Russian School in Seattle (USA)
Russian students in Washington state united in a National Union, which by 1920 had 49 members. Of these, 10 studied at the University of Washington, where the Russian Student Society operated in the 1920s. This universit…
Novoaleksandrovskoye Estate
In the early 19th century, the site of the modern village of Novoaleksandrovskoye was a wasteland, which was purchased by Lieutenant Alexander Mikhailovich Naryshkin. In the 1830s and 1840s, he built a manor house, outbu…
St. Spiridon Cathedral in Seattle (USA)
On September 27, 1935, the land was consecrated, and on July 28, 1937, work began on preparing the site. Architect I.M. Palmov, who designed the St. Spiridon Cathedral, donated half of his fee to the parish. Together wit…
Nikolaevsky Cathedral in Seattle (USA)
The project envisioned the construction of a building in the "Yaroslavl style" with a capacity of 400 people. The laying of the foundation took place on December 20, 1936, and the construction of the church was led by Fa…
Chapel of St. Nicholas at the Cemetery in Washelli (Seattle, USA)
The temple was solemnly consecrated on August 30, 1936. At the opening ceremony, the chairman of the Yelshin Union noted: "Russian veterans in America created this memorial temple in memory of millions of soldiers and th…
Panskoye Estate
The territory of the estate is located on the site of an ancient settlement from the 14th century. The first mentions of the Kudryavtsev family in Panskoye can be found in the records of the wife of Major General Dmitry …
Russian Publications in Seattle (USA)
Seattle was not known as a major publishing center for Russian emigration in the USA, however, Russian magazines and newspapers periodically appeared here. Over the last 120 years, more than five periodicals have been pu…
Russians in Los Angeles
The city is home to approximately 600,000 Russian speakers, making it the largest center of Russian-speaking population on the West Coast of the USA. Here, the Russian community, consisting of doctors, actors, engineers,…
Russians in Denver (Colorado, USA)
Fifty years ago, the Russian community in Denver was virtually unnoticed, but today it numbers over 50,000 people. Immigrants from the Soviet Union began arriving in this region of America in the 1980s. The largest conce…
All Saints Church in Denver, USA
In 1952, several families in Denver decided to create a Russian Orthodox church. Among them were a stonemason, a carpenter, a former lighthouse keeper, a technical translator, a retired farmer, an editor, an engineer, a …
