If you your lips would keep from slips,
Five things observe with care;
To whom you speak, of whom you speak.
And how, and when, and where.
The audience for Russian folk fairy tales historically included a wide range of people, primarily within Russian rural communities. These tales were traditionally passed down orally and were shared among family members, especially during gatherings in the evenings or during long winter nights.
The stories were aimed at both children and adults, as they often conveyed moral lessons, cultural values, and reflections on human nature. Children would listen to these tales for entertainment and education, while adults might also appreciate the deeper themes and social commentary embedded in the narratives.
Russian storytellers, or "skazateli," were folks who specialized in oral folk traditions, passing down legends, fairy tales, songs, and other pieces of folklore from one generation to the next. These people had a special talent for telling stories and often performed at celebrations, fairs, and community events. Their performances created a lively atmosphere, engaging the audience directly. They used a lot of improvisation, which made each show one-of-a-kind.
In Russian culture, storytellers were crucial for preserving and spreading folk traditions, and they also helped shape the community's shared understanding of its culture and history. Some well-known storytellers include figures like Gavrila Derzhavin, but many others remained anonymous, and their names have been lost to time.
Today, these storytellers are recognized as an important part of Russia's cultural heritage, and there's a growing interest in this art form, helping to keep those folk traditions alive.
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Burlinskoye Lake, famous for its pink water, is one of the most popular destinations in Southern Siberia for bloggers and wellness seekers alike.
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Boris Tchaikovsky
Boris Tchaikovsky’s music is characterized by its lyrical melodies, rich harmonies, and intricate textures. He was adept at integrating elements of Russian folk music with modernist techniques, creating works that were both accessible and sophisticated. His output was diverse, encompassing symphonies, chamber music, piano works, and film scores, among other genres. He chiefly wrote in a tonal style, but also experimented with surrealism.
One of Boris Tchaikovsky’s most acclaimed works is “The Symphony of the Blockade,” inspired by the siege of Leningrad during World War II. This piece is notable for its emotional depth and how it captures the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Tchaikovsky’s work for cinema also stands out, particularly his scores for films such as “The Wind” and “Don Quixote.”
In summary, Boris Tchaikovsky was a composer of considerable depth and originality whose music reflects adeep engagement with the cultural and historical currents of his time. His legacy is that of a composer who navigated the complexities of Soviet music with integrity and creativity, leaving behind a body of work that continues to resonate with audiences today.
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🌊Did you know the water in Lake Baikal glows? Who came up with the name of this lake? From whom did they build defence walls on its shores in ancient times? On the day when almost 382 years ago a Russian expedition went to Baikal, take a look at the legends and myths of this place in our visual cards.
85-year-old Lyubov Morekhodova is considered by many as one of Baikal's attractions. She lives all alone in the nearest farmstead to the lake. As soon as frost hits, Lyubov gets up on her skates. What for? Find out from our film ‘Baikal Babushka. Songs of Life’ (2019).
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85-year-old Lyubov Morekhodova is considered by many as one of Baikal's attractions. She lives all alone in the nearest farmstead to the lake. As soon as frost hits, Lyubov gets up on her skates. What for? Find out from our film ‘Baikal Babushka. Songs of Life’ (2019).
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💥🎥 "Film, Film, Film"
Soviet animated cartoon of 1968 directed by Fyodor Khitruk, a parody of "how movies are made", wittily revealing the "kitchen" of film production.
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Soviet animated cartoon of 1968 directed by Fyodor Khitruk, a parody of "how movies are made", wittily revealing the "kitchen" of film production.
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The main scientific centers for the development of nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons were established in Moscow - the future Kurchatov Institute and the future Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) - and in Sarov. However, the task of the institute in Dubna was somewhat different. It focused on fundamental problems of nuclear physics without direct military applications.
In 1949, a synchrocyclotron was launched, where protons, heavy hydrogen and helium nuclei, were accelerated to record energies for that time. Until 1953, the accelerator in Dubna remained the largest accelerator in the world.
Many brilliant physicists worked in Dubna. From 1965 to 1988, the institute was headed by Nikolay Bogolyubov, one of the most eminent Soviet theoretical physicists. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Lev Landau frequently visited Dubna. A tragic accident that nearly cost him his life occurred on the winter highway on the way to Dubna.
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Among the most significant scientific results obtained in Dubna is the synthesis of many new transuranic elements. For instance, the element with atomic number 105, first synthesized in Dubna, was named dubnium. And the element with atomic number 114 is called flerovium in honor of Georgy Flerov, who led these studies for many years.
A superconducting heavy ion accelerator, NICA, has been built in Dubna and is about to be put into operation. When two heavy nuclei collide, a hot and dense blob of nuclear matter is created for brief moments, mimicking the state of matter in the very early universe – right after the Big Bang.
In terms of theoretical achievements, perhaps the most significant is the prediction of so-called neutrino oscillations (the mutual transitions between different types of neutrinos), made by Bruno Pontecorvo
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Bruno Pontecorvo
The work and life of Bruno Pontecorvo.
Bruno Pontecorvo was born near Pisa, Italy. He studied physics at Sapienza University in Rome under Enrico Fermi. In 1934, as one of Fermi’s students, he participated in the famous experiment that eventually led to the discovery of nuclear fission.
Pontecorvo was a committed communist and joined the Italian Communist Party at the age of 23. In 1938, he fled Mussolini’s regime to Paris, and two years later, when the Germans occupied the city, he managed to escape and eventually made his way to the USA. In 1943, he joined the British Tube Alloys team in Montreal, a British version of the Manhattan Project, and participated thereby in the development of the atomic bomb.
In 1949, he moved to Britain, and the following year, being a communist, he fled with his family (via Sweden and Finland) to the communist country, the Soviet Union. Many years later, he wrote in his autobiographical notes,
“By the end of the war, I found the behavior of the West towards the country that played such an important role in the fight against Nazism and paid such a huge price in human lives to be immoral.”
In the USSR, Pontecorvo joined the institute in Dubna, and in 1954, he, along with other leading physicists and engineers at the institute, received the Stalin Prize for the successful launch of the synchrotron and for conducting physical experiments there.
💥 His most significant scientific achievements relate to the physics of neutrinos. In particular, he was the first to realize (back in 1957) that there are different types of neutrinos and that one type can convert into another. Later, neutrino oscillations were discovered in experiment, and the discoverers of this phenomenon were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015, sixty years after Pontecorvo's prediction and twenty years after his passing.
As a young man, sometime in the eighties, I attended a talk by Pontecorvo. It was not a scientific lecture; he shared with us the story of the life and mysterious disappearance of Ettore Majorana, another brilliant Italian physicist whom Pontecorvo had known personally in his youth.
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