#kotka

[damiannasworld]

Kotkan meripäivät 27.07.23

📸 Tiia Öhman

#😳😩 #💚 #käärijä #häärijä #jeskiedes #summer tour 2023 #kotka #july 2023

[chimerqa]

Jestem dorosłym, samodzielnym i odpowiedzialnym człowiekiem. Dlatego na śniadanie zjadłam czipsy :D

Zdjęcie kota dla uwagi ;)

#dla dorosłych #ja #dorosły człowiek #devon rex #Zara #kotka #kot #my cat

[charmed-n-zesty]

Sea here, sea there, sea everywhere

Kotka 2023

#street photography #photography #fotografia #sea view #original photography #photographers on tumblr #black and white #kotka #finland

[vinniethephotoman]

From a now dismantled bus station.

#finland #phone photography #photo #photography #city/town #city #town #bus station #graffiti #cuphead #mr king dice #king dice #dice #king #mister king dice #nighttime #night #nighttime photography #kotka #karhula

[omanatascha]

(via GIPHY)

#giphy #love #cat #hug #kitty #cat lover #kot #kotka #kocham #miłość #cat owner #przytul #uscisk #oioliv

[otmaaromanovas]

Alexei Nikolaevich with his beloved Spaniel Joy and his cat, Kotka. More about Kotka below…

Kotka was gifted to Alexei Nikolaevich by Count Major General Vladimir Nikolaevich Voeikov during his stay at Military HQ, ‘Stavka’, with his father. Judging by this photograph and General Voeikov’s memoir, Kotka was a Siamese cat. 

“I have on my farm… Siyam…ones. They were so beautiful, colour like chocolate with blue eyes, etc…. [the] Heir asked for one…

Next time, I gave him a wicker [basket] with a cat. He was dithyrambic [note: probably a rough translation of very enthusiastic and excited]. To Sisters (OTMA) a letter was sent, and they wanted some too…”

Count Major General Voeikov, and with Alexei at Stavka, December 1916. Also pictured are Pierre Gilliard ('Zhillik'), Sydney Gibbes ('Sig'), and Pyotr Vasilievich Petrov ('PVP')

Throughout his letters and dairies, Alexei frequently mentions Kotka, including how she and Alexei’s spaniel dog Joy liked to sleep together, and how he woke up one morning to fine Kotka asleep next to him.

As the months as Stavka went by, Kotka began to accompany Alexei to his lessons with tutors Pierre Gilliard, Pyotr Vasilievich Petrov, and Sydney Gibbes, preferring to cuddle up next to Joy and nap throughout the teaching. Alexei even trained Kotka to accompany him and Joy on their daily car rides with Pierre Gilliard!

It’s unknown exactly what happened to Kotka and her fellow feline friends: Maria’s cat, and Olga’s cat Zubrovka. However, the general understanding is that they weren’t allowed to accompany the family to Tobolsk, and remained at the Alexander Palace until homes were found for each of them. 

Sources: Alexei: Russia's Last Tsesarevich, diaries and letters, volume 2: 1916-1918 by George Hawkins

#Alexei Nikolaevich #Alexei Romanov #Tsarevich Romanov #sources #Voeikov #Voyeikov #Vladimir Nikolaevich Voeikov #pets #cat #Kotka #Stavka #Mogilev #1916 #Romanovs #Romanov family #my own #vintage cats #Joy #Pierre Gilliard #Sydney Gibbes #Sidney Gibbes #Pyotr Vasilievich Petrov #PVP

[akatiuspielinki]

Ässäviikon miitti Kotkassa

Lauantaina 28.10.2023 klo 11 Pasaatin Espresso Housessa.

Avoin tapaaminen ässille ja aroille ässäviikon kunniaksi. Espresso Housen sivujen mukaan kahvila on esteetön, tarkempia esteettömyystietoja ei ole.

Tervetuloa mukaan!

#aseksuaalisuus #aromanttisuus #aseksuaaliviikko #ässä #Kotka #Kymenlaakso

[torillatavataan]

Postinkuljetusta välillä Kotka-Suursaari, 1920-1929 Oik. postinkuljettaja Arvo Heikkilä ja Tuure Suomalainen. Kolme postimiestä työntämässä venettä jään läpi.

#suomi #finland #kotka #suursaari #historia #*

[romantyz-m]

hey, you're cute

#cat #kot #kitty #puss #cute #słodki #kotek #kotka #kotki #słodkie #love #miłość

[chimerqa]

Po kilku dniach zatkania kot się w końcu zesral. Były gratulacje i owacje na stojąco xD

Poza tym jak na urlop to dość intensywnie żyjemy.

#stegna #ja #urlop #wakacje #good trip #randka #Zara #devon rex #koty moja miłość #kotka #Pan Rower

[potter-pavlikovsky-popchyk]

saw this upon logging in today for first time in ages lol

улыбнись котя  -- Smile Kitty (i’m sorry but i also think of boris holding him, singing aaa kotki dwa ” *cries about it*)

#kotka #the goldfinch #boris pavlikovsky #theo decker

[vinniethephotoman]

Fall from a few years ago, close to the Imperial Fishing Cottage.

#finland #phone photography #photo #photography #kotka #nature photography #river #kymijoki #historical landmark #fall #fall season #autumn #autumn photography #fall photography #imperial russia

[xavierbautistagarcia]

A Dutchman at the court of Catherine the Great

Kyminlinna is a fortress on the shores of the Gulf of Finland built by Russia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to defend St. Petersburg from a possible Swedish attack.

Sweden had become the great military power in northern Europe by the mid-17th century, after the end of the Thirty Years' War, and came to include Denmark, central Norway, some northern German states, areas of what are now the Baltic countries, Finland and Karelia, a territory that is now Russian but which by its proximity posed a threat to the then Russian capital.

Although Kyminlinna (Kymi castle, after a river that runs through the region of the nearby town of Kotka) was built in the late 18th century after the Swedish-Russian war, it was not until the beginning of the next century that a Dutch-born general, Jan Pieter van Suchtelen (Pyotr Kornilovich Suhtelen, in Russian), took charge of its construction.

Suchtelen travelled to St Petersburg in 1783 after a military career spent in the Dutch-English wars of the 1770s. There, Tsarina Catherine II appointed him an officer in the Corps of Engineers.

The reconstruction of Kyminlinna (Kymmeneborg, in Swedish) began in 1803 and was not completed by the time of the so-called Finnish War, a new confrontation between Sweden and Russia that took place between 1808 and 1809 at a time when the Napoleonic wars were raging in Europe. However, Finland's incorporation into Russia meant that the fortress lost its strategic value.

In 1917, Finland proclaimed its independence and in the following year a civil war broke out, patterned after the Bolshevik revolution, between white and red opponents. Kyminlinna then hosted a Finnish Red Guard training centre until it was bombed by the German navy.

During World War II, Finland resisted the Soviet onslaught with German help, but was also able to drive the Germans out of its territory during the Lapland War, forcing them to retreat to occupied Norway. Kyminlinna took in refugees of Finnish origin and Lutheran religion from Soviet-occupied Ingria, who faced death or deportation.

Kyminlinna lost its military character in 2005.

© Kotka-imagebank

#fortress #kotka #finland

[pixieward]

*＊✿❀ june 2022 ❀✿＊*

#mine #kotka #garden #flower garden #m

[nelliver]

A view to Kotka Harbour

#finland #kotka #scenery #citylife #summer #harbourcity #morning