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Staraya Ladoga Village


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Aivazovsky (Gaivazovsky), Ivan Konstantinovich (1817 - 1900), artist
AIVAZOVSKY, Ivan Konstantinovich (Gaivazovsky) (1817–1900), marine painter. In the period 1833-39 he studied in St.Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts, his teachers were M.N. Vorobyev and French marine painter F. Tonner. He became professor of the... more


Archaeological monuments
Archaeological monuments of the Leningrad Oblast are settlements, grads, burial grounds, religious objects and other material trails of the past. Settling the oblast territory took place during the Mesolithic period. The age of the most ancient... more


Art festivals
ARTS FESTIVALS, festivals of achievements in different kinds of art. As a rule, they are regularly held in most towns and some villages of the Leningrad Oblast. Since 1980 one of the oldest oblast festivals “Teatralnaya Vesna” (“Theatre Spring”)... more


Brandenburg, Nikolay Yefimovich (1839-1903), a scientist
Brandenburg, Nikolay Yefimovich (1839-1903), a military historian, archaeologist, Lieutenant-General (1896). After finishing the Konstantin Military School in 1858, he served in artillery units. In 1861, keeping on the military sevice, Brandenburg... more


Cemeteries
Cemeteries. The history of cemeteries on the modern Leningrad Oblast territory has not studied practically yet. The reiterated devastation these lands during the wars led to the destruction of many graves and tombstones.... more


Commission for the Archaeologic Research of the Leningrad Oblast
The Commission for the Archaeologic Research of the Leningrad Oblast. In 1919 the Russian Academy of the Material Culture History (RAIMK, later GAIMK) was esatblished in Petrograd. It was the predecessor of the conteporary centres of the Russian... more


Culture of Mounds
The Culture of Mounds. Mounds are high steep-side hills with the flat top and with the circle made of boulders at the foot. The area of the mound culture include basins of Ilmen Lake, the Msta, Volkhov, Luga rivers. There are mounds in the Luga,... more


Dolengo-Khodakovsky, Zorian (Adam Charnotsky) (1784-1825), a scientist
Dolengo-Khodakovsky, Zorian (the real name is Adam Charnotsky) (1784-1825), a Polish archaeologist, a founder of the scientific Slavonic philology, a researcher and expert on Slav antiquities. In 1811 he joined the army of Napoleon and participated... more


Folk art
AMATEUR AND FOLK ARTS. There are about 50 Amateur and Folk Arts Centres in the Leningrad Oblast, including Amateur Talent Centres (theatrical, musical and ethnographical amateur groups), Arts and Crafts Centres. About 2600 amateur and folk arts... more


Fortress and defence building
Fortress and defence building. The defence of the northwestern lands of Russia was created on combining almost impassable places ("natural strongholds") and powerful frontier fortresses located on the important directions. The fortress building ... more


Holiday culture of the Leningard Oblast
THE LENINGRAD OBLAST CULTURE OF FESTIVITIES. Festivity is an impressive demonstration of national culture and has deep personal and social sense. The Leningrad Oblast Government worked out a special-purpose program of festivity arrangement.... more


Houses and Palaces of Culture
CENTRES OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES (HOUSES AND PALACES OF CULTURE), cultural and educational institutions similar to clubs, the main aims of the centres are: to serve as social, cultural, educational, health and entertaining centres... more


Kiprensky, Orest Adamovich (1782-1836), an artist
KIPRENSKY, Orest Adamovich (1782, country house in Nezhinskaya Village; modern Nezhnovo Village, Kingisepp District – 1836), artist, a founder of romanticism in Russian painting. He was an illegitimate son of a serf woman and a landlord A.S.... more


Lebedev, Gleb Sergeyevich (1943-2003), a scientist
Lebedev, Gleb Sergeyevich (1943-2003, Staraya Ladoga Village), an archaeologist, a professor of the Leningrad/St. Petersburg University (1990). He graduated from the history faculty of the Leningrad State University in 1968, taught at the... more


Leningrad Oblast, the
LENINGRAD OBLAST, subject territory of RF. Area: 83,900 sq. Km (max. Extension from west to east: 446 km, north to south: 325 km.) Population (as of 2002): 1,669,000. The Oblast borders Pskov and Novgorod Oblasts in the south, Vologda Oblast in the... more


