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23.12.2011 16:03
7.12.2011
12:38
Christmas fast Christmas fast is the last long-lasting fast in a year. Beginning on November 28th, It runs for forty days to Orthodox Christmas celebrated on January 7th in accordance with the Julian calendar. →
17.11.2011
16:53
The Sputnik The year 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight accomplished by Russia’s very own Yuri Gagarin.  That major scientific and technological achievement would have been impossible without the monumental launching of the first man-made satellite… At 20.28 a.m. →
29.09.2011
15:23
Typically Russian breed of hunt dogs The first evidence of use of Russian wolfhounds during hunting in Ancient Russia dates back to the 12th century, and the evidence are frescoes in Old Russian churches. However, the breeding of borzoi breed of hunt dogs reached its climax at the turn of the 19th century. →
19.09.2011
15:30
The Russia we lost In the autumn of 1917 the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia. The Soviet government opened a new page in the country's development but did its best to either distort or hush up its previous history. Pre-revolutionary Russia was portrayed as a backward, poorly managed, semi-cultural and semi-literate state. But how was it in reality? →
29.08.2011
17:44
Alfred Schnittke It would be no exaggeration to describe Schnittke as a martyr: he had four strokes, which deprived him of the ability to move and speak. But he continued to challenge his fate to the end: he wrote music. One and a half months before his death the premiere of his Ninth Symphony took place in Moscow. →
3.08.2011
13:20
Victory at Gangut The Battle of Gangut went down in history as the first naval victory of the Russian Fleet. It took place at Cape Gangut in August 1714 when Russians defeated the Swedes.  It was 1700. Russia had started a war with Sweden for access to the Baltic Sea. →
25.07.2011
12:58
General Pyotr Bagration A contemporary referred to Pyotr Bagration as “the lion of Russia’s Army”. Of the 48 years of Bagration’s life, 30 he devoted to military service. Pyotr Bagration belonged to a noble family descended from Georgian kings. His grandfather, Prince Alexander, came to Russia in 1757. He had the rank of colonel. →
7.07.2011
14:00
Birth of the Russian Empire In the early 17th century Russia began a war with Sweden to regain the inherently Russian lands on the Baltic Sea coast. Known as the Northern War, hostilities went on for 21 years and ended in a magnificent victory for Russia. On August 30, 1721 a peace treaty was signed between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish town of Niestadt. →
27.06.2011
16:57
Sophia Palaeologus We are going to tell you about an event, which took place in the 15th century and had a great influence on the subsequent history of Russia - the marriage of the Russian Grand Duke Ivan III to Greek Tsarina Sophia Palaeologus. Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III was under 30 when his wife died. →

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