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- *Russians ( ru|русские , russkiye), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries ...735 bytes (74 words) - 15:02, 1 February 2023
- A series of follow-up battles kept the Russians off-balance until the spring ... in perhaps as little as a month, the Russians could field around ten complete ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- they recognized Russian sovereignty. The Russians founded the city of Ufa ... In 1676, the Bashkirs rebelled under a leader named Seit, and the ...10 KB (1,550 words) - 04:39, 11 January 2023
- patrolling Russian destroyers. The Russians were under orders not to ... to explode. But luck was against the Russians in so far as two of the ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 10:20, 22 September 2023
- and the losses incurred forced the Russians to withdraw the next day ... base at Kovno. This allowed the Russians to attack the extended French ...24 KB (3,590 words) - 11:34, 20 September 2023
- and Nikolay Danilevsky, Gumilev regarded Russians as a "super-ethnos ... of the Eurasian steppe, including the Russians, but also the Turkic-speaking ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- "the rather weak Turks against the Russians. We also didn't want ... The Russians had to scuttle their ships and used the naval cannons ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- " that is, one of those Russians who believed that Russia ... and essay (in the Western style) among the Russians. Also, Karamzin ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 04:13, 15 November 2022
- sympathies were on the side of the White Russians. This caused the Soviets ... the whole of mother Russia. A few White Russians continued to campaign for ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 18:55, 31 October 2022
- crimes. This was just two days before the Russians arrived. would rise to about 100,000. When the Russians finally took over, they ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- understood and occasionally used by most Russians, with a meaning similar ... For fuel, instead of charcoal, Russians traditionally use dry pinecones ...16 KB (2,540 words) - 01:15, 21 April 2023
- a diverse citizen base of Kazakhs, Russians, Uzbeks, Germans, Poles ... The modern history of Almaty began on February 4, 1854, when the Russians ...17 KB (2,420 words) - 08:16, 23 July 2023
- rejected the plan and saw no need for the Russians to evacuate Warsaw. He sent ... but managed to convince the Russians to leave the Arsenal, the ...40 KB (6,116 words) - 22:10, 18 November 2022
- Like many spiritually-minded Russians, Rasputin spoke of salvation ... and licentiousness. To some Russians, especially the Communists ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 20:15, 31 January 2023
- Hossein and both the Ottomans and the Russians had seized Persian territory ... Persia became too weak to prevent the Russians, the British, and later ...23 KB (3,626 words) - 23:01, 10 November 2022
- priest armed only with a crucifix. The Russians captured the city after ... to well over a million, including numerous Russians. On April 26, 1966 ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- attempt to block the Baltic Sea from the Russians in 1256. ... himself and achieved success in exempting Russians from fighting beside the ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 14:33, 18 July 2023
- at the Battle of Kolin. In summer, the Russians invaded East Prussia, and ... of 43,000 commanded by Count Fermor. The Russians withdrew from the field ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- Germany and thereby afford protection against the Russians. The adoption of a new constitution had been delayed by the Civil War, and the legitimacy ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
- 10, 1837) was a Russian romantic writer whom most Russians consider their greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. ...14 KB (2,242 words) - 14:35, 18 July 2023
- Корее- имена и судьбы (Russians in Korea - Names and Fates ... being sliced into pieces by the Japanese, Russians, Chinese and other powers ...17 KB (2,290 words) - 20:45, 31 December 2021
- Governor of the Military Okrug which the Russians established along the course ... of Uzbekistan's population, while Russians make up 5.5 percent, Tajiks ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich KBE (Russian: Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, Mstislav Leopol'dovič ...17 KB (2,362 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- Asia and Northern Asia. For example, the Russians referred to various peoples ... Horde (for neighboring peoples, for example, Russians) * Turkic Muslim ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- and the idea of the empire ruled by Russians were very controversial ... deputies: "You say "Russia for Russians," but whom do you mean ...37 KB (5,152 words) - 21:52, 28 November 2022
