#dmitry ivanov

[russianprotesters]

Two years ago I was still a student. Two years ago, I successfully passed my last exam, closed the final session and did not return home. Two years ago I became a political prisoner. Two years is already a long time. Two years ago, most of my neighbors were still free, and almost all will be free in the next two years. But for me this is just the beginning. For two years I traveled from cell to cell, changing detention centers and regions one after another, meeting new neighbors and seeing off old ones to freedom. He went to court for two years, proving that freedom is not slavery, war is not peace, and two and two are still four, even if the talking head on the TV screen claims the opposite. The date of release on my personal card is 2030 - the longest term for 50 people in the detachment. This is the price of belief and freedom of speech in Russia. But our future is worth paying this price. For our children to live in a free and peaceful country, where their rights will be protected and conditions for growth and development will be created, many would give much more. And many have already given it away. Their sacrifice will not be in vain if we do not give up and lose hope. No matter how hopeless the darkness hanging over us may seem, believe: this will pass. The road may be difficult and winding, but we will return home. #этоДима

- Dima Ivanov

https://t.me/free_dmivanov/961

[jwt5000]

totally awesome sneak peak at my next web typography assignment, everyone go give Dmitry Ivanov a big consensual kiss.

[russianreader]

How Russia's Kangaroo Courts Have Become the Country's De Facto Op-Ed Pages

In Russia, where censorship has gutted the remaining independent media outlets, and all protests are nipped in the bud, trials have paradoxically become the best venue for free speech.

Lawyer Dmitry Talantov has been sentenced to seven years in a penal colony on charges of disseminating “fake news” about the Russian army and inciting hatred in connection with several social media posts about the war. Talantov had been on the defense team of journalist Ivan Safronov, who was sentenced to twenty-two years in a penal colony for high treason. Talantov had also served for many years…

[blackpilledkremlintsarina5294]

November 25, 2015

Vladimir Putin attended the opening ceremony of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre in Yekaterinburg. “I recall Boris Yeltsin’s words, which the whole country knows now: ‘Look after Russia!’ Those words were addressed to all of us, to present and future generations,” the President said. Vladimir Putin visited the exhibition Seven Days that Changed Russia at the centre’s museum accompanied by Mr Yeltsin’s widow, Naina Yeltsina, and his daughter, Tatyana Yumasheva. Former President of Ukraine Leonin Kuchma also attended the opening of the Yeltsin Center.

[akultalkies]

Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, John Abraham, Dimple Kapadia, Ashutosh Rana, Salman Khan, Aakash Bhatija, Prakash Belawadi, Guneet Sharma, Ankita Mandlik, Dmitri Ivanov, Jairoop Jeevan, Karishma Singh, William, Prashant Makwana,

[hiddcnhorizcns]

her words cut through dmitri like a blade. he wished things were different, that they could be free to follow their hearts without the weight of duty and honor pressing down upon them. but the reality was stark and unyielding. his brother’s marriage to her was the only way to secure peace and prevent the impending war that would bring ruin to both their lands. every time he looked at her, he saw the life they could have had, the love that they could have shared. but that vision was a torment, a reminder of what he must sacrifice. dmitri felt the same as her, the same longing and dread. yet, he knew he had to bury it deep within him, for the sake of their people. the thought of his brother having her drives him mad. it's a torment that dmitri cannot escape. every time dimtri imagines him by her side, it feels like a dagger to his heart. he cannot stand the thought of him touching her, holding her, sharing the life that should have been theirs. but what choice do they have? "there is no question of if." elowen must. the survival of their people depended on it, and as much as it pained him to say it, duty must come before their desires. "elowen, i need you to understand that my heart breaks at the thought of losing you to him. but if your marriage to my brother is the price for peace, then we have no choice." he stepped forward, closing the distance between them, the love he carried for her suffocating him. his hand trembled as he reached out to touch her face, the forbidden contact sending a jolt of longing and despair through him. "in another life, in another time, we would be free to love each other without fear or consequence."

OPEN STARTER : anyone, no t*boo please !  MUSE : elowen montfault, thirty-six. she/her, bisexual. princess + dragon rider. heir to her father’s throne. emma d’arcy fc. PLOT: elowen is recently widowed and being forced to marry your muse’s brother in order to prevent the incoming war — but the heart speaks louder.

