Peresvet and Pobeda were
salvaged after the Japanese captured Port Arthur and incorporated into the
Imperial Japanese Navy. Peresvet was sold back to the Russians during
World War I, as the two countries were by now allies, and sank after hitting German
mines in the Mediterranean in early 1917 while Pobeda, renamed Suwo, remained instead in Japanese service and participated in the
Battle of Tsingtao in late 1914. She became a gunnery
training ship in 1917. The ship was disarmed in 1922 to comply with the terms of the
Washington Naval Treaty and probably
scrapped around that time. (Full article...)
Khrushchev was born in 1894 in a village in western Russia. He was employed as a
metal worker during his youth, and he was a
political commissar during the
Russian Civil War. Under the sponsorship of
Lazar Kaganovich, Khrushchev worked his way up the Soviet hierarchy. He originally supported
Stalin's purges and approved thousands of arrests. In 1938, Stalin sent him to govern the
Ukrainian SSR, and he continued the purges there. During what was known in the Soviet Union as the
Great Patriotic War, Khrushchev was again a commissar, serving as an intermediary between Stalin and his generals. Khrushchev was present at the
defense of Stalingrad, a fact he took great pride in throughout his life. After the war, he returned to Ukraine before being recalled to Moscow as one of Stalin's close advisers. (Full article...)
Image 3
Lenin in 1920
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April [
O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as the first and founding
head of government of
Soviet Russia from 1917 until
his death in 1924, and of the
Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party
socialist state governed by the
Communist Party. Ideologically a
Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called
Leninism.
German reconnaissance picture of Sovetsky Soyuz taken in June 1942
The Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleships (Project 23,
Russian: Советский Союз, "Soviet Union"), also known as "Stalin's Republics", were a class of
battleships begun by the
Soviet Union in the late 1930s but never brought into service. They were designed in response to the
Bismarck-class battleships being built by Germany. Only four hulls of the fifteen originally planned had been
laid down by 1940, when the decision was made to cut the program to only three ships to divert resources to an expanded army rearmament program.
These ships would have rivaled the
Imperial JapaneseYamato class and America's planned
Montana class in size if any had been completed, although with significantly weaker firepower: nine 406-millimeter (16 in) guns compared to the nine 460-millimeter (18.1 in) guns of the Japanese ships and a dozen 16-inch (406 mm) on the Montanas. The failure of the Soviet armor plate industry to build
cemented armor plates thicker than 230 millimeters (9.1 in) would have negated any advantages from the Sovetsky Soyuz class's thicker armor in combat. (Full article...)
Named for the
siege of Sevastopol during the
Crimean War, the ship was commissioned into the First Pacific Squadron of the
Russian Pacific Fleet and was stationed at
Port Arthur (today
Lüshunkou District,
Dalian,
Liaoning, China), a Russian naval base acquired from China in 1898 as part of the
Kwantung Leased Territory. One of the first ships to use Harvey nickel-steel armor and Popov radios, she displaced 11,854 long tons (12,044 t) at
full load and was 369 feet (112.5 m) long
overall, and mounted a main battery of four 12-inch (305 mm) guns in two twin turrets. She was laid down in May 1892, launched on 1 June 1895 and completed in 1899. Her sea trials lasted until 1900. (Full article...)
Image 8
The Siberian accentor (Prunella montanella) is a small
passerinebird that breeds in northern Russia from the
Ural Mountains eastwards across
Siberia. It is
migratory, wintering in Korea and eastern China, with rare occurrences in western Europe and northwestern North America. Its typical breeding habitat is
subarcticdeciduous forests and open
coniferous woodland, often close to water, although it also occurs in mountains and
sprucetaiga. It inhabits bushes and shrubs in winter, frequently near streams, but may also be found in dry grassland and woods.
The Siberian accentor has brown upperparts and wings, with bright chestnut streaking on its back and a greyish-brown rump and tail. The head has a dark brown crown and a long, wide pale yellow
supercilium ("eyebrow"). All
plumages are quite similar. The nest is an open cup in dense shrub or a tree into which the female lays four to six glossy deep blue-green eggs that hatch in about ten days. Adults and chicks feed mainly on insects, typically picked off the ground, but sometimes taken from vegetation. In winter, the accentors may also consume seeds or feed near human habitation. (Full article...)
