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"Polyus" was the third ship of our expedition, which was sent for repairs to this particular shipyard in Greece.

In this regard, we came there with detailed instructions from comrades who were here before. They described in detail where the cheapest place to drink was. Some even had maps of the city with drinking establishments marked on the map. The first number on all plans of Ermoupolis was the tavern right outside the gates of the port, which everyone called Baba Uti’s. Actually, the hostess's name was Zaspina, but the old lady said the traditional Greek greeting Iasos! with such an extraordinary quack, and even waddled, that she was very soon affectionately dubbed Baba Utya, and this nickname was passed down from crew to crew. She loved Russian sailors like her own children. First of all, because my grandmother’s tavern owed its prosperity solely to one very important fact - over the past five or six years, twenty-five Soviet ships were repaired at the shipyard, we were the twenty-sixth. Therefore, Russian sailors paid less for her wine than the Greeks.

What was also attractive was the fact that one of the walls had barrels of wine and local cognac built into it, and my grandmother willingly poured it to take away. At the same time, a two-liter plastic bottle with draft local Metaxa cognac cost, in our money, about ten wooden rubles, the same as half a liter of cognac cost in Russia. And the local grape moonshine, Old Brandy, insanely popular among midshipmen, was even cheaper. But it had a major drawback - if you drink more than a liter at night, then in the morning the headache could only be relieved by a glass of alcohol, which you had to beg from the doctor. Patented Sedalgin did not help even with handfuls.

Granny's tavern had the most spartan furnishings. This was an establishment for real men. Tables, chairs, barrels in the wall with taps sticking out of them and no frills in the form of a bar counter or, especially, a kitchen. As a rule, they drank without a snack, or they brought something with them. This kind of democratic environment was very attractive. One day the appetizer ran out, and there was still a lot of booze, and Grandma Utya, obviously afraid that the Russians might get too drunk and die, which would cast a shadow on her business, went somewhere to the back rooms and after a while came out with a giant fried egg , which she fed the sailors completely free of charge

Granny herself was often not averse to drinking a glass in the company of Russian friends. Workers and craftsmen from the shipyard often came here and sat down with pleasure at the Russian table. Often, drinking parties acquired wide international proportions. This greatly worried the special officer, since it was precisely this situation that created the conditions for the recruitment of Soviet sailors as accomplices of world imperialism. It must be said that the majority of Greeks are very light drinkers, but many shipyard workers, after communicating with so many Russian sailors, ceased to belong to this category. They were ruined by the mutual attraction of Russians and Greeks to each other and the desire to consolidate friendship. Friendship was poured with strong drinks to strengthen it. I personally communicated with one middle-aged foreman from a shipyard who drank undiluted alcohol on a par with our midshipmen, and after each glass he shuddered and exclaimed enthusiastically: Oh! Shilyo-yo-yo…. I mean Shiloh.

Sometimes for Greeks, drinking alcohol with Russians ended in a temporary loss of health and ability to work, which in a country of wolfish capitalist relations could threaten the loss of a job - as a politically and economically savvy political officer explained to us. On Easter, my first mate and I were invited to visit one of our Greek friends, Ilya, with the charming, to our ears, surname Cherubim. I remember that the political officer and the special officer discussed for a long time the question: can communists participate in the Easter feast? Traditionally, it was advised not to go, since there may be provocations from CIA agents, which, naturally, are the entire Cherubim family, including their three-year-old daughter. Of course, no one took such nonsense seriously, and they had to go without the commissar’s blessing.

To celebrate Easter, a kid of goat was roasted right in front of us on the stone terrace of the house and put on the table along with a barrel of wine and a lot of different delicious food, decorated with herbs. First we drank this keg with the owner and his family, then he took out cognac, then he took out liqueurs. All this was accompanied by conversations in several languages and Katyusha’s joint choral singing in Russian and Greek simultaneously. At some stage, we began to fear for the owner’s health and began to persuade him to stop consuming his alcohol reserves, but he went into a rage and decided to keep up with the Russians. And he didn’t lag behind. When we left, his wife accompanied us, since Ilya Cherub himself could not speak and did not show any signs of life at all, except for intermittent breathing and uncontrolled movements of his eyeballs. We were only in a great mood, and nothing more. Poor Ilya went to work only four days later, all pale and unhappy. For a long time afterwards, he told his compatriots a heartbreaking story about how he drank with Russian sailors and almost died. I think he remembers this drinking session to this day.

