Таруса / Tarusa: 1900s

Россия в дореволюционных фотографиях Таруса Калужская область 1900-х годов Russia in pre-revolutionary photographs Tarusa Kaluga Oblast 1900s Music: Melody in F Major Op. 3 Anton Rubinstein The ancient town of Tarusa is located on high ground at the confluence of the Tarusa and Oka Rivers, 70 km from Kaluga. There is no railway, and therefore the town was less susceptible to the passage of time and industrialisation. Most of the buildings are one- and two-story houses located on their own plots of land. The Russian Soviet writer, Konstantin G. Paustovsky wrote of the town: “ I live in one small town on the Oka. It is so small that all its streets go either to the river with its smooth and solemn bends, or to the fields where the wind shakes bread, or in the woods, where spring is in full bloom between the birches and the cherry pines ...“ First mention of the settlement was in was under the influence of Lithuania by the