Задание 14 на тексты и заголовки

A) The Tretyakov Gallery has recently opened an exhibition to Elizabeth as a rather late celebration of her 300th birthday which was in December 1709. This is one of several places where you can remember the Moscow legacy of the educational empress. Although by the time Elizabeth came to power her father had already moved the capital to St. Petersburg, there are still a few places in Moscow where you can see echoes of the baroque splendour she commissioned there.

B) Moscow University is one of the more enduring aspects of Elizabeth’s legacy. The finest of the old buildings on Mokhovaya Ulitsa was designed by Matvei Kazakov. A statue of the university’s founder, Mikhail Lomonosov, sits outside a neighbouring building and the round pillared chapel is dedicated to St. Tatyana. The traditional day of students, St. Tatyana’s, is on January 25, because that was the date on which the empress signed the decree ordering the creation of Moscow State University in 1755.

C) Like her father, Peter, Elizabeth was born at Kolomenskoye in the huge rambling palace erected by her grandfather, Tsar Alexei. This wooden labyrinth of medieval luxury, famous in its day as the «eighth wonder of the world», was demolished in the 18th century and recently reconstructed (near to Kashirskaya metro station, on the far side of the park from its original site). There are engravings and models of Kolomenskoye in the Tretyakov’s exhibition, along with portraits of Elizabeth’s parents.

D) Three hundred years ago, on March 6,1711, Elizabeth was proclaimed a tsarevna (princess). She was a beautiful princess, a great dancer, fluent in Italian, French and German. Ironically her own education was erratic and she was not particularly literate, preferring outdoor pursuits and pleasures. Her love of horse riding and hunting is reflected in a dedicated section of the exhibition which includes an original 18th-century saddle, bridle and weaponry. A small painting by Georg Grooth from the Tretyakov Gallery’s permanent collection, a contrast to the more formal portraits with full imperial regalia, is one of many to show the empress on horseback.

E) Three hundred years ago, on March 6,1711, Elizabeth was proclaimed a tsarevna (princess). She was a beautiful princess, a great dancer, fluent in Italian, French and German. Ironically her own education was erratic and she was not particularly literate, preferring outdoor pursuits and pleasures. Her love of horse riding and hunting is reflected in a dedicated section of the exhibition which includes an original 18th-century saddle, bridle and weaponry. A small painting by Georg Grooth from the Tretyakov Gallery’s permanent collection, a contrast to the more formal portraits with full imperial regalia, is one of many to show the empress on horseback.

F) Elizabeth was not always in military or hunting gear. Many of the portraits show her with her serene face and fair hair, wearing a succession of fine dresses and gems. The Tretyakov exhibition has reconstructed one of her dresses of peach-coloured silk, lace and gold embroidery. Beautiful and vivacious as she was, very few princes would dare approach Elizabeth while her sister Anna was in power. Anna banished one of Elizabeth’s suitors to Siberia, having cut out his tongue. In the 1730-s, Elizabeth fell in love with a Cossack choirboy, Alexei Razumovsky, and later secretly married him.

G) The church where they supposedly got married was’the Resurrection in Barashakh, on the corner of Ulitsa Pokrovka and Barashevsky Pereulok. The church once had a crown on the dome lending support to the legend but has not been restored to use as a church since the Soviet era. The Moscow Architectural Preservation Society report from 2009 does not speculate about the marriage but confirms that the Resurrection church is ‘an excellent example of the mature Baroque style of the reign of the Empress Elizabeth.’

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B) – 2
C) – 5
D) – 7
E) – 3
F) – 1
G) – 6