Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine the Great
Not so long ago, my collection of artifacts was supplemented with a Roman coin dating back to the 4th century with an image of Saint...
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Three Pearls of Smolensk City’s Pre-Mongolian Architecture. Part 3.
The third monument of the XII century and another architectural pearl of the city of Smolensk is the Church of John the Evangelist. The...
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Three Pearls of Smolensk City’s Pre-Mongolian Architecture. Part 2
Another monument of Smolensk’s ancient religious architecture, which we visited on that day, was the church of Archangel Michael (The...
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Three Pearls of Smolensk City’s Pre-Mongolian Architecture. Part 1
So, our trip to Smolensk is over. It was in our plan, among other things, to visit three monuments of pre-Mongolian architecture of the...
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July 2, 2010. A trip to Smolensk
On July 2-5, 2010, I and my friend Alexander Ishutin are going to undertake a journey around the Smolensk Region. During our traveling we...
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