Insubrica Historica exists thanks to a network of friends, all with amazing stories. These are rare and true testimonials related to the history of the Insubrica region. Today, we will write about Lilja Slutskaja (also sometimes written as Lilija Sluckaja). We can consider ourselves privileged to discuss this wonderful artist,
Senate of the Republic XIII Legislature – 246 – President del Senato Nicola Mancino 318a Assembly Seat – Stenographical Account – 17 February 1998 We already reported that German war crimes have been recently discussed at a Conference held at the Italian Senate in Rome. What follows is the English
Carlo Francesco Remonda (aka Charles-François Rémond) was born on 2.11.1761 in Comologno, Valle Onsernone in the Canton Ticino, southern Switzerland. He was the son of Pietro Antonio Remonda. While being very young, he emigrated together with his family to France, settling in Bourges, Central France. In 1789, he entered service
We are glad to announce a forthcoming conference, scheduled for Friday 27. September 2019 at 18h15 in Locarno. The conference will be held at Palazzo Morettini in Via Capuccini 12. Palazzo Morettini is also the site of Locarno Cantonal Library. The conference will see interventions by Prof. Pier-Antonio Ragozza of
Insubrica Historica is spending few days holiday in the Komi Republic, at the footsteps of the European side of the Ural mountain range. Komi Republic is bigger then Germany (415k km2 to 357k km2), but with slightly less than 1 Mio. inhabitants in a decreasing tendency since 1990, mostly of
The model Opel Ascona was a large family vehicle designed by the German automobile manufacturer Opel (General Motors) from 1970 to 1988. It had three generations, beginning as a rear-wheel-drive, and ending up as a front-wheel drive car. The model was sold more than 3.9 millions times becoming one of
We pre-announced on this blog on February 13, 2019 the conference: Stragi e deportazioni nazifasciste – Per la giustizia e contro l’ambiguità. The conference held at the premise of the Italian Senate – Sala Koch in Rome, was a success and probably the first milestone in clarifying the judicial situation
We owe this article to a lunch conversation with our colleague RZ. It was an interesting discussion, as usual, this time about Cold War times in Switzerland. Suddenly we recalled a particular Swiss government publication, that was distributed to all families in November 1969. The publication was entitled Zivilverteidigungsbuch in
To do things right and complete, we have just published on our blog the PhD work that our volunteer Katia Rues accomplished in 2007. The focus is on the soviet Gulags as any mentioning of « Gulag Culture » as an integrant part of Russian Cultural History was banned during
From the incept of Insubrica Historica we have devoted a great of our time in researching the castles around lake Maggiore. After having wrote about the castle of Magadino (now disappeared), the castle of Gordola (now disappeared), the castle of Muralto (now disappeared), the castle of Tegna, the castle of
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