Old Russian Village in Ireland
In the 1940s, Russian designer Bayan Giltsoff created a corner of his homeland in Kilquade, County Wicklow. It was an old Russian village consisting of about 20 houses inspired by the dachas of his native country. The ho…
Frognal Street in London and Ballerina Tamara Karsavina
In the northwest of London lies the cozy neighborhood of Frognal with its namesake street. In the house at 108 Frognal, surrounded by greenery, lived the outstanding ballerina Tamara Karsavina.
In 1912 and 1918, she was…
St. George Monastery in Goetschendorf (Germany)
In 2006, the Berlin Diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate acquired a property on the shores of Lake Kolpin in Goetschendorf, located in Brandenburg, Germany. This estate includes a villa and a two-story house with 12 one-ro…
St. Nicholas Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church
The parish was founded in 1894 in New York, in a rented space at 323 2nd Ave. Over time, the need for a larger place for the faithful arose. In 1899, a plot was acquired on 97th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues, …
Maria Drozhzhina's Maternity Home in Tsarskoye Selo
In 1859 and 1861, country houses were built near the dacha of Princess Zinaida Yusupova by Franz Petrovich Devien, a lieutenant of the Imperial Guard Tsarskoye Selo Rifle Battalion and a participant in the defense of Sev…
St. Nicholas Church in Gifhorn, Germany
The St. Nicholas Church in Gifhorn is not only a place of worship but also an outstanding example of Russian architectural art. The builders faced many complex challenges, as many secrets of wooden architecture were lost…
Villa Castagnola in Lugano (Switzerland)
Pavel von Ritter was born on October 20, 1825, in St. Petersburg to a family of Germans from Lübeck, who founded a bank after moving to Russia. The family's business success allowed the banker’s son to receive an excelle…
Military Assault by the English
On May 27, 1945, Major Davis informed Ataman Krasnov, as well as all Cossack generals and officers, that the next day they were to appear at the Hospital for a conference with the English command.
Hearing this, many old…
Pushkin House Museum in Chisinau
The A. S. Pushkin House Museum is one of the key cultural attractions in Chisinau. In this guest house of merchant Naumov, Alexander Sergeyevich stayed from 1820 to 1823, when the territory of modern Moldova was known as…
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross Cathedral in Geneva
In 1862, the authorities of Geneva allocated a plot of land to the Orthodox community for the construction of a church on the site of a former early Christian cemetery and the monastery of Saint Victor, which existed unt…
