We talked a bit about the future, about [their] prospects. I wrote down a few requests. I promised to bring Paralympic athletes to the hospital so that the servicemen could discuss starting sports careers with them if they wished. I am sure that if these guys—with their energy, endurance...
In fact, this entertainment, starting with the historical series of the noughties (the TV adaptations of Rybakov’s Children of the Arbat and even Solzhenitsyn’s The First Circle) was a story about the tons of blood spilled by the Stalinist state. However, on screen, this blood was, figur...
The Roman Catholic Church was persecuted, with some church buildings torn down and some others handed over to the Russian Orthodox church. New Russian Orthodox churches sprung in the New Towns of the largest cities. The Uniates, regarded as schismatic Orthodoxes, were disbanded altogether. Mikhail...
Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges. David L. Gold, special consultant for Jewish names.A Dictionary of Surnames.New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. This reference work includes a large number of Jewish, Russian and German names. Especially useful is the index which links the variants, equiva...
An intriguing thing about Russian words is that Russian native words do not start with the letterA. Apart from two exceptions, other words starting with A are probably of a foreign origin. Unlike most other surnames, Russian surnames have a gender. If you have read any of the Russ...
* Although the Yabloko Party‘s name was derived from the surnames of its three founders (Grigory Yavlensky, Yuri Boldyrev, and Vladimir Lukin), the word thus formed, yabloko, means “apple” in Russian. |||TRR Source: Ekaterina Barabash, “Playing the victim: the Schlosberg incident as ...
A people called the Golendry (translated presumably as “Hollanders,”“Dutch”) has been living in the remote Siberian taiga for more than a century. The people speaks a mix of Belarusian and Ukrainian, prays in Polish, and has German surnames. They live in the Zalari District of Irkutsk...
What’s more, all the victims gave the names of those who had treated them so brutally. They said that the perpetrators – police officers, prison staff or Committee of National Security operatives – very often made no attempt to cover up their identities. Their first names and surnames are...
Dmitriev has compiled a list of the surnames of those executed: there are over 6,200 names on the list. Flige was reluctant to discuss new hypotheses about the executions in the Medvezhyegorsk District. According to her, superfluous mentions of the conjectures there could have been other ...