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A Banquet with Delivery Korchma Expands Its Food Delivery Service

The Globe in Your Pocket: The North Sea, Whales, and the Killer Jelly Fish

Retro from the Past Century: Zaporozhets: The Raciest Car in the USSR

Ivan Ayvazovsky:

The Genius who Captured the ‘Great Water’ Wi-Fi in all restaurants

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Dinner is Served: Restaurant Food Delivered to Your Couch Every one of us knows what it’s like to have a craving for something delicious but not be up to cooking something or going out to your favorite restaurant. And when the weather is bad you have even less motivation to leave your cozy apartment. This is when a delivery service comes in handy. Korchma Taras Bulba has offered delivery to Moscow residents for many years.

In an effort to meet all our client’s needs, our delivery personnel work 24/7. We also have no limitations on the menu items that can be delivered to you. You can be at your home and order anything you like – from borscht to holubtsi, from salo to desserts. Irina Nikolayeva, our Chief of Delivery Service, talked to us about the most popular dishes, how long you need to wait for your order, and other behindthe-scene details.

Who Orders Delivery On weekday mornings, the predominant group of delivery clients are office workers. This service is also popular among stay-at-home mothers who are not able to prepare several different meals, as well as among the elderly who find it hard to cook for themselves. On the weekends, our major clients are young families with a busy schedule who

prefer to spend time with their family and not in the kitchen.

The correlation of our delivery clients is 35 percent men and 65 percent women.

Let me remind you that we work 24 hours seven days a week. I think our working hours and delicious cuisine are our main advantages since there aren’t so many restaurants in Moscow that deliver homecooked meals.

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Limitations and Top Orders

Delivery in Bad Weather Rain, snow, and cold are the best weather conditions for delivery. When the weather gets bad, there are fewer clients in restaurants, and more delivery orders. Generally, fall and winter is the period when orders go up significantly. This can be explained by the end of the gardening season, end of vacations and holidays. When it’s cold outside, you want to eat more and warmer food. As opposed to light summer orders, the winter diet is more nutritious and substantial.

And with the end of summer come many holidays: City Day, Teacher’s Day, People’s Unity Day, the New Year, Christmas, etc. People want to celebrate at home, in the offices, in schools and universities.

You cannot order alcohol because all distant sale of alcohol is prohibited by Russian legislation. The only exception is beer.

Most of the dishes are ordered from the main menu. These are borscht, different soups, salads, pickles, meat, fish, holubtsi and, naturally, salo.

For our tiny clients we have prepared a wonderful children’s menu.

We also have a special banquet menu. For your celebrations and banquets, we offer you big servings, bright and nicely decorated dishes.

In the fall, we have a special pumpkin menu.

We also try to be considerate of our clients’ religious beliefs. During fasting periods we have a special Lent menu.

After we started our own cheese factory, people began to order different dairy products: cheese, cottage cheese, butter, and sour cream.

Overall, we deliver all items on the menu with no limitations.

How to Make an Order Making an order is very simple. You just need to call our delivery service at 8 495 780 77 44.

Cost of Delivery Delivery in the city of Moscow is provided by all 18 Korchma restaurants. We can also deliver beyond the Ring Road into Solntsevo and Odintsovo. The minimum cost of your order must be 1,000 rubles.

Delivery within the Ring Road is free.

All delivery orders beyond the Ring Road must be at least 5,000 rubles and delivery cost is 500 rubles. But our restaurants located at 6 Borovskoye Shosse (Solntsevo) and 122 Mozhayskoye Shosse (Odintsovo) can also deliver for free within their area.

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The operator will take your order and will answer all your questions. You can also use our service in our iPhone and Android apps and get a 5 percent discount.

Remember that when making your order on our website or app, you can pay with your credit card, and if you order carry-out, you will get 10 percent off the total amount.

If you value your time or cannot come to our restaurant for other reasons, we will be happy to deliver your favorite dish right to your home.

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Health and Well-Being Is Your Cup of Tea! With the start of wet and cold autumn weather, we begin to appreciate hot tea. In this season, a cup of tea is not just a way to quench your thirst and wash down a delicious dessert, but also a way to warm up, boost your immunity, and prevent colds. Teas with warming spices, herbs, berries, honey, and lemon are especially beneficial.

