Lukin's House
Lukin's House was built in 1905 according to the design of architect F.E. Ponomarev. This wooden house, located on the red line of the street among brick high-rises, has a G-shaped form and consists of volumes of varying…
Men's Gymnasium in Blagoveshchensk
On July 1, 1877, a four-class men's progymnasium with a preparatory class was opened in Blagoveshchensk by order of Emperor Alexander II. An annual budget of 14,550 rubles was allocated from the state treasury for its ma…
Trinity Church in Natashino
The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Natashino is an active Orthodox church in the city of Lyubertsy, Moscow region, part of the Lyubertsy deanery of the Moscow diocese.
The idea of building a wooden church in the v…
Saint Nicholas Church in Buryatia
The wooden church of Saint Nicholas was originally built in the village of Nikolsk, located in the Tugnuysk intermountain valley on the border of Buryatia and the Transbaikal region. This area became a new home for thous…
Ethnographic Museum of the Peoples of Transbaikalia
The Ethnographic Museum of the Peoples of Transbaikalia, located in Ulan-Ude, in the Upper Beryozovka microdistrict, is an open-air museum complex in the Republic of Buryatia.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, there wa…
Department Store 'Kunst und Albers'
On the corner of Lenin Street and St. Innocent Lane in Blagoveshchensk stands one of the city's most remarkable buildings. Its architect was E.I. Sheffer, and the structure is designed in the neo-Russian style, where dec…
The History of the Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov House Museum
In 1927, a permanent exhibition was first organized in memory of Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov in the house where he spent his last years. In 1953, a full-fledged house museum was opened here, which still operates today.…
The Turbin House
In early 1989, a literary and memorial house-museum of Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov opened in Kyiv, which became known as the Turbin House thanks to Viktor Nekrasov. Here, the future writer spent his childhood and youth…
Kiev-Pokrovsky Monastery
The Pokrovsky Monastery in Kiev is an Orthodox women's monastery in the Kiev diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It is also known as the Kiev-Pokrovsky Monastery or the Monastery of the Protection of the Mother of …
Monuments to Dogs
The Russian person has always been known for their love of animals, and the story of Anna Sergeyevna Golitsyna from the village of Knyazevka confirms this. At 19, she acquired two puppies, Hetman and Lyubim, and became s…
