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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

The right of using the hunting grounds in Russia was once granted to every social class. The right of the nobility was even sometimes limited by agreements with others regarding hunting grounds. The hawkers and separate persons who dealt with hounds , beavers , black grouses , hares , etc

Count Nikita Moiseevich Zotov [ 1 ] ( Russian : Никита Моисеевич Зотов ) (1644 [ 2 ]  – December 1717 [ 3 ] ) was a childhood tutor and life-long friend of Russian Tsar Peter the Great . Historians disagree on the quality of Zotov's tutoring. Robert K. Massie , for

Vladimir Kovalevsky was born to the middle-class family of a retired army major on 9 November 1848, in Novo-Serpukhov (currently Balakliia ) in the Zmiyov uyezd of the Kharkov Governorate . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was brought up in the Poltava Military School. In August 1865, he entered the Konstantinov

Liepāja is known throughout Latvia as "The city where the wind is born", possibly because of the constant sea breeze. A song of the same name ( Latvian : Pilsētā, kurā piedzimst vējš ) was composed by Imants Kalniņš and has become the anthem of the city. The reputation of Liepāja

History of Ukraine. http://www.hf.uib.no/Andre/vesti/ukrainehistory.htm ^ http://dic.academic ru /dic.nsf/enc_biography/133167/%D0%AE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 , ^ The Ems Ukase as a reflection of Russia's Ukrainian policy. ^ http://www.zn.ua/3000/3150/7038/ ^ http:

and the corresponding toponyms indicate their origin, such as Ogorodnaya Sloboda Lane, Moscow ( ru :Переулок Огородная Слобода ). The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary writes that by the end of the 19th century a sloboda was a large village with more