“if  i  wed  your  brother,  it  will  bind  me  and  you  together  for  eternity,  and  i  will  spend  every  day  of  my  marriage  wanting  you,  dreaming  of  you,  dreading  the  day  when  my  last  thread  of  honor  finally  snaps.”

[frozenprincess]

Búsqueda de PJ para el foro: https://1920-ny.foroactivo.com/

BLOOD OF MY BLOOD II

El medio hermano bastardo de Irina y Andrey, el mayor de los tres. Ellos jamás han escuchado hablar de su hermanastro, pero él sí conoce quién es su padre. Criado muy lejos de los lujos y la vida palaciega que sí han tenido sus hermanos, Dmitri Ivanov es el hijo de una campesina a la que un hombre de la alta sociedad rusa dejó embarazada antes de casarse con la madre de Irina. Aunque lo mantuvo siempre en secreto, Alexandr Ivanov ayudaba económicamente a su bastardo y a la madre de éste, pero negándose a reconocer al hijo como suyo o a tener contacto alguno con él. Dmitri es de los primeros soldados en alistarse en el Ejército Rojo, siendo un ferviente bolchevique a pesar de sus raíces aristócratas, de las cuáles reniega, ocultando quién es su padre a sus camaradas comunistas.

Es un hombre despiadado, no duda en eliminar a cualquier objetivo que sus superiores designen, incluidos sus medio hermanos o su propio progenitor si fuese necesario. De hecho, es enviado a Nueva York en busca de Irina, con el objetivo de asesinarla y dar así por terminada la dinastía Ivanov, siendo ella la única miembro que se conoce viva, ya que Andrey sigue desaparecido. 

La idea de esta búsqueda es que Dmitri cambie de opinión sobre asesinar a Irina al conocerla, detalles por privado, pero se baraja el incesto :)

Datos sobre Dmitri: ♡ Es un hombre frío, que rara vez muestra sus sentimientos o sonríe. ♡ Asesino despiadado, carga más muertes de las que puede contar a sus espaldas. ♡ Ha sido entrenado por el Ejército Rojo para ser un súper-soldado completamente letal. ♡ Solo habla en ruso, desprecia el inglés y a los Estados Unidos por encima de todo. ♡ Tener que ir a Nueva York le incomoda, pero no cesará hasta encontrar a su media hermana. ♡ Ostenta el rango de Teniente en su división. ♡ Orientación sexual: heterosexual. ♡ Tiene un sentido del humor oscuro, que casi nadie comprende. ♡ En Nueva York está metido en peleas ilegales por mera diversión. ♡ Lleva tatuajes que se hizo durante su tiempo en el frente. -Se requiere prueba de rol para este personaje. -FC negociable, aunque prefiero que sea Tom Wlaschiha y daré prioridad a quién escoja este FC. -Rol en tercera persona. -La historia del PJ así como su personalidad etc pueden discutirse y adaptarse al gusto de la persona que ocupe la búsqueda. -Mínimo dos post a la semana (excepto si se postea ausencia por algún motivo) -Cualquier duda, pregunta o lo que sea me podéis mandar MP para hablar por Discord.

Enlace a la búsqueda: https://1920-ny.foroactivo.com/t5964-busqueda-fire-blood-a-little-mouse-1-4#25526  

[theadventurerslog]

Quest For Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness | Part 2

The Adventurer's Log

Town time! And looking around a bit outside town at the gate. I got an ear of corn. I tried talking to the corn, but I guess it didn't want an earful.

The scarecrow on the other hand...

Snrk.

I couldn't take it though because that would be "straw-bery!". Sigh (appreciatively, please note all wordplay-related sighs are ones of appreciation, the bigger the sigh, the groanier the groan the better).

I was met with a surprisingly pretty sight on entering. I think I'm still spooked by the beginning stuff and trust nothing.

The flowers are beautiful and out-of-season. The staff is magic. When I tried Detect Magic, I sensed magic radiating from the staff and protecting the area.

I have to try to touch everything so naturally that included that staff. There was a woman's voice:

"This I must first do -- the sacrifice of life for one of love."

I also tried talking to it:

"My destiny is not yet fulfilled. One life for a death, and one death for a life."

When I did a look at the general surrounding area I got a familiar sense of peace and harmony and the flowers' scent reminded of Erana's Peace. Yeah, I think it's safe to say the staff and voice are Erana's. More Erana lore in this game?