Eduard Anatolyevich Streltsov (Russian: Эдуа́рд Анато́льевич Стрельцо́в, IPA:[ɨdʊˈartɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲitɕstrʲɪlʲˈtsof]ⓘ; 21 July 1937 – 22 July 1990) was a Soviet
footballer who played as a
forward for
Torpedo Moscow and the
Soviet national team during the 1950s and 1960s. A powerful and skilful attacking player, he scored the fourth-highest number of goals for the Soviet Union and has been called "the greatest outfield player Russia has ever produced". He is sometimes dubbed "the Russian
Pelé".
Born and raised in east Moscow, Streltsov joined Torpedo at the age of 16 in 1953 and made his international debut two years later. He was part of the squad that won the gold medal
at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, and came seventh in the
1957 Ballon d'Or. The following year, his promising career was interrupted by allegations of
sexual assault shortly before the
1958 World Cup. Soviet authorities pledged he could still play if he admitted his guilt, after which he confessed, but was instead prosecuted and sentenced to twelve years of
forced labour under the
Gulag system (abolished in 1960 and replaced by prisons). The conviction was highly controversial, with many pointing to conflicts between Streltsov and government officials. (Full article...)
A Soviet postage stamp from 1959. The stamp celebrates growth in the chemical industry. During the
Khrushchev era, especially from 1956 through 1962, the
Soviet Union attempted to implement major wage reforms intended to move
Soviet industrial workers away from the mindset of overfulfilling quotas that had characterised the Soviet economy during the preceding
Stalinist period and toward a more efficient
financial incentive.
Throughout the Stalinist period, most Soviet workers had been paid for their work based on a
piece-rate system. Thus their individual wages were directly tied to the amount of work they produced. This policy was intended to encourage workers to toil and therefore increase production as much as possible. The piece-rate system led to the growth of bureaucracy and contributed to significant inefficiencies in Soviet industry. In addition, factory managers frequently manipulated the personal production quotas given to workers to prevent workers' wages from falling too low. (Full article...)
The appearance and behaviour of this species are among the best studied of any
prehistoric animal because of the discovery of frozen carcasses in Siberia and
North America, as well as skeletons, teeth, stomach contents, dung, and depiction from life in prehistoric
cave paintings. Mammoth remains had long been known in Asia before they became known to Europeans in the 17th century. The origin of these remains was long a matter of debate, and often explained as being remains of
legendary creatures. The mammoth was identified as an extinct species of elephant by
Georges Cuvier in 1796. (Full article...)
Olga was raised at the
Gatchina Palace outside
Saint Petersburg. Olga's relationship with her mother, Empress
Marie, the daughter of King
Christian IX of Denmark, was strained and distant from childhood. In contrast, she and her father were close. He died when she was 12, and her brother Nicholas became emperor. In 1901, at 19, she married
Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, who was privately believed by family and friends to be homosexual. Their marriage of 15 years remained unconsummated, and Peter at first refused Olga's request for a divorce. The couple led separate lives and their marriage was eventually annulled by the Emperor in October 1916. The following month Olga married cavalry officer
Nikolai Kulikovsky, with whom she had fallen in love several years before. During the First World War, Olga served as an army nurse and was awarded a medal for personal gallantry. At the downfall of the
Romanovs in the
Russian Revolution of 1917, she fled with her husband and children to
Crimea, where they lived under the threat of assassination. Her brother Nicholas and his family were
shot and bayoneted to death by revolutionaries. (Full article...)
The Solovetsky Monastery is a
Russian Orthodox monastery in
Solovetsky,
Arkhangelsk,
Russia. Founded in 1436 by the monk
Zosima, the monastery grew in power into the 16th century, becoming an economic and political center of the
White Sea region and eventually hosting 350 monks. After the
Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet authorities closed down the monastery and incorporated many of its buildings into
Solovki prison camp, one of the earliest forced-labor camps of the
gulag system. The camp closed after the region's trees had been harvested. Today the monastery has been re-established, and also serves as a museum.
