Architectural Ensemble of the University
To the 60th anniversary of the complex of buildings of Moscow State University on the Lenin Hills
To the 80th anniversary of the Faculty of Physics
Leninsky mountains rise above the level of the Moscow River by eighty meters. This is the most elevated place in Moscow. A wonderful view of the city opens from here, and this territory has long served as a favorite place for Muscovites to walk.
According to the plan for the reconstruction of the city, a new, southwestern district of Moscow is being created on the territory of the Lenin Hills.
Wide asphalt roads have been laid here, flower beds and boulevards have been laid out, and on a vast area of about two hundred hectares an architectural ensemble of new buildings of the Moscow state university. The territory of the university (about one hundred hectares) free from buildings is richly landscaped.
Thus, the buildings of the university on the Lenin Hills represent, on the whole, an urban architectural ensemble of a new type, organized among the landscape gardening area created simultaneously with the construction.
The design and construction of the ensemble, located on a high, open space, visible from near and far points, required the architects to solve large architectural problems.
The complex of new buildings of the university is thirty-seven buildings located in a certain system. The ensemble is formed by buildings with a height of two, three, five, six, nine, twelve and eighteen floors. The center of the whole system is a thirty-two-story part with a spire. It gives a majestic character to the whole structure. The university becomes one of the architectural ensembles of the city, shaping its new look.
A wide green parterre leads from the Moskva River to the main building, ending in front of the building with a large water pool with fountains. On both sides of the pool there are granite busts of prominent scientists: Lomonosov, Lobachevsky, Herzen, Chernyshevsky, Mendeleev, Popov, Timiryazev, Michurin, Zhukovsky, Pavlov, Dokuchaev and Chebyshev.
A wide granite staircase and a monumental eight-column portico in the center of the façade give a special solemnity to the entrance to the university. On the upper terrace of the stairs, on both sides of the portico, there are bronze sculptures symbolizing science. Above the fourteen-meter columns, pink granite inscription: “Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov. The portico is crowned with bronze banners; against the background of the banners is the Order of Lenin, which was awarded to the university.
The right side of the bas-relief "The People-Creator" above the main entrance
The multi-tiered central part of the main building rises to a height of two hundred and forty meters. The first tier of the high-rise part ends with white stone sculptures, symbolizing the connection of science with industry and agriculture. The upper part of the second tier is decorated with a wide ornamental belt of multicolored majolica. Against this background flaunts National emblem USSR, made of bronze.
From the terraces of the first and second tiers, a wide panorama of Moscow opens up. To the right and left of the central part stretched multi-storey student dormitories and professorial apartments, crowned with four clock towers and connected with the central part into a single architectural whole.
On the flanks of the main building from the south-western side there are buildings of the physics and chemistry faculties. In the center of the green stalls, broken between these buildings and the main building, a bronze figure of Lomonosov is installed on a high granite pedestal.
Much attention is paid to the decoration of the front rooms of the university. High-speed elevators connect the lobbies with the high-rise part of the building. Four white marble staircases lead from the vestibules to the large, eleven meters high foyer of the assembly hall. Marble columns support the foyer's high ceilings. Above the columns are sixty mosaic portraits of great scientists of different times and peoples.
Main vestibule of the assembly hall
Three entrances lead from the foyer to the assembly hall. This is the largest building in the university. Its walls and columns are made of marble, trimmed with golden-colored fabric.
Against a golden background, the panel depicts red banners and emblems of science with an unquenchable torch, a symbol of an ever-moving thought.
The club hall, crowned with an original chandelier of fluorescent lighting, is designed for eight hundred seats. In front of the hall is a large foyer with columns and a vaulted ceiling decorated with fine ornamentation. In the club part there are large and small gyms, a winter swimming pool and numerous rooms for club work,
In the central part (on the thirty-first floor) there is a two-height grand hall of the Museum of Geosciences. The marble columns of the hall support a high dome and a light gallery below it. Through the embrasures of the dome, soft diffused light pours into the hall. This hall is located above the others, and, as it were, it completes the system of ceremonial premises of the entire university.
