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Church of St. Alexander Nevsky in Pykhtino, Patriarchal Compound
Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky was born in the family of Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich, ruler of Pereyaslavl, and was the grandson of Grand Duke Vsevolod Bolshoe Gnezdo.
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Church of Saint Elia in Izvarino
Church of Saint Elia in Izvarino The village of Izvarino was first mentioned in the time of Ivan the Terrible. In the second half of the 18th century, there were already two churches in Izvarina — the stone Nikolskaya Church and the wooden Ilyinskaya Church, which was built in 1770. By the beginning of the…
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Poet V.V. Mayakovsky lived and worked in this house in 1913-1915
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was an outstanding Soviet poet, publicist, playwright and artist of the 20th century, a talented actor, director and screenwriter.
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Monument to Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was a prominent Indian poet and writer, and the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born on May 6, 1861, in Calcutta
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Monument to Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru was an eminent Indian politician and statesman, one of the most prominent global leaders of his time. Leading the left wing of India’s independence movement under Mahatma Gandhi’s guidance, he became the president of the Indian National Congress (INC) and, after India gained independence in 1947, its first Prime Minister.
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Jawaharlal Nehru Square
Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian statesman, politician, and public figure—one of the most prominent political leaders of the 20th century.
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Writer M.A. Sholokhov lived and worked for many years in this house
Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov was an outstanding Soviet writer and a classic of 20th-century Russian literature. He was born on May 24, 1905, in the hamlet of Kruzhilin, part of the Veshenskaya stanitsa (Cossack village), into the family of a Don Cossack.
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Monument to Musa Jalil
Musa Jalil (real name — Zalilov Musa Mustafovich) was an outstanding Tatar poet and a hero of the Great Patriotic War. He was born on February 15, 1906, in the village of Mustafino in the Orenburg region to a peasant family.
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Monument to Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman was a prominent American poet, a reformer of verse, publicist, and humanist whose work marked a new stage in the development not only of American but also of world literature.
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Monument to Student Chekhov
The Monument to Student Chekhov on the campus of Moscow State University is dedicated to the Russian literary classic Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Created by sculptor A.I. Rukavishnikov, the bronze statue depicts Chekhov in his youth, wearing a greatcoat and embracing a dog with his left arm.