Historical calendar

Prepared by Leonid Gergeo:

On June 25, 1852, the great Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi was born. Having pushed away from the traditions of the Mudehar style with its elements of Mauritan art, Gothic and Renaissance, Gaudi defined the Novo -Catalon style - the Spanish variety of European Art Nouveau. The architect erected 18 structures, twelve of them in Barcelona. Gaudi's creations are characterized by the absence of straight lines and sharp corners, bright colors and applications. Gaudi’s houses and churches seem to be fashioned with their hands. The main work of Gaudi is the Sagrada Cathedral, the surname, on which he worked for 43 years and the construction of which continues to this day.

On June 25, 1496, Michelangelo Bowunarotti arrived in Rome at the invitation of Cardinal Riario, shocked by his sculpture "Sleeping Amur". The artist was only 21 years old. In Rome, he created the famous "Pieta" for the Cathedral of St. Peter: Virgin Mary sits on a stone, on her knees she rests on the lifeless body of Jesus, removed from the cross. In the contract for the creation of “drinks” one of the witnesses - Jacopo Gally - promised: the work will be performed like this, "like none of the living masters can fulfill."

On June 26, 1833, near Istanbul, Russia and Turkey signed a peaceful UNKYAR-ISSKALESSISKI Treaty on a defensive union. In the event of war, Türkiye was obliged to close Dardanella for the passage of foreign military vessels. According to historians, this was the largest diplomatic success of Russia in the East. The negotiations were conducted by the Count Alexei Orlov, who recalled: "I adhered to the systems of the system to caress with one hand, clenching the other into a fist, and this led me to a happy success."

On June 26, 1955, DeCCA Records announced that Bill Haley & The Comets sold more than 3 million records in 13 months. The song "Rock Around the Clock" diverged 1 million copies.

On June 26, 1956, the CPSU Central Committee adopted a resolution "On major shortcomings in the repertoire and the distribution of gramophone records", which noted that "a significant part of the records produced in the country make up the notes of the weak in artistic terms, and often also imbued with foreign moods." The decision reflected the anxiety of the authorities with the replication of post -war Soviet lyrical songs, with the penetration of trophy recordings from Germany into the country, and later - the Polish and Czechoslovak pop, as well as the semi -official records of Alexander Vertinsky and Peter Leshchenko.

On June 26, 1968, a campaign of attacks on the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn was launched in the Soviet press. An editorial article in the Literary Gazeta announced a "popular" campaign against writers, whose works were widely discussed in the West. "Literature" fell on Valery Tarsis, Svetlana Alliluyev, Alexander Ginzburg, Yuri Galanskova. The name Solzhenitsyn was said in the article, "adopted by propaganda and is widely used for provocative, anti -Soviet purposes." Solzhenitsyn was condemned, in particular, as the author of the play “The Feast of the Winners”, in which the Soviet Army is represented by “The Clumpy of Dupils, rapists, Marauders, Vandals, living only with skip interests ... The writer Solzhenitsyn could give their literary abilities entirely to the Motherland, and not its scum. He could, but did not want.”

On June 27, 1709, near Poltava, Russian troops under the command of Peter the Great defeated the Swedish army, headed by King Charles XII. A few days before the battle, the Swedish king was wounded in his leg: flaunting courage, he walked in front of the enemy, calling it "pleasure with mustard." As a result, Karl commanded the army in Poltava, lying on a stretcher. The Russian victory turned out to be triumphal: the Swedes lost 9,300 soldiers and more than 300 officers killed and wounded, 3 thousand people were captured during the battle, and after the battle - another 15 thousand. Charles XII with a handful of horsemen crossed the Dnieper and asked for refuge from the Turks.