I headed to the buildings and got startled by a man, the Burgomeister. In my defence he yelled at me and I'm still expecting everything to go wrong.

Burgomeister apparently translates to something like sheriff or mayor. It's his job to know everyone and thing that goes here. Yeah, yeah, I'd get to him but I had to examine things first.

He laughed in this narration! And it took me a moment to get it. SIGH.

Enough of that, I talked to the Burgomeister. He wasn't happy with my greeting. I told him about myself and how I got here. He didn't believe me that I'd made it out of the cave alive or that it had been open. Interesting that those jaws normally stay closed, I suppose. We weren't off to a good start here, though. I switched to asking him things instead. His name is Dmitri Ivanov. He also told me about the swamp blocking the southern roads now keeping anyone from leaving or coming. Except me. He informed me of the inn and shop and told me to use them to get what I need then wanted me to get out, although that doesn't seem to be much of a possibility with the roads blocked by the swamp. They don't need strangers causing more troubles. I fix trouble! I mean more trouble might happen first... but I'll fix it!

Oh I'm already trusting nothing. He warned me not to get caught out at night as few can survive a Mordavian night or stay sane anyway. As for not going out at night though, well, things happen...

But basically he boiled down to get your stuff and preferably skeddadle.

I moved on to the general store in which part of the description on entering was "The first thing you notice are the cats--they seem to be everywhere!"

Cats!

Now things were looking up.

Tumblr limits me to 30 images which is a pain because this game is throwing me so much I want to share. A description of a knitting basket here: "This used to be a knitting basket, but now seems to have become a cat basket. Amazing how that tends to happen!" Truly.

There was a load of garlic. "Either garlic is one of the most popular products here or the shopkeeper ordered way too much and hasn't been able to get rid of it."

Or, y'know, vampire protection. Just sayin'.

I tried to talk to a cat. "You attempt to have a meaningful dialogue with the cat. It says "meow."" Hearing all this narrated is great.

Then I finally introduced myself to the owner who is Olga Stovich. She also reiterated that strangers aren't very welcome here, but she thought it was good to see a new face again. I'm glad someone is welcoming!

She had a load of products I could buy.

She had garlic flavoured candy (ew) as well, but sold out. She noted the potential protective and health benefits of garlic, hint hint. The pie pan and broom don't seem like things I'd need but come on, they've gotta have a use.

I also asked her about rumours.

The innkeeper's wife is Bella and the one to really run the inn while her husband, Yuri, just gives the orders. Sounds like things aren't the best between them. They lost their only child...

The castle was abandoned for years and it was only four years ago that strangers moved in. Hmmm... shorter time span than I thought after talking to the gatekeeper. No one knows what's going on there. She doesn't think anything good, wise woman. It was at this point it occurred to me that I don't know how long I was in that cave before waking up. Concerning...

Werewolves are gypsies (in her opinion). Mmph... 90s game, 90s game... Nothing can kill a werewolf except silver or magic and she warned me to be careful at night. Their camp's not far from here. I doubt it's actually them but we'll see...

The monastery is a bad place that should have been torn down. Stay away. Many strangers have asked about it and never returned from it.

I had a bunch of shopping to do but I wanted to find out what the inn costs would be first. And generally explore for anything else to buy before spending my money. No repeats of QFG 1 money woes.

When I exited the Burgomeister was gone from his window. Don't know if that means anything.

I got roped in to paying for my room and board immediately at the inn after the innkeeper's initial surprise to see me.

A week paid off though! So I won't have to worry about it for a little while. That's nice.

That left me with 16 crowns and 68 kopeks. There's 100 kopeks to a crown so I was richer than I figured. ...thanks to looting the skeletons in the cave, but they're not gonna be using it anymore...? It'll be for a good cause!

I told them how I got here. He just said they didn't trust magic or users of it. As USUAL. But I guess that's fair here.

[Slightly future me: I realized I didn't even try casting so I went back, but no luck. I was told it was too dangerous to try during the day and the townsfolk don't trust magic. That does imply I can try at night though? And this generally stings less when I've already gotten to do stuff. I can also use magic in at least empty buildings too.]

There was a lot of garlic hanging in this place too.

