FIRST TEST

CLUE NUMBER 1 INFORMATION CARD:
The Heritage Complex


WHERE IS IT? 

Situated between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great's original Winter Palace.

HONW MANY BUILDINGS DOES IT CONSIST OF?  

This consists of six buildings constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries, among which the most important is the Winter Palace, the former imperial residence. The Winter Palace, the Small Hermitage, the Old Hermitage and the New Hermitage.

WHICH ARE THE OPENING HOURS? 

Tuesdays - Saturdays: 10.30-18.00
Sundays: 10.30 - 17.00
Closed Mondays

NAME AT LEAST 3 CURRENT EXHIBITONS:

-Porcelain and Rose
21 December 2010 – 3 April 2011

-Buried Treasure of Factory Owner Likhacheva

8 December 2010 - 13 February 2011

-The Sails of Hellas. Classical Antiquity Navigation

21 September 2010 - 16 January 2011

CLUE NUMBER 2 INFORMATION CARD:
Leo Tolstoy

WHEN AND WHERE WAS HE BORN? 

He was born in Yasnaya Polyana In September 9, 1828.

NAME AT LEAST 7 WORKS:

§  Childhood (Детство [Detstvo]; 1852)

§  Boyhood (Отрочество [Otrochestvo]; 1854)

§  Youth (Юность [Yunost']; 1856)

§  Family Happiness (Семейное счастье [Semeynoe schast`e]; novella, 1859)

§  The Cossacks (Казаки [Kazaki]; 1863)

§  War and Peace (Война и мир [Voyna i mir]; 1865–1869)

§  Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]; 1875–77)

WHAT’S HIS WHOLE NAME?

Count Lyev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

WHAT ARE HIS 2 MOST FAMOUS NOVELS ABOUT?

His literary masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent, in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.

CLUE NUMBER 3 INFORMATION CARD:
Red Square (Moscow)

WHERE IS IT?

In the heart of  Moscow. The square separates the Kremlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the President of Russia, from a historic merchant quarter known as Kitai-gorod.

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF ITS NAME?

 The name came about because the Russian word красная (krasnaya) can mean either "red" or "beautiful" .

WHAT’S THE NAME OF THE CATHEDRAL THAT IS NEXT TO THIS SQUARE?

Saint Basil's Cathedral 

WHOSE TOMB IS SITUATED IN THIS SQUARE?  
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's.