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04.05 2024: One of the most famous kinds of shashlyk before the 1917 Revolution was Kars-style shashlyk, which appeared in Russia after the capture of the Turkish fortress of Kars by Russian troops under the command of General Nikolai Muravyov…
03.05 2024: Mikheil Saakashvili, deposed him in the 2003 Rose Revolution, professionals from NGOs quickly filled senior government posts. The country’s policy space was thrown wide open to any and all foreign-led aid and reform experiments.…
02.05 2024: Odessa’s residents were involved in the 1905 Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922. The city became a key center of resistance to the Nazis during the opening months of the Great Patriotic War,…
09.03 2024: …difficult fate, and four cook- and household books that were republished right up to the 1917 Revolution. But the word mistress had a slightly unpleasant connotation for Avdeyeva. “Mistress” had the connotation of owning something,…
12.02 2024: During the Revolution of 1905-1907 the Zoological Garden suffered heavily: many buildings and pavilions were destroyed, some animals were dead, archives and library were burned down. In 1919, the Zoological Garden was nationalized.…
11.02 2024: What impact did Iran's Revolution have on the surrounding region? And what changes did it cause in relations with Moscow? Sputnik explains. On February 11, 1979, Iran's General Staff declared the military's neutrality after more than…
30.01 2024: The October Revolution, which changed the course of the 20th century, was a new development. It was the most daring attempt in history to create paradise on Earth and build a new classless society. Lenin and his associates sought to…
23.12 2023: However, when the Bolshevik Revolution exploded in 1917, Russia's new leadership sued for peace. A unit of Legionnaires fighting in Ukraine found themselves stranded between hostile German troops and hostile Red troops,…
21.12 2023: …manufacturer in Russia, which supplied the Russian imperial court until the Revolution in 1917,” Cullen said. Coco wanted him to create her signature perfume. “Beaux submitted to her different sample scents identified only by number.…
13.12 2023: President Putin suggested to Gergiev that he consider creating a joint directorate for the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theaters based on the model of the Directorate of the Imperial Theaters before the 1917 Revolution.…
10.12 2023: the transition from Yeltsin to Putin and the quick marginalization of the Yeltsin-era oligarchs, the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine against manipulated elections, Yanukovych’s attempt to reverse democratic gains in 2010-2014,…
09.12 2023: Struve did not accept the Bolshevik Revolution. He tried to fight against the new regime on the Don in the Volunteer Army under General Kornilov, but he was not meant to be a soldier. In 1918 he went abroad again.…
08.11 2023: Russian authorities banned Artpodgotovka as an extremist organization in 2017 after Maltsev staged an …on the centenary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. News of Shepelev’s disappearance in Georgia and reappearance in Russia…
07.11 2023: Together, they have performed something similar to what Germany’s so-called Conservative Revolution did during the interwar Weimar Republic. Rather than influencing parties, politicians, bureaucrats, and diplomats directly,…
26.08 2023: …which included the refurbishing of thirteen interiors , seek to portray the palace as it was during the Russian Revolution. Those visiting the palace can see where Nicholas II, after abdicating the throne in March 1917,…
26.08 2023: Vladimir Nabokov was raised in an …aristocratic family that fled the Soviet Union for Europe after the Russian Revolution. He learned English, French, and Russian from an early age, and attended Trinity College in Cambridge.…
26.08 2023: Petersburg did more than just call attention to their own issues. Their demonstrations against wartime deprivations and other political issues grew into what later became known as the February Revolution March 8 being February 23…
26.08 2023: The 1917 Russian Revolution proves it. Like Rurik, Trotsky's goatee is more about the ensemble: the glasses, hair, and neat communist-style jacket that communicate erudition and charisma.…
26.08 2023: The superintendent was an old Petrograd worker. He had known Lenin before the Revolution. That is why the children asked him. And he replied confidently: Once Lenin said he'd come, he'll come. At last it was evening.…
26.08 2023: Just over Russia’s border in Belarus is the remarkable city of Vitebsk, birthplace for a surprisingly influential artistic community that flourished just before and after the Revolution.
26.08 2023: his volume - all written by Russian émigrés, writers who fled their native country in the early twentieth century - contain a fair dose of magic and mysticism, of terror and the supernatural
26.08 2023: The leader and political mastermind of the Bolshevik Revolution, he had had his first stroke almost two years before, in May 1922. He recovered for a time, and was well enough to dictate a testament that,…
26.08 2023: Bread! This was the battle cry of the 1917 October Revolution that changed the history of Russia and indeed the entire world. Since the time of Ivan the Terrible, the tsars concentrated on centralization of their power and control.…
26.08 2023: Watch Lenin leap onto stage with a log in this excerpt of the ballet Falcons of the Revolution , by Kazakh choreographer Bulat Ayukhanov. In the end, what may have started as a grassroots drive to rebuild a country became a formality for…
26.08 2023: Studying Russian and finding it a bit challenging? You are not alone. Check out our list of famous people who have studied Russian, and find some fellow-sufferers...