Warming spices include ginger, saffron, nutmeg, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, red and black pepper, turmeric, cumin, etc. They are added to different meals, sauces, and drinks. How can warming spices help your body overcome a common cold? Among their effects are: ■ Tension release in joints and muscles ■ Increased sweating, toxin removal ■ High fever relief ■ Alleviation of headache ■ Subsiding of edemas

You need to use spices wisely not to overdo them, not to spoil the taste of your food and not to harm your health. Pregnant and breastfeeding women and people with digestive tract conditions need to be especially careful. Spices in large quantities have a tendency to whet your appetite and should be avoided by people trying to lose weight.

Doctors also advise against drinking ginger tea right before leaving the house. It can cause a blood rush to your feet and increase heat loss so that you run a risk of hypothermia. You should

not get carried away with spiced drinks late at night because the energy surge they bring may make it more difficult to fall asleep. Breakfast and lunch are the best times for a warming and energizing cup of tea. And right before going to bed you may drink a glass of hot milk with turmeric (half a spoonful of turmeric per glass of milk) or with ginger and cardamom (especially if you have a runny nose and a sore throat).

The most popular among warming and immunity boosting drinks is probably ginger tea.

It will help you get over a cold or a flu, it will treat coughing and a runny nose. Its medicinal qualities stem from valuable amino acids and essential oils contained in ginger. Thanks to these substances, ginger tea has a general tonic, expectorative and diaforetic effect. Furthermore, it improves digestion, stimulates blood flow, and helps weight loss.

It is very easy and quick to prepare. All you need is a spoonful of ground ginger, then pour a glass of hot water over it. Let it brew for ten minutes. To enrich the taste and vitamin content of the drink, you can also add a slice of lemon or apple, cinnamon, cardamom, and honey.

Another unusual and very healthy tea is made of hibiscus with cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, and fresh orange. The red tea has an impact on your blood pressure: it increases it when hot, and decreases it when cold.

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Freshly brewed black or green tea can be enriched with autumn berries such as sandthorn, cranberry, and cowberry. This tea will be your treasure chest of vitamins. If you’re very cold and you want to make your tea even hotter, you can add a spoonful of cognac, rum, or herbal liqueur.

The tradition of brewing tea with spices was born in India. Such tea is called the masala tea, literally, spiced tea. There are numerous recipes for such tea but the mandatory ingredients are tea, milk, spices, and a sweetener. The drink you get as a result is energizing and zesty thanks to the spices it contains: cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, fennel, black pepper, cloves, etc. Here’s one recipe for you.

Masala Tea

Even the coldest and gloomiest day will become warmer and brighter with a cup of flavored and healing spiced tea.

Text: Olga SINYUGINA

Ingredients: 1 glass of water 1 glass of milk 1 teaspoon of black leaf tea sugar to taste 1.5 cm of ginger root 1 teaspoon of the masala mix (ground cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, fennel seeds, black pepper, cloves); 2 peppercorns of allspice

Preparation Pour water and milk into a pot, bring it to a boil, add sugar and ground ginger.

Boil on low heat for three minutes. Add the masala mix and the allspice. Then add black tea, mix it well, and cook for another three minutes.

Now your exotic drink is ready!

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6 | History

November 1 Gogol’s Day in Korchma Birthday of Korchma Taras Bulba restaurant on Profsoyuznaya St.

November 3

Poetry Day (Recite a poem by Marshak, get a complimentary cocktail)

November 4

People’s Unity Day Cheese Day (tasting party of our cheeses)

November 6 Father’s Day

November 8 Women’s Day

November 9 Victory Day

November 10 Borscht day

November 11 Friends’ Day

November 12 Photo Day Selecting winners of the October round

November 14 Varenyk’s day

November 18 Cossacks’ Day in Korchma Visitors in Cossack’s uniform get 50% off

November 20 Chess Day Cake Day

November 21 Pancake Day

November 22 Water Day

November 23 Men’s Day

November 27 Flash mob competition between the Korchma Taras Bulba restaurants

November 28 President’s Day Birthday of the Korchma Taras Bulba restaurant on Mokhovaya St.

November 29 Salo day

Thirty Minutes of Shame and You’re at Work Zaporozhets: The Raciest Automobile of the USSR

In the course of its long history, this car received many popular names. Some of them were really offensive (like “Zapor” – literally, constipation), while others were quite loving, like “Fatty” or “Cheburashka” (a Soviet cartoon character). But it will above all be remembered by the nickname “Hunchback” for its curvy body.

