and loads of Kalibrs. They fell very close, they were right above our building. The building shook – several explosions, one after the other. For the first time in the war there was a white glow, the sky was white from the explosions...
In 1915 the Germans captured Lithuania-proper during the First World War. In 1917 Russia surrendered to Germany (after the war hardships led to a revolution in Russia) and renounced any claims to the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, while the subsequent German losses in the Western Front led...
In former times they lived in Poland, eventually ending up in the western part of the Russian Empire — approximately where the borders of Poland, Belarus and Ukraine now meet, near the Western Bug River. The Golendras are Lutherans by religion, their prayer book is in Polish and they hav...
Alexander rather than Aleksandr); d. surnames ending with "-skii" are given throughout as "sky" (for example, Zabolotsky rather than Zabolotskii). A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATIONS In compiling an anthology, space considerations always impose difficult choices. This is true ...
There are different types of surnames in Russia: some end with -in (as in Putin); while others end with -sky [which in Russian is spelled ‘ий’] (as in Tchaikovsky). But the most widespread surname ending has the suffix -ov (as in Chekhov). ...
According to Kurlyandsky, the Institute of Russian History, one of the principal historical research institutions in Russia, with many wonderful scholars on its staff, is itself a beggar. “It literally has no money for anything. The state hardly finances it. Of course, for many years, its ...