Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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
Vladimir Kovalevsky
arrest relating to the business of Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky . [ 3 ] [ edit ] After release Vladimir Kovalevsky as a member of the All-Russian Industrial Exposition in Nizhniy Novgorod Once freed, Kovalevsky began living on his parents' property in the Kharkov Governorate . In
Andrey II of Vladimir
and Alexander went to Karakorum in Mongolia , where Andrey was appointed the next Grand Duke of Vladimir by Guyuk khan. On their return to Russia two years later, they found that the Russian capital had been seized by their young brother Mikhail Khorobrit . The latter, however, was killed
Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky
The surname Muravyov has also been transcribed as Muravyev or Murav'ev . [ 1 ] [ edit ] Early life and career Nikolay Muravyov was born in St. Petersburg . He graduated from the Page Corps in 1827. He participated in the Siege of Varna in the Russo-Turkish War in 1828–1829, and later
Aleksey Uvarov
writers and historians. Uvarov's activities as a field archaeologist began with visits to Rostov , Vladimir , Chernigov and other centres of Kievan Rus . Starting in 1854, he excavated the Meryan -Norse settlement at Sarskoe Gorodishche . He summarized his findings in The Meryans and Their
Andrey of Staritsa
1533 , he married a Gedyminid Princess, Euphrosinia Andreyevna Khovanskaya. Their only child, Vladimir , was born later that year. Next month, however, Vasily died. After 40 days of mourning, Andrey applied to his widow Elena Glinskaya for extension of his demesnes. Elena denied him that
Battle of the Sit River
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1238 between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Rus' people under Grand Prince Yuri II of Vladimir -Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus . After the Mongols sacked his capital of Vladimir , Yuri fled across the Volga northward, to Yaroslavl , where he hastily mustered an army
Biritch
end of the 17th century. [ 1 ] The Laurentian Codex mentions under the year of 992 that knyaz Vladimir of Kiev , when looking for a volunteer to fight a Pecheneg baghatur have sent a birich in regiments. Later tsars of Muscovy announced various ukases via biriches. Heads of the Church
Russkoye Ustye
to spend a winter there in 1739 when his boat was stuck in the ice. A Socialist Revolutionary Vladimir Zenzinov gave an account of the village visited by him in the early 1900s, during his Siberian exile. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It was only between 1928 (when a schoolhouse was built, and a schoolteacher
Perm State University
Paul Henckel, Russian biologist . Founder of Perm State University Botanical gardens. Author of Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary . Augustinas Voldemaras , first Prime Minister of Lithuania in 1918 Boris Grekov , Soviet historian Boris Schwanwitsch , Russian-Soviet entomologist
