#alexander samarin

[gofigureelectra]

Not that I was watching or paying attention to any Russian skating this year (despite the love I might have for some of my faves), but HOLY SHIT y’all apparently we missed some shit.

1. Evgeni Semenenko - 295.07 (won the tie break by winning the Free Skate)

2. Petr Gumenik - 295.07 (his face and the complete and utter disbelief is such a mood tho. I will say, I was really hoping he would pull an upset and win. Not that winning the short would make it an upset, but because he is NEVER considered at the top of anyone’s radar in Russia usually)

3. Alexander Samarin - 282.40

The last thing I will say about this, is not having watched a single full program from either the short or the free skate of this competition… these scores are absolutely fucking ridiculous.

I know Russian internal competitions, and ESPECIALLY nationals always have some bonkers ass scoring, but to not only have the top 10 men all finish with scores above 90 in the short, and to have both Petr and Evgeni score so close to 300 in total…. That is some riggory and VERY gratuitous use of the scoring system if I’ve ever seen it, EVEN if they had skated 4 clean programs between the two of them.

[burlveneer-music]

Kshettra - Это есть то

Kshettra is an instrumental progressive/post-rock band from Zheleznodorozhny (Moscow region), formed in 2007 by bassist Boris Gas and drummer Viktor Tikhonov. In the new album Это есть то (Thou Art That / [ˈɛ.tə ˈje.stʲ ‘to.] / Eto est’ to), Kshettra moves away from familiar dark sound worlds. Although progressive and post-rock still form a strong foundation in many numbers, the band has taken a clear course towards compositions with warm harmonies, the music has been enriched with bright inclusions of electronics and nu-jazz. Thou Art That began as a collaboration of founding authors Boris Ghas and Viktor Tikhonov with french horn player Gosha Rodin, and later eight more musicians participated in the creation of the album. These are friends and session musicians from Motherbase community and Orange studio, they helped to realize the ideas emerged after the recording started. Kshettra avoided improvisation in the creative process this time, but music found freedom in the compositional fantasy of the authors and the multi-layered studio work. album title: Thou Art That / [ˈɛ.tə ˈje.stʲ ‘to.] / Eto est’ to (English translation / pronounce / Lating spelling) 1 Red Letter / [ˈkrasnaʲæ ˈbu.kva] / Krasnaya bukva 2 It's Not All, That Behind the Darkness of Things / [ˈɛ.tə ˈnʲe ‘to. ˈʂto. ˈje.stʲ ˈfsʲɵ] / Eto ne to chto est’ vsyo 3 Tumanama / [ˈtu.mə,namə] / Tumanama 4 Butohstep / [ˈbutə,stɛb] / Butohstep 5 Colo-colo / [ˈkolo-ˈkolo] / Colo-colo 6 I Am You / [ʲæ ˈɛ.tə ‘tɨ.] / Ya eto ti 7 Shivoham / [ˈɕːɨ.və,ham] / Shivoham Boris Ghas – bass, semi-acoustic guitar (2,3,7), saxophone arrangement (3, 7), samples (5) Viktor Tikhonov -– acoustic and electronic drums, percussion, semi-acoustic and acoustic guitars (1,4,5), synthesizers and sequencers (1,3,4,5), metallophone (1,4,6,7), saxophone arrangement (2,3,7) Gosha Rodin – french horn with effects, delay-noises (5), semi-acoustic guitar (6) Nikolai Samarin – additional synths (1,5), bass (1) Mila Kiseleva – poetry reading (1,6) Nikita Gabdullin – electric guitar (2,3) Ilya Rosenblat – tenor saxophone (2,3,7) Alexander Novikov – baritone saxophone (2,7) Kirill Olkhovsky – violin (4,7) Nikita Bobrov – second drum-set (5) Olga Larionova – vocal (7) Poetry in «I Am You» – Rumi, poetry in «Red Letter» by Boris Ghas Music by Boris Ghas (2,3,5,7), Viktor Tikhonov (1,4) and Gosha Rodin (6)

[romanovsmurdermystery]

On the photographs: top left: History of the Byzantine Empire by Uspensky; top right: Russia on the Danube by Casso; in the middle: Merezhkovsky’s trilogy ‘Peter’; at the bottom left: Merezhkovsky’s novel ‘Alexander I’; bottom right: The Maritime Idea in Russian Land by Sr. Lt. Kvashnin-Samarin.

