Ossowiec Fortress in Osowiec (Poland)
Until 1918, the Ossowiec Fortress, located on the banks of the Bobr River, was part of the Russian Empire and is now situated in Poland. Its construction began in the 1880s and was completed in the 1890s to strengthen th…
Chateau de Valrose of von Derwies in Nice
Russian villas in Nice are impressive, but Pavel Georgievich von Derwies surpassed them all. Today, he would be called a railway magnate. He invested his significant fortune in creating a unique project: according to the…
Monument to Red Army Commanders in Istanbul (Turkey)
World War I led to the collapse of four empires, including the Russian and Ottoman. In Russia, the Civil War began, while in the neighboring country, there was a struggle against the intervention of the Entente forces. I…
Annunciation Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Annunciation Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded in 1953 in the Flushing area of New York. Initially, parishioners gathered in a space on Bowne Street. In 1970, a church building was acquired from the Greek…
Russian Masterpieces at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris
The Luxembourg Museum, founded in 1818 by order of King Louis XVIII in the palace of the same name, can be considered a predecessor of the Museum of Modern Art. It was one of the first European museums to exhibit works b…
Monument to Decembrist Vladimir Raevsky in Tiraspol
Vladimir Raevsky was known as a participant in the Decembrist movement, as well as a poet and publicist. In 1822 and 1826, he was held in solitary confinement in the Tiraspol fortress. This fortress was built in 1792-179…
Mirovarya Chamber of the Patriarchal Palace
The Mirovarya Chamber of the Patriarchal Palace in the Moscow Kremlin, also known as the Mirovarya or Cross Chamber, is one of the two main halls of the building constructed between 1635 and 1656.
The central element of…
The Batyushkov Estate in Khantanovo
The settlement of Khantanovo likely appeared no earlier than the mid-17th century. In August 1807, K. N. Batyushkov first visited Khantanovo with his unmarried sisters Alexandra and Varvara. Here he created numerous work…
Pushkin House
Pushkin House, founded in 1954, is the oldest independent Russian cultural center in the UK and is located in Bloomsbury, London. It was created by Russian emigrants under the leadership of Maria Mikhailovna Kulmann (Zer…
Parliament Building of Serbia in Belgrade
After the start of the Civil War in Russia, many architects left the country and continued their work abroad. They mainly focused on designing Orthodox churches, which can still be seen in Brussels, Prague, Paris, and Ne…
