📆 215 years ago, on 1 April 1809, Nikolai Gogol, a prominent Russian writer and dramatist, classic of world literature, was born.
✍️ Along with Alexander Pushkin he is considered a founder of critical realism school in Russian literature.
Among his best-known works are “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka” (1832), “Viy” (1835), “Taras Bulba” (1835), “The Government Inspector” (1836), “Dead Souls” (1842).
📚 Life path of Nikolai Gogol as well as his creative development are to date in some way a mystery for explorers. A few days before his death in February 1852 Gogol burnt the manuscript of the second part of novel “Dead Souls” – the major work of his life. Its loss is considered by critics a true tragedy for world literature.
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✍️ Along with Alexander Pushkin he is considered a founder of critical realism school in Russian literature.
Among his best-known works are “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka” (1832), “Viy” (1835), “Taras Bulba” (1835), “The Government Inspector” (1836), “Dead Souls” (1842).
📚 Life path of Nikolai Gogol as well as his creative development are to date in some way a mystery for explorers. A few days before his death in February 1852 Gogol burnt the manuscript of the second part of novel “Dead Souls” – the major work of his life. Its loss is considered by critics a true tragedy for world literature.
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💐🕯On March 30, flowers were laid at an improvised memorial near the Crocus City Hall.
The heads of missions and staff from over 130 embassies (over 350 people) took part in the event.
The Russian side is grateful to the esteemed representatives of the diplomatic corps for solidarity with the people of Russia at this difficult moment.
#ForeverInOurHearts
The heads of missions and staff from over 130 embassies (over 350 people) took part in the event.
The Russian side is grateful to the esteemed representatives of the diplomatic corps for solidarity with the people of Russia at this difficult moment.
#ForeverInOurHearts
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🌟 These day we commemorate the conclusion of the main leg of the Napoleonic Wars: it ended with the triumph of the Russian and allied forces who repelled Napoleon all the way back to France. On March 31, 1814, Russian army led by Emperor Alexander I triumphantly entered Paris.
Russia's goal was to expel the French troops from the countries they had invaded, deprive Napoleon of the opportunity to use their resources, complete the defeat of the aggressor on his own territory and ensure the establishment of a lasting peace in Europe.
The Russian forces seized the French capital, thus winning the final battle of its 1813-1814 foreign campaign. After the fall of Paris Napoleon abdicated the throne.
On May 30, 1814 the Treaty of Paris was signed between the members of the Anti-Napaleonic coalition and France. The Patriotic War was over: Germany was liberated and France was restored to its borders of 1792.
☝️ Russia made the main contribution to the defeat of Napoleon.
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Russia's goal was to expel the French troops from the countries they had invaded, deprive Napoleon of the opportunity to use their resources, complete the defeat of the aggressor on his own territory and ensure the establishment of a lasting peace in Europe.
The Russian forces seized the French capital, thus winning the final battle of its 1813-1814 foreign campaign. After the fall of Paris Napoleon abdicated the throne.
On May 30, 1814 the Treaty of Paris was signed between the members of the Anti-Napaleonic coalition and France. The Patriotic War was over: Germany was liberated and France was restored to its borders of 1792.
☝️ Russia made the main contribution to the defeat of Napoleon.
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📆 151 years ago, on 1 April 1873, Sergei Rakhmaninov was born, an outstanding Russian composer, pianist and conductor.
🎼 His work combined principles of St.Petersburg and Moscow schools with Western European traditions which later gave way to his personal style. Due to this approach, Sergei Rakhmaninov is often referred to as “the most Russian composer”.
🎼 His best known works include “Aleko” opera (1892), written at the age of 19 as a graduation work at the Moscow Conservatory, “Piano Conserto No. 2”, “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”, “Prelude in C-sharp minor” and others.
S.Rakhmaninov’s music can be heard in such popular movies as “Groundhog Day” (1993), “Limitless” (2011) and “A Russian Youth” (2019).
🎧 Listen to the best of Sergei Rakhmaninov following the LINK
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🎼 His work combined principles of St.Petersburg and Moscow schools with Western European traditions which later gave way to his personal style. Due to this approach, Sergei Rakhmaninov is often referred to as “the most Russian composer”.
🎼 His best known works include “Aleko” opera (1892), written at the age of 19 as a graduation work at the Moscow Conservatory, “Piano Conserto No. 2”, “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”, “Prelude in C-sharp minor” and others.
S.Rakhmaninov’s music can be heard in such popular movies as “Groundhog Day” (1993), “Limitless” (2011) and “A Russian Youth” (2019).