This photograph of Skudina, taken in 2009, is part of a collection of 500 images of Russian sportspeople released to
Wikimedia Commons by Bolshoi Sport.
Although
James Clerk Maxwell made the first color photograph in
1861, the results were far from realistic until Prokudin-Gorsky perfected the technique with a series of improvements around
1905. His process used a camera that took a series of monochrome pictures in rapid sequence, each through a different colored filter. Prokudin-Gorskii then went on to document much of the country of Russia, travelling by train in a specially equipped
darkroomrailroad car.
This photo of the Nilov Monastery on
Stolobny Island in
Tver Oblast,
Russia, was taken by
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky in 1910 before the advent of colour photography. His process used a camera that took a series of
monochrome pictures in rapid sequence, each through a different coloured filter. By projecting all three monochrome pictures using correctly coloured light, it was possible to reconstruct the original colour scene.
A female Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), a
subspecies of
tiger native to
Central Asia, and her cub. The Siberian tiger is the largest of the extant tiger subspecies as well as the largest
felid, attaining 320 kg (710 lb) in an exceptional specimen. Considered an
endangered subspecies, the wild population is down to several hundred individuals and is limited to eastern
Siberia.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–81; depicted in 1872) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher. After publishing his first novel, Poor Folk, at age 25, Dostoyevsky wrote (among others) eleven novels, three novellas, and seventeen short novels, including Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880).
A painting depicting Ivan Tsarevich, one of the main
heroes of
Russian folklore, riding a
magic carpet after having captured the
Firebird, which he keeps in a cage. This work was
Viktor Vasnetsov's first attempt at illustrating Russian folk tales and inaugurated a famous series of paintings on the themes drawn from Russian folklore.
Saint Michael's Castle is a former royal residence in the historic centre of
Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was built for Emperor
Paul I between 1797 and 1801, and named after
Saint Michael, the patron saint of the royal family. Constructed like a castle around a small octagonal courtyard, the four facades were built in different architectural styles, including
French Classicism,
Italian Renaissance and
Gothic. The emperor was assassinated in the castle forty days after taking up residence. After his death, the imperial family returned to the
Winter Palace and the building was transferred to the Russian Army's
Main Engineering School. In 1990, it became a branch of the
Russian Museum, and now houses its portrait gallery.
Saint Basil's Cathedral is a church in
Red Square in
Moscow, Russia. It was built from 1555 to 1561 on orders from
Ivan the Terrible and commemorates the
capture of Kazan and
Astrakhan. The city's tallest building until the completion of the
Ivan the Great Bell Tower in 1600, the original building contained eight side churches arranged around the ninth, central church of
Intercession; the tenth church was erected in 1588 over the grave of venerated local saint
Vasily (Basil). Although the
Bolsheviks considered demolishing the church in the 1930s, it was spared. Since 1991 it has housed a branch of the
State Historical Museum and hosted occasional church services.
Ivan Goremykin (1839–1917) was a Russian
prime minister during
World War I. A politician with
archconservative views, after some time in the Ministry of Justice, he transferred to the Ministry of the Interior in 1891. He held the rank of prime minister from May to July 1906 and again from 1914 to 1916; during both terms his effectiveness was strongly limited by opposition from the
State Duma. In the aftermath of the
October Revolution, Goremykin was recognized as a member of the Tsarist government and killed by a street mob.
Peremech (
Tatar: пәрәмәч / pərəməç / pärämäç;
Bashkir: бәрәмес, tr. beremes;
Russian: беляш,
romanized: belyash) is an individual-sized
fried dough pastry common for
Volga Tatar and
Bashkir cuisines. It is made from unleavened or leavened dough and usually filled with ground meat and chopped onion. Originally, finely chopped pre-cooked meat was used as a filling, but later raw ground meat became more common. Alternatively, peremech can be filled with potato or
quark.
