“The chairman of the tribunal brings me a paper: - Sign, Ivan Mikhailovich! Tomorrow at 09:00 we want to shoot the recruit here in front of the formation. - For what, - I ask, - to shoot?
In the coming years, another attraction may appear in the north of Russia - much more exotic than the residence of Father Frost in Veliky Ustyug. In the Kovdor district of the Murmansk region - in a bear's corner, as the residents themselves admit, - they took up the project "Kovdor - the capital of Hyperborea". The goal is to establish tourism in order to stop walking with an outstretched hand for money for the development of the area
The device of a traditional Slavic house
Coachmen were a special caste among Russians - their skills were inherited, their families were ruled by women, they had their own especially revered saints
Shrovetide was the only time of the year when eating, hawking, and even fighting were encouraged. Any seemingly riotous entertainment had a sacred meaning. “Culture. RF "tells why in the old days they skated from the icy mountains, according to what rules they fought wall to wall and why they buried the newlyweds in the snow
In ancient times, each person at birth received a hereditary name, testifying to his family affiliation and indicating a common ancestor, from which the family branches went
Our calendar has a difficult fate. How many changes he got nowadays he can't remember
Pay attention to new words in the language. Almost all are borrowed from foreign languages. If this is not the case, then try to remember what new Russian words have appeared over the past 30 years. It is the original Russian words
Like most countries in the world, we have long been a colony of America. At the same time, we still have a lot of our own, so the situation is not the worst in comparison with other countries. The essence of digital colonization, which began to be carried out in the late 80s of the last century, is that quite a lot of domestic developments were abandoned, we actively began to master American software and densely entered the Internet
Soviet art was, apparently, really brilliant, since my post “Composition based on a picture” still continues to receive comments, and discussions about the movie “Spring on Zarechnaya Street” for some time overtook the top news by another throw-in from Artyom Lebedev. It means that it is alive, it is debatable, it excites
“What is not portrayed in them, not to mention the main main idea of almost all these tales, that is, the triumph of cunning aimed at achieving some selfish goal, in some, personified outrageous ideas are carried out, as, for example, in the fairy tale" Truth and falsehood ", which proves that" it is tricky to live with the truth in the world, what the truth is now! You will please in Siberia for the truth ""
Modern housewives, especially young girls, may not understand what it means to boil white things and why do it at all. But if we go back a couple of decades, we will find out that this is the most effective option to return whiteness to white things and get rid of stains
We continue our guide to the history of Russian cinema. This time we analyze the second half of the Soviet era: from the thaw and the "new wave" to cooperative cinema and necrorealism
The spring and summer of the Russian people were hot at times - it was necessary to grow the harvest. In the fall, hard work gave way to rest. Therefore, from the beginning of autumn and throughout the winter, young people gathered for gatherings, conversations, evenings
A short biography of Tsiolkovsky is a vivid example of his dedication to his work and perseverance in achieving his goal, despite difficult life circumstances
Since ancient times, people have decorated their life with items of decorative and applied art. These products could not only be used in the household, but they also brought beauty into the house, pleasing to the eye. Since pagan times, and even in Christianity, people believed that things, household items, clothes, decorated with symbolic patterns, protect the home and the person from evil spirits, diseases, bring joy, health and happiness
Throughout the history of rail transport, new bold projects regularly appear that can lead to a real revolution in this area. Nevertheless, not all such proposals reach practical use
When they tell you that Russia is the homeland of bast shoes and balalaikas, grin at this person in the face and list at least 10 items from this list. I think it's a shame not to know such things
The mathematician Grigory Perelman, the one who refused a million dollars, no less resolutely rejected the proposal of the Russian Academy of Sciences to join its members. Rather, he simply ignored this proposal, without leaving his voluntary retreat
Soviet mobile nuclear power plants were intended primarily for work in remote areas of the Far North, where there are no railways and power lines
For several centuries in Russia, the rules of worldly, family and spiritual life were regulated by Domostroy - a collection of instructions. It contained advice on housekeeping, raising daughters and sons, behavior at home and at a party. Read how a kind wife, a fair husband and polite children should have behaved
Raisa Pavlovna Kuchuganova - historian, founder and director of the ethnographic museum of Old Believer culture and life in the village of Verkhniy Uimon in Altai, brings to us the way of thinking of Old Believers who are not inclined to open their souls to people "from the wind"
Worse, they, like the Indians, are not at all adapted and naturally not prepared by nature itself for smoking and drinking alcohol
The last Soviet soldiers leave. Died Vladimir Sergeevich Bushin. Awesome person. Front-line writer. Poet. An excellent and ruthless publicist. He never tired of debunking his most authoritative contemporaries - Granin, Solzhenitsyn, Likhachev, Sakharov and others, whom today it is customary to almost worship
The history of the Russian house - the hut. The hut is a log house. What log houses are there, how are they cut and from which forest?
