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3 days ago · Vasili Vasilievich Golovachov ( Russian: Василий Васильевич Головачёв; born June 21, 1948, Russia) is a modern Russian science fiction writer, known in Russian-speaking countries for writing both hard science fiction and sci-fi/ fantasy mixes. The works combines space science fiction, esotericism, Slavic neopaganism ...
4 days ago · The pretender entered Moscow in triumph, was crowned, and married Maryna Mniszchówna. Russia - Ivan IV, Tsardom, Expansion: Vasily had been able to appoint a regency council composed of his most trusted advisers and headed by his wife Yelena, but the grievances created by his limitation of landholders’ immunities and his antiboyar policies ...
4 days ago · On the morning of 20 April 1879, Alexander was briskly walking towards the Square of the Guards Staff and faced Alexander Soloviev, a 33-year-old former student. Having seen a menacing revolver in his hands, the Emperor fled in a zigzag pattern. Soloviev fired five times but missed; he was sentenced to death and hanged on 28 May. [citation needed]
5 days ago · Time of Troubles. Professor of Russian History, University of Chicago. Author of Slavery in Russia, 1450–1725. Senior Lecturer in Politics and Chairman, Department of Social Sciences, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. Editor of The Soviet Union Under Gorbachev.
1 day ago · A major role in politics was played by the archbishop, who after 1156 controlled the lands and incomes previously owned by the Kievan princes and who appears throughout Novgorod’s history as a powerful, often independent figure.
5 days ago · Composer Vasily Kalinnikov — his First Symphony is as fresh as they come. Often ill over the last decade of his life (he died of tuberculosis at Yalta, where he had settled in the mid-1890s), what’s remarkable about his output isn’t the amount of it – respectable sums of symphonic, keyboard, vocal, and choral works – as much as the ...
6 days ago · Russia's Rostov Oblast was targeted by a drone attack overnight, Governor Vasily Golubev claimed on July 20. Rostov Oblast borders Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, and frequently comes under drone attack, according to the local authorities.