Peremech is usually shaped into a flattened sphere with a circular "window" in the middle. In contrast to
doughnuts, the hole does not go all the way through, but is only made at the top, such that the filling is visible in the middle. The shape is thus somewhat similar to Russian
vatrushka. However, dough neatly kneaded around the hole gives the classical peremech its distinctive shape. (Full article...)
Sviatoslav or Svyatoslav I Igorevich (
Old East Slavic: Свѧтославъ Игорєвичь, romanized: Svętoslavŭ Igorevičǐ;
Old Norse: Sveinald;
c. 943 – 972) was
Prince of Kiev from 945 until his death in 972. He is known for his persistent campaigns in the east and south, which precipitated the collapse of two great powers in Eastern Europe,
Khazaria and the
First Bulgarian Empire. He conquered numerous
East Slavic tribes, defeated the
Alans and attacked the
Volga Bulgars, and at times was allied with the
Pechenegs and
Magyars (Hungarians).
Following the death of his father
Igor in 945, Sviatoslav's mother
Olga reigned as
regent in Kiev until 962. His decade-long reign over the
Kievan Rus' was marked by rapid expansion into the
Volga River valley, the
Pontic steppe, and the
Balkans, leading him to carve out for himself the largest state in
Europe. In 969, he moved his seat to
Pereyaslavets on the
Danube. In 970, he appointed his sons
Yaropolk and
Oleg as subordinate princes of Kiev and Drelinia, while he appointed
Vladimir, his son by his housekeeper and servant
Malusha, as the prince of
Novgorod. (Full article...)
At least two people are killed and as many as 100 others are injured when a passenger train carrying 800 people collides with a
Kamaz truck near
Volgograd,
Russia, and partially derails.
(Al Arabiya)
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. It's probably the most affordable mechanism to solve problems inside the country, inside the society because Putin proved to all of us that democracy has a world of alternatives, security forces and police and power abuse and that's why I think eventually the people of Russia will embrace democracy as the least costly institution to help them to solve their daily problems.
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Peresvet and Pobeda were
salvaged after the Japanese captured Port Arthur and incorporated into the
Imperial Japanese Navy. Peresvet was sold back to the Russians during
World War I, as the two countries were by now allies, and sank after hitting German
mines in the Mediterranean in early 1917 while Pobeda, renamed Suwo, remained instead in Japanese service and participated in the
Battle of Tsingtao in late 1914. She became a gunnery
training ship in 1917. The ship was disarmed in 1922 to comply with the terms of the
Washington Naval Treaty and probably
scrapped around that time. (Full article...)
Khrushchev was born in 1894 in a village in western Russia. He was employed as a
metal worker during his youth, and he was a
political commissar during the
Russian Civil War. Under the sponsorship of
Lazar Kaganovich, Khrushchev worked his way up the Soviet hierarchy. He originally supported
Stalin's purges and approved thousands of arrests. In 1938, Stalin sent him to govern the
Ukrainian SSR, and he continued the purges there. During what was known in the Soviet Union as the
Great Patriotic War, Khrushchev was again a commissar, serving as an intermediary between Stalin and his generals. Khrushchev was present at the
defense of Stalingrad, a fact he took great pride in throughout his life. After the war, he returned to Ukraine before being recalled to Moscow as one of Stalin's close advisers. (Full article...)
Image 3
Lenin in 1920
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April [
O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as the first and founding
head of government of
Soviet Russia from 1917 until
his death in 1924, and of the
Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party
socialist state governed by the
Communist Party. Ideologically a
Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called
Leninism.
German reconnaissance picture of Sovetsky Soyuz taken in June 1942
The Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleships (Project 23,
Russian: Советский Союз, "Soviet Union"), also known as "Stalin's Republics", were a class of
battleships begun by the
Soviet Union in the late 1930s but never brought into service. They were designed in response to the
Bismarck-class battleships being built by Germany. Only four hulls of the fifteen originally planned had been
laid down by 1940, when the decision was made to cut the program to only three ships to divert resources to an expanded army rearmament program.