Maksimov, Vasily Maksimovich (1844-1911), an artist
MAKSIMOV, Vasily Maksimovich (1844, Lopino Village, Novaya Ladoga Uyezd – 1911), painter. He was born in a family of peasants, graduated from a school at the monastery. He painted icons at St.Nicholas Monastery in Staraya Ladoga Village. In 1855 he... more


Military-historical celebrations and events
MILITARY AND HISTORICAL FESTIVITIES AND ACTIVITIES. The Russian Federation federal law “O Dnyakh Voinskoy Slavy (Pobednykh Dnyakh ) Rossiy” (“About Days of Military Glory (Victory Days ) of Russia”) was issued in 1995. The oblast programme,... more


Novaya Ladoga, town
NOVAYA LADOGA, town in Volkhov District. Population: 10,000. Located in the central part of Leningrad Oblast in the Priladozhskaya Lowland, in the mouth of the Volkhov River, 25 km north of Volkhov Town. Administratively, the town also comprises... more


Oleg's grave, a tumulus
The burial of Oleg is a tumulus in Staraya Ladoga Village. The chronicle legend about the death of Prince Oleg (he died in AD 912) connects the place of his burial with Ladoga. In the vicinity of the mound there are known three necropolises... more


Orlovsky, Aleksandr Osioivich (1777-1823), an artist
ORLOVSKY, Aleksandr Osipovich (1777–1832), battle painter, artist, graphic artist. In the period 1793–1802 he studied painting in Warsaw. In 1802 he moved to St.Petersburg. He became academician of painting in 1809. In 1819 he was appointed to do... more


Protection of monuments of history and culture
The protection of history and culture monuments. Issues of the monuments protection are germane to the degree of their studying, right description and fixing. In Russia, the beginnings of interest in monuments of native antiquity were reflected in... more


Ravdonikas, Vladislav Iosifovich (1894-1976), a scientist
Ravdonikas, Vladislav Iosifovich (1894, Tikhvin - 1976), an archaeologist, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Science of the USSR (1946). In the middle of the 1910s Ravdonikas has been keen on archaelogical dig of burial mounds of the Tikhvin... more


Repnikov, Nikolay Ivanovich (1882-1940), a scientist
Repnikov, Nikolay Ivanovich (1882-1940), an archaeologist, researcher of Staraya Ladoga and other archaeological sites of the Leningrad Oblast. From 1902 he worked at the Archaeology Committee and the Russian Archaeologic Society, after the... more


Restoration of buildings of architectural and historic interest.
Restoration of buildings of architectural and historic interest. The first experience of the research restoration of the Russian Middle Ages monuments in the territory of the pesent-day Leningrad Oblast dates from 1846-1847, when in the Ivangorod... more


Sadovnikov, Sergey Vasilyevich (1835 - 1906), an architect
Sergey Vasilyevich Sadovnikov (1835 - 1906), an architect, academician of architecture (1881). Sergey Vasilyevich Sadovnikov was a son of the artist V.S. Sadovnikov (1800-1879). S.V. Sadovnikov graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in... more


Society for the Protection of History and Culture Monuments, an oblast branch
The Society for the Protection of History and Culture Monuments, the Leningrad oblast branch. It is a structural department of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of History and Culture Monuments (VOOPIiK) which is a mass voluntary public... more


Staraya Ladoga Dormition Convent, the
The Staraya Ladoga Dormition Convent (the Volkhov district, the village of Staraya Ladoga) is one the most ancient monasteries in the St. Petersburg Eparchy. It was presumably founded in the first quarter of the 12th century as a prince's convent... more


Staraya Ladoga Fortress
Staraya Ladoga Fortress is located on the bank of the Volkhov River near the confluence of the Ladozhka River. It protected Novgorod lands from attacks fron North, from the side of Sweden. According to annalistic data the first wooden... more


Staraya Ladoga Monastery of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
The Staraya Ladoga Monastery of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (Nikolsky; the village of Staraya Ladoga). On a local legend the monastery was founded in the 13th century in honour of the victory of Saint Prince Alexander Nevsky in the Neva battle. ... more


