RUSSIA: Volga-Ural Region

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RUSSIA Volga-Ural Region
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RUSSIA Volga-Ural Region

• Bashkortostan
• Chelyabinsk
• Chuvashia
• Kirov
• Mary El
• Mordovia
• Nizhniy Novgorod
• Orenburg
• Perm
• Samara
• Saratov
• Yekaterinburg
• Tatarstan
• Tyumen
• Udmurtia
• Ulyanovsk

The Volga is the longest river in Europe 2,300
miles
The Urals connect and divide Europe and Asia
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RUSSIA Volga-Ural Region

• Bashkortostan
• territory143.6
• population4117.1
• center Ufa
• Tatarstan
• territory68
• population3778.6
• center Kazan

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Bashkortostan TatarstanSABANTUI

• saban a plough
• tui a fest

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Bashkortostan TatarstanSABANTUI

• Horse riding
• Songs and dances
• Poetry reading
• Climbing on a pole
• Running in a sack
• Pillow fights

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Bashkortostan TatarstanSABANTUI

• Armwrestling
• Kuresh Tatar national wrestling

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Bashkortostan TatarstanSABANTUI

• Ethnic food
• Gubadia
• Chak-chak
• Ochpochmak

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RUSSIA Volga-Ural Region

• Kirov/Vyatka
• territory120.8
• population1589.4
• center Kirov

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Kirov/Vyatka
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Kirov/Vyatka

• Svistoplyaska, whistle-dance

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Kirov/VyatkaDymkovo Toys
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RUSSIA Volga-Ural Region

• Yekaterinburg/
• Sverdlovsk
• territory194.8
• population4612.3
• center Yekaterinburg

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Yekaterinburg
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Romanov's assassination in Yekaterinburg

• Nicholas II, (May 6, 1868 - July 17, 1918) was
  the last reigning Emperor of Russia and of the
  Romanov Dynasty. He ruled from November 1, 1894
  until his abdication on March 15, 1917, and was
  killed with his family in 1918
• Married in 1894 to Princess Alix of
  Hesse-Darmstadt Empress Alexandra Romanova), a
  granddaughter of Queen Victoria
•  Father to Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria,
  Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei

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Romanov's assassination in Yekaterinburg

• 17 A fatal figure for Romanov...
• 17 May 1896 During the night of Nikolai and
  Aleksandra coronation, about 1400 people died and
  1300 were injured after Khodynsk tragedy.
• 17 October 1905 The manifest ending absolute
  power of Nikolai II was signed.
• 17 December 1916 Rasputin was assassinated. He
  had predicted that Romanovs' fall would be linked
  with his own death.
• 1917 Bolshevicks took power in Russia.
• 17 July 1918 The Romanov family was murdered by
  bolshevicks...

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Romanov's assassination in Yekaterinburg

• Before an execution, there's supposed to be a
  trial. Before a trial, there's supposed to be a
  crime.
• No crime. No trial. No justice. This is their
  story.
• Carole D. Bos, J.D.

On the place of former Ipatiev house
Cathedral-on-the-Blood has  been built. It is the
biggest Cathedral in Yekaterinburg now. Its grand
opening on July, 16, 2003, on 85th anniversary of
the tragedy, has become greatest city event this
year. 
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RUSSIA Volga-Ural Region

• Udmurtia
• territory42.1
• population1632.5
• center Izhevsk

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UdmurtiaPeople

• Russians 58
• Udmurts 31
• Tatars 7
• The Udmurt people
• 800-300 BC Ananian culture, ethnocultural
  partners of the Scythes and Sarmats
• 10-16th centuries Under the power of the Volga
  Bulgars, the Golden Horde, and the Kazan Khanate
• 16-17th century the period of Christianizing
• November 4, 1920 Autonomous republic of Udmurtia

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Udmurtia Galina Kulakova

• Nordic Skiing
• Olympic medals Gold 4Silver 2Bronze 2
• World ChampionshipsGold 5 Silver 2 Bronze 2
  

