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11.10.2004 - The Emancipation Manifesto, March 3 1861
By the Grace of God We, Alexander Il, Emperor and Autocrat of All Russia, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Finland, and so forth, make known to all Our faithful subjects: Called by Divine Providence and by the sacred right of inheritance to the throne of Our Russian ancestors, We vowed in Our heart to fulfil t ...
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11.10.2004 - Molotov: Reaction to German Invasion of 1941
Vyacheslav Molotov (1889-1986), Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union Citizens of the Soviet Union: The Soviet Government and its head, Comrade Stalin, have authorized me to make the following statement: Today at 4 o’clock a.m., without any claims having been presented to the Soviet Union, without a decla ...
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11.10.2004 - Russian Orthodox Church (Historical Background)
The Russian Orthodox Church is more than one thousand years old. According to tradition, St. Andrew the First Called, while preaching the gospel, stopped at the Kievan hills to bless the future city of Kiev. The fact that Russia had among her neighbors a powerful Christian state, the Byzantine Empire, very mu ...
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08.10.2004 - Abdication of Nikolai II, March 15, 1917
By the Grace of God, We, Nikolai II, Emperor of All the Russias, Tsar of Poland, Grand Duke of Finland, and so forth, to all our faithful subjects be it known: In the days of a great struggle against a foreign enemy who has been endeavouring for three years to enslave our country, it pleased God to send Russ ...
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08.10.2004 - Russia’s historical background
Breaking the ice Moscow’s first inhabitants arrived in the Palaeolithic era (about 2.5m years ago), when ice blanketed much of Europe. These ancient hunters used the bone, skin and flesh of woolly mammoths to survive harsh conditions. When the icecaps retreated northwards in the Mesolithic era (8000-2700BC), ...
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08.10.2004 - Will of Peter the Great
In which he prescribes to his successors the course which they ought to follow, in order to acquire universal dominion In the name of the most holy and indivisible Trinity, we, Peter the Great, unto all our descendants and successors to the throne and government of the Russian nation. The All-Powerful, fro ...
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08.10.2004 - The Battle at Stalingrad
After the Germans failed to win the war totally in 1941, they decided to start a fresh effort, and hoped that this would lead to victory. This effort eventually led to the city of Stalingrad in 1942. Different from the the three pronged attack of the previous year, this one had two spearheads. One from Khar ...
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08.10.2004 - “I see Earth! It’s so beautiful”
“I see Earth! It’s so beautiful” These are the first words from spoken a man in space (Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin from the Vostok 1, April 12, 1961) On March 9, 1934, a boy was born in the country-side west of Moscow. His name was Yuri Gagarin. He grew up on a collective farm, where his father worked as a car ...
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08.10.2004 - Programme of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1905
In its cultural and social relations, contemporary Russia increasingly enters into closer and closer ties with the advanced countries of the civilised world, while at the same time it preserves a number of peculiarities that have been formulated by the course of its past history, its local conditions, and its ...
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08.10.2004 - Prince Oleg’s Campaign Against Constantinople
904-907 (6412-6415) Leaving Igor in Kiev, Oleg attacked the Greeks. He took with him a multitude of Varangians, Slavs, Chuds, Krivichians, Merians, Polianians, Severians, Derevlians, Radimichians, Croats, Dulebians, and Tivercians, who are Torks. All these tribes are known as Great Scythia by the Greeks. With ...
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