Building the Palace of Science, Soviet architects dedicated their work, knowledge and skill to their beloved Motherland. They sought to create a work of architecture worthy of our great era.
Architect L. V. RUDNEV
New buildings of Moscow State University: facts and figures
▌On the pediment of the high-rise part of the main building of the Moscow State University on the Lenin Hills, one can see huge numbers inlaid with gold: 1949-1953. They mean that in January 1949, the builders began digging a foundation pit, and already on September 1, 1953, educational and scientific activities began in the new buildings of Moscow State University.
▌During 1949-1953 gigantic works were carried out. According to the project of architects L. Rudnev, S. Chernyshev, P. Abrosimov and A. Khryakov, the Palace of Science was erected, which has no equal in the world. The total volume of all university facilities is more than 2 million 600 thousand cubic meters. This is approximately equal to the whole city, in which there are up to three hundred four-, five- and six-story buildings with a population of 50 thousand people.
▌For short term 54,000 tons of metal structures were assembled, over 100 million bricks were laid, 268,000 square meters of ceramics and 69,000 square meters of granite were installed. All work was carried out by flow-speed methods.
▌The territory of Moscow State University is fully landscaped. The area of paved driveways and sidewalks alone is 590,000 square meters.
▌About 50,000 trees and half a million shrubs have been planted around university buildings. For interior decoration buildings of Moscow State University used marble, crystal, bronze, Ural gems, precious woods. The main halls are decorated with paintings and sculptures. the best craftsmen countries. Two-meter bronze figures of Mendeleev, Pavlov, Michurin, Zhukovsky are placed in the foyer of the assembly hall. 60 images of prominent scientists are made on a frieze in a Florentine mosaic. In the lobby of the club there are white marble sculptures of Pushkin and Gorky. A bronze statue of Lomonosov rises in front of the Palace of Science.
▌The central building of the Palace of Science rises to 239 meters. This is the tallest building in Europe.
▌The Lenin Hills are home to six of the twelve faculties of Moscow State University: Geography, Geology, Mechanics and Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Biology and Soil. In total, on the territory of the university, which is about 320 hectares, there are 27 main and 10 service, separate buildings.
▌ Classes in the new university buildings on the Lenin Hills, as well as in the old buildings on Mokhovaya Street, where the humanities faculties remained, take place according to a fixed schedule. In all 209 departments of 12 faculties, almost 18 thousand students study in 42 specialties, including 5 thousand correspondence students.
▌Teaching is conducted by about 2 thousand professors and teachers.
▌Boys and girls of about 60 nationalities study at Moscow State University. Among the students are representatives of people's democracies.
▌The total number of rooms in all buildings and buildings of Moscow State University on the Lenin Hills exceeds 45 thousand. It would take more than a month to go around all these rooms and stay in each of them even for one minute.
▌In the new buildings of Moscow State University, there are 148 classrooms (some of them can accommodate 600 students), more than a thousand scientific and educational laboratories. The area now available to the faculties on the Lenin Hills is sixteen times larger than what was at their disposal in the old building.
No university in the world can compare in its equipment with the Palace of Science on the Lenin Hills. 500 enterprises of the Soviet Union fulfilled the university's orders for the thinnest and most complex machines and units.
▌ About 1 million of the latest instruments, mechanisms and installations and 350 thousand visual aids are concentrated in laboratories and scientific classrooms.
▌Only the Faculty of Physics has eight buildings. The equipment, which the faculty is supplied with in abundance, is able to satisfy the most demanding experimental scientist. Electron microscopes give an increase of several tens of thousands of times. Cathode oscilloscopes allow you to study processes occurring in millionths of a second. Optical instruments help to study the structure of molecules.
▌The Faculty of Chemistry has 400 laboratories with the most advanced equipment. Here you can conduct research in any branch of chemistry.
▌At the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, wonderful installations have been installed that solve the most complex equations. Special machines quickly produce huge calculations.
