Damansky Island: The USSR and China War
Damansky Island on the Ussuri River is less than a square kilometer of land located 230 km south of Khabarovsk. In the spring of 1969, the most severe armed confrontation between the USSR and the PRC occurred here.
The …
Vladimir Mayakovsky Turned His Personal Life into Poetry
Vladimir Mayakovsky turned his personal life into a continuation of poetry - with the same loudness and challenge.
In the summer of 1915, he came to the home of Osip and Lily Brik and read "Cloud in Trousers." The roman…
Bismarck in Petersburg: Three Years that Defined Europe
Bismarck in Petersburg: Three Years that Defined Europe.
In March 1859, Otto von Bismarck arrived in the capital of the Russian Empire as the envoy of Prussia. The appointment was an honorary exile: in Frankfurt, he had…
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Manifest of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR)
On November 14, 1944, the founding meeting of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR) took place in the Spanish Hall of Prague Castle.
General Andrei Vlasov, former commander of the 2nd Shock Ar…
Where is the largest collection of imperial Russian treasures stored after the revolution?
The largest collection of imperial Russian treasures, taken out after the revolution, is located in the Hillwood Museum in Washington, D.C., USA. The Russian revolution provided an opportunity to completely plunder the c…
How the Russian Museum Lost Its Largest Collection of Ancient Russian and Russian Coins
How the Russian Museum lost its largest collection of ancient Russian and Russian coins
Grand Duke Georgy Mikhailovich was an outstanding numismatist. He began collecting coins as a child at the Tiflis market, where his…
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Soviet Support in the Creation of Israel
In 1947-1948, the USSR became one of the main allies of the Zionist project. This seems paradoxical, as Soviet ideology had considered Zionism "bourgeois nationalism" for decades.
The shift occurred in May 1947. The Sov…
Alexandra Tolstoy
Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya was the youngest daughter, secretary, and trusted person of Leo Tolstoy. She founded and headed the museum in Yasnaya Polyana, as well as the Tolstoy Foundation in the USA, which assisted Russia…
Ivan Silych Goryushkin-Sorokopudov
Ivan Silych Goryushkin-Sorokopudov (1873, 1954) was a Russian painter, graphic artist, and educator, born in the village of Nashchi in the Tambov province to a soldier and burlak Sila Goryushkin. He became an orphan at a…
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Features of Soviet Justice
On May 17, 1922, Lenin wrote to the People's Commissar of Justice Kursky regarding the draft of the first Soviet Criminal Code: "The court should not eliminate terror; to promise this would be self-deception or deception…
