Ilzho Wooden Estate
Less than two hundred kilometers from St. Petersburg lies the ancient village of Ilzho, attracting thousands of tourists each year. The main interest is the pre-revolutionary wooden estate, built in the 19th century, whi…
Vladimir Church in Vedrovo, Kostroma Region
The only landmark of the ancient Kostroma village is the stone Vladimir Church, built in 1813 and representing a unique architectural monument of the early 19th century. The church was constructed on the site of an older…
Church of the Holy Trinity in Kudryavtsevo
The Church of the Holy Trinity in Vedrovo, one of the smallest and coziest in the vicinity of St. Petersburg, was built in 1906 by architect Kudryavtsev. This small building has one low dome. Before the revolution, the c…
Historical Park 'Russia, My History' in Nizhny Novgorod
This is the only exhibition project in the world that tells the history of Russia from ancient times to the present using the latest technologies.
The Historical Park 'Russia, My History' opened in Nizhny Novgorod on No…
Church of the Protection of the Holy Virgin (Asuncion, Paraguay)
It all began on August 1, 1926, when, at the initiative of N.F. Erna, a meeting of Russian Orthodox Christians living in Asuncion and the provinces of Paraguay was held in the apartment of Prince Y.K. Tumanov. At this me…
Russians in Paraguay
Since the 1940s, Russian immigrants and their descendants have studied Paraguay's energy resources and laid the foundation of its energy system. Russian engineers developed the modern network of highways in Paraguay, and…
Russians in Egypt
Russian emigrants began arriving in Egypt in the early 1920s, evacuating through Novorossiysk on ships. Cadet Nikita Vorobyov recalled that the elderly, women, children, the wounded, and the sick filled every corner, whi…
Russians in Argentina
In the early 1920s, about a thousand Russian refugees arrived in South America. Ten years later, their number was halved: some moved to other countries on the continent, while others returned to Europe.
Many of them fou…
Russians in Brazil
The first contact between Brazil and Russia took place in the 19th century, in 1804, when Russian explorer-naturalist Grigory Ivanovich Langsdorff led an expedition to study Brazil. In 1813, he became the first general c…
Russians in Nicaragua
The Orthodox community in Nicaragua is one of the youngest and smallest in the world. In this small Central American country, located between Costa Rica and Honduras, Orthodox settlers began to appear only in the late 20…