The desire to treat a Russian friend in a tavern among the Greeks was of some completely irrepressible nature. It often happened that when we asked for the bill, it turned out that one of the shipyard workers who happened to be in this establishment at the moment had already paid for us. Naturally, we could no longer just leave and invited a Greek friend to our table, ordered a drink in return, and the evening passed in an atmosphere of friendship and complete mutual understanding. Language barriers quickly disappeared. Our Orthodox souls, Russian and Greek, felt warm and comfortable together. Almost always Greeks joined us from neighboring tables. Toasts began to be raised for the friendship of peoples and, in general, for world peace. Often, if space allowed, the famous Sirtaki dance was performed by a large international group.

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All ancient Greek gods were ardent patriots. But this did not prevent each of them from loving their own specific corner of Hellas and patronizing it and taking every possible care of its prosperity. Therefore, for every tourist, a trip to Greece is a kind of “test”: if both your and divine tastes coincide, then, logically, your characters have some similarities. Let's check this statement?

Athens is the city of patronage of the goddess of wisdom.

According to myth, the local hills were valued with equal passion and adoration by both the ruler of the seas, Poseidon, and the goddess of wisdom, Athena. The dispute between them was resolved democratically, by appealing to the “voice of the people.” They say, whose divine gift is of “higher quality” will own the city.

Poseidon struck the rock with his trident, and a spring gushed out of the rock. Athena and, in turn, being a wise and practical lady, she presented people with an olive branch as a gift - supposedly the ancestor of the famous (and very profitable) olive groves. The city began to bear the name of Athena. The right choice was made. Under the patronage of the goddess of wisdom, the city of Athens flourishes to this day. Athens the capital of the country - and that says it all.

Located between the mountains in a kind of bowl, the city is large, full of life and amazes with its striking modernity. You know speculatively about the ancient splendor of the area. The past of Athens is fragments from which everyone tries to recreate an image. The Acropolis helps with this. The majestic Parthenon - Temple of Athena Parthenos, as if floating above the city and visible from any point.

The temple hill that surrounds Plaka- this is an area where, behind the tinsel of various tourist coffee shops, souvenir shops and bustling crowds, one can see the pattern of local ancient streets, untouched by 25 centuries. Local writing does not look alien to the eyes of our tourist. And unexpectedly for yourself, you can easily read “metaphor” on a truck, “Aphrodite” on a hotel, and “charter” on a trash bin. The sounds of “divine speech” invigorate the imagination, and everyone involuntarily tries to imagine what was here two and a half thousand years ago.

Agora- this is the market square of ancient Athens, and this is where all city life began to boil. On the market square there were wells and pools, poplars and plane trees grew, here are the ruins of a once painted colonnade - Motley stand, who gave his name to the school of the Stoics. Under the walls of the Temple of Hephaestus, local merchants traded bronze, and a stock exchange was located right there. It's quiet here now.

The spirit of the bazaar “moved” to Monastiraki Square. The ancient word “agora” is still alive in the name of the covered market “Kendricky Agora”. There is a mountain of weight here - a mountain of oranges, a mountain of lemons and a mountain of eggplants. The fish lies on the counters in mounds: each type of fish has its own preparation. You can try it nearby. There are many taverns here. The best taverns are taverns without a sign; there was something above the entrance, but it has long been erased. The interior of establishments is also an indicator: the simpler the decoration, the better. Here you can order a jug of retsina - this is wine with a resinous aftertaste and fried drumstick with a “choir” of appetizers. And after the third glass of retsina, you will understand for yourself that the wise spirit of Athens is still alive.

Athens does not knock you down with a large abundance of monuments. Here everything is in moderation and everything is proportionate to a person. And all thanks to the fact that twenty-five centuries ago they wisely decided for themselves that luxury is the absence of the need for necessities.

Delphi - the patrimony of Apollo

In Greece there are areas that are deeply immersed in antiquity: Olympia, which amazes with its kind of physical authenticity; Temple of Athena Aphaia, which is located in a pistachio grove on Aegina and forbidden for the night, forever virgin Business with. The mysterious Delphi with its gloomy beauty occupy a special place in this list. Delphi was the spiritual center of the Hellenic world. A city that enjoyed equal authority among the Thracians, Lydians, Phoenicians and even the Romans. The Greeks themselves considered the city of Delphi to be the center of the earth.

According to the legend Zeus from the 2 outskirts of the world he sent swift-winged eagles, which met in Delphi. At the meeting place of the eagles, an omphalos was installed, which means the symbolic “navel of the earth.” This large cone-shaped stone was interpreted in ancient times as the “circle of the sun,” the seat of inner light. Therefore, the patron god of the arts was chosen as the main deity of Delphi. Apollo. However, the son of Zeus had other merits before Delphi: it was Apollo who walled up the evil snake that exuded a stench into the rock - Python.