We will tell you a story of the people’s car with a simple design called ZAZ-965 Zaporozhets. Its first prototype came off the Komunar Factory assembly line in November 1960, which means that this month we have every right to celebrate the car’s anniversary.

The story of the Zaporozhets began in the mid1950s. Under the motto that an automobile is not a luxury but only a means of transportation, the world moved to a period of economical and practical city cars. The intention was that eventually every family would be able to afford a car. Naturally, the Soviet Union, where most people could not even dream of an iron horse, did not stand aside European trends. Secretary General Nikita Khrushchev was personally involved in its inception. His vision was bold, because he wanted the Soviet Union to surpass the USA in the number of automobiles per capita in just a few years’ time.

The design and manufacture of a new car was commissioned by a Central Committee decree to the Moscow City Car Factory. The engineers sat down to work at the end of 1956 with the Italian Fiat-600, the most popular car on the European market at that time, as a model to follow.

The Soviet model got the index Moskvich-444 and its first prototype was shown as early as the following year.

But by 1958 it became clear that the Moscow Factory’s capacities were not able to produce a new city car. High officials then decided to move the production to the Zaporizhia Komunar Agricultural Machine Factory. It had a completely different profile so they had to open a new line from scratch and the project moved forward very slowly.

The biggest challenge was the car’s heart. The original Fiat had a 4-cyllinder water-cooled en-

gine. It had good performance, was reliable and economical. But in Zaporizhia they didn’t have the capacities to produce a car like that. The engineers couldn’t use the ready prototype either because neither Moskvitch nor any other Soviet enterprise produced low-capacity engines.

The deadline was fast approaching, so the designers were in a hurry to find a solution. They even offered to equip it with a MD-65 motorcycle engine by the Irbitskyi Factory. But the tests proved it was not suited for the car. It could only produce 17.5 horsepower and had bad dynamics: it had slow acceleration and fell short of the maximum speed (80 km/hour instead of the designed 95). The engine was too loud and it didn’t cool well. Its main drawback, however, was that it would go out of order quite quickly: it lasted only 30,000 kilometers between major overhauls.

Here are some memories of that time’s experiments from a factory employee Ivan Koshkin: “The experimental Moskvitch turned out to be nothing but a running dummy. It was able to run on its own, but was completely not suited for driving loaded on the road. Here’s why: the front suspension with a cross spring provided for a ride clearance of only 30-40 mm, even though our roads required at least 70. And the Irbitskiy motorcycle engine? We knew from the very beginning: it was worth nothing! We never even tested it for real.”

The important government commission was on the verge of failure. The designers had only one

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Historical Dates

November ZAZ-965 (1960-1969) way out: they had to choose something suitable among the findings of the National Automobile Engine Institute. The Institute was just working on three engines based on the Citroen 2LC, Volkswagen Beetle, and BMW600. They decided on the latter, even though it was also far from perfect. It had an axialflow fan and was designed for a counter air flow. In other words, it could only be fitted in the front of the automobile. Besides, the engine was originally designed for army purposes (a light landing vehicle). It had no noise reduction and so the engine would rattle with all of its might. But the project finally took off the ground.

Soon after that, the long-awaited city car came off the assembly line. The model received its official name ZAZ-965. As per tradition, the vehicle was taken up to Moscow to be demonstrated in the Kremlin. On July 18, 1960, the test pilot of the Komunar Factory drove Khrushchev along the Minister Council building, made a U-turn at Ivanovskaya Square, and returned to the starting

Fiat-600 (1955-1969) point. The Secretary General was satisfied and called it “a nice present for our laborers.”

In October 1960, the automobile entered mass production. The first consignment was started on November 22 and by the end of the year the factory manufactured about 1,500 Zaporozhets. In the following years, the production volumes only grew because despite its drawbacks the novelty of the Soviet automobile industry was cheered by the masses. This is not surprising as the car performed very well on the country roads.

Thanks to the independent suspension of all wheels and a smooth bottom, the car showed great off-road performance and maneuverability, and was easy to repair and operate.

We can certainly say that among car owners the Hunchback is an iconic car. Several countries still have clubs of its admirers.

