Pin with the statue of Ivan Nikitin. The pin is made of glass. This statue of Nikitin is in the city of Voronezh on Nikitin Square. Ivan Savvich Nikitin (1824-1861) was a Russian poet. Ivan Nikitin was born in Voronezh into a merchant family. His father’s violence and alcoholism brought the family to ruin and forced young Ivan to provide for the household. After his first publications, he joined a circle of local intelligentsia that included his future biographer (and the editor of his collected works) Mikhail De-Poulet. He taught himself French and German and read widely in world literature, and in 1859 he opened a bookstore and library that became an important center of literary and social life in Voronezh. His first poems appeared in 1849.
Price: 1.50 euro Size: 3cm./1.1inch. Weight: 4gr./0.1oz.
Pin made in the Soviet Union with the Tsar Bell and the Tsar Cannon. The Tsar Bell is the biggest bell ever made but It has never been in working order, suspended, or rung. It weighs 201,924 kilograms (445,166 lb.), with a height of 6.14 metres (20.1 ft.) and diameter of 6.6 metres (22 ft.), and thickness of up to 61 centimetres (24 inch.). When the bell was made, a major fire broke out at the Kremlin in May 1737. Guards threw cold water on it, causing eleven cracks, and a huge 10,432.6 kilograms (23,000 lb) slab to break off. The fire burned through the wooden supports, and the damaged bell fell back into its casting pit. The Tsar Bell remained in its pit for almost a century. Unsuccessful attempts to raise it were made in 1792 and 1819. Napoleon Bonaparte, during his occupation of Moscow in 1812, considered removing it as a trophy to France, but was unable to do so, due to its size and weight. It was finally successfully raised in the summer of 1836 by the French architect Auguste de Montferrand and placed on a stone pedestal. The broken slab alone is nearly three times larger than the world’s largest bell hung for full circle ringing, the tenor bell at Liverpool Cathedral. The Tsar Cannon is a large early modern period artillery piece (known as a bombarda in Russian) on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. It is a monument of Russian artillery casting art, cast in bronze in 1586 in Moscow, by the Russian master bronze caster Andrey Chokhov. Mostly of symbolic impact, it was never used in a war. However, the cannon bears traces of at least one firing. It is the largest bombard by caliber in the world, and it is a major tourist attraction in the ensemble of the Moscow Kremlin.
This pin depict a monument at the site were Lenin stayed in a hut. The text on the bottom of the pin says:”Rasliv”, the area were Lenin stayed at the time. In November 1917 a revolution in Russia (November Revolutuiion) ended the Tjarist reign over Russia. The new government considerd Lenin as a terrorist and he went into hiding. He lived secretly in a forest north of St. Petersburg disguised as a hayfarmer. He shaved his baird and wore a wig. In this period he wrote serveral articles for newspapers and recieved fresh fruit daily. Also he worked on theoretical political works and prepared for the October Revolution. He lived in a hut made of branches. After Lenin’s death the hay hut was recreated on the site and also statues were placed and a museum. In the Soviet Era this site ha to be visited by students.
The historical site is surrounded with monuments. This is one of them.
Pin made in the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”900 Days”. This is referring to the siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany in WWII. The siege began on 8 September 1941, when the Wehrmacht severed the last road to the city. Although Soviet forces managed to open a narrow land corridor to the city on 18 January 1943, the Red Army did not lift the siege until 27 January 1944, 872 days after it began. The blockade became one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history, and it was possibly the costliest siege in history due to the number of casualties which were suffered during it. In the 21st century some historians have classified it as a genocide due to the systematic starvation and intentional destruction of the city’s civilian population. The 872 days of the siege caused extreme famine in the Leningrad region through disruption of utilities, water, energy and food supplies. This resulted in the deaths of up to 1,500,000 soldiers and civilians and the evacuation of 1,400,000 more (mainly women and children), many of whom died during evacuation due to starvation and bombardment. Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery alone in Leningrad holds half a million civilian victims of the siege. Economic destruction and human losses in Leningrad on both sides exceeded those of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Moscow, or the bombing of Tokyo.
