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Peredvizhniki (Russian: Передви́жники, IPA: [pʲɪrʲɪˈdvʲiʐnʲɪkʲɪ]), often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions; it evolved into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions, in short Peredvizhniks in ...
Russians in Wisconsin. In 1920, Russian immigrants constituted about 5 percent of the foreign population in Wisconsin. By 1950, nine to ten thousand Russian immigrants had settled in Wisconsin. The first Russians to come were Jewish: a group arrived in Milwaukee on October 13, 1881.
13 mar 2019 · The Wisconsin-Russia Connection: More Than Just Cold Winters. Posted on March 13, 2019. For all the things Wisconsin is known for, “eyewitness accounts of Russian history” may not top the list. But as it turns out, the Library and Archives division of the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) maintains a unique collection of documents written ...
The Russian-language media of Chicago present important news, upcoming events, and interesting entertainment content, as well as advertisement about companies and their services in Russian. Among very popular rubrics you can find the ones that contain private announcements and live interviews.
Throughout the 1920s, many ethnic Russians and Russian Jews worked on Chicago's West Side for McCormick Reaper (International Harvester), Western Electric, or Sears, Roebuck & Co. With large employers laying off workers in the early years of the Great Depression , the Russian-American Citizen's Club was organized in 1930 to lend a hand and ...
Eastern European Immigration to Wisconsin. Between the 1880s to the 1920s, a new wave of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe began to arrive in Wisconsin. The Eastern European immigrants included Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians, Hungarians, and Bulgarians.
Milwaukee’s Russian Jews left their homes due to a long history of discrimination. In 1794, an edict from Catherine the Great confined Russian Jews to the Pale of Settlement, an area of western Russia, where the May Laws of 1882 barred Jews from settling outside of towns and from conducting business on Sundays or religious holidays.
