RUSSIA: Volga-Ural Region

1. RUSSIA:Volga-Ural Region

2. RUSSIA:Volga-Ural Region • Bashkortostan • Chelyabinsk • Chuvashia • Kirov • Mary El • Mordovia • Nizhniy Novgorod • Orenburg • Perm • Samara • Saratov • Yekaterinburg • Tatarstan • Tyumen • Udmurtia • Ulyanovsk The Volga is the longest river in Europe – 2,300 miles The Urals connect and divide Europe and Asia

3. RUSSIA:Volga-Ural Region • Bashkortostan: • territory:143.6 • population:4117.1 • center: Ufa • Tatarstan: • territory:68 • population:3778.6 • center: Kazan

4. saban = a plough tui = a fest Bashkortostan & Tatarstan:SABANTUI

5. Bashkortostan & Tatarstan:SABANTUI • Horse riding • Songs and dances • Poetry reading • Climbing on a pole • Running in a sack • Pillow fights

6. Bashkortostan & Tatarstan:SABANTUI • Armwrestling • Kuresh – Tatar national wrestling

7. Bashkortostan & Tatarstan:SABANTUI • Ethnic food: • Gubadia • Chak-chak • Ochpochmak

8. RUSSIA:Volga-Ural Region • Kirov/Vyatka: • territory:120.8 • population:1589.4 • center: Kirov

9. Kirov/Vyatka

10. Kirov/Vyatka • Svistoplyaska, “whistle-dance”

11. Kirov/VyatkaDymkovo Toys

12. RUSSIA:Volga-Ural Region • Yekaterinburg/ Sverdlovsk: • territory:194.8 • population:4612.3 • center: Yekaterinburg

13. Yekaterinburg

14. Romanov's assassination in Yekaterinburg • Nicholas II, (May 6, 1868 - July 17, 1918) was the last reigning Emperor of Russia and of the Romanov Dynasty. He ruled from November 1, 1894 until his abdication on March 15, 1917, and was killed with his family in 1918 • Married in 1894 to Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt Empress Alexandra Romanova), a granddaughter of Queen Victoria • Father to Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei

15. Romanov's assassination in Yekaterinburg • 17 : A fatal figure for Romanov... • 17 May 1896 : During the night of Nikolai and Aleksandra coronation, about 1400 people died and 1300 were injured after Khodynsk tragedy. • 17 October 1905 : The manifest ending absolute power of Nikolai II was signed. • 17 December 1916 : Rasputin was assassinated. He had predicted that Romanovs' fall would be linked with his own death. • 1917: Bolshevicks took power in Russia. • 17 July 1918 : The Romanov family was murdered by bolshevicks...

16. Romanov's assassination in Yekaterinburg • Before an execution, there's supposed to be a trial. Before a trial, there's supposed to be a crime. • No crime. No trial. No justice. This is their story. Carole D. Bos, J.D. On the place of former Ipatiev house Cathedral-on-the-Blood has  been built. It is the biggest Cathedral in Yekaterinburg now. Its grand opening on July, 16, 2003, on 85th anniversary of the tragedy, has become greatest city event this year. 

17. RUSSIA:Volga-Ural Region • Udmurtia: • territory:42.1 • population:1632.5 • center: Izhevsk

18. Udmurtia:People • Russians: 58% • Udmurts: 31% • Tatars: 7% • The Udmurt people • 800-300 BC: Ananian culture, ethnocultural partners of the Scythes and Sarmats • 10-16th centuries: Under the power of the Volga Bulgars, the Golden Horde, and the Kazan Khanate • 16-17th century: the period of Christianizing • November 4, 1920: Autonomous republic of Udmurtia

19. Udmurtia: Galina Kulakova • Nordic Skiing • Olympic medals: Gold: 4Silver: 2Bronze: 2 • World ChampionshipsGold: 5Silver: 2Bronze: 2

20. Udmurtia: Mikhail Kalashnikov

21. Udmurtia: Pyotr Tchaikovsky • Tchaikovsky was born on May 7, 1840, in Votkinsk, Udmurtia. • Ilya Petrovitch Tchaikovsky1790-1880 superintendent of government-owned mines. "Kindness, or rather an abundance of love, was one of the main traits of his character. In youth, in maturity, and in old age he believed in people and loved them. Neither the hard knocks of life nor bitter disappointments nor gray hair could ever quell his ability to see in every person he met an embodiment of all virtue and merit“ (Modest Tchaikovsky) • Aleksandra Andreevna d'Assier1813-1854She had a very close relationship with the composer who, in his own words said, "loved [her] with a kind of morbidly passionate love"

22. Udmurtia: Pyotr Tchaikovsky

23. Udmurtia: Pyotr Tchaikovsky • "His sensitivity knew no bounds and so one had to deal with him very carefully. Every little trifle could upset or wound him. He was a child of glass. As for reproofs and admonitions (with him there could be no question of punishments), what would have been water off a duck's back to other children affected him deeply, and if the degree of severity was increased only the slightest, would upset him alarmingly.” Fanny Durbach (1822-95) She was Tchaikovsky's tutor during his childhood years. They were extremely close and wrote to each other throughout their lives.

24. Udmurtia: Pyotr Tchaikovsky • "He [Tchaikovsky] played [the piano] . . . in general very well, boldly with brilliance, [and] could play pieces of greatest difficulty. To my taste at that time his playing was somewhat rough, lacking in warmth and depth of feeling - exactly the opposite of what the contemporary reader might have imagined it to be above all. The point is that Pyotr feared sentimentality like the plague and consequently dislike over-expressive piano playing, making fun of the expressive marking 'play with feeling' . . . The musical feeling within him was controlled by a certain chasteness, and out of fear of vulgarity he could go to the opposite extreme." Herman Laroche (1845-1904) Musical Critic. He was the composer's lifelong friend, starting from their early years at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire.

25. Udmurtia: Pyotr Tchaikovsky • "Tchaikovsky's appearance immediately put an end to the somewhat strained mood of those present, especially the younger ones. With his combination of simplicity and dignity, and the refined, purely European restraints in his manner of address, Tchaikovsky produced on the majority of those present the most favorable impression. We somehow breathed freely. In his conversation Pyotr Ilich brought a breath of freshness into our somewhat dusty atmosphere …” Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) Russian composer

26. Udmurtia: Pyotr Tchaikovsky • "In the evening I am going through an English work, Tchaikovsky's Life and Letters. It reaches into my innermost soul; it is often as if I were looking into my own, there is so much of myself that I recognize. He is melancholic almost to the point of madness. He is a beautiful and good person, but an unhappy person. I did not think the latter when I met him in his time, but so it is: either one has others or oneself to fight." Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Norway's greatest composer

27. Udmurtia: Pyotr Tchaikovsky • In all my many years of experience I have never met a great composer so gentle, so modest - almost diffident - as he. We all loved him from the first moment - my wife and I, the chorus, the orchestra, the employees of the hotel where he lived, and of course the public . . . He was always gentle in his intercourse with others, but a feeling of sadness seemed never to leave him, although his reception in America was more than enthusiastic and the visit so successful in every way that he made plans to come back the following year. Yet he was often swept by uncontrollable waves of melancholia and despondency." Walter Damrosch (1862-1950) A leading American composer. This is an excerpt from his autobiography My Musical Life

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