Finding the imperial porcelain, silver, enamels, and glass perfectly suited to her taste for the beautiful and finely crafted, Post laid the foundation for a lifetime of collecting-ultimately assembling the largest collection of Russian imperial art outside of Russia. A New PassionĪlready a seasoned collector of French decorative arts, Post became a pioneer collector of Russian art while living in the Soviet Union with her third husband, ambassador to the Soviet Union Joseph E.
Such was the curiosity offered by her social circles when Marjorie Merriweather Post returned home from the Soviet Union with firsthand accounts and an intriguing collection of icons, chalices, porcelain, and silver drinking vessels from the virtually unknown land, encouraging her to expand her collection and share it with the public. How captivating art and liturgical objects brought back from the far-away country must have seemed to Americans for whom the Soviet Union remained a great mystery. Indo-Pacific Command and Russia's Ministry of Defense for comment.Imagine it’s wartime Washington, the Soviet Union has become an American ally, but talk of the Cold War is starting. Naval War College, told Agence France-Presse, "Certainly Russia will be less secure in the Black Sea than they were before the war." Michael Petersen, director of the Russia Maritime Studies Institute and an associate professor at the U.S. Ukraine has been fighting Russia in the waters, where Russian President Vladimir Putin sent 20 warships in January before launching the invasion into Ukraine. Indo-Pacific Command.īeyond the waters near Hawaii, Russia is struggling to hold onto its dominance in the Black Sea, where it has laid claim to the waters between Europe and Asia for centuries.
Pacific fleet tracked a Russian auxiliary general intelligence ship called Kareliya operating off the coast of Kauai near the Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands.Īnd again, in June of the same year, Russian Navy vessels moved close to the coast of Hawaii in a large military exercise and were tracked closely by the U.S. Russia sending ships near Hawaii is not a new maneuver. Ukraine Says Drone Destroyed 2 Russian Ships in Black Sea, Releases Video.Multiple Dead After Mysterious Explosion at Russian Ammunition Plant.Russia Risks Losing Its Power in the Black Sea.All these things go into a fusion process, an analytical process if you will that tells us is this a threat or is it not a threat." "They're not just watching the ship they're watching everything might be connected to and getting some real detail on what it's doing, why it might be there, who they're reporting to. "I have no doubt that Indo-PACOM is watching this closely, as are a number of other intelligence organizations trying to figure out exactly what it is," Kempfer said. Retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel Hal Kempfer told KHON2 that the Russian ship had caught the military's attention as they continue to monitor the war. The spokeswoman continued, "As part of our normal daily operations, we closely track all vessels in the Indo-Pacific area of operations through maritime patrol aircraft, surface ships, and joint capabilities.I can tell you we are monitoring a Russian surface vessel operating in international waters in the vicinity of Hawaii." Here, a patrol boat casts off the border base in Ukraine's Black Sea port of Mariupol on February 11, 2022. Indo-Pacific Command reported that it was monitoring a Russian vessel near Hawaii's waters on Sunday.
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