• Суздаль
[suz-dal']

🔻Suzdal is an ancient Russian city (older than Moscow!) with a history spanning over 1,000 years.

🔻Like other major settlements in the central part of the country, Suzdal emerged as a result of the development of crafts, trade, and agriculture.

🔻Scholars disagree on the origin of the city's name. Most believe it originated from the verb "създати," meaning "to mold from clay."

🔻Suzdal is part of the 'Golden Ring of Russia' (unites old Russian cities of five Oblasts – usually excluding Moscow – as a well-known theme-route.

📍Geoposition: Vladimir Region, Russia

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💙Русский Мост, Владивосток
    Russky Bridge, Vladivostok

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A young Siberian woman with bear cubs, 1900s

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Age of marriage in Old Russia

🔻Traditionally, in Russia, a man, regardless of his age, would strive to marry a younger woman. However, life's circumstances often forced them to take wives who were over 20.

🔻An unmarried woman in the village older than 20 was simply considered to have some physical limitations or was not beautiful. After all, even extreme poverty could not stop a good girl from being married off.

🔻If a 25-year-old woman was already considered an old maid, the boundaries of the male marriage age were more flexible. The age for marriage for boys started at 14-15, and for girls at 12-13. The Church allowed weddings from this age.

🔻The Tale of Bygone Years mentions that in the Slavic tribes of Vyatichi, Radimichi, and Severians, men had two or three wives.

🔻From the mid-19th century, girls were allowed to marry at 16, and boys at 18. After 25, women were considered to be too old to be married, while men could marry for the first time even in old age.

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💙Вечерняя Москва
Night Moscow

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"Russia is the only country in Europe where there is enough idealism to fight for the sake of feeling. Its people do not shy away from sacrifices for faith and brotherhood. Beware of pushing these feelings to the extreme."

This is what General Mikhail Skobelev, a participant in the Central Asian conquests of the Russian Empire and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, and the liberator of Bulgaria, said in his speech in his Parisian apartment on rue Pentier to Serbian students.

Reconstruction of color in the portrait of Ak-Pasha, or the White General (as he was called for appearing in battles in a white uniform and on a white horse), late 1870s - early 1880s.