- 한국인/Sahallin Hangugin) denotes Russians citizens and/or residents ... The Sakhalin Koreans experienced slaughter at the hands of the Russians ...39 KB (5,508 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- arrived at Sutter's Fort. The Russians offered to sell their land ... river gravel went to pay his debt to the Russians for his purchase of Fort Ross. ...21 KB (3,394 words) - 04:21, 3 May 2024
- Poland as he headed an army of 20,000-30,000 Russians (largely POWs) for a march on Moscow. Mereshkovsky proclaimed that Jozef Pilsudski was fulfilling ...8 KB (1,156 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- The islands were explored by Russians in the seventeenth and eighteenth ... otter pelts drove the expansion of the Russians onto the islands and much ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- and if this war doesn't end soon the Russians will be sitting in Berlin ... #039;s Court in Berlin, and when the Russians came they sent them to Moscow ...18 KB (2,854 words) - 01:17, 4 February 2023
- in Russia went by the name Soviet Korean. Russians often lump Koryo-saram under ... Siberian Railway, Koreans outnumbered Russians in the Russian Far East ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- takeover in Greece would not only put the Russians on a particularly dangerous flank for the Turks, but strengthen the Soviet Union’s ability ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 18:28, 2 May 2023
- nomadic Altai came into contact with the Russians, who began to sedentarize ... brought large numbers of ethnic Russians to the area, and by 1950 ...16 KB (2,479 words) - 08:35, 23 July 2023
- goal of attaining individual liberty for Russians. Herzen understood the competing ... of society could not be answered and Russians must live for the moment ...24 KB (3,543 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- Japan, where he was more favorably received. The Russians, under Czar Nicolas III, also became a customer before the Americans realized the value of ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 17:16, 13 February 2024
- strategic location was of interest to the Russians and British especially. ... by the British, while between them the Russians, Britons and Turks ran the ...27 KB (4,140 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
- ===Russians attack=== Shah, (1698-1747) in Shirvan forced the Russians to make an agreement near ...25 KB (3,739 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- The Russians were ruthless in their expansion, using technology and ... collect sea otter pelts. Soon after the Russians had arrived on their island ...24 KB (3,659 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- science, was marked, and he was one of the young Russians chosen to complete their education in foreign countries. == Foreign education == ...9 KB (1,383 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- philosophical thinking among educated Russians, including the dry and abstract philosophizing of the German idealists and their Russian followers ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:08, 18 November 2022
- In the seventeenth century, the Russians began exploring what they claimed as the eastern reaches of their dominions. The first Russian maps ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- suspicion between the British and the Russians eased in the face of several ... required in a battle. Nevertheless, the Russians did have a fine artillery ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- routes. British, Canadians, Americans and Russians have sent expeditions to ... and Vast Resource-Rich Seabeds to Russians,] State Department Watch ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 14:01, 20 May 2023
- theft, treachery, stupidity of modern Russians." == Works == The greater part of Saltykov's work is a rather nondescript kind of satirical ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- would eventually find defeating the Russians an increasingly difficult task. ... to the French, British, Germans, and Russians. The key problem faced by ...37 KB (5,890 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2020
- "language of the Latvians/English/Russians," "latviešu/angļu/krievu valoda." *In Ukrainian, an adverb is formed by removing ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 23:31, 17 December 2022
- Following World War II, the Russians occupied the Kurhaus, as the boundary with the British zone ran exactly along the Semmering Pass. ...10 KB (1,532 words) - 09:44, 26 January 2023
- of firearms initially supplied by the Russians. [http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/nenets.shtml "The Nenets"] The Peoples of the Red ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 22:04, 23 November 2023
- Islamic. At about the same time, some Russians also represented the struggle ... with one character asking whether, since Russians had "dispensed with ...53 KB (7,700 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- and made a prisoner of war in 1916 by the Russians. He was sent to a POW camp ... massacres had been perpetrated against Russians by a Hungarian outsider ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- After the Russians reoccupied Lithuania, Shtromas was found by Antanas Sniečkus, a Soviet general who had known his father, and who took him ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 00:03, 9 January 2023
