IN AND. Govorov
Three Harmonic Beginnings
“Again, everything froze until dawn -
The door does not creak, the fire does not break out.
Only heard - on the street somewhere
Harmony wanders alone:
Then he will go to the fields, beyond the gates,
It will come back again
As if looking in the dark for someone
And he can't find it."
M.V. Isakovskiy, Russian Piit
Winter holidays have come, in which the main Heroes are our Fairy-tale Santa Claus and Granddaughter Snow Maiden. Mathematicians are also not alien to the festive mood, and as a gift from Santa Claus "New Year's mathematical riddle." It should be noted that in the fairy tale the Snow Maiden was fashioned by Baba, therefore it is more correct to consider the Snow Maiden the Granddaughter of Baba, and not Santa Claus. So, the riddle:
“There is Father Frost and Granddaughter Snegurochka. The Snow Maiden was fashioned by Baba. Determine the Tilt of the Earth's Axis.
Answer - Tilt of the Earth's Axis 23,24 0 .
To check, look in astronomical reference books. This is me to the fact that the riddle is very serious in its "comic", it would seem, form. It is solved in "two accounts" under one more condition - you need to know and understand the Russian Mathematical Language, as well as take into account the unevenness of the Summer and Winter cycles, and the physical properties of bodies expand when heated, and shrink when cooled. Time, which is denoted by Beech "Water", also has similar properties, only Water also "expands" when cooled. And to further confuse the issue in modern "physics", Time and Temperature are denoted by the same letter.
The same thing happens with Harmony. If we are not yet able to give an Accurate and Complete Definition of Harmony, on what basis can we say that we are talking about Harmony itself?
IN AND. Dahl gives the following definition:
"HARMONY" - conformity, consonance, proportionality, balance, uniformity, equivalence, reciprocity, correlation, agreement, consonance, agreement, harmony, orderliness; proportionate ratio of parts of the whole; the correct relationship of simultaneous or modern sounds, chord; the very science of consonances. Harmonic, slender, consonant, proportionate, well-built, consonant. to harmonize, to answer, to match, to harmonize, to resonate; to be under one, match, suit, fit.
And where is the correspondence to a certain “one parameter of harmony”, when the very “correspondence” presupposes the presence of several compared values. A.S. Pushkin correctly pointed out that after checking only one “algebra” of Harmonia, a “corpse” remains. Therefore, the development of the Theory of Harmony goes with the inclusion of the following components - Russian Language, Sacred Orthodox arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry; Quantum Theory of Numbers, Self-Powered Numbers, Ancient Russian Architecture, Theory of Music - perhaps that's not all!
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What is a riddle? Entertainment for kids or a serious, real ritual action? The essence of the riddle is not fully known and is fraught with many secrets ... It is known for certain that our ancestors respected riddles and could not do without them either in raising children, or at Christmas gatherings, or at weddings. But in the summer and in the light of the sun, it turns out that it was not customary to guess and guess riddles ...
Wouldn't you like to go to Kudykina Gora?
Folk riddles have preserved for us the "fragments" of the old figurative language. Back in the 17th century, they were widespread in everyday life and were nothing more than a kind of secret speech. The fact is that there was a ban (taboo) on the direct naming of a number of phenomena. I don’t know about you, but in my family it is still not customary to ask a direct question when leaving the house: “Where are you going?” You can run into a rude answer: “Where to where? A cow somewhere! This is all because our ancestors once firmly believed that by naming a place, you run the risk of not getting there. The chatterbox will be haunted by failure all day. We still call Leshy by the secret name "grandfather Pikhto", fearing that he would do something bad, and when we go mushrooming, he would not lead him into the dense forest.
Tuh-tuh-ta on the barefoot
The 18th-century traveler S.P. Krasheninnikov gave examples of secret speech among hunters: “In previous years, many more things were called strange names, for example: the church - “pointed top”, a woman - “husk” or “white-headed”, a girl - “simple”, a horse - "long-tailed", a rooster - "bare-footed". God forbid, the Siberian hunter will directly tell how the fishing went - there will be no luck next time. Hence the riddle: “I went to tuh-tuh-tu, took taf-taf-tu with me and came across snor-tah-tu; if not taf-taf-ta, snoring-tah-ta would have eaten me, ”which is translated into modern language means: went hunting, took a dog with him, found a bear, etc.
Encrypted teacher
The secret language is the progenitor of our riddles. Thanks to the mystery of the everyday world everyday little things included in a vivid system of images. Here is a riddle about a pig (“low-looking”): “He walks on the earth, but does not see the sky.” Or about a rooster - "The bare-footed pan sings, the sun calls to heaven."
The riddles reflect the ideas of our ancestors about the structure of the world and the person himself, about time and the meaning of life. The dialogue of older family members with the younger ones ensured the transfer of knowledge from generation to generation: “The pike dives, the grass adjoins” (spit). “Cheers in the spring, cools in the summer, nourishes in the fall, warms in the winter” (tree).
Well, and smutty!
