This virtual tour by Wendy Salmond explaining the "Old Russian Style" was done very well with knowledge of the information, and thus holds the interest while listening and watching this video of myself and am sure mot all people. Thank you Wendy for taking this time to do this for all who could not take part in person. Katerine
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This is an admirable video, detailing the past life of Russian ancestors. Via clothing, pictures, artifacts, and many other media. I am so glad to listen to these videos and learn much more about (my own family past) not in actually my own family, but yet from what I was told from my great-father what was life then. I'm 68 y.o. now, we have many old photographs of my great-grandparents, when they left Russia (St-Petersberg) to live in Germany, then, later on, migrate to France, then very briefly in Boston, to finally living here in Montreal Canada. Some of the photos have been colorized by hand painting on top of the original black and white. I can almost see what was the life they leads then. It makes me so happy to be able in a way listen to what amazing lifestyle they had then, and to what they had given to be here in my Country. BTW they live until they were for my great-grandmother her 99 y.o and my great-grand-father 10 days short of his 100 y.o. married for 79 years. In 2008, I went to Moscow and St-Petersberg, I was able to view where my family used to live, I was not able to get inside those places but viewing them was such a tremendous joy for me to do so.
Pierre, would you mind signing up for our mailing list (if you haven't already) and writing to us with more information about this family history? www.russianhistorymuseum.org/join-mailing-list/
I liked this lecture. The topic covered was not of a general knowledge. One would have to dig deep to find this information, but Ms. Salmond did all the digging for me. The material was carefully selected and packaged in an engaging and captivating way. The collection of the museum is awesome. The author of the presentation managed to use these bits of the old world in such a way that I really felt like I was on a nostalgia trip. I liked how Wendy Salmond covered the topic. During this one-hour presentation l’ve learned a lot. I wish the speaker had more time, as I felt that she had a lot more to say and tried to use every minute to deliver more and more information. This was my first conversance with the Russian History Museum’s set of lectures. I’ll definitely watch the other ones now.
Thank you very much for your kind comment, Svetlana! So glad you enjoyed the lecture and discovered our museum. These lectures take place monthly, on the second Saturday of the month. Hope you subscribed to our channel and that you'll join us for future lectures: www.russianhistorymuseum.org/events/category/lectures/
That was WONDERFUL!!! Thank you so much for this lecture. I'm not at all Russian (100% English/Irish/Scotts), but I thoroughly enjoyed learning about this rich and storied culture. PLEASE bring us more like this! : ) The beauty of the Russian past should be brought to the forefront again!
What a lovely lecture! I was born in Moscow and now live in London. If I may humbly make an uttering, here it is -- a possible reason for the shared aesthetic between the Old Russian and Celtic styles is that the Celts originated in the Caucasus region around 12,000 years ago. They then went on to create a pan-national culture, spanning some of the territories we now call Europe and Great Britain, the traces of which are still to be witnessed even in the outmost corners of their reach.
Just watched this excellent lecture at a time that was more convenient than at its original time. Good that these are now on You tube. As a result, I look forward to others. I also like the question and answers like the comments and history provided by The curator of the Hillwood museum Wilfred Ziegler. I have to make one small correction. I had to repeat the section of the lecture to make sure I heard correctly when Ms Salmond probably just misspoke - and said « Czar Alexis (she did not use his patronymic) was Peter the Great’s grandfather. Easy to make a flub as she was a bit nervous- but Alexis Mikhailovich was Peter’s father. I will now contribute to the museum although I cannot get there. I hope to see other paintings and artifacts that are in the museum holdings like the paintings and other treasures. I hope that the monastery roof is being repaired as contributions were needed and is the museum in the same building or is it in another building?
I love all these lectures, my maternal background is Russian, altho from peasant stock. Maybe a lecture can be done displaying folk artwork, dress, culture next time…..
Great suggestion! Our August lecture will feature the art of embroidery - hope you can watch live on August 13 via Zoom or the recording here on UA-cam.
Suggestion: See If You Could Copy Right Wedding Invention: Picture's 0f Wedding Gift's And Day 0f zThr Wedding Photographs. Then Make A Lovely Russia Royal Wedding (Include Common People In Attendance Too). Place Everything In A Wall Calendar...! Sell These Calander's 0n eBay (Make Sure Print The Calendar In Both English And Russian). Everyone Will Be Happy To See Two Young Couple Getting Marry...! Before War Would Destroy The Rest Of The World In Last 150 Years. Also Like To See The Royal Family Photographs 0f The Real Maid's And Nanny's Who Served The Last Czar. Some 0f The Czar's Loyal Servent's Where Distance Relative's Of Our Our Family Name KUSMIROWICZ; Special Note: At Age 0f 14 Everyone In Russia Can Change Their Last Name To Protect Their Family From Outlaw's Wanting To Destroy Their Family. Vladlmie Kush A Successful Artist Related To One 0f Last Last Czar Royal House Servent Could If You Ask Him He Might Provide You A Drawing From Early Russian Art School...Check Out His Website... Best Regards, .M.Kush
Fascinating material BUT the female narrator is so incompetent, so inarticulate, so "um, er, ah" that it is impossible to listen to. Please, somebody. transcribe her sadly delivered narrative onto paper and re-post this valuable piece with a professional/articulate narrator. PLEASE !!!!!!
