HMCS Vancouver Pre-Deployment Brief - May 2024 (Web Version).pptx
Russian & Central Asian Culture
1. Russian History and Culture Eleanor Joyce City of Salem Schools Salem, Virginia Rev. by Cynthia Jordan Phoebus High School
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5. Government: Moscow is Capital The Kremlin is Russia's mythic refuge, a self-contained city with a multitude of palaces, armories, and churches — a medieval fortress that links the modern nation to its legendary past. All photos from http://www.galenfrysinger.com/moscow_2001.htm no copyright
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7. An example of the rapidly built, pre-fabricated, apartment complexes built throughout the Soviet Union during the rule of the Communists to ensure all people had adequate housing. http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/art/photography/workers/index.htm Used with permission
8. Completed apartment building. This is typical of hundreds of apartments built throughout the Soviet Union. The apartments were small and crowded. Families shared bathrooms. http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/art/photography/workers/index.htm Used with permission
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17. Culture This photograph depicts the art and architecture of the Moscow metro. Here inside a metro station, a painted mural honors the workers. http://www.armory.com/~alexia/trip/moscow-jpg/MetroKomsomolskayaMural-2.jpg Picture copyright 1997 Sandy and Bela Lubkin, all rights reserved. Used with permission
18. Culture The Moscow metro stations compete with some of the most beautiful buildings in Moscow. Click this link http://www.geocities.com/bmetro1/moscow.html to view photos of many beautiful metro stations in Moscow.
19. Culture Russian wooden dolls with smaller dolls nested inside them are called matrioshka . Among peasants, the name Matriosha was a very popular female name. This name has a Latin root, "mater," which means "Mother." It is associated with the image of the mother of a big peasant family who was very healthy and had a portly figure. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2926072723&category=2391 no copyright
22. Culture Fabergé Eggs http://users.vnet.net/schulman/Faberge/eggs.html#illus no copyright Around 1885, Russian jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé took the decoration of eggs to new heights. He volunteered to create a jewelry egg for Czar Alexander III to give his wife, Marie. Fabergé kept the egg a secret, but delighted the royal family with a jeweled looking "egg" that had tiny surprises made of gold, enamel, and precious gems inside.
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