It also didn’t help that when Nicholas left Petrograd to join the troops, he left behind his German wife, Czarina Alexandra, whose brusque demeanor and distaste for Russianculture made her unpopularwith the Russian populace. The Romanovs visiting a regiment during World War I, c. 1917. L-...
The Russian Revolution was part of it: it included a third instance of a nation executed its monarch without pretending that he was anything other than the lawful monarch, and it also involved a radical new creed, one that included official atheism without any babble about a ‘Supreme Being’...
We arrived in Austria in mid-February to clear weather and a decent snowpack in the high mountains despite nearly no snow in the valleys. As with 2019, the lack of funding and the dispersed nature of our group meant that many racers were meeting each other for the first time at the Muni...
Right Sector is already a dead movement nobody cares about. Azov regiment is just about a thousand people who at worst might beat some rando up while off-service. Remember when a year ago a crowd of armed white nationalists attempted a coup and Trump was totally ok with that?
Though Christianity had won many converts since Olga's rule, Vladimir had remained a thoroughgoing pagan, taking eight hundred concubines (besides numerous wives) and erecting pagan statues and shrines to gods. He may have attempted to reform Slavic paganism by establishing the thunder-god, Perun...
There is a bit of mixed messaging that has been going on, especially in the last few weeks. Are there significant numbers of Nazis in Ukraine and are these “bad” or “good” Nazis in the context that they are fighting the Russian “invaders”?
Eleven black veterans were lynched in the south. Garvey began publishing the Negro World Newspaper with an eye towards distributing it to black people throughout the Atlantic World. When the West Indian Regiment staged a mutiny in Italy after being ordered to clean the white troops’ latrines,...
Patton, along with a host of American officers and troops of the 328th Regiment, 26th Infantry Division, watches a special performance of the Lipizzaners on August 21, 1945. (National Archives) But why—when there was so much destruction, so much loss and pain, so much left to be done—...
Antonina's modes of speech have been retained in the Russian version of the transcript and they are reflected in this translation. 17.03.2004 Cassette nr. 1, side A - How my parents brought me up! They made me so… well, actually, only my mother was a believer. My father, on the ...