Thanks for your feedback, Peter. Our lecturers have different styles of delivery, some reading verbatim from a prepared text, some using notes to guide their presentation.
It is strange how impressions can differ, I found that she delivered her talk in a most agreeable manner, as an intimate talk rather than a public oration.
Initially - yes I was bothered by the umms and errs- but Ms. Salmond’s lecture was so well constructed and informative, that she deserves a kudo. As a former academic lecturer and as a listener at many academic forums and conferences- I recognize a bit of nervousness for speaking to a wide and critical audience. Moreover, her intimate delivery revealed a knowledge of the subject that was better than many more polished boring lecturers I have listened to. I was not attracted to these lectures at first - but if the others are as good and offer such an interesting discussion of objects at the Russian museum, I will gladly watch and listen. Thank you, also for the addition of Wilfred Ziegler and his expertise about the princely Paley family. My mother also modeled with other WREs in the thirties in France, but left when she married. 😉
I think her delivery was fine. As well as her knowledge of the subject she discussed. Your attitude, however, is another matter. Maybe you should work on that before you critique another person's delivery.
Her delivery of this vital information was good, although halting and faltering. As good as the presentation was, the older women's somewhat "crackling" voices don't help.
Beautiful, Just Beautiful. the paintings, the palaces, the porcelain, everything.
That was fantastic!! Thank you.
This virtual tour by Wendy Salmond explaining the "Old Russian Style" was done very well with knowledge of the information, and thus holds the interest while listening and watching this video of myself and am sure mot all people.
Thank you Wendy for taking this time to do this for all who could not take part in person.
Katerine
So glad you enjoyed the lecture - thanks for your comment! Hope you subscribed to our channel and that you'll join us for future lectures: www.russianhistorymuseum.org/events/category/lectures/
This is an admirable video, detailing the past life of Russian ancestors. Via clothing, pictures, artifacts, and many other media. I am so glad to listen to these videos and learn much more about (my own family past) not in actually my own family, but yet from what I was told from my great-father what was life then. I'm 68 y.o. now, we have many old photographs of my great-grandparents, when they left Russia (St-Petersberg) to live in Germany, then, later on, migrate to France, then very briefly in Boston, to finally living here in Montreal Canada. Some of the photos have been colorized by hand painting on top of the original black and white. I can almost see what was the life they leads then. It makes me so happy to be able in a way listen to what amazing lifestyle they had then, and to what they had given to be here in my Country. BTW they live until they were for my great-grandmother her 99 y.o and my great-grand-father 10 days short of his 100 y.o. married for 79 years. In 2008, I went to Moscow and St-Petersberg, I was able to view where my family used to live, I was not able to get inside those places but viewing them was such a tremendous joy for me to do so.
Pierre, would you mind signing up for our mailing list (if you haven't already) and writing to us with more information about this family history? www.russianhistorymuseum.org/join-mailing-list/
Fascinating, informative, interesting! Thank you so much for this lecture!
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I liked this lecture. The topic covered was not of a general knowledge. One would have to dig deep to find this information, but Ms. Salmond did all the digging for me. The material was carefully selected and packaged in an engaging and captivating way. The collection of the museum is awesome. The author of the presentation managed to use these bits of the old world in such a way that I really felt like I was on a nostalgia trip. I liked how Wendy Salmond covered the topic. During this one-hour presentation l’ve learned a lot. I wish the speaker had more time, as I felt that she had a lot more to say and tried to use every minute to deliver more and more information. This was my first conversance with the Russian History Museum’s set of lectures. I’ll definitely watch the other ones now.
Thank you very much for your kind comment, Svetlana! So glad you enjoyed the lecture and discovered our museum. These lectures take place monthly, on the second Saturday of the month. Hope you subscribed to our channel and that you'll join us for future lectures: www.russianhistorymuseum.org/events/category/lectures/
Thank you so mutch for this really great and informitive lecture.
Fabulous!
That was WONDERFUL!!! Thank you so much for this lecture. I'm not at all Russian (100% English/Irish/Scotts), but I thoroughly enjoyed learning about this rich and storied culture. PLEASE bring us more like this! : ) The beauty of the Russian past should be brought to the forefront again!
