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Grigory And Aksinya (sculpture Composition)
''Grigory and Aksinya'' (russian: link=no, Григорий и Аксинья) is a sculpture composition of principal characters of the epic novel ''And Quiet Flows the Don'' in Vyoshenskaya, Rostov oblast, Russia. It was designed by sculptor N. Mozhaev. Description The sculpture composition illustrate one of the elements of the epic novel ''And Quiet Flows the Don''. Monument is located on the left bank of the river Don. The monument is 6.5 m height. Barefoot Aksinya comes towards the khutor with a carrying pole. She is dressed in wide skirt and neck-flap. The sculptor captured the moment when Grigory, during a friendly conversation with his neighbor Aksinya, jokingly blocked off her path. A passage from ''And Quiet Flows the Don'', which was immortalized in bronze: History N. Mozhaev created a project of the monument in 1957. E. Mozhaeva, V. Desyatnichuk, V. Voloshin. G Holodnyi worked together on this sculpture composition also. Mikhail Sholokhov Mikhail Aleksandrovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veshenskaya
VyoshenskayaAlso tranliterated Veshenskaya. ( rus, Вёшенская, p=ˈvʲɵʂɨnskəjə), colloquially known as Vyoshki (russian: Вёшки, is a rural locality (a ''stanitsa'') and the administrative center of Sholokhovsky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia, located in the northern reaches of the Don River on its left bank. Population: History Local tradition asserts that the stanitsa was first mentioned in 1672.. However, a settlement called ''Veesky'' on the very same place is marked on a map of Southern Russia from Isaac Massa's book printed in 1638. During the Russian Civil War in 1919, the Upper-Don Anti-Bolshevists operated from Vyoshenskaya. The Vyoshenskaya Uprising and its leader, Pavel Kudinov, are described in Sholokhov's novel ''And Quiet Flows the Don''. The rebels had withdrawn from the White Army and joined the Bolsheviks, but rose up in arms because of the Red Terror. They felt betrayed by the Bolsheviks who had promised that the Upper Don would be sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And Quiet Flows The Don
''And Quiet Flows the Don'' (''Quiet Flows the Don'' or ''The Silent Don'', russian: Тихий Дон, literally ''The Quiet Don'') is a novel in four volumes by Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov. The first three volumes were written from 1925 to 1932 and published in the Soviet magazine '' Oktyabr'' in 1928–1932, and the fourth volume was finished in 1940. The novel is considered one of the most significant works of world and Russian literature in the 20th century. It depicts the lives and struggles of Don Cossacks during the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and Russian Civil War. In 1965, Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel. Plot summary The novel deals with the life of the Cossacks living in the Don River valley during the early 20th century, starting around 1912, just prior to World War I. The plot revolves around the Melekhov family of Tatarsk, who are descendants of a Cossack who, to the horror of many, took a Turkish captive as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vyoshenskaya
VyoshenskayaAlso tranliterated Veshenskaya. ( rus, Вёшенская, p=ˈvʲɵʂɨnskəjə), colloquially known as Vyoshki (russian: Вёшки, is a rural locality (a ''stanitsa'') and the administrative center of Sholokhovsky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia, located in the northern reaches of the Don River on its left bank. Population: History Local tradition asserts that the stanitsa was first mentioned in 1672.. However, a settlement called ''Veesky'' on the very same place is marked on a map of Southern Russia from Isaac Massa's book printed in 1638. During the Russian Civil War in 1919, the Upper-Don Anti-Bolshevists operated from Vyoshenskaya. The Vyoshenskaya Uprising and its leader, Pavel Kudinov, are described in Sholokhov's novel ''And Quiet Flows the Don''. The rebels had withdrawn from the White Army and joined the Bolsheviks, but rose up in arms because of the Red Terror. They felt betrayed by the Bolsheviks who had promised that the Upper Don would be sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostov Oblast
Rostov Oblast ( rus, Росто́вская о́бласть, r=Rostovskaya oblast, p=rɐˈstofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Southern Federal District. The oblast has an area of and a population of 4,277,976 ( 2010 Census), making it the sixth most populous federal subject in Russia. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Rostov-on-Don, which also became the administrative center of the Southern Federal District in 2002. Geography Rostov Oblast borders Ukraine (Donetsk Oblast, Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts) and also Volgograd Oblast, Volgograd and Voronezh Oblasts in the north, Krasnodar Krai, Krasnodar and Stavropol Krais in the south, and the Republic of Kalmykia in the east. The Rostov oblast is located in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, Pontic-Caspian steppe. It is directly north over the North Caucasus and west of the Yergeni hills.Google Earth It is within the Russian Southern Fede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across eleven time zones and shares land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than any other country but China. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and largest city is Moscow, the largest city entirely within Europe. Saint Petersburg is Russia's cultural centre and second-largest city. Other major urban areas include Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan. The East Slavs emerged as a recognisable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE. Kievan Rus' arose as a state in the 9th century, and in 988, it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don River (Russia)