There was a group of three to talk to but while they were quite chatty, they weren't very informative... I did find out there's a cemetery east of town though.

I went to check out my inn room. Mooore garlic.

And a narrow ledge outside under my window. Side-eyeing that. I have a storage chest if needed.

I realized I didn't actually talk to the innkeeper and he did have some information.

Beyond the shopkeeper and burgomeister whom I've already met he spoke of the gravedigger, Nikolai, and Dr. Cranium.

Nikolai is a harmless old man who wanders around looking for his dead wife. Aw.

Dr. Cranium came several years before the swamp wrecked the pass. No one trusts him or knows much about him. It's rumoured he conducts strange experiments. Nooo, with a name like that?

The gravedigger's strange but a good carver of tombstones and a good digger.

I still had some daylight left so I headed to the north part of town.

The gravedigger and an ominous building. Score?

Of course I started examining the scary building first. There was a bas relief of a creature like a six-legged octopus. Uh oh. It gave the creepy feeling of looking right back at me. There was also an indentation in the door of a set of six curvy spokes radiating from a central point... both are describing my Dark One Sign? That can't be good. I also wasn't gonna touch that just yet.

I went to talk to Igor the Gravedigger first.

He's by a boarded up building. It was the Adventurer's Guild but there are no adventurers. So no guild.

He didn't have much to say about the town. He works at the graveyard at night, the graveyard shift, har har. The work is piling up too -- just some graveyard humour.

He totally knows no rumours.

I'm certainly getting curious about this Dr. Cranium.

And he got fierce about the monastery: bad building. Bad, bad, bad. How soon am I gonna end up there?

Still avoiding that building for the moment I moved on to another section of town and found Nikolai.

Of course his dead wife's name was Anna. Of course! What is with the number of dead Annas in media... Cursed name.

I couldn't get anything out of him but him asking after Anna. Poor fellow.

Dr. Cranium's place was also here...with a big nose sculpture over his door. And I had to follow a pattern of bells to open it.

There's a...robot?

What am I getting into?

I examined the device...

Hmm...

But it can be used to identify animals and advice to catch it? You answer a short series of different questions: is it alive, fast and vicious or silly? And it gives different results. Alive, fast and silly got me a flying aardvark. If it's alive, fast, not vicious or silly, why bother catching it?

I don't want to get my hopes up but... but could Dr. Cranium be a gnome? Gnome was my first immediate thought when I saw the giant nose over the door.

When I examined the door to his laboratory I got a note about only being able to enter by prior appointment or demonstration of superior intelligence. When I tried unlocking it I got...

No. No, no no, absolutely not. I don't even know what image it's trying to make! I hate these!

Okay, it wasn't actually a slide puzzle like I thought. You just swap two pieces at any time anywhere. But if you exit it resets the whole thing.

I figured it out.

...but I didn't have the key so I couldn't do anything.

I explored some more and let loose some baby antwerps from the right door.

So I got bounced on but was okay as they were so little. Some kept bouncing around after this. Oops.

The other door led to some kind of rat maze without the rat and I couldn't enter.

I couldn't find a key... So, hoping I wasn't missing something in there, I left for now.

I went back to the scary building which is the monastery, oops, I didn't realize. I tried to use my symbol, but Igor warned me off.

Then I tried to listen at the door anyway, and got grabbed by the statue of the octopus-y thing.

I was dead dead dead.

But I was right about actually using the Dark One Sign with the indentation of the door. That did work and I was able to enter.

Not that I have a known reason to yet, but gotta explore right?

There was an alcove above the door that might have held something very important. There were also some of those symbols from the arch near the cave above the door.

I tried a Detect Magic. I'm enjoying that it actually gives me some useful results or at least more knowledge.

The object is a sculpture that fits the description of a "Domovoi" except for being dried out and unmoving... Maybe something I'll learn of later?

I couldn't move the sculpture, even with magic. I can only assume this is something to deal with once I have more information. And items.

I was headed back to the General Store, but realized I never actually entered the Burgomeister's place, so I did that and had a talk.

I was able to ask about the Adventurer's Guild. It's been closed as the swamp has prevented any adventurers from coming anymore but he gave me the key, so I could take a look around. Surprisingly generous of him.

He also reiterated the whole swamp deal, that it was formed from heavy rains and there's essentially undead there. Yeah, I saw those hands...