However, the snake spirit was so strong that fetid vapors seeped even into the crack of the rock. And people who inhaled poisonous fumes acquired the gift of prophecy. A temple was built over a crack in the rock, and in Delphi itself, priestesses and prophetesses called Pythia appeared. The ritual that accompanied the prophecies was quite lengthy and complex, and the omens of the prophecy were often vague. However, the authority of the Delphic oracles themselves was undeniable.

Rich gifts were brought to the priests and Apollo. The gifts very quickly made Delphi one of the richest and most beautiful cities of the ancient world. The center of the city was the majestic temple of Apollo. Time has not been kind to the building, but several marble columns surrounded by cypresses and laurels still rush to the sky. The branches cast shadows on the shining white marble road.

The water flowing from the Kastalsky spring, which gave purity of thoughts to the prophetesses, is still clear and cold. They say that Apollo gave these jets a special power: it endowed athletes with energy and youth; and gave poets inexhaustible inspiration. It is not surprising that the famous Delphic Games took place here, which included competitions of harpers, poets, horsemen and athletic competitions.

The heyday of Delphi is long gone, but even today the city of Apollo is still crowded. It is best to come here early in the morning and, after looking around, hide from the crowds of tourists in the archaeological museum. Even those who are not fans of museum exhibitions will truly enjoy contemplating the magnificent sculpture of Auriga and the magnificent beauty of the marble Antinous.

And if you are lucky enough, you will be able to observe a phenomenon that impressed the ancient Greeks: only under certain weather conditions, the word that is spoken at the Temple of Apollo is reflected from the rocks of the Delphic Gorge, becomes more distinct and louder and returns to you with almost deafening thunder. This nymph Echo frolics. This is what Delphi is like.

Crete - Island of the Thunderer

In one of the caves on the island of Crete, the winner of the titans, Zeus, was born. Milk of the Divine Amalthea goats endowed him with the power that allowed him to become the ruler of Olympus. It was here that Zeus brought the beautiful Princess Europe who gave birth to a wise man Minos. And later a skilled architect Daedalus here he built his own labyrinth, in which Theseus fought with the minotaur, and Icarus flew up to the Sun. And it seems that since those distant times the island has not aged or changed at all. Above it the blue of the sky is still transparent, and its air is filled with the aroma of blossoming orange trees and the sea.

The most “royal” and largest of all the Greek islands, Crete, is conventionally divided into the sparsely populated western Crete, beloved by tourists, which has preserved its majestic pristine beauty, and the comfortable eastern Crete. Only here you can experience the unique aromas of honey and herbs, the intoxicating astringency of wines and the unforgettable taste of peasant food - cheese, bread and olives.

To enjoy and experience all the charm of the homeland of Zeus, you need to have the muscles of an athlete and a brave heart. Don't believe it? Then go to Samaria. At first our journey will look very harmless. At the entrance to the gorge you will receive tickets, which you must present to the controllers at the exit from the gorge. Don't think about losing your ticket. After all, this is a sure way of counting whether all of those who entered the gorge came out of it.

There is only one road into the gorge. During the journey, you will have 6 hours of walking along a rocky path, first steeply down, and then straight ahead. But this “straightforward” costs a lot. You will have to wade the river 47 times and go around giant boulders at least 200 times. And no one can count how many times you will want to stop to gasp in delight or capture what you see with your camera. Pines of the most bizarre shapes; rocks that are shrouded in clouds and flowers of the most bizarre colors. Perhaps in all of Greece, the Samaria Gorge is the leader in the number of endemic plants.

By the way, only here and nowhere else do the descendants of the divine Amalthea- these are Kri-Kri goats. If you are lucky, you will be able to see it with your own eyes. Just look carefully. Somewhere in the middle of the path this becomes a difficult task, because... your legs fill with lead, and all your attention is focused only on not tripping.

Myths say that the goddess loved to hunt here Artemis. The goddess's tastes were very, very peculiar. But, when 14 rocky kilometers have already been covered, what a pleasure it is to wash away all the fatigue in the emerald sea wave and fall onto the black volcanic sand heated by the sun and feel like a hero. What more could a pampered European want?

By the way, in time immemorial, many ancient gods loved to travel around Greece incognito. Therefore, the Greeks invariably rejoiced at the appearance of each guest, showing him maximum hospitality - after all, anyone who knocked on the door could turn out to be a god.

Such a serious motivation served to create a tradition of hospitality, which now, many centuries later, you and I use: numerous luxury hotels in Greece and the modern service system are equipped only according to this principle. Every tourist here is not just a guest, but, at a minimum, a god for the locals - ancient Greek...

Surprisingly, there is no other country in the world that would be as clear and close to us literally from childhood as Greece. Let's remember what our Houses of Culture look like even in the most remote cities - these are, at a minimum, copies of ancient Greek temples with Greek porticoes on columns!..

