Sergey Vinogradov Peterhof Palace has achieved a significant milestone by celebrating its 300th anniversary. August, 1723 holds a special place within the annals of this renowned museum complex. It was on the 15th August, according to the old calendar style, when the Russian emperor extended a personal invitation to foreign ambassadors, assuming the role of their tour guide. Presently, this museum-reserve continues to attract about 7,000 visitors every day. Peterhof Palace, the Grand Cascade. Photo: Wikimedia Commons After touring various European countries, Peter the Great was inspired to construct a...
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Anna Efremova
Vladimir Shukhov, a famous Russian engineer, was born 170 years ago, on August 28, 1853. Contemporaries used to refer to him as "the factory man" and "Russian Leonardo". He designed the first Russian oil pipeline and discovered the oil cracking process. His legacy also includes the remarkably beautiful Shukhov Towers, hyperboloidal structures made of steel mesh envelopes.
"I am a man of life"
Vladimir Shukhov was born in the small town of Grayvoron, Kursk Province. His father served as the governor. Yet, almost immediately after the boy's birth, the...
Svetlana Smetanina
Photo: Alexander Osipov / Vkontakte
Alexander Osipov, a cyclist from Tambov, has already traveled more than 70,000 kilometers on his bicycle, going around the world and crossing all continents. Alexander has shared his passion for travel with Russkiy Mir.
- Is traveling around the world on a bicycle is your dream since childhood or did you come to it as an adult?
- I guess I had this desire all my life when I was very young. Last year I cycled around the Tambov region...
Sergey Vinogradov
William Brumfield. Dudinka (Krasnoyarsk Krai), 2014. Photo courtesy of William Brumfield
William Brumfield, a contemporary American historian of Russian architecture, a preservationist and an architectural photographer, has recently become a Russian citizen. At the same time Brumfield’s exhibition The Silent America was opened at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture in Moscow. The brilliant scholar and a sophisticated photographer opens the world of provincial America to the Russian viewers.
William Brumfield has been building bridges between Russia and the United...
Photo by Svetlana Lisichnikova
A series of cultural events dedicated to the 150th birthday of the great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov have opened in the Sicilian city of Erice.
As part of the International School of Musical Sciences festival, organized by the Italian Foundation “Ettore Majorana”, concerts are held daily in Sicily from 11 to 18 August. The program includes works by Sergei Rachmaninov and other Russian artists and composers as well as master classes for Russian and Italian students. With the support of the CASA RUSSA of Rome, the masters of the...
Anna Efremova
He was an internationally renowned brilliant surgeon, founder of the world's leading school of neurosurgery, reformer of national health care, and founder of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. Аour wars have shaped Nikolay Burdenko as high-level professional. He was a military surgeon, saving patients with nearly irremediable wounds. His name is now given not only to the Main Military Hospital in Moscow but also to the surgical techniques studied by the new generations of surgeons.
Healing bodies, not souls
Nikolay Burdenko was born in the village of Kamenka in Penza Governorate on...