Bolshevo () is the area of the city of
Korolyov (an industrial
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in
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,
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, well known as the
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of
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and Russian
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), the historical part of it.
It was founded as an independent town in 1573. It is best known as giving the name of
Bolshevo railway station which is located on
Yaroslavsky suburban railway line, Moscow.
In 2019 the exhibition ''Station Bolshevo: the crossroads of fate, 1939'' commemorated a notebook of the poet
Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva ( rus, Марина Ивановна Цветаева, p=mɐˈrʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə tsvʲɪˈta(j)ɪvə, links=yes; 31 August 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is some of the most well-known in twentieth-century Russ ...
which contains translations she made of 12 poems by
Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( , ; rus, Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, , mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲerməntəf, links=yes; – ) was a Russian Romanticism, Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called ...
into French whilst in Bolshevo. A second notebook belonging to
Sergei Durylin was also featured. This contained chapters from his book ''In His Own Corner'' which covered his stay in Bolshevo, also in 1939.
Gallery
Bolshevo72011.jpg,
Bolshevo platform.jpg,
Bolshevo station in Koroljov city.jpg,
Bolshevo-market-place.jpg,
Bolshevo-station.jpg
References
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Cities and towns in Moscow Oblast