During an old Russian wedding, with the help of “adult” riddles, the groom was tested for ingenuity and ridiculed if he scratched his head like a fool: “Not salty, not boiled, between the legs - always ready breakfast?” While the groom is embarrassed, we will tell you that this is cow's milk. “If it weren’t for the tyatina shovel, my mother’s shag would be overgrown” - that’s a serious riddle that contains a life-affirming beginning! This is arable land and a plow. But the gatherings ended, and the riddles, along with bright outfits, were put aside “in the chest” until another special occasion, in order to preserve the atmosphere of a wonderful holiday, not to lose it in a series of everyday life.
Get it, son!
It is interesting that the information encoded in riddles about natural phenomena should have been spoken out only at a special time - at Christmas time and at New Year when the sun turns its course for the summer, and the world seems to be reborn. On such magical evenings, children and teenagers gathered around gray-haired elders and wise old women to guess riddles and adopt life wisdom. Riddles gave an idea not only about everyday life, but also about history: “Two old women are standing on a mountain-mountain, if they gasp, people will go deaf” (guns). The basis of the riddles was the knowledge of the surrounding reality, which required the child to be keenly observant and quick-witted: “There is a shirt on the street, in a hut a sleeve” (rays of the sun). “The peas scattered on seventy roads, no one will pick it up (hail).
Baby trap
A riddle, speaking in scientific language, is a metaphorical expression in which one object is depicted through another, which has at least a remote resemblance to it: “A sieve hangs on the ceiling in the corner not with hands twisted” (web). So, the web turns into a sieve, the light bulb into a pear, the sun into an apple, and the well-known cucumber into a room full of people - just some kind of magic! This is why children love riddles so much. A wise riddle makes a child think and develop, its conditional language forces him to find poetry in the most simple things. “Wriths - with a cat, and stretches - with a track” (rope). “Two brothers went into the water to swim” (buckets).
When guessing, a clear logic develops, and creative thinking, and the ability to reason and prove, and this is the basis of any creativity. “I’ll lay a matting, I’ll sow peas, I’ll put a roll, nobody can take it” (Sky, stars, month).
Guessing riddles always gives a child (yes, believe me, and an adult) pleasure, because this is a game that is very interesting to play. The treasury of Russian folk mysteries is rich in amazing colorful images. You can also compose them yourself. Here, I honestly admit, I invented a couple of riddles given in this article - but I won’t say which ones. Guess yourself!
If I can do it, you can do it too, even better. Let the piggy bank of small masterpieces created by you and your child be replenished with new riddles. And let them be passed down from generation to generation.
st. Myasnitskaya, 37 (m. " Chistye Prudy”), tel.: 915-8383.
Opening hours: Sun.-Thu. 12.00-00.00, Fri., Sat. 12.00-02.00.
Opened in 2009.
Atmosphere and interior. Designer Yuna Megre harmoniously integrated the interior of a European village house of the 50s into the wing of an old Moscow estate: wicker furniture, shelves with homemade products, a basket with kittens, a real fireplace, firewood and other rural delights. Countless knick-knacks that create a surprisingly cozy atmosphere were searched for by the founders of the restaurant in European flea markets: Belgian wind-up toys, porcelain cats were attached to the whatnots and chests of drawers, carved frames with faded photographs, battered scales were displayed. There is an old but working gramophone. The small two-story house has four halls plus a spacious veranda, which is open all year round.
. Grandfather Pihto- another cozy restaurant from the syndicate Ginza Project: with home cooking, affordable prices, large portions and friendly staff. Chef Alexander Lokhin appreciates simple recipes and clear tastes: everything is like at grandma's house.
Special offers. The restaurant hosts master classes on cooking all kinds of homemade delicacies. The guest star, with the active help of the chef, teaches guests how to cook sea buckthorn jam, paradise apples or make orange and ginger jam, bake fluffy pancakes and cook the main English dish - roast beef. Participation in master classes is free.
Kitchen. The voluminous menu combines Russian and European dishes, and all of them are exclusively homemade. From the hands of the cook, dishes come out that are best described by the word “delicious”: there are a lot of shrimps in Caesar, only porcini mushrooms in mushroom soup, and fettuccine is generously flavored with stewed duck. In the kitchen of "Deda Pikhto" they cook jam, bake pies, prepare cranberry juice and dried fruit compote, make cherry liqueur and hot horseradish.
Average score- 1000 rubles.
Misato
st. Myasnitskaya, 47 (m. "Red Gate"), tel.: 725-0333.
Mode
work: mon.-sun. 12.00-00.00.
Opened in 2008.
Atmosphere and interior. Restaurant interior Misato is based on three elements: it has a lot of water, trees and stones. And no hi-tech, typical for Japanese cuisine establishments in the capital. From the street Misato It appears to be a one-story room in an ordinary house. In fact, this house is not just a house, but the first building in Russia, entirely built of concrete, and a three-level restaurant. A romantic atmosphere reigns on the lower level: subdued light, a pond with fish, a fountain, there is tepan - the chef cooks in front of the guests. The middle floor is universal: European table arrangement, more light, a bar. On the upper floor there are separate offices, ideal for negotiations, two of them are with tatami mats.
