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Muscovy
MUSCOVY The Russian realm that centered around Moscow until approximately 1713 to 1721 is known as Muscovy. Historians differ about when to set its beginning. Moscow is first mentioned in a chronicle under the year 1147 as part of Yuri Dolgoruky's domain. Its first important prince was Alexander... Read more |
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Borodino
Borodino , village, central European Russia, c.70 mi (110 km) W of Moscow. It was the site, on Sept. 7, 1812, of a battle between Napoleon's Grande Armée and Gen. Mikhail Kutuzov's Russian forces defending Moscow. The battle, which cost some 108,000 casualties, is described in Tolstoy's War... Read more |
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Battle of Borodino
BORODINO, BATTLE OF Borodino was the climactic battle of the Campaign of 1812, which took place on September 7. Napoleon had invaded Russia hoping to force a battle near the frontier, but he pursued when the Russian armies retreated. His efforts to force a decisive battle at Smolensk having failed,... Read more |
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich (b. Moscow, Russia, 9 December 1842; d. Dmitrov, Moscow oblast, U.S.S.R., 8 February 1921) geography. Kropotkin... Read more |
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Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
KARAMZIN, NIKOLAI MIKHAILOVICH (1766–1826), writer, historian, and journalist. Born in the Simbirsk province and educated in Moscow, Nikolai Karamzin served only briefly in the military before retiring to devote himself to intellectual pursuits. In 1789 he undertook a journey to western... Read more |
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Moscow University
MOSCOW UNIVERSITY [Moscow University] at Moscow, Russia; founded 1755 by the Russian scientist M. V. Lomonosov. It has faculties of physics, computing mathematics and cybernetics, chemistry, mechanics and mathematics, biology and soil science, geography, geology, history, philology, law,... Read more |
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Moscow State University
Moscow State University at Moscow, Russia, officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State Univ.; founded 1755 as Moscow Univ. by the Russian scientist M. V. Lomonosov , renamed Moscow State Univ. after the Russian Revolution, and renamed after its founder in 1940. It has faculties of physics,... Read more |
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Kukryniksy
Kukryniksy. A collective pseudonym of three Soviet artists who always worked together: Mikhail Kupriyanov (1903–91), Porfiry Krylov (1902–90), and Nikolai Sokolov (1903–2000). All three of them studied at Vkhutemas in Moscow. The collective produced oil paintings but was famous... Read more |
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Dubna
Dubna , town (1989 pop. 66,000), Moscow region, central European Russia, near the confluence of the Volga and Dubna rivers. Founded in 1956, it is the seat of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. The institute was established at an international conference in Moscow in 1956; its members... Read more |
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Gorky
Gorky or Gorky Leninskoye , suburb of Moscow, central European Russia. The country home of Lenin, who died there, is now a memorial museum.... Read more |
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EA Ships James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing for the Nintendo Game Boy...
...in Egypt, Peru and New Orleans, culminating in a deadly battle beneath Moscow's Red Square! Officially licensed by MGM Interactive...twenty James Bond films since 1962. The Bond films make up the most successful franchise in film history and... |
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WATCHING EUROPE AS IT REAWAKENS
...of Washington and Moscow's dominance, potentially...in Washington and Moscow; when "balkanization...The 45-year-old deadly earnest battle between Washington and Moscow, a battle ultimately...once in Europe. This ... |
 "The Moscow Times (Russia)")
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In a Bare-Bones New Staging, A Deadly Myth, THE MOSCOW TIMES
John Freedman The Moscow Times (Russia) 10-03-2003...sdrama and certainly one of Moscow's most unique acting and directing...wordless interludes of actors doing battle or interacting withprops or...mother. Levinsky and his actors make no effort to develop ... |
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U.S. Cities on Alert After Moscow Subway Bombings; Bitter Health Care Battle...
...are going to help you make important decisions...right now. Terror in Moscow. The attacks were deadly. The attackers were...long health-care battle ended when the president...beginning of the real battle. Plus, you've got... |
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Greek Cypriots in deadly battle of wills
...refuses to give in. "This pressure will not make us change our minds. The purchase has...international criticism - dismissed by Moscow as hypocritical -for stepping into the...could be cancelled only if Turkish Cypriots make progress towards agreeing a "bi-zonal... |
 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Football: We were the turkeys not Avram; CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PREMIER'S BIG FOUR...
...contrast with East Londoner Kazim-Richards, the normally deadly Drogba wasted a series of opportunities to score his fifth Champions...Fenerbahce and then of course we conceded the second one which makes things complicated. "But we have shown we have everything... |
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Russian Crisis Brings War Home; Shaken Moscow Family Awakens to Distant...
...family immediately makes it clear that not...the aftershocks of Moscow's hostage crisis...guerrillas who stormed the Moscow theater are dead...hostages killed by the deadly gas used by Russian...family is trying to make sense of the ... |
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New York gets battle plan on terror
...respond to a possible attack, in the aftermath of the deadly siege of a Moscow theater two years ago. In spring, city and federal...manpower, despite a force of roughly 37,000 that makes it the nation's largest municipal police agency... |
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Journalist in Fatal Fall Was ...
MOSCOW -- A journalist...stockpiled chemicals to make lethal explosives...militants, triggering a battle in which 15 people...landed there, and a deadly gun battle ensued...the list as the deadliest countries for the...Safety ... |
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Idaho police find two men, dead, inside church after standoff; shooter killed...
...the middle of a gun battle against Al Qaeda...after a night of deadly gunfire. It happened in the town of Moscow, population 20...voice over): The Moscow assistant police...has been with the Moscow police department...quote, "Those who ... |
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