He still doesn't trust me and would send me away if the pass was clear, but it's not so he's just keeping an eye on me.

Adventurer's Guild ho! Yeah, the guild wasn't looking in great shape. Sad. But traditional prop Moose Head! Oh, but it was a Mordavian Moose. With fangs. I, I don't think moose need fangs. That's too much.

But I started getting warnings about feeling hungry so I went back to the inn for some food--garlic stew with vegetables--and as I left again I was warned to knock now as they lock up at night. And another warning of the dangers of night. I just wanted to explore the guild first!

There were books to read including one about the creatures here like the necrotaurs--scary. And Rusalka--the spirit of a murdered unmarried woman who try avenge themselves by drowning men foolish enough to approach. There was also the Leshy who play practical jokes and riddle games but can be helpful to those it likes.

I could sign the adventurer's logbook, always gotta do that. The buckets are like an exercise machine I could use and I think it got me some strength points. The frame above the bookshelf was empty and might have a secret passage but I couldn't figure out a way to access it yet.

The logbook also had entries to read about Piotyr and the Dark Ones Cult. Piotyr was a paladin and led the armies against the Chernovy Cult outside the Dark One's Cave. The Cult members became grotesque monsters causing many of the soldiers to panic and run. The battle was nearly lost when Piotyr heard Erana's voice "By all my Will, I banish you..." she was cut off but the Cult fled. Piotyr went into the cave but could only find the remains of the Cult members and Erana's magical staff, but no other sign of her.

Piotyr brought the staff back to the town square where a garden of flowers instantly grew around it. He was going to seek out the Rituals of the Dark Ones and destroy them but there were no more entries after that.

Well, now I knew how Erana's staff got there... Though clearly still missing some bits of the story.

It was turning to actual night and I headed back to the inn. I would like to explore at night too, but only after I get a bit more established...

The chatty trio (who feel like they may be a reference but if so I have no idea what) I talked to earlier were back. I learned there was another stranger--a Jester. A Gnome!! Not seen him yet though... So, I guess Dr. Cranium probably isn't a gnome. Unless there are two! Probably not? But maybe? I'm pretty sure 'man' has been said in regards to Dr. Cranium though, so probably not. (But I live in hope.)

I went to my room to sleep. I missed it before but I was able to take a clove of garlic from all the garlic draping over everything in here. I never did get to shopping. I'll do that in the morning if nothing else comes up first.

One day in the town of Mordavia done.

[mariacallous]

A day after Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was arrested for allegedly taking bribes, becoming the highest-ranking official to face felony charges in recent years, a Moscow court has sent him to pre-trial detention for two months.

According to investigators, Ivanov participated in a criminal conspiracy in which he accepted “especially large bribes” while overseeing Defense Ministry construction and repair projects. Sergey Borodin, a friend of Ivanov, has also been remanded in custody.

However, the independent news site iStories reported on Wednesday that the real reason for Ivanov’s arrest is suspected treason, citing two sources close to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). “The bribery [charges] are for the public. They don’t want to talk publicly about treason right now — it’s a big scandal. It’s the deputy defense minister, after all,” the outlet quoted one source as saying.

The second source said that Vladimir Putin “gave the order after being convinced that the case was specifically about treason” and that “nobody would have arrested [Ivanov] for corruption.”

Ivanov’s arrest was first reported on the evening of April 23. According to Russian state media, he will be held in Moscow's Lefortovo remand prison for the duration of the authorities’ preliminary investigation. The Telegram channel 112 said that investigators have begun searching a dacha owned by Ivanov in Dagestan, while the channel VChK-OGPU reported that three other people have been arrested in connection with the case. 

Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Wednesday evening that Vladimir Putin has been notified of Ivanov’s arrest and that Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu was “informed in advance.” Ivanov is known to be a longtime ally of Shoigu, having served as his deputy governor in the Moscow region back in 2012.

Ivanov has overseen a wide range of construction projects as deputy defense minister, including the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, Moscow’s Patriot Park theme park, and the reconstruction of occupied Mariupol. In 2019, he was included on Forbes Russia’s list of the country’s richest security officials.

Following Ivanov’s arrest, a source told Forbes that Ivanov is “Shoigu’s man” but that he’d “had some slip-ups” and that “questions had piled up” around him. The source speculated that his arrest could be part of a “purge” of Shoigu’s inner circle in preparation for the minister’s possible departure from the defense ministry.