🎧 Listen to the best of Sergei Rakhmaninov following the LINK
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⚡️ Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the occasion of the second anniversary of the staged Bucha massacre
💬 April 3 marks two years since the Zelensky regime and its Western handlers staged a bloody mass murder of the people in the town of Bucha, Kiev Region, allegedly by Russian servicemen, which turned out to be a botched job.
However, following the guidelines provided to them and failing to even make an attempt to double-check the facts and establish the actual state of affairs, Western politicians and the media scrambled to spread this falsehood.
This provocation was a put-up job and a staged provocation which was clear from the onset. The Russian side has refuted these allegations many times. We will now refute them once again. During the time the Russian Armed Forces were in Bucha until March 30, 2022, its residents moved freely around the town and used mobile phones and the internet.
❗️ There were no complaints about the Russian servicemen’s actions during that period, which was publicly confirmed by the mayor of the town, Anatoly Fedoruk, the day after our units left that town.
Moreover, during the time they were in Bucha, Russian servicemen brought 452 tonnes of humanitarian aid for the people in the Kiev Region’s towns and villages.
The first footage showing bodies strewn across the town appeared only after the Ukrainian armed forces and foreign journalists entered the town. Importantly, these were not criminalists or forensic experts, but biased media members, whose role was to tell the public a fabricated story and not to ask unnecessary questions.
🕯 The first findings of the forensic examination of the bodies found in Bucha, which were published in the British The Guardian on April 24, 2022, showed that most of the civilians died as a result of artillery shelling from fragments of anti-personnel 122-mm shells, which fit the D-30 howitzers in service of the Ukrainian forces, which confirms the fact that these people were killed not by bullets from small arms allegedly used by Russian servicemen, but as a result of the Ukrainian army’s artillery strikes targeting Bucha.
The propaganda-driven disinformation campaign in Bucha came as a response to our goodwill gesture to withdraw troops from the Kiev and Chernigov regions which was made in the wake of progress at the Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul on March 28, 2022. Clearly, the goal of this campaign was to disrupt the dialogue between the parties and to launch a package of pre-arranged Western sanctions on Russia at the behest of London.
Subsequently, Kiev held multiple events inspired by the “Bucha massacre” in order to distract the international community’s attention from its own crimes and inconsistencies of the provocation it had staged, and to spread the fake theory about the town residents allegedly killed by the Russian military among the public in Western countries. This year, the Kiev officials’ attempts to make a big event out of this anniversary have an extra goal of preventing the international community from focusing on the challenging situation in Ukraine and on the line of contact.
Multiple requests that Russia sent to international organisations, including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, to establish the circumstances of the incident and to provide an accurate list of the persons whose bodies were found on the streets of Bucha, as well as other information, remain unanswered.
☝️ This shows that the organisers of this heinous act have things to hide.
Once again, we demand that international agencies stop covering up for the Kiev regime and ensure a thorough investigation that will finally reveal the names of the victims, the time and the cause of their death, the signs of the bodies having been moved from one place to another, and the individuals responsible for this terrifying crime by the Kiev authorities.
💬 April 3 marks two years since the Zelensky regime and its Western handlers staged a bloody mass murder of the people in the town of Bucha, Kiev Region, allegedly by Russian servicemen, which turned out to be a botched job.
However, following the guidelines provided to them and failing to even make an attempt to double-check the facts and establish the actual state of affairs, Western politicians and the media scrambled to spread this falsehood.
This provocation was a put-up job and a staged provocation which was clear from the onset. The Russian side has refuted these allegations many times. We will now refute them once again. During the time the Russian Armed Forces were in Bucha until March 30, 2022, its residents moved freely around the town and used mobile phones and the internet.
❗️ There were no complaints about the Russian servicemen’s actions during that period, which was publicly confirmed by the mayor of the town, Anatoly Fedoruk, the day after our units left that town.
Moreover, during the time they were in Bucha, Russian servicemen brought 452 tonnes of humanitarian aid for the people in the Kiev Region’s towns and villages.
The first footage showing bodies strewn across the town appeared only after the Ukrainian armed forces and foreign journalists entered the town. Importantly, these were not criminalists or forensic experts, but biased media members, whose role was to tell the public a fabricated story and not to ask unnecessary questions.
🕯 The first findings of the forensic examination of the bodies found in Bucha, which were published in the British The Guardian on April 24, 2022, showed that most of the civilians died as a result of artillery shelling from fragments of anti-personnel 122-mm shells, which fit the D-30 howitzers in service of the Ukrainian forces, which confirms the fact that these people were killed not by bullets from small arms allegedly used by Russian servicemen, but as a result of the Ukrainian army’s artillery strikes targeting Bucha.
