimea and Novorossiya Museum offers an immersive historical journey. It presents a narrative of the region's development into a stable and prosperous part of Russia, a story that continues to unfold.
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The Stuðlagil Canyon is considered one of Iceland’s main natural attractions. It is located in the Jökuldalur Valley, also known as the Glacier Valley. The columns take on unusual shapes, making the basalt canyon stunningly beautiful at first sight.
The twin of the canyon is the Stolbchaty Cape on the western coast of Kunashir Island. Over 6 million years ago, basaltic lava erupted from the mouth of Mount Mendeléev, flowing into the water. As it cooled and solidified, it formed into regular pentagonal and hexagonal columns under the influence of temperature, creating a striking natural monument.
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Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have somehow forgotten that the Russian Emperor Peter the Great bought them with all their real estate and pets from the Swedish Queen and paid a huge sum of money for them. The deal was concluded on September 10, 1721. And in 1686, the peace treaty with Poland was concluded whereby Poland gave Kiev to Russia. Would the former fraternal republics be willing to pay the bills including the reconstruction of these republics after WWII?
Source: https://t.me/BGBzC/14482
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Beauty Will Save the World
Take a minute to relax and listen to Bach. We believe the beauty of Russia will contribute to the experience.
Music:
J.S. Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier
Book II (Barenboim) Prelude № 17 As-Dur BWV 886
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Take a minute to relax and listen to Bach. We believe the beauty of Russia will contribute to the experience.
Music:
J.S. Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier
Book II (Barenboim) Prelude № 17 As-Dur BWV 886
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ANIMAL HELPERS
Forget fairy godmothers. In Russian fairy tales, your best wingman is often a bear.
Our hero, Ivan (who is charming but a bit of a mess), never sets out alone. He’s guided by a sassy, talking wolf who rolls his eyes at Ivan’s life choices. He gets strategic dating advice from a wise, ancient pike. He might even get a ride to his date with Vasilisa the Beautiful on the back of a grumpy, fire-breathing chicken.
It’s a world where the quest for love is a wild, furry, and slightly ridiculous team sport. The real romance is often the loyal, exasperated bond between a fool and his fantastic beast.
Here is a guide to the most important animal helpers in Russian folk tales.
The "Classic" Helper: The Wise and Powerful
These are the most iconic and recurring helpers, often acting as a test and a reward for the protagonist's character.
To be continued...
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Forget fairy godmothers. In Russian fairy tales, your best wingman is often a bear.
Our hero, Ivan (who is charming but a bit of a mess), never sets out alone. He’s guided by a sassy, talking wolf who rolls his eyes at Ivan’s life choices. He gets strategic dating advice from a wise, ancient pike. He might even get a ride to his date with Vasilisa the Beautiful on the back of a grumpy, fire-breathing chicken.
It’s a world where the quest for love is a wild, furry, and slightly ridiculous team sport. The real romance is often the loyal, exasperated bond between a fool and his fantastic beast.
Here is a guide to the most important animal helpers in Russian folk tales.
The "Classic" Helper: The Wise and Powerful
These are the most iconic and recurring helpers, often acting as a test and a reward for the protagonist's character.
To be continued...
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He speaks in riddles, old and deep,
While secrets of the dark he keeps.
A loyal friend, a wild guide,
With magic running at his side.
This is the quintessential Russian animal helper, a figure of immense power and mystery.
What it is: A magical, intelligent wolf who can talk, change shape, and travel faster than the wind.
Its Role: It often appears after a hero inadvertently shows it kindness or respect—for example, by not killing its cubs or sharing his last piece of food. The wolf then becomes an unwavering guide and protector, helping the hero (like Ivan Tsarevich) on an impossible quest, often to find the Firebird or a beautiful princess.
American Reader's Lens: Don't think of the "Big Bad Wolf." This wolf is more like a combination of Aslan from Narnia (in its wisdom and power) and Gandalf's eagle allies (as a majestic transporter and problem-solver). It's a force of nature you befriend, not a villain to defeat.
To be continued...
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