The Glade of Fairy Tales Museum was founded in 1960 by Pavel Bezrukov.
This is a unique open-air museum, a magic world of fairy tales. It features over 200 sculptures made of wood, stone, copper, and other materials. The entrance to the fairy-tale city is guarded by Pushkin's Thirty Goodly Knights with spears and shields. Further, visitors are met by Pushkin's Learned Cat, a live pancake called Kolobok (from a Russian folk tale) rolls towards them, and Serpent the Treasure Keeper enchants with its glance.
Many other characters attract attention of visitors: Bazhov's gracious Mistress of the Copper Mountain, Nightingale the Robber from an epic poem of Kievan Rus, kind Alyonushka and her brother the Little Goat, as well as Perrault's Seven Dwarfs and many other "inhabitants" of this fairy-tale city.
In 1714, Peter the Great decided to build a country residence that would match the French Versailles in its sumptuousness. Preserved sketches of the tsar, his decrees and notes on documents allow us to state that the founder of Peterhof himself developed the general idea of the ensemble's layout as well as the detailed design of some elements of ar...
The Ostankino estate, situated in the northern part of Moscow, is a uniquely well-preserved monument of the 18th century Russian architecture.
In the past it was a country estate, while currently it is situated at a 20 minute ride away from the Kremlin. The estate attracts beauty lovers by its austere forms of the classical architecture, by the ...
Tauric Chersonesos is the name of the city founded by colonists from ancient Greece over two and a half thousand years ago in the south-western part of the Crimea. Nowadays its ruins are one of the most important sights of Sevastopol.
In ancient Greek the word "chersonesos" means "peninsula". The city is situated on a small peninsula between two...
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