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| http://www.kremlinkam.com |
You can zoom! This site targets any audience interested in Russia and the Kremlin. As soon as the web page comes up a message about the weather and the exchange rates scroll across the screen. In addition, a viewer can get the latest breaking news from Russia. There is a virtual tour of the Kremlin and it is incredible. First, you are shown a map of the Kremlin with eyeballs that you click on to view that particular section up close. Once you click on an eye you feel like you are actually there, walking through the square in Moscow. You can navigate the camera with a click of the mouse. There is not a detailed description of what you are seeing, therefore, much of the time you are unsure of what you are looking at. Even though the pictures are great a brief description would be helpful. It does take a while for the pictures to come up but it is definitely worth the wait!
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| http://pskov.www8.50megs.com/ |
An ancient city filled with fairy tales and food! This site describes one of Russia’s ancient cities, Pskov. It is also full of Russian Recipes and Russian Fairytales. There are many links to choose from and around every corner you will learn something new. There are old fortresses and monasteries to read about. The pictures are splendid and make the site interesting and fun to navigate.
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Check out these other “cool” websites!
Russian
History – “The Face of Russia”
http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/intro.html
Russian Literature, Proverbs, and Poems
http://www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends
/literature/literature.html
Index of Russian Art
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/
foreign/russian/art/index.html
Russian Culture
http://www.moscow-guide.ru/Culture/index.htm
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| http://www.hermitage.ru/html_En/index.html |
Spend nine years in this museum and you can see it all! This site offers information about one of the world’s largest museums, the famous Hermitage. It is in St. Petersburg, Russia. This site is interactive with a virtual tour of the entire museum and a time line of its history. The virtual tour offers a brief summary of what you are viewing which is helpful, however, it takes a few seconds for the pictures to come up. The timeline describing the history is interesting and the more you click the more in depth history you will get!
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| http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/extension/russia |
A Great Adventure! Follow three brave women on their journey to Petrozavodsk and St. Petersburg, Russia. Read their journals. Flip through their virtual photo albums. Visit a Russian folk festival. Attend Russian schools. Take a ride on a Russian Helicopter. Explore the Hermitage and much, much more!
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| http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/ |
Take the Cold War challenge! This CNN website answers every question your teachers couldn’t about the Cold War. See rare footage, tour Cold War capitals through 3-D images, and navigate interactive maps. This is one website you will not forget!
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Created by the Library of Congress, Meeting of Frontiers is a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
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