Russia
epub |eng | 1980-02-22 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

Two days later, Peter wrote again: I beg you to do everything that can possibly be done without me. When I was well, I let nothing pass, but now God ...
( Category: Russia March 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 1995-02-22 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

On October 18, 1963, the cover of Life, the nation’s most prominent and widely read weekly magazine, displayed a picture of Nicholas II’s five children. The headline was “THE CASE ...
( Category: Russia March 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Close, Frank [Close, Frank]

DAMAGE CONTROL Whereas for Gil’s friends in Abingdon this was a spy story come true, for others the implications of Pontecorvo’s defection were more serious. When news of Pontecorvo’s disappearance ...
( Category: Russia March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:David Remnick [Remnick, David]

After the coup, a couple of workers play dominoes at a foundry that used to make busts of Lenin. The factory now operates for the tourist industry. (Reuters/Bettmann) PART III ...
( Category: European March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-19 | Author:Frederick Kempe [Kempe, Frederick]

Lincoln scribbled furiously in shorthand as Kennedy continued to dictate, the words falling into perfect sentences and paragraphs. This means that if the United States and the Soviet Union become ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Orlando Figes [Figes, Orlando]

( Category: Cultural February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Bill Browder [Browder, Bill]

23 Department K Ivan and I took the 3:00 p.m. Eurostar back to London. We needed to talk out of earshot, and the only place available was between cars, where ...
( Category: Europe February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-13 | Author:Clyde Burleson [BURLESON, CLYDE]

16 August 2000—0800 Hours—Barents Sea The fourth day dawned with a prediction of more storms. While that was disappointing, spirits rose with the arrival of another DSRV. This was a ...
( Category: History February 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:Dr. Vadim J. Birstein [VADIM J. BIRSTEIN]

As Solzhenitsyn continued, “in Moscow . . . a miracle took place. . . . Officers carried out Timofeev-Ressovsky from the prisoner transport in their arms, and he was driven ...
( Category: Russia January 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-13 | Author:Yuri Felshtinsky [Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky]

GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS IN THE SARATOV REGION AND THE KHANTY-MANSI AUTONOMOUS DISTRICT On March 26, 2000, gubernatorial races in several regions were held concurrently with Putin’s first presidential election. The regime ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union January 14,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Wolmar, Christian [Wolmar, Christian]

SEVEN THE NEW SIBERIA While the railway may have been conceived by its principal promoters as an imperialist and military enterprise, the impact on Siberia was no less profound. For ...
( Category: History January 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wolmar, Christian [Wolmar, Christian]

SEVEN THE NEW SIBERIA While the railway may have been conceived by its principal promoters as an imperialist and military enterprise, the impact on Siberia was no less profound. For ...
( Category: History January 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-05 | Author:Oliver Bullough

14.The gorge of the Cherek valley. Freshfield’s mountaineers passed up this narrow valley and were probably the first western Europeans to visit it. 15. Upper Balkaria today. Ruined houses are ...
( Category: Europe December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Oliver Bullough [Bullough, Oliver]

WINTER 8 It’s like a plague A Russian train in winter is a far better place than the same train in summer. With snow and the long dark night outside, ...
( Category: Christianity December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Lev Golinkin [Golinkin, Lev]

Now, at Binder’s, I was forced to concede that those lessons may have been useful after all. Over and over, I muttered the alphabet, chewing on the acrid feeling of ...
( Category: Russia December 27,2014 )