▌In the eastern part of the university territory, among the greenery of the park, the astronomical observatory rises. Around its main building there are seven towers and pavilions.
With the help of an original installation located on the building of the observatory, it is possible to capture the sun's rays and then, through a special pipe, transmit them through the entire building to a laboratory equipped in the basement, where they will be subjected to special studies.
The Faculty of Geography is equipped with everything necessary, from a simple air thermometer to a hydrological post on the Moscow River. The film library contains a large number of geographical films.
▌Seven floors of the high-rise part of the main building are occupied by the Faculty of Geology. Here are concentrated the richest collections of minerals, rocks, fossils, fossils, and tens of thousands of maps. A first-class laboratory base for the analysis of oil and coal has been created. An exploration site will be built, where students will practically get acquainted with various methods of geological surveys. Field laboratories have been set up.
▌The building of the Faculty of Biology and Soil is adjacent to the Botanical Garden, which is spread over an area of 42 hectares.
▌The Botanical Garden includes an arboretum, a Michurin breeding and genetic garden, an alpine hill, a rose garden. In the arboretum there are a thousand species of plants and 20 thousand specimens of trees and shrubs. The rock garden, which occupies about 6 thousand square meters, gives an idea of the mountainous areas of various countries. In the rose garden - up to 7500 rose bushes of various varieties.
▌The Faculty of Biology and Soil has its own "artificial climate factory" - a climatological station with a complex of units that form any temperature conditions for plants. The station can maintain a predetermined temperature - from minus 70 to plus 60 degrees.
▌In faculty laboratories, students are provided with permanent jobs.
In the evening in one of the living rooms of the student hostel.
▌Eleven floors of the main building are occupied by a multi-tiered book depository. The fundamental library of the university has 1 million 200 thousand volumes. The shelves of the book depository - their length is 20 kilometers - can hold 2 million books.
▌The assembly hall of the university can accommodate more than 1500 people. Its white marble columns shine, the walls covered with golden damask fabric and the artistic panels that adorn them stand out. On each of the chandeliers illuminating the hall, during the installation, a team of workers of 6-7 people was freely placed.
▌184 comfortable apartments in two, three and four rooms have been finished for professors and teachers.
▌The auditorium of the University House of Culture can accommodate 700 spectators. In the evenings, the best artists, as well as members of amateur art groups, perform here.
▌Two large auditoriums, for 600 people each, are used by the House of Culture for lectures, reports and film screenings.
▌Sports facilities include magnificent gyms, facilities for wrestling, fencing, boxing, a spacious swimming pool with stands.
Student living room
▌Particular attention is paid to the organization of student life. Lively in beautiful living rooms with stylish furniture. A large polyclinic is at the service of students. The food plant occupies an entire floor of the main building and is able to produce 60,000 meals a day. There are laundries, hairdressers, ateliers.
The engineering equipment of all university buildings is second to none. Here water and steam heating, cold and hot water supply; compressed air is supplied to the university buildings; supply and exhaust ventilation. All sanitary devices are regulated automatically.
In the dietary canteen. 1953. Then it was not customary to enter the dining room in outerwear.
▌Audience rooms are supplied with film installations, devices for mechanically shading windows, etc. The floors in a significant part of the laboratories are acid-resistant.
▌All buildings of Moscow State University are equipped with radio. The equipment of the radio center allows, in addition to transmissions, the simultaneous recording of lectures. The text of the delivered lecture within a few hours can be reproduced in the university printing house.
▌In the Palace of Science - 75 thousand chandeliers and individual lamps (including 45 thousand fluorescent lamps).
▌The length of the underground water supply network in the buildings of Moscow State University is 39 kilometers, the gas network is 5 kilometers, and the cold pipeline is 4 kilometers. There are 113 passenger and freight elevators in the buildings.
▌The total length of 119 stairs of the main building is over 11 kilometers.
▌23 furniture companies produced about 150,000 pieces of furniture by order of the Palace of Science.
