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'Courage makes the blows of fate insignificant'
Loyalty, courage, bravery... There are eternal concepts in life that are not subject to the influences of time or the transience of morals.
'My address is not a house or a street, my address is the Soviet Union'
The generation born in the 60-80s of the last century today remembers with nostalgia the period of its childhood/youth, which fell on the eternal memory of the 'times of stagnation'.
The ring of Alexander I
Ringers - this is the name numismatists gave to copper coins minted during the reign of Alexander I from 1802 to 1810 at the Yekaterinburg and Suzun mints.
'Tell me, Snow Maiden, how are you?'
Who does not remember the merry Christmas song about the Snow Maiden, which for more than half a century has been sung from the screens of cinemas/televisions/laptops/tablets by the hapless hare hunter gray Wolf?
The last chervonets of the last Emperor
July marks the 103-year anniversary of the tragic execution of the Romanov royal family in Yekaterinburg. On the bloody altar of the revolution were sacrificed the lives of people whose names a few years ago were pronounced with reverence and sacred awe.
If you really want to, you can fly to the stars
If you are far from physics, and mathematical formulas have never brought you much joy, then it will be difficult for you to understand the theoretical foundations of aerodynamics.
When a beard is more expensive than a head
Who would have thought today that a bearded man can cause other associations than the image of masculinity and strength.
Investment coin of the highest quality
'Gold Maple Leaf' – Canadian gold investment coins of different weights and denominations are known by this name.
Weapons of Victory
Today, the terrible June of the 41st year is far behind us, when 80 years ago, all the speakers sounded 'Get up, the country is huge...'
A lot doesn't mean good
As life shows, having the status of 'MOST-MOST' is not a guarantee of well-being and success.
Boris Godunov's Pskov Kopeck
Boris Godunov as a statesman deserves to highlight in his career not only the period of his stay on the Russian throne (1598-1605), but also the period when he actually determined the policy of the Russian state during the reign of Ivan the Terrible's son, Fyodor Ivanovich (1584-1598).