I often heard the maxims of young Normanists that the Slavs had nothing of their own, no traditions, no customs, everything was borrowed from the Vikings or Mongols
We Americans pride ourselves on our skill, skill, and practicality. But, having lived in Russia, I realized with sadness that this is sweet self-deception. Maybe - it was like that once. Now we - and especially our children - are slaves of a comfortable cage, in the bars of which a current is passed, which completely prevents the normal, free development of a person in our society. If the Russians are somehow weaned from drinking, they will easily conquer the entire modern world without firing a single shot. I declare this responsibly
Orientalist and political scientist Igor Dimitriev - about an amazing meeting on the slopes of Elbrus
And here is the village, where fair-haired boys in embroidered shirts run through the streets, and women always put their hair under shashmura - a special headdress. Unless the huts are not log cabins, but instead of birch trees, palm trees. The Russia We Lost Remains in South America
Perhaps one of the main signs that distinguish a person from an animal is an incomprehensible need to perform unnecessary actions, to create the beauty and decoration of one's ecumene. The oldest monuments of world art show that primitive man tried to bring his personal harmony into the world, decorating the walls of caves, clothes, carving drawings on stones. And such a need will always be with us until humanity disappears
Every compatriot at least once heard the following words: "arshin", "sazhen", "verst". Everyone knows from childhood that all of the above are measures of length that were used on the territory of the Russian state. But few people know what each of them is equal to and where exactly such names come from
Today, in developed societies, it is believed that marriage should be for love, and earlier it was an economically beneficial union for both parties
Historians believe that the first creative urges 32,000 years ago were experienced by a man, possibly a shaman, who painted hunting scenes on the vaults of the Chave cave
In ancient times, rag dolls were used both as ritual objects and as toys through which children got acquainted with the way of life and received cosmogonic, moral, symbolic and mythological knowledge
A man fished mysteriously engraved strange lead cubes from the Sow River, England. The event excited the locals of Coventry as well as internet users. Now many are wondering and suggesting their versions of what is happening
We show the most precious examples of the jewelry heritage of the Russian imperial family and tell what happened to them after the overthrow of the monarchy
The famous Krasnoyarsk bike traveler Vladimir Chernikov and his colleague in the Russian Geographical Society Dmitry Semenov discovered an old English steam engine in the Siberian taiga in the Sukhobuzimsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory
Nikolai Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovsky was born in Moscow on September 7
Since the 18th century. chests with Russian crown jewels were kept in the Diamond Room, a special storage facility in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. When the First World War began, it was decided to transport the crown jewels to Moscow. On July 24, 1914, who arrived from the Winter Palace, the chests in which the crown jewels were packed were received by V.K. Trutovsky. Among the eight chests exported from St. Petersburg were two chests with crown drago
It is not without reason that Russian literature is considered one of the greatest in the world. It is not the first century that foreign writers admit that it was the works of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and other classics that had the greatest influence on them and formed their author's style. In our selection - Fitzgerald, de Saint-Exupery, Bukowski and Murakami talk about their acquaintance with the works of Russian authors
Even highly educated and extremely well-read people use jargon in one way or another. A representative part of them concerns that without which, unfortunately, it is impossible to live in our harsh world. It's time to talk about the origin of the most popular and commonly used jargon names
There are three times fewer words in the main Russian dictionary than in Oxford English, but this says little about their real number
Read it - it's very interesting what great people think of us
There is an almost untranslatable word "maybe", which plays a key role in our life. They hope for it all the time, and it has become a feature of the national character
From the author: This article is the result of combining an article by Viktor Chumakov in the Pravda newspaper and a selection of documents from V. Soym's book "Forbidden Stalin"
Money is copper, clothing is decay, and health is the most precious thing. An old Russian proverb