Suslov, Vladimir Vasilyevich (1857 - 1921), an architect
Vladimir Vasilyevich Suslov (1857 - 1921), an architect-restorer, artist, art historian, teacher. He became an academician of architecture in 1886. Suslov graduated from the Moscow College of Painting, Sculptor and Architecture in 1878 and the St.... more


The Church of St. Demetrius Thessalonica, Great Martyr (Staraya Ladoga Village, Volkhov District)
The Church of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica, the Great Martyr (Staraya Ladoga Village). The original wooden church in the Staraya Ladoga Fortress territory was firstly mentioned in 1646. In 1731 the church was demolished, renovated and assembled on... more


The Church of St. George the Victorius, Great Martyr (Staraya Ladoga Village, Volkhov District)
The Church of St. George the Victorius, Great Martyr (Staraya Ladoga Village, Volkhov District) The stone church was built according to the prince order in the Ladoga Fortress as the church of the St George Fortress Monastery (it was founded in... more


"The Theatre spring", an oblast festival
“TEATRALNAYA VESNA” (“THEATRE SPRING”), oblast festival. It is held once in two years. The first festival of the Leningrad Oblast amateur theatre performances was held in Luga Town in May 1980. There were four theatres-participants: from Luga... more


"The wreath of the glory of St. Alexander Nevsky", a festival
“VENOK SLAVY ALEKSANDRA NEVSKOGO” (“ALEXANDER NEVSKY’S WREATH OF GLORY”), oblast festival in honour of 750th anniversary of Nevskaya Battle in the mouth of the Izhora River (modern Kolpino Dictrict of St.Petersburg). It was first held on... more


Tomilov, Aleksey Romanovich (1779- 1848), landlord
TOMILOV, Aleksey Romanovich (1779–1848, Uspenskoye Village , Novaya Ladoga Uyezd), artillery officer, amateur painter, patron of the arts. In 1799 he supervised fortification works in Kronshtadt Town. In 1808 he resigned. During the 1812 War with... more


Trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks
The trade route from "the Varangians to the Greeks". During the 9th-11th centuries it connected Rus and the Northern Europe with Byzantine Empire on the route: the Baltic Sea - the Neva River - Ladoga Lake - the Volkhov River - Ilmen Lake - the... more


Traditional business and handicraft
TRADITIONAL TRADES AND HANDICRAFTS originated from household occupations and crafts which were aimed at production of household objects for the peasants' own needs. Originality of traditional trades in Leningrad Oblast is connected... more


Treasures
Treasures are deliberately hidden riches mostly buried by the owner. About fourty coin, coin and thing, and thing treasures were found in the Leningraf Oblast territory under different circumstances. The unique treasure of craftman tools and... more


Volkhov District
VOLKHOV DISTRICT, a part of Leningrad Oblast. Area: 5124 sq. km, population: 97,300. Established in 1927. Adm. center: Volkhov Town. V. D. comprises the towns of Syasstroy and Novaya Ladoga, and 277 rural localities. Located south of Lake Ladoga on... more


Volkhov River, the
VOLKHOV, river. It flows out of Lake Ilmen in Novgorod Oblast, extends across Kirishi and Volkhov Districts of Leningrad Oblast, and it flows into the Volkhov Bay of Lake Ladoga. Length: 224 km, of which 112 km within Leningrad Oblast. The river bed... more


Vyborg District
VYBORG DISTRICT, municipal entity. Population: 172,800. Area: 7381.7 sq. km. V. D. comprises the towns of Vyborg (adm. center), Primorsk, Vysotsk, Kamennogorsk, Svetogorsk; urban settlements of Roschino, Lesogorsky, and Sovetsky; and 180 rural... more


Yevpraksia (Nakhotinina) (c.1730-1823), clergy figure
Yevpraksia (Yevdokiya Fyodorovna Nakhotinina; between 1729 and 1734 -1823, the village of Staraya Ladoga), a hegumenness, zealot of godliness. Yevpraksia was born in a merchant 's family, was taught reading and writing. From 1768 Yevpraksia lived... more


Zabolotsky, Pyotr Yefimovich (1803-1866), an artist
ZABOLOTSKY, Pyotr Yefimovich (1803, Tikhvin Town – 1866), artist. He was born in a bourgeois (from other sources – in a peasant) family. In 1826, on A.R. Tomilov’s advice, he entered the St.Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts as an auditor... more

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