To begin with, a little history … In the Berlin region in the 7-12 centuries lived 2 Slavic families, in German transcription - Heveller
Russians have ceased to be proud of what their ancestors had created for centuries. It is considered old-fashioned to keep Russian household items in your house
Traditional tea ceremonies in Russian are immediately presented as heart-to-heart gatherings at a samovar with bagels. The hot water machine has become a real symbol of comfort, family hearth and prosperity. Samovars were often described in works of art, depicted in paintings. They were inherited and given as a dowry to brides
We know Ivan Bilibin as a great artist, illustrator of Russian fairy tales. But few people know that Bilibin was also involved in photography. In 1903, Bilibin, on the instructions of the Russian Museum, made a trip to the Vologda and Olonets provinces to take pictures of the masterpieces of wooden architecture
How to determine if a girl is free or already has a fiancé? Just look at her hairstyle
Our ancestors did not use either Arabic or Roman numerals. They saw a flock of crows in millions, and darkness in a billion
Many of us love to taste the dishes that have been cooked in our families for decades. Of course, among them there are those that we consider traditional for domestic cuisine. But in reality, a huge number of dishes that were prepared in every Russian house more than a hundred years ago can be found today only in a few restaurants, and sometimes they are completely lost
In the gallery of works by the remarkable Russian Slavic artist Igor Ozhiganov, you can see both characters from Slavic and Scandinavian mythology. This is not only very beautiful, but also helps us to more vividly and vividly perceive the now forgotten culture of our ancestors
For residents of Russia, a new "price list" has appeared - for messages to the police that help solve or prevent a crime. According to the recently approved order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the maximum can be earned on this up to 10 million rubles. We have tried to match current whistle-blower rewards with those that existed in the past
If you look at the soldiers of different armies of the Second World War, for example, the soldiers of the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, you get the impression that in those days there was no camouflage. In fact, there was camouflage, but most often it did not rely on ordinary soldiers. The reason for this situation was not at all that the "bloody command" wanted to "put" as many men as possible on the field
At the present time, the interest in the bath is constantly growing. And this, I think, is not in vain. The bathhouse is an integral part of the life of our distant ancestors, which played an extremely important role in the survival of our people. Russian sauna! How much inexplicable joy, delight awakens in the soul of everyone who at least once experienced this truly divine pleasure
After the baptism of Rus, sorcerers, persecuted by princes and Greeks, priests and warrior-guards of temples united in secret societies and in places far from large cities began to create Sichs. On the islands of the Dnieper, the shores of the Bug and Dniester, in the Carpathians and numerous forests of Rus, the Magi founded schools of battle hardening and training, in which the warrior's path to the heights of perfection was based on his native faith
To show all the beauty and truth of the life of Siberians from the village of Bakhta, Turukhansk District, a group of filmmakers from Moscow lived with the heroes of the film for a whole year. Those who have seen at least a few minutes of the life of "happy people" will agree - this is a unique movie
Brawler and provocateur in the past, the founder of one of the best rock bands in the USSR has changed a lot - he lives in a remote village, came to faith, began to lead a healthy lifestyle