Как страшно. Живешь себе, воюешь за мир. А память о тебе – одна трава да небо голубое. Полковник Попов Иван Иванович (11.01.1888-1942,кладбище Ботани в Сиднее) Уроженец Якутска. Сын священника. Окончил 5 классов Якутского реального училища. 06.09.1906 зачислен в общий класс Иркутского пехотного юнкерского училища. Окончил Иркутское пех. юнкерское училище (1906-1909; по...
Russians in Australia Gregory Ivanoff was a Russian-born violinist, who settled in Australia during the First World War. He was born at Ostrog. He lived in Sydney and in Perth in 1920s. Gregory became musical director of the St James Theatre at Elizabeth Street in Sydney. The theatre/cinema featured an...
Russians in Australia On Wednesday 25 May (old style) 1870 whispers abounded in Hobart that a Russian invasion was imminent. The cause of the concern was the appearance of the corvette Boyarin at the mouth of the Derwent River. There was no need for panic of course, since Boyarin already...
Много лет назад я узнала о проекте Копылова Владимира Михайловича (Россия) , Лобастовой Натальи Генриховны (Австралия) и Зубрина Евгения Александровича (Австралия)- www.ausrusart.com (2010). Цель сообщества русско-австралийских художников -познакомить любителей живописи с самобытными художниками из далёкой Австралии. Среди этих художников такие имена как Леонид Васин (1933-), Лика Груздева, Павел Химин, Александр Зубрин, Александра Александровна Азовцева (19...
”When I came to the airport in little Perth at the end of the world, I put my feet on the ground, I looked around, and I said loudly and strongly, “This is where I’m going to live… this is my place.” Madame Kira Bousloff is regarded as a pioneer...
Russians in Australia Undesirable: Captain Zuzenko and the Workers of Australia and the World by Kevin Windle Australian Scholarly, 2012, 274 pages, $39.95 Kevin Windle has reconstructed the hitherto unknown story of Captain Zuzenko, a Comintern agent who helped found the Communist Party of Australia. Alexander Zuzenko, born in Riga...
Russians in Australia The formation and growth of an official club, the Russian Workers Association, gave the alienated working migrants an association and a voice. With time, this voice began to represent a very specific identity for Russians in Brisbane, and indeed wider Australia. This paper looks at the characterization...
Russians in Australia. There once lived John Datsis. He was a Russian hairdresser in Sydney in 1926-1932. He run his salon at 74B King Street, Sydney and put “Russian Expert” after his name. He spoke ”very good” Russian, but very bad English. The newspapers are full of articles telling a...
Everything you need to know about Anna Pavlova’s first tour to Australia in 1926. Interesting facts about the tour: Before her first performance, the firm sponsoring her Australian tour, J.C. Williamson Theatres Ltd., were uncertain what to do regarding Pavlova’s superstition about entering a theatre for the first time. They...
IT IS hard to conceive of anyone who has contributed more to the broad spectrum of classical and folkloric dance in Australia than Marina Berezowsky. From 1977 to 1984, she taught character dance at the VCA (Victorian College of the Arts), and in 1984 she was honoured with an Order of...