▌The new Moscow automatic telephone exchange with the B9 index, located in the building of the Moscow State University, has come into operation. Station capacity - 4 thousand numbers.
Kaverzneva Maria Mikhailovna (1932-2012)
Kaverzneva Maria Mikhailovna was born on 10/19/1932 on the Arbat in Moscow. In 1956 she graduated from the First Moscow Medical Institute. I.M. Sechenov. From 1956 to 1967 worked at the Central Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion. In 1965 she defended her PhD thesis. In 1967, she came to work in the oncohematological department of the Moscow Regional Research Clinical Institute, founded by Academician N.N. Blokhin. Already a well-known specialist in the field of oncohematology, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Maria Mikhailovna was the first to lay the foundations for modern treatment of the most severe oncological disease - Hodgkin's lymphoma. In my work I used everything new and progressive. Her recommendations were highly valued and quickly became a guide in the work of doctors. Thanks to painstaking work, this disease has now been studied, successfully diagnosed and treated. Life goes on not only in cured sick women, but also in the children of these sick people who were able to be born thanks to the selfless work of scientists. During years the authority of Kaverzneva M.M. in the treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma was undeniable.
Maria Mikhailovna is a worthy heiress of the largest merchant families in Russia, patrons and philanthropists. She is the great-great-granddaughter of the Morozovs: Maria Fedorovna and Timofey Savvich; great-granddaughter of the Krestovnikovs: Yulia Timofeevna and Grigory Alexandrovich; granddaughter of the Stakheevs: Sofya Grigoryevna and Dmitry Ivanovich. The oncohematological department, in which Maria Mikhailovna worked for many years, was located in the Staro-Ekaterininsky hospital, which was built by the Morozovs. A representative of noble families put in order a large family archive. Many books published in recent decades about the Morozovs, Krestovnikovs and Stakheevs contain photographs kindly provided to the authors by the generous Maria Mikhailovna. Visitors unique Museum Russian entrepreneurs, patrons and philanthropists see in the halls original exhibits, photographs, personal items, portraits of intellectuals who laid the foundations Russian culture, science and education. This became possible thanks to the help of their worthy descendants, including Maria Mikhailovna Kaverzneva. Always friendly, she willingly shared her memories of her family and friends. Local historians of our school on March 23, 1998 visited her. She showed valuable family relics. The book in silver cover "The Family Chronicle of the Krestovnikovs" was written in 1903 for school museum she gave a lot of photos. Maria Mikhailovna died on February 7, 2012 in Moscow. She was buried at the Vostryakovsky cemetery.
The works of Maria Mikhailovna Kaverzneva in the field of hematology, her contribution to the treatment of the most difficult oncological disease, her kindness and generosity should not be forgotten!
Photo:
1 Portrait of Maria Mikhailovna Kaverzneva (1932-2012)
2.,3,4 Portraits of the Morozovs, Krestlovnikovs and Stakheevs
5 Staro-Ekaterininsky hospital. Shchepkina street
6. Maria Mikhailovna Kaverzneva and a student of school No. 1861 "Zagorie" Palkina Ekaterina. Photo March 23, 1998.
Maria Mikh (the founder of the RED LINE dance school) told Geometria about what she would never do, what kind of music she wants to create to and where she dreams of going away for a whole year.
Masha, what place does dancing occupy in your life?
Dancing has always been and always will be in the first place for me. I dance with three years, like many, she began with the classics of folk and pop dances. Our whole family is creative, my mother is also a choreographer. At the age of twelve, I began teaching junior groups. I can't imagine my life without dancing!
Do you have favorite dance styles?
She started her dancing path with hip-hop. And it's still one of my favorite destinations! I love hop, house, strip, funk and many more, too long to list. I want to develop in all directions and discover something new.
How did the RED LINE dance school appear?
