On the 4th of April is Easter. For the celebration of Happy Easter listen to the music first :Russian Magnificat. Sergei Tolstokulakov Happy Easter to everyone! Then you are having your ticket to Calgary’s history. Come and explore the Lougheed’s exquisite Victorian mansion (a national historic site). Have you ever wondered what life was…
One. Moscow, Russia. From 11.00 a.m. to 12.00 a.m. there was held the civil farewell ceremony of famous singer, People’s Artist of the Russian federation Valentina Tolkunova, died at the Botkin hospital in Moscow on Monday morning of March 22. She was 63, the singer’s family told Itar-Tass. Her portrait is to the left, and…
Neither Herzen, nor Chernyshevsky with his socialist ideas, nor Nechaev and the next generation of Communists. Oh, no,no,not them. Who, then? Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, a great Russian mind. Look at his photo to the left and listen to his voice reading from “Every Day Thoughts”. Leo Tolstoy’s Voice It was very hard to find his family…
E-card “Happy Birthday to Those Who was Born on St. Patrick’s Day!” Happy Birthday on St. Patrick’s Day, Folks! I was born if someone is interested, On blooming St. Patrick’s day, The 17th of March, you may be seated, A Saint’s blessing has arrived to-day. This date means “null” back in Russia, The outside world…
This is an electronic International Women’s Day congratulation card addressing to all my women-readers of “Krutaja Babulka. ca” : International Women’s Day greeting International Women’s Day (IWD) is marked on March 8 every year. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women. Started as a Socialist…
One. For three hours on Sunday afternoon it was as if this vast nation of 33 million was confined – but deliriously so – to a patch of ice 200 feet long and 85 feet wide, with two blue lines, a red centre line and a team of 20 men wearing maple leafs on their…
One. Mourners carried the coffin with the body of Nodar Kumaritashvili, the Georgian luger killed in a practice run at the Olympics, during his funeral in Bakuriani, Georgia. Thousands of Georgians paid their last respects to the young luger, whose death cast a pall over the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics and sent his…
We are sitting now in our intimate Mucha salon. According to the old Russian tradition we are lighting the candles in commemoration of the Day of February the 5th, 2000 when a Top Notch Bryansk Journalist Vikentiy Illarionovich Kostin died. Eternal Memory! Listen to the Music, please:Eternal Memory! We are choosing the comfortable seats for…
“Happy Birthday to you, my little daughter!” and listen to the song: Happy Birthday! 12 Angels got together to-day to wish you 12 wishes: be beautiful as you are now, be strong and healthy as a bull, be wise as Bible elders, lucky as fortune tellers, merry as a child, sincere in feelings and follow…
One. Ukraine. According to the data of the Central Election Commission of the Ukrainian President, the results of 99.44% of processed protocols say that presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych has gained 48.81% and Yulia Tymoshenko has got 45.61%. Hence, the gap between the two candidates is 3.20%. 4.37% of voters did not support any of candidates….