Tag History of Russia
Did Tyutchev spoke about the “frantic hatred”, which “was kindled in the West against Russia”?
Is it true that Russia never waged offensive wars?
Is it true that there is a lifetime sculptural portrait of Ivan the Terrible?
Is it true that the expression “keep in the hedgehog mittens” is associated with the head of the NKVD Ezhov?
Is it true that Dmitry Mendeleev saw his table of periodic elements in a dream?
Did Peter I issue a decree that “the trade in the subsoil is an venerable thieves' case”?
Did Trotsky say: “We must turn Russia into a desert inhabited by white blacks”?
Did Anna Akhmatova say that under Stalin “half the country was sitting, half the country planted”?
Is it true that the encyclopedia of Larousse says that Ivan the Terrible was nicknamed Vasilyevich for his cruelty?
Is it true that Peter I established the medal "For drunkenness"?