26.08 2023: …meritocratic system for advancing in the tsar’s service, which remained in force all the way until the Russian Revolution. The Table of Ranks also conveniently undermined the hereditary authority of the Boyars ,…
26.08 2023: Resilience: Life Stories of Centenarians Born in the Year of Revolution. The book collects some of the life stories of 22 remarkable individuals, most all of them Russian, most all of them women, and most all of them blue-eyed.…
26.08 2023: how could it be left on the sidelines? Here’s the gist: after the Revolution of 1905 fizzled out, resolute reformers continued to fight for the success of communism. Even if at that point success was only imaginable on Mars.…
26.08 2023: Although the Hungarian Revolution hurt Soviet standing in world opinion, it demonstrated that the Soviet Union would use force if necessary to maintain control over its satellite states in Eastern Europe.…
26.08 2023: This astonishingly gripping autobiography by the founder of the Russian Women’s Death Battallion in World War I is an eye-opening documentary of life before, during and after the Bolshevik Revolution.…
26.08 2023:Revolution Square, the opposition attempted to assemble a “send-off for the political winter.” Some fights broke out and the police had to step in. I didn’t go to Revolution Square. My son turned up after all and I got into his car and we went…
26.08 2023: Clearly there were many evil people who helped to create the repression of the Stalinist period, but there were probably many more who acted out of fear or misguided belief in the original ideals of the Revolutio…
26.08 2023: …devolving into the military chaos of World War I. If it hadn’t been for the Russian Revolution, the Romanovs could have had one more tsar - Alexei Nikolaevich, most likely to be remembered as Alexei II Peter the Great’s father,…
26.08 2023: Prior to the Bolshevik Revolution, suffragists, settlement house workers, prison reformers, muckrakers and other “New Women” concerned about social justice, joined the struggle for “Russian freedom.” Many saw the effort to…
26.08 2023: What do you know about the Russian Revolution of 1905? Are you surprised to hear that there was one in 1905, not just in 1917? Then this article is for you! Ask someone what the Russian Revolution was,…
26.08 2023: Bread! This was the battle cry of the 1917 October Revolution that would change the history of Russia and affect the entire world. Since the time of Ivan the Terrible, the Tsars concentrated on centralization of their power and control.…
26.08 2023: White leaders were products of the February Revolution - “liberals” in the European sense, often nationalists, proponents of democracy and even mild forms of socialism. And if some of them yearned for a strong central authority - well,…
26.08 2023: Despite an alleged “break with the past” ushered in by the Great October Socialist Revolution, many buildings built during the later part of Stalin’s reign looked suspiciously similar to what had been built during Imperial times - hence…
26.08 2023: Take the Political Compass of the Revolution test and find out who you would have been 100 years ago - an Anarchist, a Cadet, a Right SR, a Bolshevik or a member of the Black Hundreds. In collaboration with Arzamas,…
26.08 2023: The Bolshevik Revolution, 100 Years On This year marks the centennial of the Bolshevik Revolution. Here's what that looks like, plus gas, cats, and seals . 100 years later, what do Russians think about the Revolution?…
26.08 2023: One other external event changed policy significantly at home. It was the French Revolution. This seminal event opened the Empress’ eyes to the dangers of the enlighteners, whose criticisms of feudalism had prepared the ground for…
26.08 2023: Petersburg, the birthplace of the Russian Revolution. And we began at a very symbolic time: June 12, Russia's independence day. Those who remembered the history of 27 years ago, were marking the day in 1990 when Russia declared its…
26.08 2023: 50th anniversary of the October Revolution that, instead of contributing to the revolution's legacy, gathered dust for decades. This water was imbibed with mother’s milk. An old man living alone in the countryside - his children have…
26.08 2023: …donated to the Russian Historical Museum a collection of children’s artwork on the First World War and the Revolution. Voronov had taught from 1906 at Ivan Alexandov’s non-classical secondary school in Moscow,…
26.08 2023: Her grandfather built a church in the village where he was born. After the Revolution, the entire village was labeled …kulaks and sent to Siberia, in winter. “They drove us into the forest and just left us there.…
26.08 2023: The February Revolution bears that name because it began on February 23. At least, in the Julian calendar it did. By the Gregorian calendar - used by much of the world, including Russia after early 1918 - the riots and strikes that led to a new…
26.08 2023: …and all praise goes to the usual suspects: the Bolsheviks and the Great October Socialist Revolution. They even have the decrees to prove it: first the Commissariat of Education decree from December 23,…