During his home arrest in Tsarskoe selo (spring-summer 1917), Nicolas II read lots of books - 32 to be precise. Some of the books he read aloud in the evenings to his daughters and wife, Alexandra Feodorovna, and some he read alone for himself. From the entries of his diary it appears that he read in Russian, English, and French languages.

Here is a list of the books together with the quotes from Nicolas II diary of spring-summer 1917:

Books that Nicholas II read in Tsarskoe Selo:

‘In the evening, read Chekhov aloud.’ (24 March 1917)

‘Started reading History of the Byzantine Empire by Uspensky.’ (4 April 1917)

‘In the evening, started reading aloud to the daughters the book by C. Doyle The Valley of the Fear.’ (14 Aapril 1917)

‘In the evening, started reading aloud to the children A Millionaire Girl.’ (18 April 1917)

‘Before lunch, read Hist.[ory] Byzant.[ine] Emp.[ire], and in the evening upstairs read aloud.’ (21 April 1917)

‘Finished reading the interesting History of the Byzantine Empire by Uspensky — 870 large pages.’ (25 April 1917)

‘Before lunch, started reading the book by Casso Russia on the Danube. (26 April 1917

'Started aloud the book S. Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles'. (9 April 1917)

'In the evening, started reading aloud Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune'. (4 May 1917)

'In the evening, read aloud the book Le Parfum de la Dame en Noir, which started on May 11th'. (13 May 1917)

'Yesterday, started reading aloud Le Fauteuil Hanté. (20 May 1917)

In the evening, started reading aloud Le Comte de Monte-Christo'. (25 May 1917)

'In the evening, started reading the second volume Le Comte de Monte-Christo'. (31 May 1917)

'Started the 3rd volume Le Comte de Monte-Christo'. (5 June 1917)

'Started the French book La Maison des Hommes Vivants'. (14 June 1917)

'Finished La Maison des Hommes Vivants'. (16 June 1917)

'In the evening, started aloud the 6th book Comte de Monte-Christo'. (21 June 1917)

'In the evening, finished reading Le Comte de Monte-Christo'. (26 June 1917)

'In the evening, started aloud Arsène Lupin contre Sherlock Holmes'. (27 June 1917)

'In the evening, started aloud L’Homme à l’Oreille Cassée'. (2 July 1917)

'In the evening, started Tartarin de Tarascon'. (6 July 1917)

'Finished reading aloud Tartarin de Tarascon'. (9 July 1917)

'In the evening, started reading aloud Tartarin sur les Alpes'. (10 July 1917)

'Finished reading the 3rd part of Merezhkovsky’s trilogy ‘Peter’; well written, but leaves a heavy impression'. (11 June 1917)

'In the evening, finished reading aloud Tartarin sur les Alpes'. (14 July 1917)

'In the evening, I was pasting photographs into my album. Started reading aloud The Luck of the Vails'. (15 July 1917)

'Now reading Merezhkovsky’s novel ‘Alexander I’'. (19 July 1917)

'After tea, finished the 1st volume ‘Alexander I’. (21 July 1917)

'In the evening, finished The Luck of the Vails'. 923 July 1917)

'After lunch, started reading aloud The Poison Belt by Conan Doyle'. (24 July 1917)

'Reading The Maritime Idea in Russian Land by Sr. Lt. Kvashnin-Samarin'. (27 July 1917)

'In the evening, read aloud A Study in Scarlet by Conan Doyle'. (28 July 1917)

Compiled by Seraphima Bogomolova

[prelude-numero-2]

Time of Firsts and their captain, Evgenia Medvedeva presenting themselves at the Channel 1 Cup 2021.

[buubledream]

NHK Trophy Men's Free Skate schedule

(Time listed is in JST (GMT+9))

[aleksandra-ivan]

[figureskatingcostumes]

Alexander Samarin skating to The Matrix for his short program at the 2022 Russian Championships.

(Sources: 1 and 2)

[sirenwalker]

seemingly an unpopular opinion, but i really think Samarin's free has potential! it was not good, but it could be!