Ivanov has been the subject of a number of corruption investigations by journalists. In 2022, Team Navalny reported that the deputy minister’s family owns multiple expensive properties in the Moscow region. Later that year, they reported that Ivanov’s first wife had spent hundreds of thousands of euros on jewelry, clothing, and vacations over the years, with third-party individuals and companies regularly footing the bill. Ivanov has been sanctioned by the U.S. and the E.U.

[conser2restor]

Architect: SPEECH Architectural Bureau

Place: Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Year: 2022

Photographer: Dmitry Chebanenko, Ilya Ivanov

Location: 21 Strelka St., Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Architecture: SPEECH (Sergei Tchoban, Igor Chlenov, Alexey Shubkin)

Design: SPEECH (authors of the project: Sergei Tchoban, Igor Chlenov, Alexey Shubkin)

Client: ANO Center 800

Completed: 2022

Total area: 3338.15 sq m (1: 1592.6 sq m, 2: 1745.5 sq m)

Total height: 16.57 m (roof ridge of the historical structures), 13.3 m (roof ridge cap of the new space)

https://iqd.it/

[russianprotesters]

“Coming out of the darkness is painful for the eyes, but there is no option not to come out of the darkness.” After being transferred to the colony, political prisoner Dmitry Ivanov almost immediately found himself in a punishment cell. He sent us a letter and answered Novaya's questions - Novaya Gazeta

[classical-music-suites-bracket]

I am now no longer accepting submissions as I need time to set up the tournament to start on the 1st of December (first poll will be scheduled for midnight GMT that day). I will have a little more information about the tournament structure soon when I release the bracket. Thank you so much everyone for your submissions, the following 58 suites will be included:

Lincolnshire Posy (Percy Grainger)

First Suite in E-flat for Military Band (Gustav Holst)

Second Suite in F for Military Band (Gustav Holst)

The Planets (Gustav Holst)

The Firebird Suite (Igor Stravinsky)

English Folk Song Suite (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

Children’s Corner Suite (Claude Debussy)

Le tombeau de Couperin (Maurice Ravel)

Jazz Suite no. 2 (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Daphnis et Chloe Suite no. 2 (Maurice Ravel)

Peer Gynt Suite no. 1 (Edvard Grieg)

The Nutcracker Suite (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

The Carnival of the Animals (Camille Saint-Saens)

Cello Suite in G Major (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Lieutenant Kije Suite (Sergei Prokofiev)

Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2 (Sergei Prokofiev)

Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2 (Sergei Prokofiev)

Pictures at an Exhibition (Modest Mussorgsky orch. Maurice Ravel)

Capriccio Espagnol (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)

Swan Lake Suite (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

Sleeping Beauty Suite (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

Giselle Ballet Suite (Adolphe Adams)

Masquerade Suite (Aram Khachaturian)

Orchestral Suite no. 3 in D (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Suites for Solo Viola, op.131d (Max Reger)

Dances Suite (Béla Bartók)

L’Arlésienne Suite no. 2 (Georges Bizet)

Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland)

Der Rosenklavier Suite (Richard Strauss)

Suite Española no. 1 op. 47 (arr. for guitar) (Isaac Albéniz)

Carmen Suite no. 2 (Georges Bizet)

Papillons Suite (Robert Schumann)

Mother Goose Suite (Maurice Ravel)

Holberg Suite (Edvard Grieg)

Scheherezade (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)

Má Vlast (Bedřich Smetana)

Magnificant in Bb Major (Francesco Durante)

Suite for Recorder and Strings (Gordon Jacob)

Symphonic Dances (Sergei Rachmaninoff)

Suite in Old Style (Nikolai Kapustin)

Livre de Guitarre dédie au roy, Suite no. 3 in D Minor (Robert de Viseé)

American Suite (Antonín Dvořák)

Caucasian Sketches Suite no. 1 (Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov)

Petrushka Suite (Igor Stravinsky)

Peter and the Wolf (Sergei Prokofiev)

A Time There Was… (Benjamin Britten)

Suite from Incidental Music from the Film “The Golden Mountains” (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Suite from Hamlet (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Violin Partita no. 2 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Violin Partita no. 3 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Keyboard Partita no. 2 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Keyboard Partita no. 6 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Dances in the Canebrakes (Florence Price)

Mountain Roads (David Maslanka)

A Moorside Suite (Gustav Holst)

Lemminkäinen Suite (Jean Sibelius)

Danish Folk Music Suite (Percy Grainger)

St Paul’s Suite (Gustav Holst)

This number does mean that some suites will have a bye in the first round, however the draw (including byes) will be drawn randomly to make it fair.

