Grozny was founded in 1818 by General Ermolov. [source] [source]
5000 Russian soldiers build the fortress in 4 months. Michael Lermontov and Lev Tolstoy were stationed as military officers in this town. Modern Grozny is a capital of Chechnya, a Russian Caucasus region.
Life of Chechen Republic in 2015
Grozny Aerial View
Road trip to Grozny
The Argun History, Architecture and Nature Museum Reserve.
Archeological monuments from Stone age to the Middle Ages with Eng. Subtitles
Chechnya Nojay-Yurt district horse races in celebration of the May 1st International Workers’ Day
I really would like to travel to Chechenia.
There is something in certain Chechen music and people that reminds me a lot of the Basque music and people……Especially to 2nd and 3rd songs in the road trip played with accordion.
Here we have a folk accordion called Trikitixa that it is played accompanied by Pandero ( tambourine ). Kepa Junkera being one of the best and world famous Trikitilariak:
See for yourself, look at the faces of these guys in the first video and listen to the music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87kc19AJtLU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntwg9jhsgPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmjcE1H9EXQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y34ZNBau2Kk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJjMicgd0Xc
Now I remember. Lev Tolstoy and Hadji Murad. Now there was a man. Take him for all in all.
You tell me. Have things changed or have they not?
In those days men were men but women were not.
Oh Russia, if you only knew what came before the Best Western Chain Motels. I live in Hotel California so what do I know or what could I do if I could get out?
Actually I don’t believe a word of what I’m saying. It’s just rhetoric to suit the times.
I’ve never met them but I’ve heard about real men and womem in the days of old. I’d like to come in out of the cold but I’m too old to warm myself with the fires of good Russian wood. “Oh, sweetheart, if only I could, I’d build you a house of ever good wood.”
The modern look is beautiful in its own easy way if you’ve got it made. But it doesn’t satisfy when I put it in my mouth.
The old Grozny was no better or worse than the new one, I suppose. Few people die of hunger and exposure now out in the snow but what about hunger and exposure of the soul?
Oh, I’m just saying. But now I’m hungry and can cook Russian buckwheat or Peruvian quinoa, thanks to the new Grozny lifestyle. But will it last or will the past be our future for which we’ll need another Tolstoy to chronicle?
What am I trying to say, Scott? I’ve been parked here on lovers’ lane for a year now and the cops don’t seem to care. I’ve got to get serious about the serious business of war and peace, or Tolstoy and Hadji will be singing the Tombstone Blues before the multi-polar imperial tax office on Grozny Square.
Hadji Murad and Akhmad Hadji Kadyrov
Hadji Murad knew that his people had to be with Russia, and that without Russia his small nation would be destroyed by Crimean Tatars and the Ottoman Empire. He wasn’t alone. Georgians thought that way and Armenians also. Kurds tried many times to reach Russia with a petition to accept them into Russia, but the Turkish and British spies persuaded them to stay with Turkey.
The British promised moon and stars. We see now how that has turned out.
In 2011, the First Deputy Chief of the Russian Presidential Administration Vladislav Surkov said in his interview that he believed it wasn’t a coincidence that in difficult times Vladimir Putin became the President of Russia and Akhmad Kadyrov became the first President of Chechnya
Surkov, of Chechen descent himself said: “It seems to me that if God has ordained people to live for some number of centuries as one nation, in times of need He sends those who will lead people out of the deadlock of war, destruction, and out of trouble. And I think that Akhmad- Hadji was a man whom God sent to the Chechen people to bring them out of the troubles that befell this nation.” “I think, frankly, that Putin is a man who was sent to Russia by fate and by the Lord in the hour difficult for our big nation,”
These people (Putin and Kadyrov) were both destined by fate to preserve our people: the great people of Russia and as a part of this nation — the Chechen people.
Dennis,
To see other districts of Sochi, you can use google earth. You can “walk” streets of Sochi, you can go to center city, or towards the mountains.
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6013006,39.7247688,3a,75y,293.86h,91.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3fjWBtjSbywDv15VN15hJA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
It’s fun.