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Chapel-font in honor of the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Vladimirskaya", on the Ambassadors Well stream. The holy spring was consecrated in 1898. The village of Paslovo, founded in 1594. The place where the Paslov Kolodez Stream flows into the Oka River. The Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, built and consecrated in 1820. The Orthodox Church has three thrones: the main one is in the name of the Savior Not Made with Hands, in the refectory - in the name of the Kazan Mother of God and the Holy Martyr John the Warrior. On January 23, 1826, the funeral service for the body of Emperor Alexander I was held in the church on the way from Taganrog to St. Petersburg. The area of the destroyed estate of Denis Vasilyevich Davydov, hero of the Patriotic War of 1812. The village of Paslovo is described in the works of N. S. Leskov "About the incident with the Kronstadt priest", "The Vale". The church was destroyed during the battles for Orel in 1943, and closed for services. Currently, the church is being restored and services are being held.
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Just in case you mistakenly heard that it was all ice and snow in Russia, take a peek at the Big Bikini Exposition. This is right on the river Moskva in Moscow!Moscow has been the capital of Russia for almost its entire history. The exception is during the period of the Russian Empire, which lasted from 1721 until the Russian Revolution 1917. For these two centuries the capital was St. Petersburg. The Russian Empire was the second largest contiguous Empire in world memory; only the Mongol Empire had been greater.Check out what's happening north of Mongolia these days, in ChitaAlthough you may not have heard of Sochi, on the Black Sea, they're building up quickly and hope to host the 2014 Olympics.Other periods of Russian history include the Tsardom of Russia, from Ivan IV to Peter the Great, and the Grand Duchy (14th-16th centuries).The earliest period of Russian history was ruled by the Novgorod Republic and Kievan Rus, which was the first Russian state dating back to 800AD in Kiev.Modern Russia remains one of the world's superpowers. They launched the earth's second satellite, called Sputnik 1, and were the first country to put a human being into orbit around earth. (The first one is called the Moon.)After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia became a federal republic of 83 states.Text by Steve Smith.
