2. It was built in the Empire style in 1834 in the
heart of Palace Square,by the architect
Auguste Montferrand by decree of Emperor
Nicholas I to commemorate the victory of his
older brother Alexander I over Napoleon.
3. Baikal is in the southern part of Eastern
Siberia, the deepest lake on a planet
4. Balalayka — Russian national musical
instrument, from 600 — 700 mm to 1,7
meters in length, with the triangular
wooden case.
5. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
(17 [29] on January 1860,
Taganrog, Ekaterinoslavsky
province (Rostov region) —
2 [15] on July 1904,
Badenvayler) — an
outstanding Russian writer,
a playwright, and a doctor.
6. Feodor Mikhaylovich
Dostoyevsky (on October
30 [on November 11]
1821, Moscow, the
Russian Empire — on
January 28 [on February
9] 1881, St. Petersburg,
the Russian Empire) —
one of the Russian writers
most considerable and
known in the world and
thinkers.
7. Ekaterininsky palace(also known as Bolshoy
the Tsarskoselsky palace, the Catherine
Palace) — the former imperial palace; one of
the largest in vicinities of St. Petersburg.
8. Feodorovsky Convent - сonvent of the
Russian Orthodox Church in Pereslavl. Full
name of secular sources
- Pereslavl Great Monastery of St. Feodorа
Stratelates.
9. The Guamsky gorge - a place which strikes
with the scale, a force of nature and the
people who have cut through in walls the shelf
for the narrow-gage railway.
11. The Hermitage in St. Petersburg — the largest
in Russia and one of the world's largest art and
cultural and historical museums, culture
federal state institution.
12. Isaakiyevsky Cathedral (the official name - the
Cathedral of St. Isaac of Dalmatia) - the
largest orthodox church in St. Petersburg. Located
on St Isaac's Square. It has the status of the museum.
13. Iosif Vissarionovich
Dzhugashvili (Stalin) —
the Russian
revolutionary, the Soviet
political, state, military
and party figure. Figure
of the international
communistic and labor
movement, theorist and
propagandist of
Marxism-Leninism
14. Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov —
the Soviet scientist, the
designer and the organizer
of production of space-
rocket equipment and the
rocket USSR weapon, the
founder of practical
astronautics. The largest
figure of the XX century in
the field of space rocket
production and shipbuilding.
15. The Luzhetsky monastery (male) — is located
in the city of Mozhaisk, exists since the XV
century. Unique from 18 medieval monasteries
of Mozhaisk, remained up to now.
16. Moscow - the capital of the
Russian Federation, the
city of federal value, an
administrative center of
the Central federal
district and the center of
the Moscow region. The
city of Russia largest on
population (11 612 943
people), on this indicator
is included into ten
largest cities of the world.
17. Matreshka — Russian wooden toy in the form
of a painted doll in which there are dolls of the
smaller size similar to it.
18. Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev —
the Russian scientist-
Encyclopaedist, the public
figure. Chemist, physical
chemist, physicist, metrologist,
economist, technologist,
geologist, meteorologist,
teacher, aeronaut,
priborostroitel. Professor of the
St. Petersburg university; the
corresponding member
according to the category
"physical" Imperial St.
Petersburg Academy of
Sciences. Among the most
known opening — the periodic
law of chemical elements.
19. The Nizhegorodsky
Kremlin — a fortress
in Nizhny Novgorod,
the historical city
center, the stone belt
covering top of the
mountainous cape
and ledges lying on
Volga slopes.
20. Aleksandr Nikolaevich
Ostrovsky — the Russian
playwright, which
creativity became the
most important stage of
development of Russian
national theater.
Corresponding member
of the Petersburg
Academy of Sciences.
21. Aleksandr Sergeevich
Pushkin is a Russian poet,
a playwright and a prose
writer. Alexander
Pushkin has a
great reputation and the
great Russian
poet. Pushkin is
considered as the founder
of modern Russian literary
language
22. Red Square — the main and most known area
of Moscow. The total area of Red Square makes
23 100 m ², length — 300 meters, width — 70
meters.
23. Konstantin Sergeyevich
Stanislavsky (Alekseev)
— the Russian theatrical
director, the actor and the
teacher. The founder of
the well-known actor's
system which for 100
years has huge
popularity in Russia and
in the world. National
actor of the USSR (1936)
24. The Tretyakov gallery — an art museum in
Moscow, based in 1856 merchant Pavel
Tretjakov.It has one of the largest world’s
collections of Russian fine arts.
25. Uspensky cathedral of the
Moscow Kremlin — the
orthodox temple located
on the Cathedral square
of the Moscow Kremlin. It
is built in 1475 — 1479
26. The Vyborgsky castle - completely
remained monument of the West
European medieval military architecture
unique in Russia goes back to the XIII
century.
27. War and Peace -an
epic novel of Leo
Tolstoy, describing
the events of the
wars
against Napoleon i
n 1805 and
the World 1812.