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The visit of Mr. Kuvshinnikov was timed to coincide with the 205th anniversary of the fortress of Fort Ross, the southernmost permanent Russian settlement on the North American continent. Fort Ross, a former Russian settlement and fortress, is now a national historic landmark in the U.S. state of California.
A meeting with Ms. Ruth Scheidegger-Meier will take place in the Vologda State Museum-Preserve on October 23. The meeting will be devoted to her father Gerhard Meier (20.06.1917 – 22.06.2008), a classical Swiss writer. Famous prose writer and poet, winner of a number of literature prizes, Gerhard Meier studied the work of Leo Tolstoy, and wrote a novel entitled "Borodino" (1982).