My brother and I were just starting to dance hop and house. We constantly went to classes and festivals, since there were no such destinations in our city. First they opened a circle at the college where I studied. There were more and more people who wanted to dance and we thought about renting a separate room for our own studio. My brother and I opened the dance school in 2010. We changed several locations and eventually settled here, on Pyatnitskaya. They put their soul into the arrangement and now we have a full-fledged studio with two halls, locker rooms and a shower. It turned out very comfortable. Why RED LINE? In fact, the name appeared by chance and quite impulsively. My brother loves the color red and somehow wanted to combine it with a pulse line. In general, this is how RED LINE came out. A lot of things happen unexpectedly and I'm glad for that.
Do you go to any master classes now?
I try, but it doesn't always work. This, of course, makes me sad. Our guys have just returned from the largest Respect my talent festival in St. Petersburg. Our guys passed the selection and for the first time in the history of the Kirov hop got into the top battle bracket. You always need to go forward, one award does not solve anything. My creativity is inspired by music and emotions that students give. I have long dreamed of going to the Broadway dance center in New York for at least a year. This for me will be an unreal pump.
Do you have a large coaching staff?
Teachers are the basis of our studio, my brother and I are very picky in this regard. Especially my brother. We are perfectionists and always try to bring everything to the ideal. Many people forget that not every cool performer can be an excellent coach. And vice versa. We do not have a very large coaching staff, but those who teach in our studio definitely know how to do it. We have a main team Red Line Girls for coaches and dancers, a second live group Red Line Beginners and a mixed team for girls and guys - Red Line Fam. We teach not just to repeat movements to the music, but to achieve high results in dancing as quickly as possible. Of course, I myself teach at school, without it I would not be able to! We are putting on numbers with our teachers, now we are actively preparing for the reporting concert in May.
How do you feel about criticism and competition?
Healthy criticism is always good. Criticism gives the dancer growth! I will say this about competitors - there are not many full-fledged studios with a worthy coaching staff in the city. At the same time, each studio is good with something of its own. Yes, one way or another, we compete with each other. But it is absolutely healthy environment for further development, because each of the studios has its own niche and its students.
Do you have creative projects in mind?
So far, all my thoughts and efforts are focused on preparing for the reporting concert, so there is not much time left for the collaboration. We recently worked on creating images of funny aliens for the party in honor of the seventh anniversary of the Geometria portal. I am happy to be able to participate in such events.
What do you prefer to do in your free time?
When I have free hours, I knit, do hair, do vocals, play games… There are so many interesting things around! I got hooked on Werber in books, I want to read all his works. I am pleased to take time for another of my creations - my own atelier. It all started with the fact that I studied sewing and design in order to sew costumes for the entire cast of dancers.
Now you sew not only dance costumes?
That's right. I sew everything from ballroom and gymnastic suits to evening dresses and hop clothes. In order to keep abreast of current trends, of course, you need to follow the fashion. This is the only way to come up with something unusual, not everyone needs a classic. Basically, I work on orders myself. I have an assistant Nastya, if there are a lot of orders, she is in the wings. I like small painstaking work with rhinestones and beads, I like to work on interesting sketches. It happens that there is some kind of fatigue and no inspiration. Then your favorite music comes to the rescue. A few tracks and I'm ready to work again! Soon I plan to launch a line of clothes "M13". I think a lot of people will appreciate it.
How does your day usually go?
I often work at night, so getting up early is a real problem for me. In the morning, my cat and I lazily stretch, and then she asks for food. You still have to get out of bed. The day and evening are packed, as a rule, very densely: trainings interspersed with tailoring. Sometimes it is possible to get out with friends to the cinema if at night you do not need to go to perform again.
Are sports on your schedule?
There are so many trainings in my life that, you can say, I live in sports. Muscles are in constant tone, so there is no point in going to the gym. I eat when I have to, I don't always have time. By the way, I'm indifferent to sweets.
Do you have some sort of "I'll never..." principle?
I will never talk about others behind their backs. I am against hypocrisy, so if I don’t like something, I’ll say it straight. But not many are ready to hear the truth.