[wanderingmind867]

The Union of Soviet Super Soldiers (USSS):

It's 1976 or 1977. At least 12 years since the avengers were founded in the US. The Soviet Union is desperate to create their own superhero team to rival the avengers. They've tried to create figures like the Red Guardian, or the Crimson Dynamo or Titanium Man before, but it always fails. But perhaps it's because they never assembled a proper team? That's the logic that leads to the creation of the Union of Soviet Super Soldiers (Or USSS for short) in 1976 or 1977.

Founded in July 1976, the original team consists of:

Red Guardian III (Vladimir Ivanov): I already have a whole note on him. But he's the team leader, and one of the members of the team most devoted to Communism.

Vanguard (Nikolai Krylenko): He's a real comics character. I'm pretty sure you can find info on him through a Marvel Wiki or through Google (that's how I learned of him).

The Winter Witch (Katerina Obolensky): Abandoned as a child in the snowy mountains of Siberia, Katerina Obolensky learned to be one with the ice and snow. Nobody is sure if she's a mutant or some kind of demigod, but she is definitely powerful. Capable of controlling the ice, snow and winds at a single thought. She can generate winds, blizzards, avalanches, etc. When in her natural element she is a god amongst men. But when she's far separated from any form of cold, she becomes weak and frail.

The Gift-Bringer (Adrian Abel): Adrian Abel is a mutant. Born with the uncanny ability to control poison and even generate it (they can turn their whole body into poison dust or into liquid poison, for instance), they were considered a threat to others and sent off to an elite mutant training facility in Russia. There, they learned how to control their powers and make themselves less dangerous to others. Worst comes to worst, they were at least given a containment suit to prevent them from accidentally killing anyone with their poison.

Considering how powerful they are, it's only natural Adrian was recruited to the USSS. They're both powerful and extremely volatile, however. So they possibly be the most dangerous person on the team. So they require extreme protective measures to ensure they don't accidentally poison the people they're trying to help.

PS: Adrian is the only character not originally from the USSR. They're East German. I realized the German word for poison is gift due to google translate, and so I couldn't resist this bit of humour.

Crimson Dynamo (Dmitri Bukharin): Same as Vanguard. The Crimson Dynamo (including this version of him) is a real comics character who can find out more about through Google or a Marvel Wiki or something.

If you're wondering where in the timeline of comics this is supposed to be, it's shortly after Darkstar defects to the US to join The Champions. And she will join this team eventually, if someone (either me or literally anyone else) takes this idea past the concept stage.

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Petrov Family Tree

I DID IT. Ignore the shit quality I did this with a mouseoidafh explainations under cut!! This will probably be reworked eventually but this is what I have right now

SO. Starting at the top;

Damien and Arker Petrov, two brothers whose father started The Wall. Damien stayed in Russia to start a family whilst Arker went to run The Wall after their father's death.

Damien married Lilly Ivanov and had a daughter and son, Anastasia and Dmitri Petrov. They were horrible parents.

Dmitri was sent to work under Arker at The Wall after coming out as gay, being told that his strict uncle would "whip him back into shape". Let's just say that was 1. a bit too literal and 2. A Horrible Idea.

> Dmitri met Grigori Olyat at The Wall, and Hubert Galeforce while being dragged along for diplomatic meetings. He falls in love with both and it takes about 20 years for him to admit it.

>> Grigori Olyat would be the one to find out the full extent or Arker's abuse and murder the bastard. Good riddance.

Anastasia was expected to stay home; however, she fled the abusive household shortly after Dmitri was sent away. She wound up in America.

> She had an unfortunate experience and fell pregnant because of it. Knowing she wasn't fit to be a parent after the childhood she had, she put the baby girl, Mary, up for adoption.

>> Mary's adoptive parents were wonderful and kept Anastasia's information so that Mary could reach out to her eventually. The two wound up having a long-distance relationship, as Anastasia lived almost entirely off-the-grid.

