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For the works about the village Anatoly Nasedkin was awarded by the Shevchenko National Prize in 1985. Many years passed before Nasedkin felt himself able to create a work devoted to the military theme – the painting «No land Beyond the Volga» (1975). «In «No Land Beyond the Volga» I showed a soldier of Stalingrad.
This is also reflected by a common saying among the Soviet defenders, who often exclaimed that "for us, there is no land beyond the Volga". [206] Total war was reflected by Axis forces, as they attacked without concern and committed to a bombing campaign which utterly destroyed the city and killed thousands of civilians, and Hitler would not ...
The book by Zaitsev himself [30] "There was no land for us beyond the Volga. Sniper's Notes" ( Russian : «За Волгой земли для нас не было. Записки снайпера» ), which completely contradicts the point of view presented in Craig's book and the film on the events that took place, is not taken into account.
As a result of the invasion many people were forced to flee in front of the advancing tumens of Batu, and in northeastern Rus', residents of the Vladimir-Suzdal and Ryazan principalities sought refuge in more northern lands beyond the Volga. Others fled to sparsely populated areas, taking refuge in dense forests.
Similar paradise places also existed in legend, such as the Golden Land [5] the Land of Chud [6] and Belovodye ("Land of White Water"). [4] [1] History.
Beyond the Volga by Mikhail Nesterov, 1922. Oil on canvas, 81.5 by 107.5 cm. The canvas here at auction, Wayfarers. Beyond the Volga, undoubtedly represents the peak of Mikhail Nesterov’s mature oeuvre. It was painted in 1922 as a development of his famous Wanderer compositions that are now the pride of the Tretyakov and Tver Art Galleries.
The worst hit areas in Russia are just to the south of the Ural Mountains, about 1,200 km (750 miles) east of Moscow. Emergencies have been declared in the Orenburg and Kurgan regions of the Urals ...
The Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Treptower Park, designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich and Yakov Belopolsky. The Battle of Stalingrad was a major conflict between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front of World War II, fought over six months from July 1942 to February 1943. [1]