Tajikistan's president Emomali Rahmon at the Igora resort in the Leningrad Region, Russia, Tuesday, Dec 24, 2024 ...

Did you know both the chess masters - Romanovsky and Rabinovich - called in their moves by telephone to coordinators on site, and the latter used megaphones to command the human chess pieces.

The textbooks written by the head of the Russian delegation that negotiated with Ukraine in Istanbul last week extol the ...

A favorite partner of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolf Nureyev, she was blocked from major international tours at the peak of her career after her free-spirited personal style angered the Kremlin.

Later known as Leningrad (in the former USSR), the city is closely associated with the October Revolution. Its architectural heritage reconciles the very different Baroque and pure neoclassical styles ...

Held in the imperial Livadia Palace, the meeting shaped Europe’s geopolitical ... Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh “Leningrad” Symphony, a work that became a musical manifesto of resistance to Nazism, ...

“He had,” comments Pears, “a far better companion to talk to.” The couple were married in Leningrad’s Palace of Marriages on 10 August 1965. In England, Salmina reinvented herself as a ...

The Winter Palace is widely believed to have suffered ... The cradle of the Russian Revolution, St Petersburg, was renamed Leningrad in his honour. Lenin taught generations of Soviet children ...

The only determined defenders of the palace were the members of a female ... After the First World War, the city became Leningrad. Unlike most other major cities, it lacked an agricultural ...

Salmina and Haskell marrying at Leningrad’s Palace of Marriages in 1965 In the end one wonders if Francis’s gloom could only have been alleviated by someone as relentlessly positive as Larissa.

The siege of Leningrad was the longest siege in the history of modern warfare. It lasted 872 days but is colloquially known as the 900-day siege. Leningrad’s population of 2.5 million was ...

Leningrad under siege was a pitiless place ... The samples were wrapped in tissue paper and transported to the institute, housed in a former palace. By 1933, the collection was ‘unrivalled in ...