Scarlet sails 2015, English subtitles

Опубликовано: 21 Июнь 2015
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Scarlet sails 2015 / 5 канал Санкт-Петербурга www.5-tv.ru /, with English subtitkes. St.-Petersburg has a phenomenal romantic holiday for students, school graduates, schoolboys and cadets (show of celebrating the end of school year). Yes, only the ship of dreams can have scarlet sails. But in order to understand the meaning of this holiday it is necessary to read the book by a most romantic and mostly Petersburg Russian writer Alexander Grin the " Scarlet Sails", the book, doing absolute justice to a romantic dream!
The holiday has a slightly nostalgic shade due to the memory of pre-WWII days' talented girls of "Scarlet Sails" who lost their lives proving absolute justice of a romantic dream: high school students --Aliya Moldagulova, who became a sniper and was killed, and Helen, the daughter of Nicolai Gumilev, who died defending her native city during the siege in 1942.
This tradition was begun by city survivors after the Siege and the end of WWII, when graduate students of several schools united to celebrate the end of a school year, associating the day with the symbolism of the children's book Scarlet Sails by Alexander Grin, popular before WWII.
Thus the "Ship of Dream" under scarlet sails moves along the English and the Admiralty Embankments towards the Winter Palace.
The "Scarlet Sails" tradition eventually evolved into a huge demonstration of deliverance from "schools and rules" and became a most popular public event ever since, celebrating the end of every school year.
The Scarlet Sails celebration takes place in St-Petersburg, Russia, and is the most popular and famous public event during the White Nights Festival.
(“Scarlet Sails” is the story-fantasy of Alexander Green’s about unwavering belief in miracles and conquering, sublime dream. It happened in a small fishing village. The former seaman Longren raises his daughter Assol alone after losing his beloved wife, making a meager living by selling the toy boats he carves from wood. As a child, Assol encounters an old man who claims to be a wizard and promises the girl that one day a prince will come on a ship with scarlet sails to carry her away. The villagers scoff but Assol believes her dream will come true one day.
The novel “Scarlet Sails” was written in Petrograd (the name of St. Petersburg in 1914-1924) . Alexander Green created it in 1922, drawing romantic moods and ideas precisely on banks of the Neva, Nevsky Prospect.
Perhaps that the Assol’s portrait he “had copied” with a stranger of the advertising lights on Nevsky Prospect, which he remembered in time of his first visit to St. Petersburg in 1906. A. Green identified himself with Captain Gray.
Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevskii (better known by his pen name, Aleksandr Grin, Russian: АлександрГрин, (August 23, 1880 – July 8, 1932) was a Russian writer, notable for his romantic novels and short stories, mostly set in an unnamed fantasy land with a European or Latin American flavor (Grin’s fans often refer to this land as Grinlandia). Most of his writings deal with sea, adventures, and love. )