Rating: 7.3|Votes: 42
According to legend, after the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, three Venetian ships fled the city filled with various relics to avoid their capture by the Turks, but the third which carried the Holy Altar of Hagia Sophia, sank into the waters of the Bosphorus in the Marmara region. Since then, in the exact area of the sinking, the sea is always calm and serene, no matter what weather conditions are prevailing in the area. This phenomenon is testified by modern Turkish scientists, who have attempted at various times to discover the cause of this strange phenomenon, but due to the muddy composition of the seabed, their efforts have been fruitless.
Rating: 8|Votes: 4
If a would-be buyer of the “Russian yard” house pays 8.1 million Swedish krona, he or she will obtain two apartments, a restaurant decorated with ancient frescoes as well as ruins (the foundation, nave and apse) of an Orthodox church on which the house is built. The remains of a Russian priest who lived 900 years ago can be found among the ruins.
Ryan Hunter
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
It is well-known that in May 1896, at the last coronation of a Russian monarch and his consort, Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna were both crowned and anointed by the Russian Orthodox Church’s senior-ranking metropolitan. Russian tsars had been crowned from time immemorial, but what is fascinating about this last coronation ceremony was that many of the time-honored rituals Nicholas II participated in as the monarch were rituals first observed in 1730 at the coronation of a female sovereign, Empress Anna Ivanovna.
Rating: 3.9|Votes: 57
Tubabao Island hosted around 6,000 ‘White Russian’ refugees, who fled China in 1948, when they were in danger of being forcibly repatriated to the USSR. They lived on the Philippine island for four years, a time that locals affectionately refer to as ‘Tiempo Russo.’
Rating: 6|Votes: 2
An Early Christian rock monastery in Northeast Bulgaria, which according to some historians andarchaeologists is the oldest of its kind in Europe, has been revived for the first time since the conquest of the medieval Bulgarian Empire by the Ottoman Turks at the end of the 14th century AD.