The Crimean Peninsula, claimed and de facto administered by Russia, is recognized as territory of Ukraine by a majority of UN member nations.; The Belavezha Accords was signed in Brest, Belarus on December 8, creating the Commonwealth of Independent States in which the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR ratified the accords on …
Russian literature: Russian literature, the body of written works produced in the Russian language, beginning with the Christianization of Kievan Rus in …
Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi. We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
Pasternak – Selected Poems in downloadable translation. ‘February. Take ink and weep,’ February. Take ink and weep, write February as you’re sobbing,
Classification. Russian is an East Slavic language of the wider Indo-European family.It is a lineal [citation needed] descendant of the language used in Kievan Rus’, a loose conglomerate of East Slavic tribes from the late 9th to the mid 13th centuries.
Be inspired by these Russian Proverbs. Passed down from generation to generation the words still apply today.
Anna Akhmatova – Selected Poems in downloadable English translation
COLLECTION OF POEMS BY Aleksandr Pushkin (Born 1799, Died 1837) (Translations from Russian)
Dead Souls: Dead Souls, novel by Nikolay Gogol, published in Russian as Myortvye dushi in 1842. This picaresque work, considered one of the world’s finest satires, traces the adventures of the landless social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune.
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