They keep the cars in a good working condition, they invest in their tuning, and they go on long rallies. The ZAZ-965 model, however, was only produced for nine years.

Trivia Facts: ■ A Zaporozhets cost two times less than the Zhyguli and 3 times less than the Volga. In its first years it cost 1,800 roubles, an equivalent of a thousand bottles of vodka. As a result, any frugal Soviet citizen was able to purchase this vehicle.

■ The automobile factory also manufactured a more comfortable version of the Hunchback, which was meant for export and was called ZAZ-965A Yalta. It had better noise insulation, a rearview mirror, an ashtray, and a radio.

■ One of the famous owners of a 1972 Zaporozhets is Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2006, during the G8 Summit, the then US President George W. Bush took a ride in his car.

17th, 1912

The Stray Dog and Mayakovsky’s Debut On November 17, 1912, a 19-year-old poet Vladimir Mayakovsky had his first public performance of his poems. It was at the Stray Dog artistic club in Saint Petersburg. The club was located in a basement on Mykhailovskaya Square, which was a traditional meeting spot for young bohemians of the Russian Empire such as Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelshtam, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Nikolay Gumiliov. There they had theatrical performances, lectures, poetry, and music nights. As can be inferred from the name, any stray person could wander into the club, but he or she had to be an artist looking for a shot of something strong.

It’s hard to say how young Mayakovsky’s debut really went. All we have are memories of his later poetic performances in the Stray Dog, which never passed without scandal or provocation. Eyewitnesses remembered that once Mayakovsky got up on the stage and read out a poem of his, which had some profanities. What’s more, Mayakovsky openly criticized the audience for orgies, alcoholism, and other sins. Some especially sensitive young ladies even fainted at his performances.

It is no wonder that because of these scandals Mayakovsky was a rare guest on the stage.

And yet Mayakovsky was an ardent believer in the cult of coffee shops and clubs. He could spend hours there and in every country he went he had a couple of favorite ones. He preferred wine, champagne, and punch —he never drank vodka. “I sipped wine with my mother’s milk, I was born among vineyards and I drank wine like other children drank milk,” he used to reminisce in public. He despised vodka and would often say that “it is a drink suitable for Chekov’s bureaucrats.”

It is interesting but the club where Mayakovsky debuted was later closed because of him. On February 11, 1915, he read on the stage his famous poem “You,” which became the end of the artistic club.

You, dwelling from orgy to orgy, Having bathrooms and cosy waterclosets, How dare you to read about George’s laureates From newspaper columns?!

When Mayakovsky finished reading he remained on the stage, smoking a cigar and watching the audience’s reaction. Everyone was shocked because among the audience there were many entrepreneurs, factory owners, and former military men. The wealthy weren’t prepared for such open criticism. They complained as high as to Emperor Nikolai II. When inspectors came to the Stray Dog, they found Mayakovsky, Gumiliov, and Tolstoy illegally playing cards. The club stood no chance.

8 | Travelling

Iceland. Part One Black and blue waves of the North Sea were passing by the broadside of our sail boat. It was a brig or whatever the name of such vessels. It was wooden and creaky, it looked fake and unreliable. It was a perfect embodiment of the idiom “a splinter riding on the waves.”

After we left the harbor propelled by a diesel engine, we put up a large triangular sail on the first mast. It think the captain was trying to economize on fuel. Diesel fuel in Iceland costs almost 2 euros per liter. Iceland is one of the top ten most expensive countries in the world.

The Globe in Your Pocket After we cleared the capes embracing the harbor, the ship started to rock and I immediately regretted not bringing any seasickness medicine for my daughter. Ivanka gets seasick every time we’re on a boat, and on numerous occasions we had to return after hard-

ly covering half of our way. But this time we weren’t alone. We were part of a tour group that sailed out at 2:30 p.m. on a whale-watching trip. I didn’t think we stood any good chance. After six hours of rocking and icy wind, we returned to Reykjavik without coming acroess a single whale. A group of a dozen dolphins wasn’t impressive enough. I remembered how the protagonist in Moby Dick spent months before seeing the first giant, and so I had serious doubts about being able to see and photograph one in just six hours.

The black and blue waves kept rolling along the broadside. The water was freezing cold. We were told the water temperature here was 3oC. The waves were round and rolling with a monotonous rhythm and extreme dignity.

