пятница, 30 октября 2009 г.

RUSSIAN JEANNE D’ARC

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This edition of the program is devoted to an extraordinary woman – Maria Bochkareva — better known in the West as the Russian Jeanne D’Arc. ...
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четверг, 29 октября 2009 г.

“TO HIT NOT IN THE EYEBROW, BUT IN THE EYE”

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By Lyubov Tsarevskaya “Vivid and precise, the Russian language abounds in proverbs. There are tens of thousands of them. They fly from one c...
вторник, 27 октября 2009 г.

THE SENATE SQUARE

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In the year 1782 a monument to Peter the Great, the founder of St.Petersburg, was erected on the Senate Square west of the Admiralty. Domina...
пятница, 23 октября 2009 г.

Dr.Evgeny Botkin

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(image from www.pravoslavie.ru) Dr. Evgeny Botkin (1865-1918) It is hard to imagine a physician who took the Hippocratic Oath more seriously...
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четверг, 15 октября 2009 г.

GREAT RUSSIAN POET MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

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In February 1837 Russia mourned the death of its most beloved poet Alexander Pushkin. In those days, so full of sorrow, the attention of the...
среда, 14 октября 2009 г.

Famous modern russian composer-Alexey Rybnikov

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Born: July 17, 1945 Composer Aleksei Rybnikov has always boasted non-conventional thinking and original approach: he is the author of the ...
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THE BEGINNING OF STALINISM

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By Tatyana Shvetsova It is hard to say just what kind of policy the Soviet government would have been conducting, if its founder, Vladimir L...
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