The native of Scotland Willyam Karrick spent most of his life in Russia, opened his own photo studio in St. Petersburg and in twenty years-from 1858 to 1878-created a large series of portraits of representatives of various classes The family of Scottish merchants of Carriks settled in Russia in the 18th century. The grandfather of William Carrick was known on the London exchange as a "merchant from St.

Pyotr Vedenisov, photographing the family of basil-kozakov-command, captured the pre-revolutionary era in color-several hundred glass plates were preserved. Some of them, kindly provided by the multimedia art museum, Moscow, today shows the "photojournal" In 1888, the wealthy nobleman Peter Vedenisov, after the end of the Moscow Conservatory, came to Yalta and, being a sociable and fascinated person, soon became one of the most interesting people in the city.

Polina Eremenko - about the operator Kirill Radchenko, who was killed in the king Sergey Shilov Kirill Radchenko in Syria, the exact date of shooting is unknown In his youth, Kirill Radchenko escaped from school lessons to watch films at the Museum of Cinema - and when he grew up, he threw the Institute of Steel and Always to become an operator. First, he shot weddings and Internet series-and then went to Syria to work in the war.

Students at a grade school in Vologda are reported to the police after posting memes about teachers and Russia's president Meduza Sixth graders created an online group where they shared memes and made fun of classmates, teachers, and the principal The “CARtON_83 Studio” Vkontakte community is the creation of sixth graders at the Vologda Multi-Disciplinary Lyceum, a school for gifted children from across Russia, according to the institution’s website .

Pupils of the Vologda Lyceum created a group with memes on VKontakte. The group was dispersed, schoolchildren were threatened by the police and Roskomnadzor "Jellyfish" Schoolchildren created a group with memes.

We talked with one of the scientists who made this discovery (thanks to the ear sil!) Cassie Jensen / Caters News / Scanpix / Leta In November, Nature Communications magazine (and several more authoritative publications after it) published articles about the new work of scientists from Bailor University Sasha Usenko and Stephen Trombla.

We talked with a person who came up with new reserved seats. He himself almost did not go to the reserved seat Alexander Avilov / City News Agency "Moscow" On November 19, Russian Railways presented the design of new reserved seats; On November 20, the new wagons themselves showed at the Exhibition "Transport of Russia" - and already over the next months they will begin to replace the familiar reserved seat.

In Ivanovo there is a pseudo -Gothic castle. It has not been restored since the beginning of the 20th century, but people still live in it. Reporting Polina Eremenko Evgeny Feldman for "Medusa" Podcast "Text of the week" about this material can be listened to here. The 80-year-old Valentine enters the entrance of a residential building No. 28 on Maria Ryabinina Street in Ivanovo and checks the mailbox with number 17-nothing. On the door of the entrance there is a sign "Neighbors !!!

Russian archaeologists - that they dug up in 2018 in Crimea, Vietnam, Abkhazia and the Leningrad Region Archive of Anton Anyukina In October, the archaeological season ends in Russia: every year, archaeologists go on expeditions to a variety of regions of the country and the world in order to find new important evidence from the life of ancient cultures and civilizations.

A group of Kabardian riders tried to march through a Balkar village. They weren't allowed in, they had to call the National Guard On September 17, a group of 30 Circassians (aka Kabardians) went on a horseback trip to Mount Kanzhal on the occasion of the anniversary of the Battle of Kanzhal, an important event in the history of the Circassians. The group was headed by a member of the Public Council of the North Caucasian Federal District Ibragim Yaganov.

"Medusa" says what is known about each of the dead Russian Ministry of Defense / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense explains how the Russian IL-20, September 18, 2018 was shot down On the night of September 18, the Russian military reconnaissance aircraft IL-20 was shot down by Syrian air defense, which, according to Russia, tried to strike at Israeli fighters. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that 15 people were killed during the crash.

On September 8, the inhabitants of St. Petersburg will read the lists of the dead in the blockade. We talked with the participants in the action TASS residents of Leningrad go towards the bomb shelter, autumn 1941 On September 8-on the day of the start of the blockade of Leningrad-in St.

How Herman Sterligov turned from the creator of the First Soviet Exchange into an Orthodox farmer-conflict. Reporting Polina Eremenko Mitya Aleshkovsky / TASS / Scanpix / Leta 30 years ago, 23-year-old German Sterligov, along with partners, created Alice-one of the first Soviet commodity exchanges (and, probably, the most famous).

Yuri Mashkov / TASS trained elephants with Yuri and Vera Durovs in the circus on Vernadsky Avenue in Moscow, February 8, 2003 The trainer Yuri Durov achieved for two years to make the state buy an elephant. As a result, the Myanmar government gave him even three animals Two years ago, the artistic director of the theater "Corner of Grandpa Durov" Yuri Durov - the grandson of the founder of the theater Vladimir Durov - realized that he needed to get a new elephant for the theater.

Maxim Shemetov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta photos of Alexander Rastorguev, Kirill Radchenko and Orhan Jemal near the central house of journalists in Moscow, August 1, 2018 On the night of August 5, the bodies of journalists Alexander Rastorguev , Orhan Dzhemal and Kirill Radchenko will be delivered to Russia. They wanted to make a film about Russian mercenaries in the Central African Republic and were killed there.