Anniversaries of outstanding personalities and anniversaries of historical events.
November 1 – 100 years ago, the first Soviet truck was assembled at a car plant in Moscow. The AMO F-15 (aka AMO F15 and AMO-F-15) was a redesigned Fiat 15 Ter and was produced until 1931.
November 1 – 160 years since the birth of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. The Hessian princess and granddaughter of Queen Victoria became the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, brother of Alexander III. Out of her own conviction, she converted to Orthodoxy, and after the death of her husband – a terrorist threw a bomb at him – she founded the Martha and Mary Convent in Moscow and became its abbess. Together with other representatives of the Romanov dynasty, she was thrown into a mine near Alapaevsk in 1918.
November 4 – 240 years since the birth of the architect Osip Bove, who reconstructed Moscow after the fire of 1812. Among his creations are the Manege, the Bolshoi Theater, the Triumphal Gate, and the City Hospital.
November 5 – 95 years ago a planetarium opened in Moscow. He became the first in the country of the Soviets and thirteenth in the world. Mayakovsky dedicated the poem “Proletarian, proletarian, come to the planetarium” to the event. The project of the constructivist building was developed by Mikhail Barshch (one of the authors of the monument to the Conquerors of Space) and Mikhail Sinyavsky (architect of the Pravda publishing house).
November 6 – 230 years ago the architect Konstantin Ton was born. Among his works are the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Armory Chamber and the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, and the Nikolaevskaya Railway stations in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
November 7 – 145 years since the birth of Leon Trotsky. Active organizer of the 1917 revolution, participated in the creation of the Red Army and the Comintern. The first years of the existence of the Soviet Republic – the second person in the state after Lenin. Author of the statement “Every revolution is done so that thieves and prostitutes become philosophers and poets.”
November 7 – 80 years ago in Japan, the Soviet intelligence officer Richard Sorge, who was the first to report the exact date of the attack of Nazi troops on the USSR, was executed. Additionally, it was Sorge’s work that led to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, forcing the United States into the war.
November 10 – 130 years since the birth of Georgy Ivanov, an Acmeist, “the first poet of emigration.”
November 15 – 90 years ago, sound television broadcasts began in the USSR; until that moment, the sound of television programs was listened to through radio receivers. The first sound transmission lasted 25 minutes. During this time, Moscow Art Theater actor Ivan Moskvin read Chekhov’s story “The Intruder”, followed by a singer and a ballet duet.
November 16 – 150 years since the birth of Alexander Kolchak. Participant of Baron Toll’s polar expedition, corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, later vice admiral and admiral of the Baltic Fleet and commander of the Black Sea Fleet. During the Civil War, he became the leader of the White movement, and for some time bore the title of “Supreme Ruler of Russia.” In 1920 he was shot on Lenin’s personal orders.
November 19 – 200 years ago, the St. Petersburg flood occurred – the largest and most destructive in the history of the city. The maximum level of water rise reached 410 centimeters. The water completely destroyed or seriously damaged half of all city houses and structures. According to various sources, from 200 to 600 people died, many went missing – their bodies were carried away into the Gulf of Finland. The mass grave of flood victims is located at the Krasnenkoye cemetery in Avtovo.
St. Petersburg flood of 1824. 1820s Photo: Auction house “Literary fund”
November 21 – 260 years ago, Empress Catherine II abolished hetman rule in Ukraine. The Empress wrote: “Little Russia, Livonia and Finland are provinces that are ruled by the privileges confirmed to them: to violate all of them suddenly would be very indecent, however, calling them foreign, and treating them on the same basis is more than a mistake, but it is possible These provinces, including Smolensk, must be reliably called stupidity by the easiest means so that they become Russified and stop looking like wolves towards the forest.”
November 26 – 130 years since the birth of polar explorer Ivan Papanin, leader of the first ever Arctic expedition on the drifting ice floe “North Pole-1”.
Source: rodina-history.ru