>>> Mary Roberts married and had a child with Ian Wright, only to find out he was cheating on her. When they divorced, their child changed their name to Zane Roberts.

On the other side of the tree, Arker had a child with a guard at The Wall named Odelia Jane. She died of childbirth complications, and he named the child Wrench Jane.

> Wrench shortened her name to Wren for obvious reasons.

Wren fell in love with a Toppat, Ryan, and helped him escape The Wall. She joined the clan with him and they had a daughter named Carol.

> When Wren was captured by The Wall during a raid, Arker murdered her. Ryan worried that Arker would go after Carol if he found out about her connection to Wren, so he left Carol in the care of the clan and fled.

>> Carol would grow up to become Carol Cross, a Toppat elite. She doesn't know of her family history, only that her parents died in The Wall.

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"Similar, in some ways, to the writers, artists, and intellectuals associated with the Bloomsbury group in London, the Russian symbolists were involved in untraditional unions that privileged artistic creativity over procreation and were often tolerant of extramarital affairs, both heterosexual and homosexual in nature. This was the case not only for Gippius and Merezhkovsky, who were involved for many years in a mystical ménage-à-trois with Dmitry Filosofov, but also for other famous symbolist couples such as Alexander Blok and Liubov Mendeleeva and Viacheslav Ivanov and Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal. The writers’ fascination with sublimated love influenced not just their unorthodox marriage practices and their views about childbearing but also the ways in which they envisioned the creative process. Although symbolist writers such as Konstantin Balmont and Valery Briusov, who were more inclined toward the decadent mode, sought inspiration for their art in ecstatic moments or migi, many of the other writers found creative inspiration in the obverse, that is to say, the denial of procreation and the body."

— Jenifer Presto, Beyond the Flesh: Alexander Blok, Zinaida Gippius, and the Symbolist Sublimation of Sex

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Zhilinski Dmitri (1927-2015)

FAMILIA CHERNYSHEV

1970

Tamaño - 196 x 116,5

Material - aglomerado

Técnica - temple

Número de inventario - ZhS-5366

Recibido de la Unión de Artistas de la URSS, comprado al autor. 1983

Zhilinsky pensó durante muchos años en la idea de un retrato emparejado de su maestro Nikolai Mikhailovich y su esposa Antonina Alexandrovna Chernysheva: se han conservado varios bocetos a lápiz y versiones del retrato. Su relación amistosa y creativa comenzó en 1946, cuando D.D. Zhilinsky se transfirió del Instituto de Artes Decorativas y Aplicadas de Moscú (MIPiDI) al Instituto de Arte Académico Estatal de Moscú que lleva el nombre de V.I. Surikov al taller de Nikolai Mikhailovich Chernyshev. Su amistad estuvo acompañada por un amor mutuo por el arte ruso antiguo, por los frescos y la pintura de iconos, obra de Ivanov, Vasnetsov.

La aparición de Nikolai Mikhailovich en el retrato refleja en parte la imagen del justo sabio: un anciano de barba gris y cabello gris con una mirada inspirada que se esfuerza por avanzar. La figura de su esposa, ubicada detrás de él, por el contrario, es estática. Su mirada está fija en su marido, en sus manos, en un gesto de talismán, ramita en flor. Esta imagen es la personificación de la protección. Antonina Aleksandrovna siempre estuvo cerca de su esposo, invariablemente apoyándolo tanto en la vida cotidiana como en los esfuerzos creativos. El follaje dorado de otoño que los rodea está lleno de significado sagrado, como el fondo dorado de las imágenes medievales. Tres de sus hijas son visibles entre los árboles en la distancia: Polina, Ekaterina, Natalya, el yerno Andrei Gorsky y el nieto Nikolai. Introduciendo a la familia Chernyshev en la composición del doble retrato, D.D. Zhilinsky complica el significado semántico de la obra, enfatizando la idea de la ciclicidad de la vida. “Padre (N.M. Chernyshev) creía que los hijos de los artistas deberían ser artistas. Crecen en un mundo especial. A menudo repetía: "El talento es trabajo", recordó más tarde la hija mayor de Nikolai Mikhailovich Polina. La familia creadora del maestro despertó en el artista respeto por su imagen moral e ideológica de las relaciones familiares.

Información e imagen de la web de la Galería Tretyakov.