Alexei could well join the legion of Alex names popular in the US. There are countless opportunities to liven up Alexander, and Alexei (or Alexey) is one of the most straightforward and appealing. Alexei Continued Valentin Origin: French, German, Russian, Czech, Scandinavian variation of Valentin...
Most Russian people have three names: a first name, a patronymic, and a surname. The first name and the surname (last name) are self-explanatory. Those are similar to American cultural naming traditions. The difference is that instead of amiddle name, the child gets a name referring to hi...
the frequency of first names is calculated based on the statistics of the most popular male baby names in Moscow (see here) and the most popular female baby names in Moscow (see
According to Alexander HIll, the Soviet Union fielded 33 FT tanks during the Interwar period, most of which were previously captured from the White forces. The commencement of serial production of the “Russian Renault” occurred concurrently with the gradual conclusion of the Civil War, which culm...
When the chief procurator of the Holy Synod, Konstantin Pobedonostsev saw the Repin’s famous painting at the exhibition he was outraged and wrote to Emperor Alexander III: “You cannot call this picture historical, it is pure fiction.” ...
Thanks to Alexander Zamyatin for the heads-up. Translated by theRussian Reader hecksinductionhouracademics,economy,education,labor,leftists,migrants,nationalism,protest,putinism,regions,religion,solidarityLeave a commentMay 3, 201915 Minutes Mark Teeter: Turn on the News ...
An analysis of those indicators within the major SOE sample provides a better understanding of the trend towards an increasing share of the public sector in the economy, allows to compare the scale of the state's presence as an owner of major companies with similar indicators in other countries...
The Mongols even governed the succession of Vladimir, installing Alexander's brothers ahead of him, and then deposing his brother Andrew when Alexander denounced him for disloyalty. Although a loyal agent of the Mongols, even journeying to Mongolia to see the Great Khān, the canonized Alexander...
— How did you react when one of the people involved in the attack, Alexander Zenin, who had been in hiding for twelve years, was detained in 2018? — I laughed. He had been living in Pesochny the whole time. During that time he had managed to have two children, but the police ha...
But in the German-language context too, the editor of two volumes on the relation of myth and literature in antique culture (Bierl 2007) wrote a long preface without even mentioning the names of Viacheslav Ivanov, Vladimir Toporov, or Eleazar Meletinskii.A work of basic importance for the ...