St. Nicholas Church (Saratoga)
St. Nicholas Church, also known as the Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas, is an Orthodox temple located in Saratoga, California. It belongs to the Pacific Central Deanery of the Western American Diocese of the Orthodox Chu…
Monument to Empress Catherine II
The monument to Empress Catherine II, created by sculptor Mikhail Pereyaslavets, was cast in 2009. For some time, it was located in Moscow at the territory of the M.B. Grekov Studio of Military Artists. In April 2010, th…
Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit (Shkin)
The Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit is a parish church of the Kolomna Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and is located in the village of Shkin in the Kolomna District of the Moscow Region.
In the 18th cent…
Russian-American Line
The Russian-American Line was established in 1900 by the East Asian Company from Copenhagen, known as the Russian-East Asian Steamship Company, for routes between Russia and the Far East. After the Russo-Japanese War, th…
Tomb of St. Amphilochius
The tomb of St. Amphilochius is located in the monastery cemetery of the Pochaev Lavra. Amphilochius of Pochaev, known in the world as Yakov Varnavovich Golovatyuk, was born on November 27, 1894, in the village of Malaya…
Funeral of Wrangel
The funeral of General Wrangel took place in Belgrade.
Sky-Blue Estate of the Galsky Nobility
In the small town of Cherepovets, one of the few architectural masterpieces is the impressive pre-revolutionary estate of the Galsky nobility. It was founded in the 19th century by another local noble family, the Kudryae…
Starytsky Assumption Monastery, Cradle of Spiritual Ascetics
Starytsky Holy Assumption Men's Monastery, one of the oldest centers of Orthodoxy in the northwest of Rus, is the birthplace of the first Moscow Patriarch Job. According to legend, the monastery was founded in 1110 by tw…
Monument to Alexander II in Sofia
The Monument to the Liberator Tsar features a 4.5-meter bronze statue of Alexander II on horseback, set on a polished black granite pedestal. The total height of the monument reaches 12 meters. The middle part of the mon…
Truvorovo Hillfort
Truvorovo, also known as the Old Izborsk Hillfort, is located on Zheravye Mountain and was inhabited by the Krivich tribes in the 7th-8th centuries. Today, it is an archaeological site where artifacts of local and Finno-…