Thank you for watching!
What a lovely lecture! I was born in Moscow and now live in London. If I may humbly make an uttering, here it is -- a possible reason for the shared aesthetic between the Old Russian and Celtic styles is that the Celts originated in the Caucasus region around 12,000 years ago. They then went on to create a pan-national culture, spanning some of the territories we now call Europe and Great Britain, the traces of which are still to be witnessed even in the outmost corners of their reach.
Dear RN, thank you for watching and for your comment! We appreciate your interest in this event.
Extremely informative, thank you very much!
Thanks, Robin! Hope you subscribe to our channel and check out future free, online lectures: www.russianhistorymuseum.org/events/
Just watched this excellent lecture at a time that was more convenient than at its original time. Good that these are now on You tube. As a result, I look forward to others. I also like the question and answers like the comments and history provided by The curator of the Hillwood museum Wilfred Ziegler. I have to make one small correction. I had to repeat the section of the lecture to make sure I heard correctly when Ms Salmond probably just misspoke - and said « Czar Alexis (she did not use his patronymic) was Peter the Great’s grandfather. Easy to make a flub as she was a bit nervous- but Alexis Mikhailovich was Peter’s father. I will now contribute to the museum although I cannot get there. I hope to see other paintings and artifacts that are in the museum holdings like the paintings and other treasures. I hope that the monastery roof is being repaired as contributions were needed and is the museum in the same building or is it in another building?
Beautiful presentation!
Thanks, Booka! Hope you subscribe to our channel and check out future free, online lectures: www.russianhistorymuseum.org/events/
Such an interesting talk by a very erudite woman who has retained a trace of her New Zealand origins accent!
I love all these lectures, my maternal background is Russian, altho from peasant stock. Maybe a lecture can be done displaying folk artwork, dress, culture next time…..
Great suggestion! Our August lecture will feature the art of embroidery - hope you can watch live on August 13 via Zoom or the recording here on UA-cam.
soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo heart breaking, overall.
old style porcelain is 100 % exquisite!
When I think of “old Russia style” I’m thinking pre-Peter the great. There are so many things on the 19th century not much else before that
Suggestion: See If You Could Copy Right Wedding Invention: Picture's 0f Wedding Gift's And Day 0f zThr Wedding Photographs. Then Make A Lovely Russia Royal Wedding (Include Common People In Attendance Too). Place Everything In A Wall Calendar...!
Sell These Calander's 0n eBay (Make Sure Print The Calendar In Both English And Russian). Everyone Will Be Happy To See Two Young Couple Getting Marry...! Before War Would Destroy The Rest Of The World In Last 150 Years.
Also Like To See The Royal Family Photographs 0f The Real Maid's And Nanny's Who Served The Last Czar. Some 0f The Czar's Loyal Servent's Where Distance Relative's Of Our Our Family Name KUSMIROWICZ; Special Note: At Age 0f 14 Everyone In Russia Can Change Their Last Name To Protect Their Family From Outlaw's Wanting To Destroy Their Family.
Vladlmie Kush A Successful Artist Related To One 0f Last Last Czar Royal House Servent Could If You Ask Him He Might Provide You A Drawing From Early Russian Art School...Check Out His Website... Best Regards, .M.Kush
Thank you, Michael!
Fascinating material BUT the female narrator is so incompetent, so inarticulate, so "um, er, ah" that it is impossible to listen to. Please, somebody. transcribe her sadly delivered narrative onto paper and re-post this valuable piece with a professional/articulate narrator. PLEASE !!!!!!
Thanks for your feedback, Peter. Our lecturers have different styles of delivery, some reading verbatim from a prepared text, some using notes to guide their presentation.
It is strange how impressions can differ, I found that she delivered her talk in a most agreeable manner, as an intimate talk rather than a public oration.
Initially - yes I was bothered by the umms and errs- but Ms. Salmond’s lecture was so well constructed and informative, that she deserves a kudo. As a former academic lecturer and as a listener at many academic forums and conferences- I recognize a bit of nervousness for speaking to a wide and critical audience. Moreover, her intimate delivery revealed a knowledge of the subject that was better than many more polished boring lecturers I have listened to. I was not attracted to these lectures at first - but if the others are as good and offer such an interesting discussion of objects at the Russian museum, I will gladly watch and listen. Thank you, also for the addition of Wilfred Ziegler and his expertise about the princely Paley family. My mother also modeled with other WREs in the thirties in France, but left when she married. 😉
I think her delivery was fine. As well as her knowledge of the subject she discussed. Your attitude, however, is another matter. Maybe you should work on that before you critique another person's delivery.
Her delivery of this vital information was good, although halting and faltering. As good as the presentation was, the older women's somewhat "crackling" voices don't help.