- By this point the Russians had managed to draft large numbers of reinforcements ... could be found it became clear that the Russians had left the city unconditionally ...45 KB (6,717 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- could survive in zero gravity. Once the Russians had progressed to flights ... Russians were the first to take pictures of the far side of the moon ...20 KB (2,963 words) - 19:03, 7 February 2023
- beyond capacity. It didn't take long for Russians to espouse her as their own. Critics referred to her as "our" Taglioni, as did the ...10 KB (1,510 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022
- Project should be shared with the Russians in the hope of speeding up its results. Roosevelt suggested Bohr return to England to try to win ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 09:45, 11 March 2023
- in Constanța, Romania, and after the Russians recovered the ship, her ... from using them against the White Russians. She was abandoned when ...35 KB (5,047 words) - 18:20, 22 December 2022
- fled to the North to seek refuge with the Russians. Approximately 80 percent ... of the Steppe: The Struggle of the Russians, Manchus, and the Zunghar ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 13:28, 25 September 2020
- neighboring groups, and then with the Russians by the end of the nineteenth ... Arctic Eskimos as savages, these later Russians regarded them more favorably ...30 KB (4,529 words) - 20:54, 19 January 2024
- and often times hyper-cerebral style of the Russians influenced future authors of the format, including Kafka and Russian-American Ayn Rand. ...11 KB (1,596 words) - 14:27, 20 July 2023
- exist in northern Kazakhstan, and ethnic Russians comprise 25.6 percent of ... . Only about a quarter of them are ethnic Russians, however. Before the dissolution ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- that the name comes from the period the Russians first encountered the people ... all of Central Asia. In 1876, the Russians dissolved the Khanate of ...41 KB (5,990 words) - 14:07, 3 May 2023
- * Milner-Gulland, Robin. The Russians. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 1997. ISBN 0631218491 * [http://hudce7.harvard.edu/~ostrowski/pvl/ Online ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 03:56, 27 February 2023
- moved from rural areas but also many ethnic Russians and Ukrainians who had been recruited to fill positions in industry and government. ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- Stalin's time. The average lifespan of Russians has decreased by five years since the collapse of the communist system, and inadequate health care ...25 KB (3,768 words) - 09:24, 20 January 2024
- The Horde exacted tribute from its subject peoples—Russians, Armenians, Georgians, and Crimean Greeks. The territories of Christian subjects ...11 KB (1,663 words) - 18:55, 30 August 2021
- died of typhus than were killed by the Russians. Being held in some crowded ... died of typhus than were killed by the Russians. A major epidemic occurred ...23 KB (3,359 words) - 11:25, 18 April 2023
- exist, such as Poles (6.7 percent), Russians (6.3 percent), and Belarusians ... Lithuania in the Vilnius region. Russians are the second largest minority ...40 KB (5,565 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
- both of which were conquered by the Russians in the course of the sixteenth ... He said, "Without this river the Russians could not live." ...31 KB (4,503 words) - 21:00, 3 May 2023
- War, 1656-1658, Riga withstood a siege by Russians. It remained the second ... Soviet republics into Riga, particularly Russians, changed the demographic ...31 KB (4,622 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- Commonwealth, created in 1569. The Russians, led by Tsar Ivan the III ... jobs and bringing an influx of ethnic Russians into the republic. The borders ...48 KB (6,863 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- Theresienstadt was liberated by the Russians. Baeck prevented his fellow inmates from killing their guards. His experience of the Holocaust ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 20:03, 25 October 2022
- of the symbolic nature of Katyń. Russians and Poles, tortured to death ... soil. However, in September that year Russians also raised the issue of ...48 KB (7,094 words) - 22:04, 3 March 2023
- and over half of the Soviet population. Russians also dominated the Soviet ... of the Russian people in the 1990s. Russians on fixed incomes (the vast ...65 KB (9,740 words) - 15:57, 25 January 2023
- draw at Eylau (February 7–8) forced the Russians to withdraw further north ... draw, but Napoleon eventually forced the Russians to back down, thus opening ...46 KB (6,954 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- Poland were not negotiable—the Russians were to keep territory from the eastern portion of Poland and Poland was to compensate for that by ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- and outrage across Europe. It was the Russians, who saw themselves as friends and allies of the Slav population in the Balkans who were provoked ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 14:57, 2 May 2023
