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The Petersburg of the artist Viktor Raspopov
The majestic city of St. Petersburg has served as a source of inspiration to artists and poets for more than 300 years. However, the feeling one experiences when viewing a painting or reading a poem is much different than that which they have when visiting the city in real life. The chill of cold winds they feel as they walk along the riverbanks and city streets is almost impossible to portray through paints and words. Artist Viktor Raspopov’s St. Petersburg however, is not just a collection of buildings, bridges, monuments and people. His interpretations also include the look and feel of nature’s elements, which are so much a part of the northern city. His paintbrush swiftly captures the flow of air and water, translating them onto the canvas, where the image of what seems to be a constantly-moving city is born.
The history of toys — tin soldiers
Some of many people’s greatest childhood pals and companions come from fairy tales and toys they knew when they were young. One of Hans Christian Anderson’s most famous fairy tales begins like this: “There were once five-and-twenty tin soldiers, who were all brothers, for they had all been made out of the same tin spoon. They shouldered arms and looked straight before them, and wore a splendid uniform, red and blue. They were, in short, not soldiers, but a true wonder.” Anderson wrote the tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” in the mid-19th century, a time when a popular, new toy appeared on the market – tin soldiers. Watch RTG TV’s new programme and join host Alexander Uvarov as he discovers just what the main character in Anderson’s story looked like and the story behind its birth.
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The history of toys — tin soldiers
MAKING VOLOGDA BUTTER. A HISTORY OF SUCCESS
Butter has long been a familiar product on everyone's table. As for Vologda, it has become a real business card. It is here, in the Russian North, that a product with a special flavour has been created for many years. Vologda butter is almost a century and a half old. And its history is a difficult path for many years of improvements. The happy idea of using pasteurisation to obtain a nutty flavour, which once captured one single person, created a miracle. Every second person wanted to try such butter, every third person wanted to produce it and sell it profitably. The recipe seemed simple. But it turned out that other ingredients were also needed - the northern climate and the Vologda plains, special herbs fed to thoroughbred cows, and a technology that had been clearly constructed by man.
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