The diary of Tanya Savicheva, a girl of 11, her notes about starvation and deaths of her sister, then grandmother, then brother, then uncle, then another uncle, then mother. The last three notes say “Savichevs died”, “Everyone died” and “Only Tanya is left.” She died of progressive dystrophy shortly after the siege.
Pin made in the Soviet Union with the image of a statue from Ivan Krylov. Ivan Andreyevich Krylov (1769-1844) is Russia’s best-known fabulist and probably the most epigrammatic of all Russian authors.Formerly a dramatist and journalist, he only discovered his true genre at the age of 40. While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop’s and La Fontaine’s, later fables were original work, often with a satirical bent. Krylov’s first collection of fables, 23 in number, appeared in 1809 and met with such an enthusiastic reception that thereafter he abandoned drama for fable-writing. By the end of his career he had completed some 200, constantly revising them with each new edition. From 1812 to 1841 he was employed by the Imperial Public Library, first as an assistant, and then as head of the Russian Books Department, a not very demanding position that left him plenty of time to write. Honours were now showered on him in recognition of his growing reputation: the Russian Academy of Sciences admitted him as a member in 1811, and bestowed on him its gold medal in 1823; in 1838 a great festival was held in his honour under imperial sanction, and the Emperor Nicholas, with whom he was on friendly terms, granted him a generous pension. Towards the end of his life Krylov suffered two cerebral hemorrhages and was taken by the Empress to recover at Pavlovsk Palace. After his death in 1844, he was buried beside his friend and fellow librarian Nikolay Gnedich in the Tikhvin Cemetery.
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Pin made in the Soviet Union. The text on the pin reads:”Heroic Defenders Of Leningrad”. The image on the pin is the statue on the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery. The Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery is the main WWII memorial in the city of Saint-Petersburg (Leningrad). It is a resting place for over 470.000 people who died of hunger inside the city, as well as over 50.000 soldiers. The central figure of the memorial is the sculpture “Motherland”. It depicts a grieving woman with a wreath, standing over the graves of her sons. Near the entrance to the cemetery, a museum was built telling a story of the life inside a city at war. Inside the museum, one can see a diary of Tanya Savicheva, a Leningrad girl who survived the horrors of the 1941-1942 winter.
Pin made in the Soviet Union. The image of the pin is a statue of A.S. Pushkin wich stands in St. Petersburg, formaly known as Leningrad. Alexander Pushkin was a poet who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian Literature. He lived from 1799 until is death in 1837. He died in a duel. Along with other famous Russian writers he belonged to the golden age of Russian literature in the 19th. century.
Pin about 40 years of victory WWII thus made in 1985. The text on the top of the pin says:”40 Years Of Victory” and beneath that:”Glory To The Victorious People”. In the middle of the pin is the medal Order Of The Patriotic War. This medal was awarded for soldiers for heroic deeds but in 1985 everybody who was a Red Army soldier in WWII was awarded this medal. Beneath the medal there is the eternal flame for fallen soldiers.
Pin with the monument “The Bronze Horseman”. The Bronze Horseman a statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has opened to the public on 7 (18) August 1782. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was created by the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet. The name comes from an 1833 poem of the same name by Aleksander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg.
Pin made for Victory Day. Victory Day is a holiday for commemorating the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. The text on the pin reads:”Victory Day. 9 May”.
This pin depict a monument at the site were Lenin stayed in a hut. The text on the bottom of the pin says:”Rasliv”, the area were Lenin stayed at the time. In November 1917 a revolution in Russia (November Revolutuiion) ended the Tjarist reign over Russia. The new government considerd Lenin as a terrorist and he went into hiding. He lived secretly in a forest north of St. Petersburg disguised as a hayfarmer. He shaved his baird and wore a wig. In this period he wrote serveral articles for newspapers and recieved fresh fruit daily. Also he worked on theoretical political works and prepared for the October Revolution. He lived in a hut made of branches. After Lenin’s death the hay hut was recreated on the site and also statues were placed and a museum. In the Soviet Era this site ha to be visited by students.
The historical site is surrounded with monuments. This is one of them.
