epub |eng | 2020-05-01 | Author:Mark Galeotti

From Sophie to Catherine Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg was born to Prussian German aristocratic stock of considerable connections but relatively little fortune. As was the fate of girls in ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-26 | Author:Ibn Fadlan

4. Zuhrī on Viking ships c. 1160 Abū ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Zuhrī (d. between 1154 and 1161) was an Andalusian cosmographer about whom almost nothing is known. ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-16 | Author:Sophy Roberts [Roberts, Sophy]

The Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, which officially opened on 12 May 1945, carried another layer of heroic significance: it was where the Soviet Union’s cultural treasures – including musical ...

epub |eng | 2017-06-28 | Author:Grand Duke Alexander of Russia [Russia, Grand Duke Alexander of]

2 The fiancée of the new Czar, Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt, had arrived from Germany on the eve of the death of Alexander III. The Minister of the Imperial Court ...

epub |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Ibn Fadlan [Ibn Fadlān]

4. Zuhrī on Viking ships c. 1160 Abū ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Zuhrī (d. between 1154 and 1161) was an Andalusian cosmographer about whom almost nothing is known. ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Fadlan, Ibn [Fadlan, Ibn]

4. Zuhrī on Viking ships c. 1160 Abū ‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Zuhrī (d. between 1154 and 1161) was an Andalusian cosmographer about whom almost nothing is known. ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-09 | Author:Insight Guides

On the south bank of the Moskva River, opposite the Kremlin, is one of the greatest collections of Russian art in the country. The Tretyakovskaya Galereya (Tretyakov Gallery; Lavrushinsky Pereulok ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Scott

PART SIX. The Battle of Iron and Steel I During the early thirties the main energies of the Soviet Union went into construction. New plants, mines, whole industries, sprang up ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-06 | Author:Stephan Orth

The tour of the museum begins in a movie theater. A technically elaborately produced, wide-screen animated film condenses a thousand years of Russian history into eight minutes. From Ivan the ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Anna King [King, Anna]

DISTANCE AND VOLUME In Russia people get closer to you very quickly. Literally. Personal distances are closer, be it in public transportation, standing in line, or in daily communication. The ...

epub |eng | 2015-12-30 | Author:Anton Chekhov

Chapter II Dr. B. O. Mozelweiser’s hydropathic establishment worked on New Year’s Day exactly as on ordinary days; the only difference was that the porter, Andrey Hrisanfitch, had on a ...

epub |eng | 2017-09-07 | Author:Abraham Ascher [Ascher, Abraham]

8 THE SOVIET UNION UNDER LENIN AND STALIN Rarely in the history of any country has one man cast so long a shadow as V. I. Lenin has over Russia. ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Colin Thubron

5. On The Baltic IN EARLY SEPTEMBER I drove west from Leningrad towards those troubled Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania—whose tragedy has been their tiny size, squeezed as they are between ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2003-06-15 | Author:Brian Haig

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO PUT TWO AND TWOtogether and we had a king-size problem. Those transcripted telephone taps Imelda was slogging through no doubt proved that Bill Morrison had a dick instead ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Susan Richards

TICKET TO THE END OF THE EARTH This morning I finally heard from Vera. As soon as I reached Novosibirsk, I sent her a telegram. I had not rated my ...