According to the Russian Orthodox Church, Lent is not only about food but also about getting rid of any negative thoughts (and sexuality) in order for people to purify their mind and body. Historically, Lent meant that all the food stocks that the peasants had prepared in late summer for w...
Such is the nimbleness of their characterisation – miles from the off-the-peg Russian villains of too much modern pulp – that the fixers, associates and senior family members never, despite conspicuous power, offer any violent threat to Anora. Indeed,...
“So”, says Dellar; “if you know that a Russian or Kazak speaker is going to do it in this way, [i.e., not “the English way”], those are the kinds of things you need to draw their attention to”. As for Dellar’s description of the four –“or maybe five” – steps t...
Bogoróditse Devo - Words: ¬Russian Orthodox Vespers Liturgy; Music: S. Rachmaninoff Tis Winter Now - Words: S. Longfellow; Music: trad. English arr. P. Halley Good King Wenceslas - Words: J. M. Neale; Music: melody from Piae Cantiones arr. P. Halley A Nativity - Words...
TheRussian Bishop's Housein Sitka, Alaska, is a rare example of Russian colonial architecture in North America. Dating to 1842, toward the end of Russia's colonization of the Pacific Coast, it was the center of a diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. The National Park Service took over ...
I am happy to greet in your persons the victorious Russian revolution, and to greet you as the vanguard of the worldwide proletarian army...the hour is not far distant when at the call of our comrade Karl Liebknecht, the people of Germany will turn their arms against their own capitalist...
The monotheistic religion of Zoroastrianism is one of the world’s oldest faiths, and comes from Iran. Some 2.6 million people (0.3% of the world’s population) practice Zoroastrianism. Modern Paganism Nearly one million people around the world practice Modern Paganism, which can take beliefs fr...
What makes Kaunas really unique is, however, its heritage from later eras. It is here where the Russian Empire built a1st class fortress(in 1882 - 1915), its forts, batteries, barracks and redoubts surrounding the entire Kaunas city. The majority of these fortifications can still be...
Still, the sonic output stretches the instrument’s array of sound production, even when the player shifts to an orthodox bow when the score accelerates its level of ferocity and initial bite. Towards the work’s conclusion, the player is called upon to use both bows simultaneously, the plaite...
The first morning after breakfast we went to the Russian Orthodox Church, just down from our hotel, white with green and blue domes and spires. We entered just as something had finished and entering we were pushed this way and that by the stream of people leaving. Mostly elderly hard faced...