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Udmurtia Mikhail Kalashnikov
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Udmurtia Pyotr Tchaikovsky

• Tchaikovsky was born on May 7, 1840, in Votkinsk,
  Udmurtia.
• Ilya Petrovitch Tchaikovsky1790-1880
  superintendent of government-owned mines.
  "Kindness, or rather an abundance of love, was
  one of the main traits of his character. In
  youth, in maturity, and in old age he believed in
  people and loved them. Neither the hard knocks of
  life nor bitter disappointments nor gray hair
  could ever quell his ability to see in every
  person he met an embodiment of all virtue and
  merit (Modest Tchaikovsky)
• Aleksandra Andreevna d'Assier1813-1854She had a
  very close relationship with the composer who, in
  his own words said, "loved her with a kind of
  morbidly passionate love"

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Udmurtia Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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Udmurtia Pyotr Tchaikovsky

• "His sensitivity knew no bounds and so one had to
  deal with him very carefully. Every little trifle
  could upset or wound him. He was a child of
  glass. As for reproofs and admonitions (with him
  there could be no question of punishments), what
  would have been water off a duck's back to other
  children affected him deeply, and if the degree
  of severity was increased only the slightest,
  would upset him alarmingly.
• Fanny Durbach (1822-95)
• She was Tchaikovsky's tutor during his childhood
  years. They were extremely close and wrote to
  each other throughout their lives.

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Udmurtia Pyotr Tchaikovsky

• "He Tchaikovsky played the piano . . . in
  general very well, boldly with brilliance, and
  could play pieces of greatest difficulty. To my
  taste at that time his playing was somewhat
  rough, lacking in warmth and depth of feeling -
  exactly the opposite of what the contemporary
  reader might have imagined it to be above all.
  The point is that Pyotr feared sentimentality
  like the plague and consequently dislike
  over-expressive piano playing, making fun of the
  expressive marking 'play with feeling' . . . The
  musical feeling within him was controlled by a
  certain chasteness, and out of fear of vulgarity
  he could go to the opposite extreme."
• Herman Laroche (1845-1904)
• Musical Critic. He was the composer's lifelong
  friend, starting from their early years at the
  St. Petersburg Conservatoire.

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Udmurtia Pyotr Tchaikovsky

• "Tchaikovsky's appearance immediately put an end
  to the somewhat strained mood of those present,
  especially the younger ones. With his combination
  of simplicity and dignity, and the refined,
  purely European restraints in his manner of
  address, Tchaikovsky produced on the majority of
  those present the most favorable impression. We
  somehow breathed freely. In his conversation
  Pyotr Ilich brought a breath of freshness into
  our somewhat dusty atmosphere
• Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
• Russian composer

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Udmurtia Pyotr Tchaikovsky

• "In the evening I am going through an English
  work, Tchaikovsky's Life and Letters. It reaches
  into my innermost soul it is often as if I were
  looking into my own, there is so much of myself
  that I recognize. He is melancholic almost to the
  point of madness. He is a beautiful and good
  person, but an unhappy person. I did not think
  the latter when I met him in his time, but so it
  is either one has others or oneself to fight."
• Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
• Norway's greatest composer

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Udmurtia Pyotr Tchaikovsky

• In all my many years of experience I have never
  met a great composer so gentle, so modest -
  almost diffident - as he. We all loved him from
  the first moment - my wife and I, the chorus, the
  orchestra, the employees of the hotel where he
  lived, and of course the public . . . He was
  always gentle in his intercourse with others, but
  a feeling of sadness seemed never to leave him,
  although his reception in America was more than
  enthusiastic and the visit so successful in every
  way that he made plans to come back the following
  year. Yet he was often swept by uncontrollable
  waves of melancholia and despondency."
• Walter Damrosch (1862-1950)
• A leading American composer. This is an excerpt
  from his autobiography My Musical Life

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RUSSIA Volga-Ural Region