- Tatars, Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Ukrainians, and Russians, and arbitrarily drawn borders ... was used until the mid-1920s by the Russians to distinguish them from ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- Beginning with Peter I (the Great), the Russians occupied Moldavia ... The Russians granted autonomy in 1818 which remained until 1828. A ...57 KB (8,247 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- started waging a holy war against the Russians. Mansur hoped to establish ... Shamil remained successful while the Russians were occupied with the Crimean ...48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
- all its men. At Tannenberg 92,000 Russians surrendered during the battle. When the besieged garrison of Kaunas surrendered in 1915, 20,000 Russians ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- that the Russians had suffered a severe defeat at Plevna, and were ... #039;s independence from both the Turks and the Russians. ...26 KB (4,057 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- right to block certain proposals. Many Russians felt that the reform did ... The dominating element of the Empire, the Russians, fall into three ...50 KB (7,301 words) - 10:01, 26 January 2023
- were burnt down by the Germans as the Russians came near, and much of the ... of up to 1.5 million Jews, Roma, Poles, Russians, and prisoners of various ...26 KB (4,084 words) - 17:54, 22 August 2023
- *Hosking, Geoffrey. Russia and the Russians: A History. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University. 2001. ISBN 0674011147 *Julicher, Peter. ...14 KB (2,074 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- 25,000 of the more than 400,000 ethnic Russians, who were mostly employed ... Being more technologically advanced, the Russians had little difficulty in ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- of his interest in Russia and the history of the Russians, he remained a true Swiss, attached to his native land." The couple had two children ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 10:23, 22 January 2024
- Turkmen population, with minorities of ethnic Russians, Armenians, and Azeris. The Türkmen language, a member of the East Oghuz branch of Turkic, is ...13 KB (1,843 words) - 04:04, 18 August 2023
- The Russians under Mikhail Bogdanovich Barclay de Tolly ingeniously ... During their strategic retreat, the Russians used the scorched earth ...53 KB (8,268 words) - 01:21, 11 November 2022
- Approximately 54 percent of the ethnic Russians living in Latvia are citizens ... In some large cities such as Daugavpils and Rēzekne, Russians and ...34 KB (4,920 words) - 17:49, 25 October 2022
- Project, had given key documents to the Russians throughout the war. Through ... conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-Bomb years before ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- and the wood-carving genius of the Russians than anything else. The first ceiling-high, five-leveled Russian iconostasis was designed for the ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- a stalemate between the Ottomans and the Russians. The Russians used their ... religious cohorts in the empire. Thus the Russians became guardians of the ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- The Russians had no contingency plans for a partial mobilization, ... in on the vast Eastern Front, where the Russians were facing the combined ...28 KB (4,350 words) - 23:31, 14 November 2022
- and diplomatic initiatives by the Russians, the French and the Americans, Korea opened to foreign trade by the Japanese treaty of Treaty of Ganghwa ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- launched Sputnik I. Out of concern that the Russians were beating the U.S. in the space race, which had military implications, and that there were not ...17 KB (2,422 words) - 08:00, 8 January 2024
- personal savings, and tens of millions of Russians were plunged into poverty. ... severely compromised. Millions of native Russians found themselves in the ...42 KB (6,205 words) - 19:43, 20 November 2023
- dialect from their close interaction with Russians. In 1798 the Tsarist government ... being increasingly encroached upon by the Russians from the north, the Kazakhs ...59 KB (8,959 words) - 02:32, 5 October 2022
- Russians intensified their hold in the region in the eighteenth century ... time, accusing him of working with the Russians. Hundreds of combatants ...42 KB (6,192 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- * Rougle, Charles. Three Russians Consider America: America in the works of Maksim Gorkij, Aleksandr Blok, and Vladimir Majakovsky. Stockholm: ...15 KB (2,007 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- a secret society of Bulgarians to assist the Russians in the Crimean War. While being deported to Istanbul, he escaped, and gathered together a group ...16 KB (2,460 words) - 20:16, 13 December 2023
