A reflexion of Moscow

Stanislaw Barszczak — All sorts of people (the April retreat in Moscow) —

We want to open up our mysterious selves. We look forward to and we hope that the stars look down, we pray that we can add something to emulate their success, the stars moving across the sky and leading us to our fate, but it is only our vanity. We look at the galaxies and the decline of love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, we believe the stars move along their tracks, but we want to rotate differently. And it’s true that if you watch the sky turn of the wheel for a while, you’ll see the meteorite, its flame, like flies, and finally extinguished. Thus, the stars are not worthy of emulation. It just unlucky rock. Our lives are here on earth, there are no guidelines for the stars … Moscow saw many and many survived. It says of it even its ” mosaic” metro. During the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many times uprising broke out big urban poor, “Bunt Copper”, ”Salt rebellion.” To fight for justice went popular Ivan Bołotnikowa’s troops, Stepan Razin, Pugachev Jemieljan, leaders of the great peasant uprisings against boyars and landowners, the uprisings that shook the foundations of tsarist autocracy. In over 800-year history, Moscow has repeatedly changed its face. But the most striking changes occurred in the city after the victory of Great October Socialist Revolution. Limits Moscow continues to expand (as compared with the year 1917 its territory has increased five times), the city climbing to the top is more beautiful, brighter. Once Moscow’s often called the “big village” because it has a lot of one-storey and modest one-story wooden houses. But look at Moscow after 1970! Straight, wide avenues, large squares, stunning parks and shady gardens, comfortable modern houses and the architecturally interesting office buildings and administrative buildings. Moscow today is also a wide bridges and granite quay Moskva River, the main car, tunnels, overpasses, Palaces of Culture and the school. You probably know who is coming to Moscow for the first time, a meeting with the city starts from Red Square. It is quite natural, because that is the heart of Red Square, Moscow, moreover, the heart of the country. So let’s stop here a moment. Around the square are located the most significant monuments of the Russian capital. And moving away from the square radiating multi-million major thoroughfares of the city. The central place in Red Square Lenin Mausoleum is built of red marble and black Labrador. Red Square (Russian: Красная площадь) why such a name? Few people realize where it comes from the name of Red Square. It turns out that the combination of red color from the communist times is wrong. In addition, Red Square is not called so from the beginning of its existence. At the end of the fourteenth century was called “Fire” or “Burnt”. However, the term is derived from Old Slavonic word “красьнъ” (beautiful). However, Red Russian is “красный.” This similarity made the square is now called the “Red”, although the name “Beautiful” is also clearly on the spot. Officially, it is considered that the name of Red Square in operation since the seventeenth century. Appreciated the beauty of the square in the world. In 1991, the first facility in Russia, Red Square has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But the recent history of the square, which for over five centuries, has witnessed many events. In the first half of the twentieth century, and later in Soviet times was the site of military parades, in which Russia and later the Soviet Union demonstrated the world his power. Setting many great historical buildings makes the Red Square in Moscow is a must for each trip. Live is the historical center of Moscow presents a great job. Although the square itself is no longer as impressive, when it comes to size. Is no 330 m long and 70 m wide. Red Square, Lenin spoke often. Hence, on a sunny day May 1, 1919, during the Christmas parade sounded important words of VI Lenin: “Previously, about what our children see, it was said as a fairy tale, but now, comrades, you can see clearly that the construction of a socialist society, under which we started the foundation is not a utopia. With even greater zeal to build this construction will be our children.” In the Kremlin “Lenin knows every stone … his voice still hear each tower … “. The Red Square Russian people worship their heroes. Here were thrown the words of Yuri Gagarin: ” I circled Earth in a spaceship, I realized how beautiful our planet. People! Beware and multiplying this beauty, not perish him!” When walking in the contemporary Moscow and now even though I only heard the words of Michael Kutuzov like a melody flowing through the history of 1812:” The courageous and invincible soldiers! … Each of you is savior of the Fatherland! Russia welcomes you … do not pass, and not forgotten loud deeds and your heroism! … Descendants retain them in memory. Blood have saved his homeland. ” Also, his words from September 1, 1812 years when he took the bold and wise decision: to leave Moscow, but save the army … Because it made my desire to visit the museum-panorama “Borodino battle”, a work of the painter Franz Roubaud. Image is 115 m long. I walked the entire Kutuzov Prospectus, to finally see the panorama from a special observation platform at a height of 6 meters between her and the image of an open-air plan created a width of 12 m. In this way, as if we are in the middle of the action battle of Borodino (7 September 1812 year). You can see beautifully soldiers of the Polish troops Poniatowski banners on horseback attacking the enemy redoubt, and the German army in front of Kutuzov one’s. So, the Russian prisoner, who is gone too far and was surrounded by Würtembergers of a great army; Napoleon at some distance on horseback, sitting among the generals Kutuzov’s Great Redoubts. In the trenches of the fight for Bagration suffered a mortal wound, and therefore gen. Bagration wounded exported from the battlefield. Recall that for a decisive battle took place only in September, after assuming command of the tsar’s army chief Gen. Mikhail Kutuzov by which it replaces in this position, General Mikhail Barclay de Tolly, widely accused (albeit wrongly), for treason and decided to face the French on outskirts of Moscow. The Russians did not want the French to the former capital without a fight. Kutuzov chose very carefully the battle area, with the convenient nature of the defense, allowing only a frontal attack, supported by additional fortifications numerous fields. His words could be another expression of the heroic defenders of Moscow: “United Russia is a retreat-no place for us Moscow.” First Grand Army of Napoleon won Szewardino redoubt. On the morning of Sept. 7 were heard in the fanfare of the Grand Army regiments, and after a read command the imperial army: “Soldiers! Before you battle, which was so much wished for. Victory depends on you, which we so desperately needed, will give us plenty of everything, and good winter quarters, and then the swift return to his homeland. You behavior out as at Austerlitz, Friedland and Vitebsk. Let you’re the most late descendants recall with pride: they were in the great battle under the walls of Moscow! “The battle lasted all day. Napoleon did not allow Ney to quit fighting the Imperial Guard, which is at a critical moment of the battle could lead to the destruction of the Russian army: I will not allow the destruction of my Guard. Being 800 miles from France, did not venture to the loss reserve my best! “In the evening, the fight ended. Napoleon Bonaparte did not use the initiative and gave Kutuzov possibility of retreat. Losses on both sides were extremely high. The Russians lost 45 to 50,000 killed and wounded, the French about 35,000. Severe loss of French cavalry and refusal to quit the battle of the Guard to take on the impossible taking chasing the retreating Russian army toward Kaluga. Napoleon took Moscow, 14 September 1812 year, but the principal aim of the campaign, which was to defeat the Russian army in a general battle, has not been achieved, which soon led to the defeat of Napoleon in Russia. In later years, Napoleon wrote that out of 50 battles, which led, in the battle near Moscow, his army “showed great courage, and enjoyed the least success.”

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