The water was far from smooth. It was like shagreen leather, with numerous hollows and bulges under the surface, like a coat of paint on Soviet Zhyguli cars from the 1990s. At the same time,

the water was very transparent and swarmed with jelly fish, like a mine field after a war is over. The jelly fish radiated through the deep water with their starry aspic bodies. You could even see their thinnest threads. The long tentacles, poisonous stingers lurking in wait for their prey. The jelly fish were transparent at the borders and rusty-orange in the middle. It was as if a jelly fish had swallowed an orange hedgehog, and now its needles turned into long white and orange threads. The threads spread out in the depths of the waves. Looking down from the side of our ship, I could feel their threat and poison.

We had sailed for almost an hour now, the day was bright and sunny.

The surrounding islands began to separate from the water surface attached to it only by a thin mushroom stem.

After a while, the stems disappeared and the outlines of distant islands hovered over the ocean like extraterrestrial spaceships. Was it a mirage

in the ocean? I think it was sun rays refracted in the water mist thus creating a mirage similar to the one in the desert when hot air paints pictures in the sky.

There were about forty people on board and I wondered how we would all fit along the side if we were lucky to see a whale. But slowly everyone found their place, were seated, and preoccupied with something. Some people were intensely peering at the horizon, others were chatting in all possible languages.

Some of the tourists in our group were also from Moscow. It got me thinking that there are about twenty million people living in Moscow.

About 20 to 40 percent of them regularly travel around the world. That’s an optimistic estimation. But wherever I go – the Galapagos or the Everest – I always bump into them. I’m talking about 4 to 8 million people.

Very soon we will be bumping everywhere into Chinese because there

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are 1.5 billion of them in China and 3050 million all around the world. That’s quite a number, and the well-being of the Heavenly Empire is only growing.

Feng shui and the Book of Changes is spreading in the contemporary competitive world. There were no Chinese people on our boat. They must dislike either whales or the Arctic Ocean.

Emancipation in Iceland has reached a critical point. Or they simply don’t have our superstition about women on board bringing bad luck.

Our crew was composed of two sailor girls and a male captain. The female sailors without any help docked our ship, put up sails, and took turns climbing up the mast and looking around.

They were about 20-25 years old. They looked nothing like our women with crowbars in orange vests. Their appearance made you wonder that maybe they had forgotten that the war was long over and so they kept doing the men’s work under the motto: “All for the front, all for the victory!”

Suddenly one of the look-out sailors pointed ahead of her. Some 800 meters away from us, we saw a black hill. Then a jet of either steam or tiny

water drops sprang upwards. It was a whale clearing his giant lungs. He repeated this routine several times and then slowly disappeared under the surface. “It will come up again in 8-10 minutes,” said our sailor.

And so we started our race. This is how whale hunters used to track a whale to be able to throw their fish gig. The captain’s task now was to get us as close to the whale as possible. Using either his special senses or a sonar he started steering his ship. Ten minutes later we saw a jet of steam and the gigantic tail again. But it was too far away again. No chance to either take a picture or to throw a fish gig.

We sailed in circles for an hour or two. The time passed unnoticed as we were absorbed with our sailing race.

The whale would come closer and then run away again. Once in a while we kept hearing his powerful breathing.

We could even see the nodes on his fins and tail.

The shutter of somebody’s camera started clicking like a machine gun.

Everyone ran to one side and wowed when they saw the giant’s tail. We were lucky in the end. Two whales ap-

proached us. One of them was closer to us. He turned on his side and waved at us with his fin, as if he was saying “now that you saw us, it’s time to say goodbye.” After this farewell, the two whales flapped their tails and disappeared in the depths to never come back. On the ride back we were treated to hot cocoa and cinnamon rolls. The children were happy and kept trying to fall overboard.

I was also happy that they didn’t fall overboard. I was happy to have seen a living whale for the first time in my life. I was happy to be at sea, to enjoy the sun, the wide world, the ocean full of wonders and life.

The killer jelly fish were rocking their orange star-like bodies, sending their dangerous tentacles into the depths of the icy waves.

They were trying to tell us that they will have no mercy to anyone who is foolish enough to fall into the water.

