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🎄 Have you ever been to #SaintPetersburg in winter? Now that the festivities are over, make a plan 🧳 for the next #Christmas & #NewYear & @VisitPetersburg when it's safe to travel.
✅ Add 🇷🇺 #MagicalStPetersburg to your #BucketList
#OTD in 1880 instead of a carnival🎪near the flower market, a circus opened.
☝️Not the first in #Moscow, but the favorite one since day one.
Now it's called #Nikulin's Circus, named after Yuri Nikulin-an all-time favourite Russian actor, who managed the company for 5⃣0⃣ years.
⚔️ #OTD in 1799 🇷🇺 Russian forces under Field Marshal Alexander #Suvorov started their famous military march, which went down in history, crossing the seemingly impassable terrain in the Alps & winning the legendary Battle of #SaintGotthard Pass against #Napoleon's generals
#OTD in 1935 history's most prominent miner Alexey #Stakhanov performed first of his many feats of labour: 💪 mined 14x his quota, 102 tonnes of coal in <6 hours. This kickstarted the #Stakhanovite 👨🏭 movement which led to manifold increase in productivity & labour innovations 🏭
🏇#OTD in 1782 iconic landmark of #SaintPetersburg - famous #BronzeHorseman equestrian monument of Peter the Great - was unveiled.
👈 Emperor's outstrectched hand points towards Neva River.
👑 The inscription says: PETRO primo CATHARINA secunda = To Peter I from Catherine II
🥊Welcome to 🇷🇺Russian-style #fightclub. Fist fighting is the traditional boxing in #Russia.👊Fist fights took place on major holidays or before the beginning of the agricultural season.🤜The most popular & spectacular were❄️winter “wall-on-wall” fights between two large teams.
On this day in 1⃣9⃣0⃣3⃣ was born Aram #Khachaturian, one of the leading #composers 🎶of the #SovietUnion. Here are some worldwide famous #compositions that you probably heard but didn´t know were his:
🎼Sabre dance (Gayane)
🎼Waltz theme (Masquerade Suite)
🎼Spartacus