These ships would have rivaled the
Imperial JapaneseYamato class and America's planned
Montana class in size if any had been completed, although with significantly weaker firepower: nine 406-millimeter (16 in) guns compared to the nine 460-millimeter (18.1 in) guns of the Japanese ships and a dozen 16-inch (406 mm) on the Montanas. The failure of the Soviet armor plate industry to build
cemented armor plates thicker than 230 millimeters (9.1 in) would have negated any advantages from the Sovetsky Soyuz class's thicker armor in combat. (Full article...)
Named for the
siege of Sevastopol during the
Crimean War, the ship was commissioned into the First Pacific Squadron of the
Russian Pacific Fleet and was stationed at
Port Arthur (today
Lüshunkou District,
Dalian,
Liaoning, China), a Russian naval base acquired from China in 1898 as part of the
Kwantung Leased Territory. One of the first ships to use Harvey nickel-steel armor and Popov radios, she displaced 11,854 long tons (12,044 t) at
full load and was 369 feet (112.5 m) long
overall, and mounted a main battery of four 12-inch (305 mm) guns in two twin turrets. She was laid down in May 1892, launched on 1 June 1895 and completed in 1899. Her sea trials lasted until 1900. (Full article...)
Image 8
The Siberian accentor (Prunella montanella) is a small
passerinebird that breeds in northern Russia from the
Ural Mountains eastwards across
Siberia. It is
migratory, wintering in Korea and eastern China, with rare occurrences in western Europe and northwestern North America. Its typical breeding habitat is
subarcticdeciduous forests and open
coniferous woodland, often close to water, although it also occurs in mountains and
sprucetaiga. It inhabits bushes and shrubs in winter, frequently near streams, but may also be found in dry grassland and woods.
The Siberian accentor has brown upperparts and wings, with bright chestnut streaking on its back and a greyish-brown rump and tail. The head has a dark brown crown and a long, wide pale yellow
supercilium ("eyebrow"). All
plumages are quite similar. The nest is an open cup in dense shrub or a tree into which the female lays four to six glossy deep blue-green eggs that hatch in about ten days. Adults and chicks feed mainly on insects, typically picked off the ground, but sometimes taken from vegetation. In winter, the accentors may also consume seeds or feed near human habitation. (Full article...)
Eduard Anatolyevich Streltsov (Russian: Эдуа́рд Анато́льевич Стрельцо́в, IPA:[ɨdʊˈartɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲitɕstrʲɪlʲˈtsof]ⓘ; 21 July 1937 – 22 July 1990) was a Soviet
footballer who played as a
forward for
Torpedo Moscow and the
Soviet national team during the 1950s and 1960s. A powerful and skilful attacking player, he scored the fourth-highest number of goals for the Soviet Union and has been called "the greatest outfield player Russia has ever produced". He is sometimes dubbed "the Russian
Pelé".
Born and raised in east Moscow, Streltsov joined Torpedo at the age of 16 in 1953 and made his international debut two years later. He was part of the squad that won the gold medal
at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, and came seventh in the
1957 Ballon d'Or. The following year, his promising career was interrupted by allegations of
sexual assault shortly before the
1958 World Cup. Soviet authorities pledged he could still play if he admitted his guilt, after which he confessed, but was instead prosecuted and sentenced to twelve years of
forced labour under the
Gulag system (abolished in 1960 and replaced by prisons). The conviction was highly controversial, with many pointing to conflicts between Streltsov and government officials. (Full article...)
A Soviet postage stamp from 1959. The stamp celebrates growth in the chemical industry. During the
Khrushchev era, especially from 1956 through 1962, the
Soviet Union attempted to implement major wage reforms intended to move
Soviet industrial workers away from the mindset of overfulfilling quotas that had characterised the Soviet economy during the preceding
Stalinist period and toward a more efficient
financial incentive.