Text and photographs by Yuriy Beloyvan To read more about this journey and to find many more interesting stories visit the author’s blog www.beloyvan.ru

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Ivan Aivazovsky: The Genius Who Managed to Convey the Aesthetics of the Sea

This artist had practically no competitors in the realistic reproduction of the sea. Though he was born to a poor family, he became the best graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Art. Moreover, still a student his paintings were much sought after. Not surprisingly, he quickly gained international fame and even broke several records. In his life Ivan Aivazovsky organized over one hundred solo exhibitions. And his most famous work Among the Waves the master created in old age, in his 90s.

Hovhannes Aivazian was born July 29, 1817, in the town of Feofaniya. He was born into an Armenian family and for a long time his parents lived in western Ukraine. When the family decided to move to Crimea, the father began to write their name in the Polish way – “Haiwazowski,” and the son was called Ivan by his family.

Ivan showed talent for drawing at an early age.

And it was his surroundings that had a large influence on him. His house stood elevated on the edge of town. From a terrace shrouded in vines opened a beautiful view of the bay of Feodosia, the Crimean steppes with ancient mounds, remnants of defensive walls and towers. But in the foreground, of course, was the sea. It was by sea that to Feodosiya from Greece and Turkey came tarred fishing feluccas and sometimes huge warships from the Black Sea Fleet cast anchor there.

The child imagined military battles, breathtaking sea travel, and of course all of this he later tried to convey with the help of paint.

Incidentally, a local architect was the first to spot Ivan’s talent – he saw him skillfully paint the

wall of his parents’ house with a piece of coal. This is what his first easel looked like. Shortly thereafter, the young man goes to learn the basics of art at the St. Petersburg Art Academy. He arrives in August 1833, and in two years wins his first silver medal.

After some time Aivazovsky shows six of his works and the Board of the Academy awards him witih a gold medal.

The artist returns to Crimea, and then leaves the borders of the Russian Empire to travel to Venice, Naples, Paris, London, Amsterdam, and Rome, where he meets his compatriot Nikolai Gogol. He also meets other artists and at the same time gains fame as a deaf mute .... Not surprising, since many fans thought only people with physical disabilities were capable of perceiving and conveying with paint the surrounding world so brightly and wonderfully.

Abroad Aivazovsky forms his unique style. He becomes very famous and organizes exhibitions in virtually every country he visits.

For example, in Italy the public loved him and were fascinated with the Russian, who so skillfully managed to convey all the warmth of the south.

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There he was recognized on the streets, people visited him in his studio and commissioned expensive work.

In Italy Aivazovsky paints The Bay of Naples, View of Vesuvius at Moonlit Night, View of the Venetian Lagoon.

He sends some of his paintings to Petersburg and plans to visit several other countries. However, this time he doesn’t ask for either funds or permission from the Academy for he has long outgrown the simple level of a student.

Soon after, Aivazovsky organizes an exhibition in the Louvre. He goes

to England, Spain, Portugal, Malta. He tries to go everywhere where there is the sea.

The royal family and sultans of the Ottoman Empire buy his paintings.

At a time when the artist becomes a household name throughout the Empire, Aivazovsky returns to his native Feodosia and becomes a true hero in his city. Thanks to him a trading port, railway, museums, and exhibition halls are built. The artist often gave money from his own pocket for these projects, which testified to the considerable fortune he earned from his work.

In 1886, residents of Feodosia felt a strong lack of drinking water. Then Aivazovsky made another generous gesture: “Not longer able to witness the terrible disaster that each year from lack of water the population of his native city undergoes, I gave them eternal ownership of 50 thousand buckets of pure water per day from

Interesting Facts: ■ Rumor has it that Aivazovsky never read a single book. Once he allegedly said to the writer Anton Chekhov, “Why should I read if I have my own opinion.”

■ While in Italy, the artist painted Chaos. The Creation. It caused such a sensation that the Roman Pontiff decided to buy it.

■ In his life Aivazovsky painted about six thousand paintings. The most expensive one of them, American Shipping off the Rock of Gibraltar, sold in 2007 for 2.7 million pounds.

the Subashsky source that belongs to me.” So he writes in an appeal to the City Council.

Ivan Aivazovsky lived to a ripe old age and he did not stop working until the very end. He died at his easel May 2, 1900. The painting The Explosion of the Turkish Ship remained unfinished...

12 | news from korchma

‘MY KEY’: New Book from Founder of Korchma Yuriy Beloyvan MY KEY is the author’s account of his achievements. He talks about his long path from a hospital orderly and an odd hand at the factory to the owner of a multi-million-dollar business.