The Svetotrace photo project is a collection of amateur photographs from the archive of Nina Anatolyevna Fileva, a researcher of folk art of the Russian North, supplemented by photographs by Artyom Nikitin, an Arkhangelsk photographer, from the Ghosts of Kargopolye series. Unique photos of the keepers of the memory of traditional peasant culture were made by an art critic in the 70s-80s of the XX century during ethnographic expeditions in the most remote corners of the Arkhangelsk region
It is probably difficult to find a person who has never heard of the famous AK-47 and the legendary Soviet small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov. Created more than 70 years ago, the assault rifle is still considered one of the best and is in service in 50 countries around the world. However, things could have turned out differently
The Soviet pilot went to the air ram four times. And every time he stayed alive. This was not repeated by any pilot. Kovzan's name has become a legend
We know Konstantin Tsiolkovsky as a theoretician of cosmonautics, as a person whose striving for the stars was not hindered by endless poverty, or progressive deafness, or isolation from the scientific community. But he is much less known as the author of cosmic philosophy and the founder of ufology
In the matter of blowing up enemy buildings and derailing trains, Ilya Starinov had no equal in the Red Army. Adolf Hitler personally announced a bounty for his head
Her name was Agafya Zavidnaya and she surprised those around her with her incredible strength from early childhood. After all, just think - she got a job as a maid at the age of 12 and independently moved the closets with things inside. As part of this article, we suggest that you briefly familiarize yourself with interesting facts about this woman. Unfortunately, her fate was very tragic
A student of Tupolev, he created the airplanes on which Chkalov and Maresyev performed their feats. The whole country was proud of the designer Semyon Lavochkin, not knowing that he was Shlema Magaziner from Petrovichi
Insane efforts, amazing success and tragic death - all this was in the life of Onisim Pankratov, the first Russian to travel around the world on two wheels
Thanks to the efforts of Arkady Koshko, in 1913 the Russian police were recognized as the best in Europe in terms of crime detection. But the revolution crossed out the work of his whole life
To get to the hunt where Agafya Lykova lives, whose family was once made famous throughout the country by journalist Vasily Peskov, you have to go through a whole transport quest. But TASS correspondents succeeded, and they brought Agafya not only supplies for the winter, but also a loved one, whom she had been waiting for a long time
In recent decades, Hollywood films about "heroes" have become popular among young people. But what is the meaning of these or those "heroes" from abroad? In fact, it is zero. Fictional characters in a fictional world that young people are wasting their time on
More and more women say that there are no normal men. They died out as a class. Remained lazy and weak, effeminate and uninteresting male representatives. I disagree with this, I know a lot of real men - and there are a lot of them in my world. Still, there is a problem of degeneration of masculinity. But we create it ourselves
It is not the first year that young Russian robotics have won prizes at international competitions. We spoke to three winners of the RoboCup competition
Russian inventions that appeared before the twentieth century help us every day. Who doesn't eat cakes and honey, doesn't warm at home …? All this would be more difficult if it were not for
During the Middle Ages, castles were usually fortified buildings designed to defend against enemy attacks. Today we are used to seeing them as museums. It is interesting to visit them, imagining how people lived in them many centuries ago, but even now there are people who own real castles and live in them or rent them out to others
Every Soviet schoolchild knew about Tsiolkovsky, but his works themselves were not included in the list of compulsory literature - there were too many ideologically wrong thoughts. What is the mere idea of the spirituality of the cosmos worth? But if it were not for the scientist's desire to erase the border between the living nature of man and the dead matter of stars, astronautics could appear decades later
This cycle tells about the heroes of Novorossiya - the people who made it possible to resist the South-East of Ukraine against the Kiev junta. Today we can observe a rare and amazing phenomenon. It's not politicians and oligarchs, but ordinary people who make history
He started a new life in the Russian wilderness. For the past 20 years, with his wife and five children, he has been raising cows, making cheese and is happy
And trees grow on the stones … This is what they often say, trying to assure that even the most fantastic dream can sometimes become a reality. Viktor Soloviev, a forester from the Skopinsky district of the Ryazan region, proved by deeds that the impossible is possible by growing a forest on stones