Throughout the Stalinist period, most Soviet workers had been paid for their work based on a
piece-rate system. Thus their individual wages were directly tied to the amount of work they produced. This policy was intended to encourage workers to toil and therefore increase production as much as possible. The piece-rate system led to the growth of bureaucracy and contributed to significant inefficiencies in Soviet industry. In addition, factory managers frequently manipulated the personal production quotas given to workers to prevent workers' wages from falling too low. (Full article...)
The appearance and behaviour of this species are among the best studied of any
prehistoric animal because of the discovery of frozen carcasses in Siberia and
North America, as well as skeletons, teeth, stomach contents, dung, and depiction from life in prehistoric
cave paintings. Mammoth remains had long been known in Asia before they became known to Europeans in the 17th century. The origin of these remains was long a matter of debate, and often explained as being remains of
legendary creatures. The mammoth was identified as an extinct species of elephant by
Georges Cuvier in 1796. (Full article...)
Olga was raised at the
Gatchina Palace outside
Saint Petersburg. Olga's relationship with her mother, Empress
Marie, the daughter of King
Christian IX of Denmark, was strained and distant from childhood. In contrast, she and her father were close. He died when she was 12, and her brother Nicholas became emperor. In 1901, at 19, she married
Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, who was privately believed by family and friends to be homosexual. Their marriage of 15 years remained unconsummated, and Peter at first refused Olga's request for a divorce. The couple led separate lives and their marriage was eventually annulled by the Emperor in October 1916. The following month Olga married cavalry officer
Nikolai Kulikovsky, with whom she had fallen in love several years before. During the First World War, Olga served as an army nurse and was awarded a medal for personal gallantry. At the downfall of the
Romanovs in the
Russian Revolution of 1917, she fled with her husband and children to
Crimea, where they lived under the threat of assassination. Her brother Nicholas and his family were
shot and bayoneted to death by revolutionaries. (Full article...)
The Solovetsky Monastery is a
Russian Orthodox monastery in
Solovetsky,
Arkhangelsk,
Russia. Founded in 1436 by the monk
Zosima, the monastery grew in power into the 16th century, becoming an economic and political center of the
White Sea region and eventually hosting 350 monks. After the
Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet authorities closed down the monastery and incorporated many of its buildings into
Solovki prison camp, one of the earliest forced-labor camps of the
gulag system. The camp closed after the region's trees had been harvested. Today the monastery has been re-established, and also serves as a museum.
This photograph of Skudina, taken in 2009, is part of a collection of 500 images of Russian sportspeople released to
Wikimedia Commons by Bolshoi Sport.
Although
James Clerk Maxwell made the first color photograph in
1861, the results were far from realistic until Prokudin-Gorsky perfected the technique with a series of improvements around
1905. His process used a camera that took a series of monochrome pictures in rapid sequence, each through a different colored filter. Prokudin-Gorskii then went on to document much of the country of Russia, travelling by train in a specially equipped
darkroomrailroad car.
This photo of the Nilov Monastery on
Stolobny Island in
Tver Oblast,
Russia, was taken by
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky in 1910 before the advent of colour photography. His process used a camera that took a series of
monochrome pictures in rapid sequence, each through a different coloured filter. By projecting all three monochrome pictures using correctly coloured light, it was possible to reconstruct the original colour scene.
A female Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), a
subspecies of
tiger native to
Central Asia, and her cub. The Siberian tiger is the largest of the extant tiger subspecies as well as the largest
felid, attaining 320 kg (710 lb) in an exceptional specimen. Considered an
endangered subspecies, the wild population is down to several hundred individuals and is limited to eastern
Siberia.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–81; depicted in 1872) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher. After publishing his first novel, Poor Folk, at age 25, Dostoyevsky wrote (among others) eleven novels, three novellas, and seventeen short novels, including Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880).
A painting depicting Ivan Tsarevich, one of the main
heroes of
Russian folklore, riding a
magic carpet after having captured the
Firebird, which he keeps in a cage. This work was
Viktor Vasnetsov's first attempt at illustrating Russian folk tales and inaugurated a famous series of paintings on the themes drawn from Russian folklore.
