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Marya or Maria Dmitryevna Akhrosimova is the godmother to Natasha Rostova. She's described as being strict yet kind (natasha's godmother strict yet kind!). Marya is also a grande dame of Moscow, a widow, and very old-school.
May 2, 2021 · Saint Matrona of Moscow. Commemorated on May 2. Troparion & Kontakion. Matrona Dimitrievna Nikonova was born in 1881 in the village of Sebino, Tula province, into a God-fearing peasant family. This village is located twenty kilometers from Kulikovo field.
Yul Brynner was born Yuliy Borisovich Briner on July 11, 1920, in Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic (present-day Primorsky Krai, Russia), to Boris Yuliyevich Briner, a mining engineer, and Marousia Dimitrievna. He had a younger sister.
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The Kostroma area was known for its monastic institutions, such as the Ipatiev Monastery, one of the most important in Russia. The Epiphany Monastery was established in 1425 by the monk Nikita, a pupil of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the avatar of Muscovite monasticism. Nikita had earlier been abbot of the prominent Vysotsky Monastery in the town of Se...
In 1569, Vladimir Staritsky was appointed the commander of a Russian force sent to defend the fortress of Astrakhan, which had been conquered by Ivan in 1556. Staritsky’s route down the Volga passed through Kostroma, where he was greeted enthusiastically and given hospitality by Abbot Isaiah at the Epiphany Monastery. Despite the terrible tsar’s ap...
At the Epiphany Monastery, new churches arose, and the monastery walls were rebuilt of brick with six large towers in 1642-48. Exterior galleries were added to the Epiphany Cathedral, and the renowned Kostroma masters Gury Nikitin and Sila Savin painted its interior with frescoes. Unfortunately, these 17th-century frescoes have not survived. Despit...
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Yul sometimes claimed to be a half-Swiss, half-Japanese named Taidje Khan, born on the island of Sakhalin; in reality, he was the son of Marousia Dimitrievna (Blagovidova), the Russian daughter of a doctor, and Boris Yuliyevich Bryner, an engineer and inventor of Swiss-German and Russian descent.
- July 11, 1920
- October 10, 1985
Nov 27, 2023 · Saint Matrona of Moscow. Commemorated on May 2. Matrona Dimitrievna Nikonova was born in 1881 in the village of Sebino, Tula province, into a God-fearing peasant family. This village is located twenty kilometers from Kulikovo field. During her childhood.
Blessed Natalya Dimitrievna. From 1848 there lived in Diveyevo, besides the fool-for-Christ Pelagia Ivanovna Serebrennivoa, Blessed Natalya Dimitrievna. She was from a peasant family from Orenburg province and secretly received the tonsure in Kiev.
