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Day of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God

Celebration on July 21 and November 4

Appearing of the Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God in the Grad of Kazan (1579)

On October 1, 1552, on the feast of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God, at night, John IV, the leader of the Russian soldiers preparing for a decisive assault on the Tatar Kazan, suddenly heard the chime of Moscow bells. The Tsar realized that this was a sign of God's mercy: through the prayers of the Chosen Voivode, the Lord wanted to turn the people of Kazan to Himself.

July 21, 2023 will be 124 years since the birth of Ernest Miller Hemingway, American writer and journalist, Nobel Prize winner

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois (USA) in the family of a doctor.

In 1928 the writer's father committed suicide. Ernest, the oldest son of six children, attended several Oak Park schools and wrote stories and poems for the school newspapers.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930)

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930) - poet, publicist, playwright. Born in Georgia in the village of Baghdadi.
The first education in the biography of Vladimir Mayakovsky was received at the gymnasium of the city of Kutaisi. In 1906 he moved to Moscow with his mother, began to study at the fifth gymnasium. The revolution did not leave Mayakovsky aside. He asked for training, then joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko July 18, 1932 - April 1, 2017

Yevgeny Yevtushenko began to write as a child - his first poems were dedicated to sports and holidays. Works about the problems and experiences of Soviet man began to be published only in the thaw years. In 1961 the poet became famous for the resonant poem "Babi Yar", Dmitry Shostakovich wrote a symphony on its verses. After the collapse of the USSR, Yevtushenko moved to the United States and published a collection of Russian poetry.

Anniversary of the Declaration of Sovereignty of the Slovak Republic

17 July marks the anniversary of the Declaration of Sovereignty of the Slovak Republic. On this day in 1992, the Declaration on the Sovereignty of the Slovak Republic was adopted in the National Council of the Slovak Republic under the leadership of then President Ivan Gašparovič. Of the 147 members present, 113 voted in favor, 24 voted against and ten abstained.


Valentin Pikul July 13, 1928 - July 16, 1990

July 13, 1928 - July 16, 1990  

Valentin Pikul wrote multi-volume epics and miniatures, combined fiction with documentary prose and most of all loved the motherland, history and the sea. He kept records of all his characters - more than a thousand cards were kept in the writer's card index.

The future writer was born in Leningrad in 1928. As a child, Valentin Pikul dreamed of becoming a sailor. When the family moved from Leningrad to Molotovsk (now Severodvinsk) under construction, the boy joined the "Young Sailor" club at the local Pioneer House.