The propaganda-driven disinformation campaign in Bucha came as a response to our goodwill gesture to withdraw troops from the Kiev and Chernigov regions which was made in the wake of progress at the Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul on March 28, 2022. Clearly, the goal of this campaign was to disrupt the dialogue between the parties and to launch a package of pre-arranged Western sanctions on Russia at the behest of London.
Subsequently, Kiev held multiple events inspired by the “Bucha massacre” in order to distract the international community’s attention from its own crimes and inconsistencies of the provocation it had staged, and to spread the fake theory about the town residents allegedly killed by the Russian military among the public in Western countries. This year, the Kiev officials’ attempts to make a big event out of this anniversary have an extra goal of preventing the international community from focusing on the challenging situation in Ukraine and on the line of contact.
Multiple requests that Russia sent to international organisations, including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, to establish the circumstances of the incident and to provide an accurate list of the persons whose bodies were found on the streets of Bucha, as well as other information, remain unanswered.
☝️ This shows that the organisers of this heinous act have things to hide.
Once again, we demand that international agencies stop covering up for the Kiev regime and ensure a thorough investigation that will finally reveal the names of the victims, the time and the cause of their death, the signs of the bodies having been moved from one place to another, and the individuals responsible for this terrifying crime by the Kiev authorities.
Sanctions you say? Russia becomes G20’s fifth fastest-growing economy
📈 The Russian economy grew by 3.6% last year, fully compensating for the 2022 decline of 1.2%.
According to official data from various governments analysed by Sputnik media agency, in 2023, Russia entered the top 5 of growing economies in the Group of 20, which includes the 19 biggest economies in the world, as well as the EU and the African Union.
☝️ This success is even more telling considering the fact that the economies of European nations that imposed sanctions on Moscow stagnated.
🇷🇺 In his latest address to the Parliament, President Vladimir Putin touted Russia as “the largest economy in Europe when it comes to the gross domestic product in purchasing power parity.”
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📈 The Russian economy grew by 3.6% last year, fully compensating for the 2022 decline of 1.2%.
According to official data from various governments analysed by Sputnik media agency, in 2023, Russia entered the top 5 of growing economies in the Group of 20, which includes the 19 biggest economies in the world, as well as the EU and the African Union.
☝️ This success is even more telling considering the fact that the economies of European nations that imposed sanctions on Moscow stagnated.
🇷🇺 In his latest address to the Parliament, President Vladimir Putin touted Russia as “the largest economy in Europe when it comes to the gross domestic product in purchasing power parity.”
#StrongRussia
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🚀 Russia has successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome
🇷🇺 Roscosmos has released footage of the rocket carrying a Resurs-P satellite to boost high-resolution multispectral imaging.
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#RussiaInSpace #SpaceExploration
🇷🇺 Roscosmos has released footage of the rocket carrying a Resurs-P satellite to boost high-resolution multispectral imaging.
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#RussiaInSpace #SpaceExploration
⚡️⚡️ Another criminal attack by neo-Nazi Ukrainian forces on Russia’s Belgorod hit a neighbourhood that had already suffered from shelling – it did not even have time to be repaired.
❗️ The Kiev regime continues to cynically shell peaceful Belgorod. The photos show another "precise" strike by Banderites’ artillery whose purpose is nothing less than the destruction of civilians.
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❗️ The Kiev regime continues to cynically shell peaceful Belgorod. The photos show another "precise" strike by Banderites’ artillery whose purpose is nothing less than the destruction of civilians.
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📆 On 2 April 1833, the first complete edition of Alexander Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” novel in verse was published in Russia.
✍️ It took Pushkin 7 years, 4 months and 17 days to write the novel.
For most of Russians at the time it became, as literary critic V.Belinsky put it, “encyclopedia of Russian life” giving a true-to-life picture of Russian society in the known period.
Almost the entire work is made up of 389 fourteen-line stanzas with an unusual rhyme scheme which became known as the “Onegin stanza”.
🌐 The novel was translated in about 40 languages with several versions in some of them.
📚 Check out the English version (translated by Charles Johnston) of Alexander Pushkin masterpiece at the LINK
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✍️ It took Pushkin 7 years, 4 months and 17 days to write the novel.
For most of Russians at the time it became, as literary critic V.Belinsky put it, “encyclopedia of Russian life” giving a true-to-life picture of Russian society in the known period.
Almost the entire work is made up of 389 fourteen-line stanzas with an unusual rhyme scheme which became known as the “Onegin stanza”.
🌐 The novel was translated in about 40 languages with several versions in some of them.
📚 Check out the English version (translated by Charles Johnston) of Alexander Pushkin masterpiece at the LINK
#RussianCulture