Avveniristico, argentato aliscafo, retaggio di una Russia che sognava il domani

https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=37605

#veicoli #battelli #barche #aliscafi #idrodinamica #ingegneri #storia #personaggi #russia #gorky #sovietici #prototipi #trasporti #fiumi #motori #tecnologia #ingegneria #fabbriche #innovazioni #bureau

Today in Labor History January 9, 1905: Russia’s “Bloody Sunday” occurred, with soldiers of the Imperial Guard opening fire on unarmed protesters as they marched toward the Winter Palace. They killed as many as 234 people and injured up to 800. They also arrested nearly 7,300 people. The people were demanding better working conditions and pay, an end to the Russo-Japanese War and universal suffrage. Bolsheviks and Mensheviks opposed the march because it lacked revolutionary demands. The public was so outraged by the massacre that uprisings broke out in Moscow, Warsaw, Riga, Vilna and other parts of the empire. Over 400,000 participated in a General Strike. Protests and uprisings continued for months. The backlash was horrific. The authorities killed 15,000 peasants and sent 45,000 into exile. Another 20,000 were seriously injured. Shostakovich’s 11th Symphony is subtitled “The Year 1905.” Maxim Gorky’s novel, “The Life of a Useless Man,” depicts Bloody Sunday.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #russia #bloodysunday #bolshevik #generastrike #massacre #revolutionary #novel #gorky #shostakovich
@bookstadon

Feodor Chaliapin and Maxim Gorky. Chaliapin was a Russian opera singer with a deep, bass voice. He worked with life-long friend, musician and composer Rachmaninoff. Another friend was Russian writer Maxim Gorky who worked with him on his autobiography, published in Russia in 1917 as a series of articles in the journal Letopis.

#Opera #music #singer #writer #Gorky #Chaliapin

Hivemind, is #Gorky playing in The Mother when he gives Andrei the patronymic 'onisimovic'?
We read it from Turkish (and so maybe Tatar too) with ön isim, forename.
#RussianLit

> We are asked to love or to hate such and such a country and such and such a people. But some of us feel too strongly our common humanity to make such a choice. Those who really love the #Russian people, in gratitude for what they have never ceased to be — that world leaven which #Tolstoy and #Gorky speak of — do not wish for them success in #PowerPolitics, but rather want to spare them, after the ordeals of the past, a new and even more terrible #bloodletting.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/03/05/albert-camus-neither-victims-nor-executioners/
#Camus