| salamandra | Date: Sunday, 15.04.2012, 18:05 | Message # 1 |
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| What is your place famous for?Are there any man-made wonders near you?
Describe what makes them attractive.
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| Varvara | Date: Wednesday, 09.05.2012, 12:54 | Message # 2 |
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| Russia attracts foreign tourists due to a great number of unique sights. We have a man-made wonder in Ryazan too. It is a farmstead of baron fon Derviz in Kiritsy. It is a monument of Russian architecture of XIX-XX century, which was founded by architect number one of that time – Shekhtel. This magnificent palace connects beautiful landscapes, sculptures of Centaur, towers, fountains and archs. But the most impressive detail is an incredible bridge. It’s archs and obelisks strike imagination. This palace is known due to the film “Cinderella” which was made in 1947. A producer has chosen this place because it creates a feeling of fairy-tale. Our government tries to protect this man-made wonder from destruction. It helps to maintain this farmstead. Now it is a tubercular sanatorium for children.
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| salamandra | Date: Wednesday, 09.05.2012, 15:42 | Message # 3 |
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| Have you been there? Do you have its photos?
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| Varvara | Date: Sunday, 13.05.2012, 13:48 | Message # 4 |
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| Yes, of course. We often visit it. There is a pond and we rest there every summer. I have a lot of photos, but unfortunately I can’t load it here.
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| Crack_Headed | Date: Monday, 14.05.2012, 16:06 | Message # 5 |
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| As for me I can't call this place in my reply wonderful, but it's interesting to know. I 'm sure that the Memorial Complex To Victims Of Political Repressions is hardly known .
It is situated in industrial zone of Ryazan not far from Dyagilevo and Nedostoevo.
The memorial complex is established in the territory of a cemetery of camp of People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs Ministry of Internal Affairs No. 178-454*. Two hundred people with clear traces of violent death (including traces of "control shots") are buried in a mass grave on this cemetery. Ashes of 50 Polish participants of the anti-Hitlerite underground interned in the USSR are based upon this territory, and 400 German prisoners of the Second World War, victims in People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs camp 178-454 also.
The memorial was designed in German style as cemeteries of German soldiers in the Novgorod.
*camp of People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs Ministry of Internal Affairs No. 178-454 - NKVD-MVD No. 178-454 camp.
Lock. Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
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| gameover666999 | Date: Friday, 18.05.2012, 11:48 | Message # 6 |
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| Most tourists travel to Russia to visit home-land of the greatest Russian poets and writers. One of this home-lands is Konstantinovo.Konstantinovo - a village in the district of the Ryazan region.It`s located on the beautiful right bank of the Oka River in 43 km north-west of Ryazan.
Konstantinovo is known around the world as a place where Russian poet Sergey Esenin was born on the 3 of October 1895 (New Style) He spent his childhood and youth in Konstantinovo.In the central part of the village there is the State Museum after Esenin.
The history of the village of Konstantinovo is about 400 years old. It dates back to 1619 when it was owned by the royal family. Several decades later it granted the Myshetskaya and Volkonsky families.Most of the villages have become Jacob Myshetsky`s property, who gave it as dowry to his daughter Natalia when she married Kirill Naryshkin. In 1728 Kirill Naryshkin became the owner of Konstantinovo . He received an excellent European education, was in the diplomatic service. Having no direct descendants in 1775, bequeathed to his nephew Konstantinovo Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn. For 30 years he was the owner of the land, meadows and forests. At his expense in 1779 a stone church of the Kazan Mother of God was built .
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| Dasha | Date: Monday, 21.05.2012, 23:13 | Message # 7 |
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| Today Old Ryazan is a classic «dead city». One can see some foundations of the first Russian Christian churches of the 10 century. And this is despite of the fact that they had been burned to the ground more than once . At first the city was destroyed in the fight with Suzdals' princes, and then fully restored, finally hit into Oblivion in the times of the Mongol-Tatar invasion in the middle of the 13th century. In the 1237 the Mongols demanded to leave the city without a fight but they heard the response: "Our fathers and grandfathers have not been anyone's servants and died for the honor and Motherland. So we'll save their honor". The fight was bloody. Ryazan was completely burned and wasn't rebuilt. A few cities had such a brutal resistance. The majority of the population preferred to keep their homes paying tribute and being in the service of the invaders. Now there are active archaeological excavations in the "dead city .
You can see gold and silver treasures in the Museum's exposition of the Ryazan Kremlin, which was founded there. I've visited this place when I was young.
This area is filled with the spirit of the history of own city. And there I understood the strength and power of the Russians.
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