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Stories from our cousins in the East, from Rurik the Viking and the Baptism of Rus’ to trade with Ivan the Terrible, a visit from Peter the Great, and the last Emperor.
Luka had netted a nice little haul of stolen coins and antiques,
but he could not resist stripping down the historic Icon of the Sign too.
PostedDecember 22 2021
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Naked Aggression
ByRichard Cobden
Richard Cobden told his audience in the London Tavern that however much
sabre-rattling was heard in St Petersburg, the average Russian was a man of peace.
PostedAugust 5 2021
21
Lord Great Novgorod
ByLucy Cazalet
The city of Great Novgorod in Russia was a mediaeval pioneer
of a decidedly rumbustious kind of parliamentary democracy.
PostedFebruary 26 2021
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Dmitri of the Don
ByLucy Cazalet
Grand Duke Dmitri of Moscow loosened the grip of the Tartar Horde
on the people of Russia, but treachery robbed him of triumph.
PostedNovember 8 2020
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Through Russian Eyes
By(William) John BirkbeckAndAleksei Stepanovitch Khomyakov
After a visit to England in 1847, Aleksey Khomyakov published his
impressions of our country and our people in a Moscow magazine.
PostedOctober 8 2020
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Prav’, Britaniya!
ByHerbert Bury
Herbert Bury’s duties took him back to St Petersburg after the
Russian revolution of 1917, but all he could think of was how it used to be.
