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A documentary film on the theme of the Solovetsky Monastery – the first outpost of Christian and Russian culture in the harsh Pomerania. About the great shrine of ancient holiness, martyrdom and new ...
BOLSHOI SOLOVETSKY ISLAND, Russia (Reuters) - Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn called it the "mother of the Gulag" -- the spot near the Arctic Circle where the Soviet Union built one of its first ...
When you look up "Volga tours" on the Internet, most advertise a quick St. Petersburg-to-Moscow trip, though technically neither city is on the Volga. But the Volga is more than a river. It is an ...