The image of this pin is the Decembrists Memorial Monument in St. Petersburg. The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising, took place in Imperial Russia on 26 December 1825. Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Tsar Nicholas I. Because these events occurred in December, the rebels were called the Decembrists. As you figured. The experiences of the Napoleonic Wars and realisation of the suffering of peasant soldiers resulted in Decembrist officers and sympathisers being attracted to reform changes in society. They displayed their contempt of court by rejecting the court lifestyle, wearing their cavalry swords at balls (to indicate their unwillingness to dance), and committing themselves to academic study. These new practices captured the spirit of the times as a willingness by the Decembrists to embrace both the peasant and ongoing reform movements from intellectuals abroad. There was a standoff at the Winterpalace between loyalist soldiers and the rebels. Later that day the rebels lost and most of them arrested. 5 rebels were executed and the rest went into exile to Siberia.
The monument at the execution site in St. Petersburg.
Pin with the monument “The Bronze Horseman”. The text on the pin reads:”Leningrad Bronze Horseman”.
The Bronze Horseman a statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has opened to the public on 7 (18) August 1782. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was created by the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet.
The name comes from an 1833 poem of the same name by Aleksander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg.
Pin about the 9th. of may.
Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender German surrender. Late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin.
The surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by the Western Allied Forces. Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, the USSR requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin. Joseph Stalin declared that the Soviet Union considered the Reims surrender a preliminary document, and Eisenhower immediately agreed with that. Another argument was that some German troops considered the Reims instrument of surrender as a surrender to the Western Allies only, and fighting continued in the East, especially in Prague.
A quote of Stalin:
“Today, in Reims, Germans signed the preliminary act on an unconditional surrender. The main contribution, however, was done by Soviet people and not by the Allies, therefore the capitulation must be signed in front of the Supreme Command of all countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, and not only in front of the Supreme Command of Allied Forces. Moreover, I disagree that the surrender was not signed in Berlin, which was the center of Nazi aggression. We agreed with the Allies to consider the Reims protocol as preliminary.”
Pin says:”Pushkin”, meaning Alexander Pushkin the writer and poet. The image is from a monument dedicated to him.
Pushkin was a poet who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian Literature. He lived from 1799 until is death in 1837. He died in a duel. Along with other famous Russian writers he belonged to the golden age of Russian literature in the 19th. century.
Pin about WWII. The text says:”Moscow”. In 1941 Germany invaded Soviet Russia and came very close to Moscow. Stalingrad was the turning point. After Stalingrad the Russians drove back the Germans all the way back to Berlin making them lose the second world war. The militairy operation, wich was called operation “Barbarossa” costs the lives of almost 6 million soldiers and way more than 10 million civilians.
This Russian pin says: “40 Years Of Victory” and is showing a eternal flame for fallen soldiers. So the pin is from 1985. Russia have many eternal flames scattered throughout the country.
This Soviet pin is about A.S. Pushkin. Pushkin was a poet who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian Literature. He lived from 1799 until is death in 1837. He died in a duel. Along with other famous Russian writers he belonged to the golden age of Russian literature in the 19th. century.
This pin is from 1951. It is issued because of Labour Day on the 1st of May.
Labour Day (or International Worker’s Day) is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement, socialists and anarchists.
Labour day was established in 1890 as an international protest day for demanding a 8 hour working day, labour rights and for keeping the peace.
This pin is portraiting The Mound Of Glory.
The Mound Of Glory is a gigantic memorial complex established in 1969 to honour the soldiers who fought in WWII.
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Pin in good condition. Pin is about the partizans in WWII. The figure is holding a PPSj-41 machine gun. The text on the pin says:”Mound Of Glory”. Mound of Glory is a monument about WWII. The image on the pin can been seen on the monument.
On August 18, 1966, the government of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic decided to construct a monument, to be named the Mound of Glory, in honor of the Soviet soldiers who fought in World War II and the liberation of Belarus. Construction started in November 1967 and was finished in 1969.
Pin in very good condition. This pin is to glorify the October revolution in 1917 led by Lenin who placed a one party communist state in Russia. He was the first leader.
It says:”October Glory”.