While my schedule does not allow me to escape from the city. I dream of finding time for a full vacation to enjoy the sea and the sun. The most important goal now is to hold a reporting concert on May 26 at the Cosmos Palace of Culture. We are keeping the topic under wraps for now. The preparations are intensive, but it's nice to see the efforts of the whole team. I am glad that thanks to dancing we are developing our city and making it a little better.
On May 19 (6), 2012, in Argentina, in the city of Buenos Aires, Maria Mikhailovna Bauman (nee Borel), the granddaughter of the founder of the Volunteer Army, Infantry General Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseev, died.
Her parents are staff captain L.-Gds. His Majesty's Lancers Regiment Mikhail Konstantinovich Borel (1895-1978) and Vera Mikhailovna (1899-1992), the youngest daughter of General Alekseev, knew each other from the Volunteer Army, and got married already in exile, in 1921.
The Borel family lived in Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, where on November 16, 1927, little Masha was born. "In each Russian family, - joked Maria Mikhailovna, - you must have your own Masha! .. "
During the Second World War, when the Reds began to approach Yugoslavia, the Borel family, along with numerous relatives, was forced to leave for Germany - there was no other way for evacuation, and to remain in Belgrade as the relatives of General M.V. Alekseev was unsafe ...
First, Maria Mikhailovna ended up in Berlin with her parents, then in Poznan, in the western part of Poland. But even from there, they soon had to retreat through Germany, closer to the Swiss border, where the end of the war found the family.
Until 1947, Maria Mikhailovna, her parents and relatives were in the French occupation zone, then moved near Munich, to a camp for displaced persons organized by the Americans. Only in February 1949 did the opportunity open up to leave from there to distant Argentina, where the entire large family arrived on March 1 of the same year.
Life in Argentina at first was very difficult: the first days they lived in an immigration house, then the family was sheltered by a Russian officer who had a small house of his own. Only later, when the father, elder brother and Maria Mikhailovna herself managed to find work in a new country for them, did life return to a normal track.
In Argentina, Maria Mikhailovna worked in a German company. She married Alexander Vladimirovich Borel, the son of a Russian white émigré. Her husband, Alexander Vladimirovich, was a physician and worked in a laboratory. Alexander Vladimirovich and Maria Mikhailovna had two daughters - Vera and Elizaveta ...
To all these facts of the biography, it is necessary to add that all her life, until her death, Maria Mikhailovna supported the Russian Cause with her soul and carried out active social work.
The author of these lines had a chance to get acquainted with Maria Mikhailovna Bauman back in the mid-nineties of the last century. This personal acquaintance then left a deep mark, resulted in extensive correspondence, close cooperation and the friendship that, regardless of age, arises between people who are very close in spirit and ideological views ...
Then, in the mid-1990s, general atmosphere in the Russian Diaspora began to change dramatically. Alas, not for the better. The last White Warriors left the life, and most of their descendants - "went into everyday life"; membership in White organizations that continued the ideological struggle against communism and its legacy became, to put it mildly, very “not fashionable” among the emigrants ... They began to talk about the continuation of the White struggle as a matter of “not relevant” ... Games began in agreement and reconciliation with heirs of the Bolshevik regime, the movement of the "Red Cadets" was born - a new Smenovekhism, and a few years later - and preparations for the treacherous "unification" of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad with the Moscow Patriarchate...
Under these conditions, the beginning of the spiritual, physical, ideological and political dying of the Russian emigration, very few dared to defend those traditions and principles on which the Russian White military emigration had stood for more than 70 years.
But Maria Mikhailovna was always proud that her grandfather stood at the origins of the White Struggle, she emphasized that her father was a participant white movement, was a member of the Russian General Military Union. As far as possible, she herself took part in the affairs of the ROVS.
The granddaughter of the founder of the Volunteer Army wholeheartedly supported the work carried out by the Chairman of the EMRO, Lieutenant V.V. Granitov transferring the White Work to the Native Land and actively contributed to this process by sending like-minded people in Russia books on the history and ideology of the White movement, so rare in the 1990s, unique materials about the Russian emigration.
