Juno and Avos (opera)
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Juno and Avos is a popular Russian-language rock opera written by Alexey Rybnikov, poetry by Andrei Voznesensky. It was first performed in 1981 in the Lenkom Theatre, Moscow, directed by Mark Zakharov
Original Record, 1980
Nikolai Karachentsov as Rezanov in Juno and Avos stage portrait
Nikolai Rezanov
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Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov, a Russian nobleman and statesman, promoted the project of Russian colonization of Alaska and California to three successive Emperors of All Russia—Catherine the Great, Paul,
Juno and Avos (opera)
…Nikolai Karachentsov and Elena Shanina. The opera is named after the two ships Juno and Avos that constituted the expedition headed by Russian explorer Nikolai Rezanov. The plot is based on the love story of Nikolai Rezanov and Concepción Argüello, a 15-year-old daughter of José Darío Argüello, the colonial governor…
Rezanov's portrait from the State Historical Museum
A replica of Russian Block House #1 (one of three watchtowers that guarded the stockade walls at Novo-Arkhangelsk) as constructed by the National Park Service in 1962.
María de la Concepción Marcela Argüello y Moraga (1791–1857)
The Ryazanov Monument in Krasnoyarsk