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Leo Tolstoy with his family at tea in a park, 1892. Press photo. After the 1917 revolution, many of the writer's offspring left the country, so these days the descendants of the author of War and ...
1 day ago · Still, the memories are there. It happened on March 11, 2022, at the height of Russia's siege of Mariupol, the biggest Ukrainian city on the Sea of Azov in the south. When the attack began, Anna, Pavel and Lera moved in with Anna's mother. The house had a wooden stove and its own water supply – everything needed for survival, so they thought.
1 day ago · A rising star at the Russian Defense Ministry once said she saved a coal company from the verge of bankruptcy by building an ice rink to lift spirits in the area. What Anna Tsivileva left unsaid ...
1 day ago · Russia’s Black Sea Marines, for example, have been moved to Kursk from the Kherson region of Ukraine, where the front has long followed the difficult-to-breach Dnipro River, Mr. Kuznets said. ...
3 days ago · Alexandra Feodorovna (Russian: Александра Фёдоровна; 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1872 – 17 July 1918), Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine at birth, was the last Empress of Russia as the consort of Emperor Nicholas II from their marriage on 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March [O.S. 2 March] 1917.
12 hours ago · In Russia, the Defence Ministry said air defence shot down 11 drones over Moscow and its surrounding region. The attack was one of the biggest on Moscow since the start of the war in 2022.
2 days ago · Russia is pretty chill about the mpox threat. Anna Popova, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian consumer protection watchdog, said there is no risk of mpox spreading in Russia, hinting that's because incidence is higher among gay people. “Considering the specifics of how mpox is spread, I am ...
