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The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary ( Russian : Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона) (35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is, in its scope and style, the Russian counterpart to the 1911 Britannica . It contains 121,240 articles

Count Dmitry Alekseyevich Milyutin (June 28, 1816, Moscow - January 25, 1912, Simeiz near Yalta ) was Minister of War (1861–81) and the last Field Marshal of Imperial Russia (1898). He was responsible for sweeping military reforms that changed the face of the Russian army in the 1860s

Saint Dimitry of Rostov (sometimes Latinized as Demetrius ) was a leading opponent of the Caesaropapist reform of the Russian Orthodox church promoted by Feofan Prokopovich . He is representative of the strong Ukrainian influence upon the Russian Orthodox Church at the turn of the 17th

Dmitry Samokvasov From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Dmitry Samokvasov. Dmitry Yakovlevich Samokvasov (1843 — 1911) was a Russian archaeologist and legal historian who excavated the Black Grave in Chernigov and several other sites

Novgorod. [ edit ] References This article incorporates material from the public domain 1906 Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary . ^ See Michael C. Paul, "Secular Power and the Archbishops of Novgorod Before the Muscovite Conquest," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian

Cemetery . [ edit ] References This article incorporates material from the public domain 1906 Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary . v   •   d   •   e People from Russia Leaders ( before 1168   · 1168–1917   · 1917–1991   · 1991–present

Mikhail Scotti From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky . 1850. Mikhail Ivanovich Scotti ( Russian : Михаил Иванович Скотти ; 1812, Saint Petersburg - 1861, Paris ) was a Russian painter of

Muslim Tatars Bulgars converted to Eastern Orthodoxy . In 1606, Hermogenes was summoned by False Dmitry I to take part in the Senate recently instituted in Moscow . There he learnt about the tsar's design to marry a Roman Catholic woman, Marina Mniszech , and firmly declared against such