Tatyana Kolivay

Graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in Russian Language and Literature, and from the Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages (now Moscow State Linguistic University), where she qualified as a German translator and reviewer. Author of the blog Fairy Tales of Germany (http://vbaden.blogspot.com/). Lives in the Moscow region.

The First Aviators of East Prussia

From Violet Hill to the Devau airfield

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The "Ostpreußenflug" — a contest for pilots, a test for aircraft

A three-day winter air race between two aces

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A Walk through Mittelhufen in 1891

Long before the phenomenon of Amalienau emerged

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Our Luisenwahl Park

The history of Kaliningrad's Central Park

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The Maigraf

A tradition preserved since pre-Christian times

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Drum Dogs

The tradition was brought to Königsberg from a victorious campaign in Austria

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The Spring Festival of the Königsberg Brewers' Guild

The local brewers' trade festival was called Catching Up with Spring!

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Corners of Königsberg

Unusual oases in the stone thickets of the Innenstadt

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Bessel and Königsberg

Through hardships to the stars

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Sleigh Rides on the Pregel

A favourite winter pastime of Königsberg's residents

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Schwarzort (Juodkrantė)

A cosy fishing village on the Lithuanian part of the Curonian Spit

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Violet Hill

Herbert Mühlpfordt presents

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Ice Fishing on the Curonian Lagoon

A poor fisherman is one who is afraid of getting his socks wet

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Scholars' Cemetery

Where Bessel, Hippel, Rosenkranz were laid to rest...

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The Opening of the Samland Railway

From Königsberg to Rauschen in just three hours!

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A Picnic in Juditten

A day trip to a green oasis on the Old Pillau Road

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Heiligenbeil

The chief town of Natangia

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Juditten

West of Amalienau, Lawsken and Ratshof

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Königsgarten

The King's Garden of Königsberg, which would later become Parade Square

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Fires at the Königsberg City Theater

The dramatic history of Königsberg's Temple of Melpomene

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The “Siegel” Coffee House on Französische Straße

A cult venue on Französische Straße

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The Old Court Pharmacy on Junkerstraße

The Renaissance residence of a dynasty of famous Königsberg pharmacists, the Hagen family

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Schlompetters

The legend of the merry water sprite of Algawischken

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With the Gulls to the Sea!

The two main resorts of East Prussia

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Attic Hares

Prussia has had, has and will always have its unlicensed workers

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A Short Walk Through Our Provincial Capital

Königsberg in the Belle Époque

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Valtin Supplit

How the heir of a dynasty of pagan priests saved Prussia twice

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The Iron Maiden of Breslau Castle

A romantic story from the life of the conqueror of Prussia

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The Master's Shot, or How the Poles Besieged Marienburg

The story of how the Teutonic Order managed to hold its capital

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A Visitor from the Other World

A dead man's prophecy

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The Wishing Horse

An old Samland parable preserved in Pomerania

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The Battle for the Fish Pot

An allegory of the whole history of the Christian conquest of Prussia

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Legends of Glorious Kreuzburg

The village of Slavskoye is still a rather Gothic little place today

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The Legend of Kamswikus

The Christian faith was slow to take root around Insterburg

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The Fair Ox

One of the beautiful traditions of old Königsberg

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Legends of Mount Rinau. The Treasure-Hunting Monks

The story of the hill near the village of Pereslavskoye

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The Flying Dead

A word of advice for anyone going to build in Neman

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The Giant Sausages and Loaves of Königsberg

An old tradition revived in Kaliningrad

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The Cat’s Steps in Löbenicht

The narrowest street in Königsberg

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Seaside Resort Life in the 19th Century

A tour of the coast from Cranz to Pillau

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Bishop Dietrich von Cuba. The Prisoner of Tapiau

The legend of a ghost that roams the castle cellars

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“Knightly” Tournaments on the Pregel

An old local tradition that could grace Kaliningrad

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Königsberg: A Center of Baltic Trade

Prussian commerce before, during and after the Continental Blockade

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Horn Playing from the Castle Tower

The music of Königsberg

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The Coming of the Cimbri to Ulmigeria

It turns out they were not Vikings

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Four Brothers Column

An old artefact on the Kaporn Heath on the road from Königsberg to Pillau

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How Vogelsang Castle Was Built

When and where the Teutonic Order's conquest of Prussia began

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The Sacred Oak of Romove

What the chief sanctuary of pre-Christian Prussia was like

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The Tale of Amber and Flax

An alternative version of how amber came to be

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The Origin of the Prussians and Their Name

Those living among the Russes

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Haffo and Tiege

From the book “Tales from the Vistula Region”

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The Two Giant Brothers

From the book “Tales from the Vistula Region”

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The Notes of Divonius on Ulmigeria

The first recorded journey to our Baltic shores

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The Prussian Sahara

From quicksand to the geese of Sarkau

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Memel and Lithuania Minor in the Early 19th Century

An outstanding description of the town and the region

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Tilsit in the Early 19th Century

The most prosperous town in Prussia through the eyes of a Russian traveller

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Königsberg Through the Eyes of a Visitor

First impressions of the city in 1814

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The Sights of Königsberg

A chapter from a book never before translated into Russian

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August Grube. The Curonian Spit

Between the Napoleonic Wars and the age of Bismarck

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Travels in East Prussia, 1813–14

The Curonian Spit and today's Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in the early 19th century

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