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Russia Volgograd
Stalingrad, Volgograd/Russia See Volgograd.... Read more |
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Russian Americans
RUSSIAN AMERICANS by Paul Robert Magocsi Overview Since the second half of the nineteenth century, Russia has been the largest country in the world, stretching from the plains of eastern Europe across Siberia as far as the shores of the Pacific Ocean. For centuries, Russia has straddled... Read more |
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Richard Chancellor
Richard Chancellor d. 1556, English navigator. When, largely under the inspiration of Sebastian Cabot , a group of men in England undertook to finance a search for the Northeast Passage to Asia, Chancellor was chosen as second in command under Sir Hugh Willoughby. They sailed in 1553, and... Read more |
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Ten Days That Shook the World
Ten Days That Shook the World, history by John Reed, published in 1919. A dramatization by Robert E. Lee was produced in 1973.A reportorial, firsthand, and sympathetic account of the November Revolution in Russia (1917), when, as the author puts it, “the Bolsheviki, at the head of the... Read more |
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William Frederick Yeames
Yeames, William Frederick (b Taganrog, Russia, 18 Dec. 1835; d Teignmouth, Devon, 3 May 1918). British painter. He was born in Russia, where his father was a British consul, had part of his education in Dresden, and moved to London in 1848. He specialized in scenes from British history,... Read more |
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Ilya Yefimovich Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin , 1844-1930, Russian historical and genre painter and sculptor. He studied in St. Petersburg and abroad and became the foremost representative of the realistic style in Russia. In his Volga Boatmen, The Arrest of a Political Offender, and The Terrorists Repin expressed... Read more |
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Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison , 1792-1871, British geologist. He served in the Napoleonic Wars but after the peace turned his attention to science. In the 1830s he undertook the investigation of previously undifferentiated rock strata in Wales and England; as a result of his researches he established... Read more |
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Louis Gruenberg
Louis Gruenberg , 1884-1964, American composer, b. Russia; pupil of Busoni. After concert tours as a pianist in Europe and America, he settled in the United States as a composer in 1919. A champion of modern music, he helped found (1923) the League of Composers and was one of the first American... Read more |
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Thomas Banks
Thomas Banks 1735-1805, English neoclassical sculptor, studied at the Royal Academy. A traveling scholarship enabled him to study in Rome from 1772 to 1779. In 1781 he went to Russia, where Catherine II bought his Cupid Catching a Butterfly and commissioned his Armed Neutrality. On his return... Read more |
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battle of Copenhagen
battle of Copenhagen 1801, an important incident of the French Revolutionary Wars . In Dec., 1800, Denmark joined Russia, Sweden, and Prussia in declaring the armed neutrality of the northern powers in the French Revolutionary Wars and in announcing that they would not comply with the British... Read more |
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...produced by Robert Stigwood - and...prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, between...intact; only the picture collection has...the Great of Russia by Walpole...Besides the Walpoles and Cholmondeleys...velvet, which ... |
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Stately grandeur
...Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, was...enforced sale of the pictures to Catherine...identifiable pictures. Not only do...since none of the pictures on loan retain...Walpole's doomed picture collection that...descendants ... |