Chef and restaurant concept. Misato - a restaurant of authentic, and therefore expensive Japanese cuisine. No compromises are made here: Chef Munechika Ban is, of course, Japanese, and the products are, of course, of high quality. For example, lobsters and sea urchins kept in an aquarium with sea water.
Special offers. The restaurant works Munechik Ban's Sushi School. The students, together with the chef, prepare sushi, rolls, and then taste them, as well as dishes from a special menu (miso soup, scrambled eggs with vegetables and seafood, hot to choose from, dessert and green tea). The master class can be booked for any day. Price (with lunch) - 6500 rubles. for two.
Kitchen. The restaurant's menu is extensive - more than 200 Japanese dishes, which are divided into thematic sections. Among the well-known California rolls and scallop sushi, there are many rarities: sushi with melt-in-your-mouth marbled beef, gunkans with caviar of sea urchins living right in the restaurant, steam omelette with seafood and sake, freshly caught lobster.
Average score- 3000 rubles.
carre blanc
st. Seleznevskaya, 19/2 (m. "Novoslobodskaya"), tel.: 258-4403.
Opened in 2001.
Atmosphere and interior. Exactly carre blanc in the early 2000s he brought to Moscow knowledge of real French cuisine. In 2010, the creators of the "White Square" decided to talk about what a real French restaurant is. Today carre blanc- it's a cocktail Piano bar with soft sofas, sports broadcasts and a designer fireplace; homemade brasserie Le petit carre with closely spaced tables and a 15% discount on the entire menu; strict main hall with huge windows and classic table setting; laconic tasting room "Malevich"; well-equipped wine cellar; green cozy veranda. The squares fit harmoniously into the interiors of each hall.
Chef and restaurant concept. Eric Le Provost, who opened the restaurant in 2001, is responsible for the variety of dishes (high French cuisine, author's masterpieces and home cooking). The chef's credo is a harmonious combination of ingredients: the dish should be quite complex, but with a whole flavor composition.
Special offers. Tuesdays and Thursdays - classes at the culinary school. In a specially equipped room, the chef teaches how to cook French dishes - hot and dessert. Classes end with a tasting, the sommelier selects wine for the dishes. Products are only French. Price - 4900 rubles.
Kitchen. In all halls of the restaurant there is a single menu. It opens with a page of complex offers "Formula" for lunch time. This is followed by the "Main Menu" with author's dishes and positions from haute French cuisine. The French Traditions section is dedicated to onion soup, black pudding, stuffed snails and other specialties. The “Offer from the Chef” included complex dishes from expensive products.
Average score- 2000 rubles.
Goodman
Trubnaya Square, 2 (metro station "Trubnaya"), tel.: 775-9888.
Mon-Sun 12.00-00.00.
Opened in 2008.
In total, there are nine restaurants of the steakhouse chain in Moscow Goodman, several more points are open in London, Kyiv and Novosibirsk. But it is in Goodman Trubnaya Square often hosts free culinary master classes. The interior of this restaurant retains the general style of the chain - solid, comfortable, comfortable: leather sofas, dark wood, wrought iron lamps, as well as an area with soft sofas and coffee tables.
Chef and restaurant concept. Chain restaurants Goodman although they are classic steakhouses, they cannot be called purely American, "cowboy" establishments. It's more of a respectable Wall Street. Vyacheslav Delberg, brand chef of the chain, says: “Our strong point is simplicity and quality. To prepare a wonderful dish, nothing needs to be complicated. It serves excellent meat with the right wines and harmonious side dishes.
Special offers. For those who want to learn the basics of the profession of a cook, there is a paid culinary academy (courses: meat, fish, Italian cuisine). Several times a month, free classes are also organized: first theory, then volunteers, together with the chef, prepare an appetizer and hot, and a sommelier conducts a wine tasting.
Kitchen. Menu in chain restaurants Goodman united. Moreover, from year to year it remains unchanged: only the best steaks and time-tested meat dishes, plus vegetable side dishes and a couple of international salads and appetizers. In addition to meat, fish and seafood are prepared here.
Average score- 1650 rubles.
La Serenata
Dolgorukovskaya st., 19/7 (m. "Novoslobodskaya"), tel.: 721-8899.
Opening hours: Mon.-Sun. 12.00-00.00.
Opened in 2010.
New restaurant La Serenata- a three-story mansion, each floor of which has its own atmosphere. On the first one there is a cozy cafe for light lunches and gatherings with coffee and tiramisu: here musical instruments and notes are hung on the walls. The second floor is intended more for long dinners, when everyone watches the chef working in the open kitchen. The third, attic, floor is equipped with karaoke. The color scheme for the entire restaurant is the same: cream walls, snow-white tablecloths, light wooden furniture. Perhaps there are not enough bold details, bright strokes. Perhaps this will appear later.
