In the UK, the New Year celebration takes place on the night of December 31, January 1, according to the Gregorian calendar. The New Year is considered a less important holiday than Christmas, and is therefore celebrated without gifts. Nevertheless in Scotland, the opposite is true.In the UK it is not customary to give expensive and big New Year's gifts, as the holiday is only a continuation of Christmas. Nevertheless, close people exchange useful trifles and souvenirs like key fobs, candles or beautiful tea spoons.
Of course, we can safely say that in our country, and without a lot of unsolvable problems, but you can not quite turn a blind eye and pretend that this problem does not exist. The question of animal protection is very relevant today. In a civilized society there is no place like the manifestation of cruelty and callousness. In pursuit of that all have time people stopped to notice the obvious. And it can lead to disaster. We all want to drag a child into the house all the homeless dogs districts, and now often simply turn away, and at best, and in fact some think, where would call to their removal. And how about the fact that "... we are responsible for those who tamed", because animals need to be protected.If we approach the issue of animal protection with due care, we can draw the following conclusions. First, pay attention to the problem of officials, it will facilitate the allocation of budget funds, and secondly, why not take advantage of the methods of protection of animals which have produced results in other countries. But that's not the point. We must start with ourselves. Be sensible and decided to take a house pet, answer to your question, but are you ready to take care of it until the end. If not, it is better not to get a pet. After all, half of street animals - these are our favorites of yesterday thrown into the street at the whim of the owners.
St. Isaac's Cathedral - a unique monument domestic architecture and one of the finest cathedrals in Europe. History Cathedral begins with 1707, when near the Admiralty was built a small wooden Church in honor of St. Isaac of Dalmatia. Day Holy (30 may) coincides with the birthday of Peter 1. Modern temple built in 1818 -1858, project O. R. de Montferrand. Its construction began in the era of the Emperor Alexander I, and was completed during the reign of Emperor Nicholas I. on 30 may 1858 the Church was consecrated by assigning him to the status of Cathedral in Russia. In Isaac the Cathedral baptized members of the Royal family, were the most important holiday worship services. Internal the temple area is more than 4 000 m2 . The outer diameter of the main the five-domed dome of the Cathedral - 25 m, inner - 22,15 meters. Completes the dome light Golden Greek cross. At the corners of the main volume of the building located in the belfry, bells are cast from an alloy of copper, tin and silver. On for its size, the Cathedral is second only three cathedrals in the world. This is the Cathedral of St. Peter in Rome, St. Paul's Cathedral in London and St. Mary's Cathedral in Florence.
Besides the impressive architectural and engineering solutions, associated with a Grand dome and installation of granite columns weighing 100 tons each Cathedral is interesting with its artistic decoration, widely representing Russian art of the first half of the nineteenth century - more than 150 murals and paintings. In the Cathedral three altars: the Main dedicated to St. Isaac of Dalmatia, right and left, the Holy Great Martyr Catherine, and to the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky. In the main altar is a stained glass window "the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ", role altar icons.
The Cathedral is decorated with decorative sculpture, made in the technique of electroplating processes. For the decoration of the temple used about 20 species decorative and ornamental stone porphyry, malachite, lapis lazuli, various the marble and gilded bronze and mosaic. The total area of the mosaic decoration of about 600 square meters
In the decoration of the Cathedral was attended by such famous artists like K. P. Bryullov, F. A. Bruni, P., Simkin, T. A. Markov, V. P. Vasin and other artists. The sculptural groups, statues, bas-reliefs worked great sculptors: P. K. Klodt, And Vitali, F. J. The Lemer, A. C. and Loganovsky other.
