Football – the most popular and massive game sport in the world, the interest of fans to which sometimes simply staggering. According to statistics, almost 3 billion inhabitants of the planet are involved in football to some extent, and the mundial (from the Copa Mundial de Fútbol – World Cup) has long been a major […]
Category Archives: People
You probably noticed that many English names are very similar to the Russian ones. Did this happen by chance, or is it all about cultural borrowing? Where did the similar Russian and European names come from? The fact is that many names of European origin have a single cultural source. Slavic names that existed in […]
Visa-free entry, free trains around the country and the opportunity to see the best teams of the world and 11 cities of Russia – foreign fans have heard about such opportunities. But several friends from abroad wrote to us at once, who do not understand how this will all work: “Now to get FAN-ID?” Como […]
History of the Romanov dynasty can be read as a detective. At every step – their white spots. The origin of the dynasty, the story of the emblem and the circumstances of their accession to the throne all this still causes ambiguous interpretations of historians. 1. Prussian origin dynasty. The ancestor of the Romanov dynasty […]
Only one nation in the Russian language is called an adjective. And this … Russian. Why it happened and where do come from this word? We will investigate. The Vikings? According to today’s most popular theory, the word “Russian” has Scandinavian roots. Based on this assumption the “Tale of Bygone Years”. That’s what Nestor wrote […]
The territory of Russia is large and diverse. At its vastness beautiful in its multifaceted nature and magnificent buildings, the creation of Russian civilization. In addition, the site of the largest countries in the world have sheltered dozens of different peoples. This is – the greatest wealth of incredible hospitality of the state. We know […]
Ivan Susanin – a folk hero, a symbol of “peasant” loyalty to the king. For 400 years, the name and the legend of the miraculous salvation of the first sovereign of the Romanov dynasty became a part of folklore. Where did you learn? The history of the heroic deeds of Ivan Susanin till XIX century […]
Catherine II was so sure that it will revive the Byzantine Empire that even a grandson named Constantine, and was preparing to give him power. Annexation of the Crimea was part of this ambitious project. Fall of an Empire. May 30, 1453 can be considered the date of closure of Byzantium. That same day, after […]
“Hindustan is ours” and “Russian soldiers washing their boots in the Indian Ocean” – it could become a reality in the distant 1801, when Paul I, together with Napoleon attempted the conquest of India. Impregnable Asia. How successful was on the development of Russian East, just as it proved to be unsuccessful in the south. […]
Several centuries enthusiasts and adventurers unsuccessfully search the library of Ivan the Terrible. Serious scientists impress – search meaningless. But hope still remains. Birth of a legend. Leave a trace in the history of two ways: to create something brilliant or mess things up something crazy. But if a person is not able to be […]
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