Far Eastern Republic
The Far Eastern Republic (FER) was a puppet state that existed in the Primorye and Eastern Siberia from 1920 to 1922. Its creation was initiated by the leadership of the RSFSR, and later, when it was no longer needed, th…
Andrei Bely in Berlin
The poet and prose writer Boris Bugayev, better known as Andrei Bely, arrived in Berlin in November 1921. He lived in a boarding house on Passauer Strasse until October 1923, after which, tired of life in "dying Europe,"…
Nabokov House
Nabokov House in St. Petersburg is located at: Bolshaya Morskaya Street, house 47. Vladimir Nabokov was born in this mansion in 1899.
At the end of 1897, the house became the dowry of Elena Ivanovna Rukavishnikova, who …
Staszic Palace
The building was constructed between 1820 and 1823 at the initiative of Stanisław Staszic, a well-known Polish statesman and public figure, an Enlightenment ideologist, journalist, philosopher, scholar, writer, and patro…
Tsarist Monument Commemorating the Battle of Grochów
I often pass by this place, but only recently noticed how the fence makes a curved turn, as if someone decided to round the corner or cut out a round patch. The answer came to me while I was searching for information onl…
St. John Climacus Church (Warsaw)
St. John Climacus Church in Warsaw belongs to the Warsaw deanery of the Warsaw-Belarusian diocese of the Polish Orthodox Church. It is located in the Wola district, in the Mlynów microdistrict, at Wolska Street, 138/140.…
Orthodox Cemetery of Warsaw
The cemetery was founded in 1834 by the decree of the tsar in the Wola district of Warsaw. Its official opening took place in 1841, although the first burials here were of Russian soldiers who died during the capture of …
Russian Section at Serbian Cemetery in Colma
The Russian section at the Serbian cemetery in Colma, a suburb of San Francisco, was established in the 1930s and 1940s. Currently, 95% of those buried here are Russian, totaling about 25,000 people. Among them are parti…
Church of Dmitry of Thessalonica
The Church of Dmitry of Thessalonica in St. Petersburg was one of the outstanding examples of Byzantine architecture in the Russian Empire. In 1962, it was destroyed by communists, and a large concert hall "Oktyabrsky" w…
Moscow Flood of 1908
In the spring of 1908, one of the largest floods occurred in Moscow. It began on April 23 and lasted several days. Although the river overflow happened unusually late, its scale was enormous and exceeded all expectations…