The Don ( rus, Дон, p=don) is the fifth-longest river in Europe. Flowing from Central Russia to the Sea of Azov in Southern Russia, it is one of Russia's largest rivers and played an important role for traders from the Byzantine Empire. Its basin is between the Dnieper basin to the west, the lower Volga basin immediately to the east, and the Oka basin (tributary of the Volga) to the north. Native to much of the basin were Slavic nomads. The Don rises in the town of Novomoskovsk southeast of Tula (in turn south of Moscow), and flows 1,870 kilometres to the Sea of Azov. The river's upper half ribbles (meanders subtly) south; however, its lower half consists of a great eastern curve, including Voronezh, making its final stretch, an estuary, run west south-west. The main city on the river is Rostov-on-Don. Its main tributary is the Seversky Donets, centred on the mid-eastern end of Ukraine, thus the other country in the overall basin. To the east of a series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov ( rus, Михаил Александрович Шолохов, p=ˈʂoləxəf; – 21 February 1984) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily in his most famous novel, ''And Quiet Flows the Don''. Life and work Sholokhov was born in Russia, in the "land of the Cossacks" – the Kruzhilin hamlet, part of stanitsa Vyoshenskaya, in the former Administrative Region of the Don Cossack Host. His father, a Russian, Aleksander Mikhailovich Sholokhov (1865–1925), was a member of the lower middle class, at different times a farmer, a cattle trader, and a miller. Sholokhov's mother, Anastasia Danilovna Chernikova (1871–1942), the widow of a Cossack, came from Ukrainian peasant stock (her father was a peasant in the Chernihiv oblast). She did not become literate until a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigory And Aksinya In A Boat (sculpture Composition)
''Grigory and Aksinya in a boat'' (russian: link=no, Григорий и Аксинья в лодке) is a sculpture composition of principal characters of the epic novel And Quiet Flows the Don in Rostov-on-Don, Rostov oblast, Russia. It was designed by sculptor Sergei Oleshnya. The monument was opened on Beregovaya Street near the river port of Rostov-on-Don in June 2003. This composition was the third monument in Rostov oblast devoted to personages of the novel ''And Quiet Flows the Don''. ''Grigory and Aksinya in a boat'' along with other monuments of the Don theme made appearance in Rostov-on-Don within the provision of urban amenities. Description The sculpture composition illustrate one of the elements of the epic novel ''And Quiet Flows the Don''. Grigory and his dear sit in a rowing boat during a boat trip on the Don River. Aksinya is dressed in a full feather. It is decorated with ruching and lace. In hands she holds a small bunch of flowers. Grigory sits on a st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monument To The Don Cossacks
The Monument to the Don Cossacks (russian: link=no, Памятник казакам Тихого Дона) is a monument near khutor of Kruzhilinskiy, Rostov oblast, Russia. The monument is located on the R271 highway that runs from Millerovo to Vyoshenskaya. It was designed by sculptors N. Mozhaev, E. Mozhaeva, N. Shcherbakov. The monument was opened in May 1994. It portrays a Don Cossack. The statue is 6 meters tall, not including its 8-metre barrow. In 2015, the Monument to the Don Cossacks was designated a local Heritage Site. Description The monument is an 8-ton bronze equestrian statue of the Don Cossack, which stands on poured barrow. The Cossack is dressed in a military great-coat and peaked cap. The sculpture composition was adjusted on a low pedestal. The memorial stone is located at the bottom of this barrow with inscribed phrase: «To the Don Cossacks» (russian: link=no, Казакам Тихого Дона). Сommoners like to call the monument to Grigiry Melecho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monuments And Memorials Built In The Soviet Union
A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical, political, technical or architectural importance. Some of the first monuments were dolmens or menhirs, megalithic constructions built for religious or funerary purposes. Examples of monuments include statues, (war) memorials, historical buildings, archaeological sites, and cultural assets. If there is a public interest in its preservation, a monument can for example be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Etymology It is believed that the origin of the word "monument" comes from the Greek ''mnemosynon'' and the Latin ''moneo'', ''monere'', which means 'to remind', 'to advise' or 'to warn', however, it is also believed that the word monument originates from an Albanian word 'mani men' which in Albanian language means 'remembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outdoor Sculptures In Russia
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1983 Sculptures
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