What about the myths and legends of the ancient Greeks? Didn’t they read them to you at night?.. Plaster heads in circles?.. Greek salad for the holiday?.. “Thais of Athens” by Ivan Efremov, finally, after which the boys quit smoking and ran to the rocking chair, and the girls to the hairdresser, so that together resemble ancient Greek heroes and lovers.

By the way, about love - about that same one! In the late USSR, we also learned about it exclusively from the “Greek Fig Tree” - remember that tape?.. It was with it that the video recorder and civilization came to our homes, which, as we know, was also founded by the ancient Greeks!..

What is happening to this beautiful country now? We have heard that something is still missing from it now, contrary to the statement of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: “Greece has everything!..” (“Wedding”). But there are not enough Russian tourists, well, really! You need a lot of them at once. No less than a million! This is exactly how many “guys from Tagil” or oil workers from Salekhard, with their children and wives, friends and colleagues, the Greeks are ready to accept this year. Because it is tourism, and nothing else, that is the engine of the Greek economy.

And already in mid-April, almost everything here is ready for the big season: the beaches have been swept, tables have been set up in street cafes and restaurants, the bronze on pleasure boats has been polished, and in some places even musicians have appeared, carefully testing their vocal cords on the first tourists. Not demis roussos, of course, but feta and ouzo (aniseed vodka) go much easier under their strumming...

In the central part of Rhodes (city), an ancient fortress and partially temple buildings have been preserved. Local kids, without any reverence, immediately play football and ride bikes.

Huge cruise ships literally moor at the ancient walls of the fortress. And right there, tiny by today’s standards, is the entrance to the bay, within the gates of which the famous Colossus of Rhodes once stood. The same Colossus that was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. What is also curious: four of those seven miracles were performed by the Greeks!..

And now, after centuries and millennia, it’s good to sit on this embankment, along which no one has ever walked or driven a chariot, and think about what the world was once like. And even if you are the most inveterate cynic, you cannot take away the merits of the Greeks. And even now, when the Greeks, like the Soviet people once, do not lose historical optimism. They live and work quite like Greek - with dignity and without whining. Therefore, the next time you are in trouble, try to throw everything to hell and be born again, but as Greeks!..

She made an invaluable contribution to European culture. Literature, architecture, philosophy, history, other sciences, state system, laws, art and myths of ancient Greece laid the foundation of modern European civilization. Greek gods known all over the world.

Greece today

Modern Greece little known to most of our compatriots. The country is located at the junction of West and East, connecting Europe, Asia and Africa. The length of the coastline is 15,000 km (including islands)! Our map will help you find a unique corner or island, which I haven’t been to yet. We offer daily feed news. In addition, for many years we have been collecting photo And reviews.

Holidays in Greece

Acquaintance with the ancient Greeks in absentia will not only enrich you with the understanding that everything new is well-forgotten old, but will also encourage you to go to the homeland of gods and heroes. Where, behind the ruins of temples and the debris of history, our contemporaries live with the same joys and problems as their distant ancestors thousands of years ago. An unforgettable experience awaits you rest, thanks to the most modern infrastructure surrounded by pristine nature. On the site you will find tours to Greece, resorts And hotels, weather. In addition, here you will learn how and where to register visa and you will find Consulate in your country or greek visa center.

Real estate in Greece

The country is open to foreigners wishing to purchase real estate. Any foreigner has the right to this. Only in border areas do non-EU citizens need to obtain a purchase permit. However, finding legitimate houses, villas, townhouses, apartments, correct execution of the transaction, and subsequent maintenance is a difficult task that our team has been solving for many years.

Russian Greece

Subject immigration remains relevant not only for ethnic Greeks living outside their historical homeland. The immigrant forum discusses how legal issues, as well as the problems of adaptation in the Greek world and, at the same time, the preservation and popularization of Russian culture. Russian Greece is heterogeneous and unites all immigrants who speak Russian. At the same time, in recent years the country has not met the economic expectations of immigrants from the countries of the former USSR, and therefore we are seeing a reverse migration of peoples.

One of the most popular holiday destinations in Europe in recent years has been the Greek island of Samos, the birthplace of the famous mathematician Pythagoras. Why do more and more tourists come here especially from June to mid-September? There are several reasons!

There is no doubt that Samos is one of the greenest and most mountainous islands in the Aegean Sea. The idyllic dream of all aesthetes is enhanced by white-gold (pebble, sand and mixed) beaches and azure water, which literally attracts even those who usually prefer a hotel pool to swim. Interestingly, not far from the island is Türkiye, from which it is separated only by a canal about two kilometers wide.

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