[twistandtwizzles]

rostelecom 2019 medallists🥰

[boysinblades]

2019-2020 Grand Prix Final Qualifiers - Men

[skate-the-onion]

2019: A Retrospective (part I)

(part II here: x)

[jennibeultimate]

So Russian test skates 2020 take 2

Sort of personal recap....

Men SP

Misha!!!! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ That was beautiful! Superb program!

Andrei Mozalev impressed me jump wise. He looks stable. Wow.

Petr Gumenik - well not a season without at least one POTO program 😂 but at least he sells it

Samarin - well I don't dislike it, that's something...could be a good program for him improving his projection...he seems to struggle a lot with the jumps...let's hope it gets better

Pairs FS

That James Bond program from Kozlovskii/Boikova is great! You can see they are confident with it. To keep it was a good idea.

Mishina/Galiamov have a Queen program, I think the first part was really good, the 2nd part needs some polish and the cut between the two parts should be changed

Pavliucheko/Khodykin - that French song is so beautiful! I think they can really grow with this program. They really leapt bounds with their presentation since January.

Ladies FS

So what's Russian ladies without some drama?

So Alena withdrew and probably should not even have started yesterday. She does not jump 3A atm and *drumroll* will get a free skate by Shae-Lynn Bourne. So please let it be good.

2nd drama - Sofia Samodurova skated with a damn fever! That's irresponsible. And also let's me question that RusFed is taking the measures against Covid seriously. Ppl are already not wearing their masks properly and even though I am sure athletes have been tested it's still not right to let someone skate with a fever. And this is really tainting my joyment for the return of competitions.

Trusova - musical connection still not found. Sorry you can see she is trying but there are just little glimpses of choreography on point with the music. I hope she can grow into it. And looks like she will stay with 3 quads, which would be good.

Kamila Valieva - still don't know why she is skating in seniors but anyway Bolero is a heavy music for such a young girl. I dozed off...it was just boring...the music is hard because you need to grab ppl's attention because the music isn't doing it for you. The only one pulling Bolero off was Carolina Kostner and she had loads of experience and maturity when she skated to it. That 4T fall looked so scary. I don't know why everyone is so hyped for, she is lovely and has gorgeous spins, but she ain't that special to me.

Liza Tuktamysheva - it could be interesting if she would do more in the program. The choreographic movements are nice I wish she would do more in the program. Let's see how they can improve it...

Anna Shcherbakova - beautiful skate but also a bit bland. She is very musical and actually skates to the music and not over it...I have the feeling she is not rushing and that Gleighenkauz does let her have more time for fluidity. The jumps don't look that convincing, but it's early in the season so hard to judge.

Zhenya Medvedeva - this program has a lot of potential. A lot of unusual moves. I liked it a lot. Actually the only program I enjoyed today of the ladies despite Zhenya definitely not performing well. Let's be realistic if this would have been a real competition she would have been last. There were reports on her being injured, which she didn't want to comment on, so I hope it's not the case. Also I can imagine it's taxing to be without a coach in a tank of sharks to prove yourself. So I still want to applaud her today. That cartwheel fail was super cute 🥰 just fingers crossed that she will be in better condition next week where she has to perform at the Russian Cup against Anna.

[figureskatingconfessions]

“Dima has a 4 Lutz now (I hope he can make it consistent enough to do it on competitions), Ignatov has a huge 4 Loop now (and it seems he's going to do it in his SP), and his 3A is one of the best in the game, and Samarin is working on his artistry (people often say he's too stiff in his step sequence), and his LP looks on fire, so it seems Russian men weren't wasting their time on quarantine at all, can't wait to see if they can become strong contenders this season!”

[kittyprincessofcats]

*looks at who the top 3 are*

*looks at the exact score difference between places 3-6*

*stares into the camera like I’m on The Office*

(“But RuSsiAnS aRe uNDdeRsCoReD bY tHe UnFAiR jUdGeS!!!”)

[buubledream]

NHK Trophy Men’s Short Program schedule (Time listed is in JST (GMT+9))

[figure-skating-confessions]

“After watching what Samarin and Liza did with their programs (completely change the music but keep the exact choreo no matter how nonsensical it is), I find it baffling that Nathan and Shoma are being accused of doing the same thing in their programs. Doing the same moves (some of them signatures too) isn't the same as blindly moving and skating to music.“