Saint Michael's Castle is a former royal residence in the historic centre of
Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was built for Emperor
Paul I between 1797 and 1801, and named after
Saint Michael, the patron saint of the royal family. Constructed like a castle around a small octagonal courtyard, the four facades were built in different architectural styles, including
French Classicism,
Italian Renaissance and
Gothic. The emperor was assassinated in the castle forty days after taking up residence. After his death, the imperial family returned to the
Winter Palace and the building was transferred to the Russian Army's
Main Engineering School. In 1990, it became a branch of the
Russian Museum, and now houses its portrait gallery.
Saint Basil's Cathedral is a church in
Red Square in
Moscow, Russia. It was built from 1555 to 1561 on orders from
Ivan the Terrible and commemorates the
capture of Kazan and
Astrakhan. The city's tallest building until the completion of the
Ivan the Great Bell Tower in 1600, the original building contained eight side churches arranged around the ninth, central church of
Intercession; the tenth church was erected in 1588 over the grave of venerated local saint
Vasily (Basil). Although the
Bolsheviks considered demolishing the church in the 1930s, it was spared. Since 1991 it has housed a branch of the
State Historical Museum and hosted occasional church services.
Ivan Goremykin (1839–1917) was a Russian
prime minister during
World War I. A politician with
archconservative views, after some time in the Ministry of Justice, he transferred to the Ministry of the Interior in 1891. He held the rank of prime minister from May to July 1906 and again from 1914 to 1916; during both terms his effectiveness was strongly limited by opposition from the
State Duma. In the aftermath of the
October Revolution, Goremykin was recognized as a member of the Tsarist government and killed by a street mob.
Peremech (
Tatar: пәрәмәч / pərəməç / pärämäç;
Bashkir: бәрәмес, tr. beremes;
Russian: беляш,
romanized: belyash) is an individual-sized
fried dough pastry common for
Volga Tatar and
Bashkir cuisines. It is made from unleavened or leavened dough and usually filled with ground meat and chopped onion. Originally, finely chopped pre-cooked meat was used as a filling, but later raw ground meat became more common. Alternatively, peremech can be filled with potato or
quark.
Peremech is usually shaped into a flattened sphere with a circular "window" in the middle. In contrast to
doughnuts, the hole does not go all the way through, but is only made at the top, such that the filling is visible in the middle. The shape is thus somewhat similar to Russian
vatrushka. However, dough neatly kneaded around the hole gives the classical peremech its distinctive shape. (Full article...)
Sviatoslav or Svyatoslav I Igorevich (
Old East Slavic: Свѧтославъ Игорєвичь, romanized: Svętoslavŭ Igorevičǐ;
Old Norse: Sveinald;
c. 943 – 972) was
Prince of Kiev from 945 until his death in 972. He is known for his persistent campaigns in the east and south, which precipitated the collapse of two great powers in Eastern Europe,
Khazaria and the
First Bulgarian Empire. He conquered numerous
East Slavic tribes, defeated the
Alans and attacked the
Volga Bulgars, and at times was allied with the
Pechenegs and
Magyars (Hungarians).
Following the death of his father
Igor in 945, Sviatoslav's mother
Olga reigned as
regent in Kiev until 962. His decade-long reign over the
Kievan Rus' was marked by rapid expansion into the
Volga River valley, the
Pontic steppe, and the
Balkans, leading him to carve out for himself the largest state in
Europe. In 969, he moved his seat to
Pereyaslavets on the
Danube. In 970, he appointed his sons
Yaropolk and
Oleg as subordinate princes of Kiev and Drelinia, while he appointed
Vladimir, his son by his housekeeper and servant
Malusha, as the prince of
Novgorod. (Full article...)
At least two people are killed and as many as 100 others are injured when a passenger train carrying 800 people collides with a
Kamaz truck near
Volgograd,
Russia, and partially derails.
(Al Arabiya)
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. It's probably the most affordable mechanism to solve problems inside the country, inside the society because Putin proved to all of us that democracy has a world of alternatives, security forces and police and power abuse and that's why I think eventually the people of Russia will embrace democracy as the least costly institution to help them to solve their daily problems.
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