In his book, he shares practical advice on self-discipline, time management, designing projects with an Idea behind them, positive thinking, and the transformation from a grumpy loser into a successful winner.

The author expresses his extraordinary opinions on cash philosophy and the connection between “labor and capital.” He addresses his readers with slightly ironic intonations, thus implying that this book is far from being a pill from poverty – it only helps you find the right path. The book is meant for everyone who wants a change and is not afraid of stepping out of his or her comfort zone.

Quotes “Why do people born in the same conditions, who went to the same kindergarten, sat at the same desk in school, have lives that take such unpredictable directions? One person becomes successful, rich and famous, while the other spends his life working for minimum wage?”

“It is much more satisfying to be a professional always looking ahead than to constantly ruminate about what could have been. Conjunctive mood is for losers.”

“I don’t claim to have invented the wheel; I don’t claim to have discovered all the techniques in the book. I’ve read hundreds of books and I put these theoretical tips into practice.

I can tell you for sure – everything I advise you on these pages really works.”

I’m a Master Chef!

Everyone can create masterpieces with brushes, paints, and canvases, but you need to have a special talent to create them in cooking.

Employees of Korchma witnessed it with their own eyes. In October, our best cooks competed in who can prepare the best dish of chum salmon and the best dessert. Our kitchen was filled with majestic aromas. The judges had a hard time selecting the winners because all the competitors deserved the highest appreciation, but after the final voting the prizes went to:

1st prize Marina Protsenko (Korchma on Pyatnitskaya St.) 2nd prize Tatiana Donchenko (Korchma on Velozavodskaya) 3rd prize Natalya Chernyshenko (Korchma on Bochkovaya St.) Natalya Panina (Korchma on Krasnokazarmennaya St.)

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prizes: 1st prize:

5,000 rubles 2nd prize:

3,000 rubles 3rd prize:

2,000 rubles

We started organizing a monthly photo contest. The conditions are quite simple. You just have to take an interesting picture in any of our restaurants and post in on social media with the hashtag #korchmatarasbulbakonkurs with a geolocation. Your profile should be open and the picture needs to show that it was taken in a Korchma.

Winners will be selected every month.

The more likes you get, the better your chances are. Participants who gain the most votes will get valuable prizes and their pictures will be published in our newspaper.

septemder winners:

1st prize – Irina Slisarenko and Mila Tarasevich – 105 likes

2nd prize – Natalia Korovina, – 73 likes

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Ukrainian cuisine – made with love!

Restaurants’ location:

MOSCOW, Aviamotornaya metro station, 6 Krasnokazarmennaya St., (499) 763 5741

Avtozavodskaya metro station,

6 Velozavodskaya St., (499) 764 1532

Akademicheskaya metro station,

16/10 Profsoyuznaya St., (499) 125 0877

Alekseyavskaya metro station, 3 Bochkova St., (495) 616 6754

Airport metro station,

64 Leningradskiy Prospekt St., (499) 151 9011

Baumanskaya metro station,

23/41 Bakuninskaya St., +7 (495) 956 55 81

Borovitskaya metro station,

8 Mokhovaya St., 24-hour, 89037965141; 89856448544

Krasnye Vorota metro station,

47 Myasnitskaya St., (495) 607 1762

Leninskiy Prospekt metro station,

37 Leninskiy Prospect St., (495) 954 6466

Maryino metro station,

163/1 Lublinskaya St., 8 (495) 349 78 09

Novokuznetskaya metro station, 14 Pyatnitskaya St., (495) 953 7153

Novye Cheryomushki metro station, Nametkina St., 13 г, (495) 331 4211

Smolenskaya metro station,

12 Smolenskiy Avenue. St., 24-hour, (499) 246 6902

Tsvetnoy Boulevard metro station,

13/14 K2 Sadovaya-Samotechnaya St., (495) 694 0056

Chekhovskaya metro station,

30/7 Petrovka St., (495) 694 6082

Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station,

6 Borovskoye Road, (495) 980 2051

Vystavochnaya metro station, of 1905 year,

27 Shmitovskiy Passage, 24-hour, (499) 256-4660

The town of Odintsovo

122 Mozhayskoye Shosse 8 (925) 166-16-18

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