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Hace 5 días · Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2000, ISBN: 9780719048371; 232pp. This is the third book on Russian women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century collectively authored by Jane McDermid and Anna Hillyar of Southampton University. The two earlier volumes are respectively, Women and Work in Russia 1880-1930; A Study in ...
Hace 5 días · Russia formalized its international adoption program in the middle of 1991. That year, 12 children were adopted by American families. That figure grew quickly, topping 1,000 children by 1994, rising to 4,292 in 2001 and reaching a peak of 5,862 adoptions in 2004. (International adoption reached an overall historic high that year, with a total ...
Hace 2 días · Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev [b] [c] (15 April [ O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of his predecessor ...
Hace 3 días · Kola-Karelia, the smallest of Russia’s relief regions, lies in the northwestern part of European Russia between the Finnish border and the White Sea. Karelia is a low, ice-scraped plateau with a maximum elevation of 1,896 feet (578 metres), but for the most part it is below 650 feet (200 metres); low ridges and knolls alternate with lake- and marsh-filled hollows.
Hace 5 días · Princess Olga (Baptized as Yelena, d. 11 July 969), was a princess who ruled Kiev Rus after the death of her husband Igor Rurikovich as regent in 945 until approximatly 960. (English Wikipedia says that she is also called Olga Prekrasa, or Olga the Beauty, or in Old Norse: Helga, birth date estimated as 890, and rule date as being ...
Hace 5 días · However, the U.S. press continued to refer to her as the "Tin Plate Heiress", the "Dollar Princess" or the "Million Dollar Princess". When Princess Anastasia's 19-year-old son, William B. Leeds, Jr., married her husband's 18-year-old niece, Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia, in 1921, she is said to have objected because of the couple's youth.
Hace 5 días · Russia may decide to make "significant changes" to its anticipated summer offensive as Kyiv prepares to receive long-awaited military aid from the U.S., according to a new assessment. On Saturday ...
