Author of quotes: Semyon Stepanovich Geychenko

estate, in every possible way sought the government to bear the name Hannibal.

In the old catalogs of the library of the Academy of Sciences, Hannibal's own handwritten letters and lists of books from his personal library have been preserved. Most of it - books on mathematics, military sciences, philosophy, history; fiction. In total, there were 347 book titles in the library.

When a historian does not find an answer in book sources, he turns to archival documents. If he does not find an answer in them either, he turns to the earth. The earth is a magnificent repository of the past.

Lulls us

Abram Petrovich received the Pskov estate according to the Senate decree of January 14, 1742 and the charter of Queen Elizabeth of February 6, 1746. The possession was considerable, some villages forty-seven.

My hospitable cellar ...

He is our desired and bright land!

Tall pine trees are broken,
On the sand lie like straws,
Happy ones gave them visible,
They didn't bow their backs in front of the wind.

Retreating from Mikhalovskoye, the Nazi invaders ravaged the museum and took the library with them to Germany.

In Russia, matches have been around for a long time. A match was generally called a small ray. To make it burn better, the end of it was lubricated with resin or sulfur. At the end of the XVIII century, a kind of lighters (aluminette) appeared in Russia, something like closed metal or glass lamps, in which a light was warmed where matches were shoved through special holes. The best way to have a constant fire in the house is a burning lamp.

As you know, the world's first matches (phosphoric) were invented in France in 1831. For lack of funds, their inventor Charles Soria could not take a patent, and two years later his invention was rediscovered by the German chemist Camerer. This invention was acquired by the Viennese manufacturers Roemer and Prechel; they first began to manufacture matches in a factory way and distribute them in Europe. Initially, factory matches were sold in Russia at a fabulous price - 1 ruble in silver per box (100 pieces). The common people could not afford them.

The oldest billiards table is French. It has no pockets, a small size, two balls were played on it, a blunt, curved, bone-tipped cue, on its field there was a metal pin, which was called a pass. Newer ones are big billiards with pockets and a straight cue. They were played with five and fifteen balls.

Billiards is a noble game. It is indispensable during life in the village.

Lies here my Ruslan, my friend, my faithful dog!
Was honesty for all a striking example,
Lived only for me, with death he took away
All feelings are good: he was not a hypocrite,
Not a thief, a drunkard, a depraved reveler;
And what's so wise about that? He was the only dog.