“My deeply respected grandfather,- wrote Maria Mikhailovna in one of her letters to the members of the ROVS in Russia, - blessed memory General Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseev, in 1917, said and wrote in his letters to his wife: “We must light a lamp so that there is at least one bright point in the darkness that has engulfed Russia” and also - “We must not be afraid to dare!”
I am happy to know that the lit lamp by General M.V. Alekseev, a great Russian patriot, burning with a fiery love for Russia, has not died out, but, thanks to ... the successors of his work, like you ... - flares up and gains strength. Praying the Lord for the revival of our dear Motherland and following the example of my grandfather, I dare to say: “Russia, rise from the darkness that has enveloped you! May the commandments of the Lord - faith in God, a sense of honor, duty and the search for truth - become your guides again! And, if you follow this path, then, as predicted by the great Russian saints, you will shine brightly all over the world in unshakable power and glory!”
To all of you, dear and highly respected compatriots, I sincerely wish you strength, health, energy and good spirits to carry the banner of White Russia with the help of God to the victorious end ... "
Maintaining contacts with members of the ROVS in Russia and helping them as much as possible, Maria Mikhailovna at the same time disapproved of the idea of transferring relics and archival materials of emigration to museums and archives Russian Federation. The granddaughter of the founder of the Volunteer Army considered such a transfer to be premature, not corresponding to the political situation in the Motherland (we note here that the archive of General Alekseev was taken to the Russian Federation against her wishes and opinion).
Her principled and irreconcilable position in relation to the heirs of the communist regime very often came into sharp conflict with the wishes of the "reconciling and agreeing" emigrant masses surrounding her. She - a small, fragile woman - with the firmness of her position, as it were, set an example for the indifferent, retreated and adapted. But among these indifferent, retreating and adapting, there were many men who once wore shoulder straps - cadet or even officer! ..
Is it any wonder that at the critical moment of the so-called “unification” for the entire Orthodox Church, Maria Mikhailovna found herself among the faithful children of ROCOR who did not support the Kremlin-Lubyansk political scam?..
Close to the heart took Maria Mikhailovna and the tragedy of her second homeland - Serbia. In one of her letters, in May 1999, she wrote:
"The Serbian tragedy, the tragedy of the Slavic Orthodox people we all, Russians, especially those born in Serbia, experience it incredibly, painfully. Wildly outraged by the endless lies and misinformation Western countries. After all, the territory of Kosovo has belonged to Serbia since the 7th century. There are many ancient Orthodox monasteries and churches, as well as historical Serbian monuments - not a single Albanian one! Satanists commit not only genocide, but ritual destruction. The reasons lie much, much deeper than the defense of the Albanians...
Sometimes such a thought also comes to mind: under the guise of protecting the “defenseless”, is the 3rd World War being started!? The same forces that destroy all foundations in the whole world!”
Maria Mikhailovna was the real granddaughter of the Supreme Leader of the Volunteer Army and sacredly honored the memory of her grandfather, zealously protecting her from attacks by enemies and ill-wishers.
Thanks to her tireless energy, in 2000 a voluminous book by Vera Mikhailovna Alekseeva-Borel “Forty years in the ranks of the Russian Imperial Army: General M.V. Alekseev” is a unique work dedicated to the life of General Alekseev, the history of the Russian Imperial Army and the White movement.
The death of Maria Mikhailovna Bauman is a great loss for the Russian emigration in Buenos Aires, for all her relatives and friends in Argentina and Russia.
On behalf of the Russian All-Military Union and on my own behalf, I express my sincere condolences to the daughters of Maria Mikhailovna, Vera Alexandrovna and Elizaveta Alexandrovna, her grandchildren and granddaughters - Sofia, Alexandra, Nikolai, Marina, Alexander, brother Mikhail, all relatives, friends and relatives of the deceased.
Everlasting memory!
I.B. Ivanov, Chairman of the ROVS