A post of mine from photo thread, “Images of The Death of Russia”:
One of the many statues of one of Russia’s most celebrated composers, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Novgorod, Union of Russia circa 2023 (top). Statue/bust of Aleksandr Borodin at a park in Novgorod in 2020 (bottom).
While Pushkingrad (formerly Kaliningrad) hosts the most statues and plaques of famous Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin along with other famous Russian poets, earning the city the nickname of “the Poets’ City”, the Russian capital of Novgorod boasts the most amount of statues and plaques dedicated to the composers of Russia, chief among them Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Aleksandr Porfir’yevich Borodin (which earned Novgorod the nickname of “the Composers’ City”. Since the end of the Second Russian Civil War, though really only beginning in 2006, Russia has seen a resurgence in the interest and love of the arts to an insane degree with Novgorod and Pushkingrad leading the charge.
The last four minutes and twelve seconds of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, which is the anthem of Russia since the end of the apocalyptic Second Russian Civil War.
With the coronation of Tsar Nicholas III and the restoration of the Romanov Dynasty in 1997, heralding a new era for Russia – one of hope and peace despite the scars that the Nashis and Communists left on Russia and her people (not the least the nuclear contaminations across the land). It was decided that there was to be, no there had to be, a new anthem for what remained of Russia (European Russia minus the Caucasus). It had to be one that forswore communism and ultranationalism yet at the same time spoke to the very soul of the surviving Russian Peoples both at home and abroad, something to lift their spirits, and finally something that declared to the world that Russia and her people were not dead and will rise once more but not as a aggressive nation with delusions of grandiose empire but a nation of peace, a nation that will put its best self forward. It was put to a vote by the Pushkingrad Parliament, then the seat of power, and the result was overwhelmingly in favour of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s magnum opus…the 1812 Overture.
With the coronation of Tsar Nicholas III and the restoration of the Romanov Dynasty in 1997, heralding a new era for Russia – one of hope and peace despite the scars that the Nashis and Communists left on Russia and her people (not the least the nuclear contaminations across the land). It was decided that there was to be, no there had to be, a new anthem for what remained of Russia (European Russia minus the Caucasus). It had to be one that forswore communism and ultranationalism yet at the same time spoke to the very soul of the surviving Russian Peoples both at home and abroad, something to lift their spirits, and finally something that declared to the world that Russia and her people were not dead and will rise once more but not as a aggressive nation with delusions of grandiose empire but a nation of peace, a nation that will put its best self forward. It was put to a vote by the Pushkingrad Parliament, then the seat of power, and the result was overwhelmingly in favour of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s magnum opus…the 1812 Overture.
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