Belarusians, also known formerly as Byelorussians, Belarussians or Belorusians, are an East Slavic ethnic group native to modern-day Belarus and the immediate region. Over 9.5 million people proclaim Belarusian ethnicity worldwide. Nearly 8 million Belarusians reside in Belarus, with the United States and Russia being home to more than half a million Belarusians each.
In Greek mythology, the Gargareans, or Gargarenses, were an all-male tribe. They copulated with the Amazons annually in order to keep both tribes reproductive. Varying accounts suggest that they may have been kidnapped, raped, and murdered for this purpose, or that they may have had relations willingly. The Amazons kept the female children, raising them as warriors, and gave the males to the Gargareans.
Circassia was a country and a historical region in the North Caucasus along the northeast shore of the Black Sea. It was destroyed and devastated after the Russian-Circassian War (1763–1864) and 90% of the Circassian people were either exiled from the region or massacred in the Circassian genocide.
The Battle of Molodi was one of the key battles of Ivan the Terrible's reign. It was fought near the village of Molodi, 40 miles (64 km) south of Moscow, in July–August 1572 between the 40,000–60,000-strong horde of Devlet I Giray of Crimea and about 23,000–25,000 Russians led by Prince Mikhail Vorotynsky. The Crimeans had burned Moscow the previous year, but this time they were thoroughly defeated.
Aleksander Onisimovich Ablesimov was a Russian opera librettist, poet, dramatist, satirist and journalist.
Oleg Nikolayevich Trubachyov was a Soviet and Russian linguist. A researcher of the etymology of Slavic languages and Slavic onomastics, specialist in historical linguistics and lexicographer. He was a Doctor of Sciences in Philological Sciences, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and served as the editor-in-chief of the Etimologiya yearbook. His works are on the etymology of Slavic languages and on East Slavic onomastics.
Wrangel's Fleet was the last remnant of the Black Sea Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy and existed from 1920 until 1924. This squadron was a "White" unit during the Russian Civil War. It was known also as the Russian Squadron.
The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, also known as MinFin, is a ministry of the Government of Russia responsible for financial policy and general management in the field of finance.
Alexander Petrovich Kotsubinsky is a prominent Russian psychiatrist, a spokesman of St. Petersburg psychiatric school.
Lev Konstantinovich Bogomolets was a Soviet Russian painter, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his landscape paintings.
Freemasonry in Russia started in the 18th century and has continued to the present day. Russian Freemasonry pursue humanistic and educational purposes, but more attention is given to ethical issues. It was a spiritual community of people united in an effort to contribute to the prosperity of the Motherland and the enlightenment of the people living in it.
Still Life with Pussy-Willows is a painting by Taisia Afonina, a Russian artist who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was a member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation and representative of the Leningrad School of Painting. The painting shows a typical table laid for tea drinking on a spring day in a Leningrad apartment in the mid-1960s.
Kórmchaia Book or Books of the Pilot or Pidalion or Nomocanon are collections of church and secular law, which constituted guide books for the management of the church and for the church court of Orthodox Slavic countries and are transmission of several old texts. It were written in Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian.
Rus' letopises or Rus’ Letopisi are the main type of Old Rus historical literature. Composed from 11th to 18th centuries the letopises are one of the leading genres Old East Slavic literature and among the most extensive monuments to it.
Maria Trubnikova (1835–1897) was a Russian philanthropist and feminist. A notable philanthropist, she was also, alongside Anna Filosofova (1837–1912) and Nadezhda Stasova (1835–1895), one of the pioneer founders and leaders of the first organised Russian women's movement.
The Lopukhin family was a noble family of the Russian Empire, forming one of the branches of the Sorokoumova-Glebov family. Eudoxia Lopukhina married Peter the Great. When Pyotr Lopukhin's son died childless, the family's princely title passed to Nikolai Petrovich Demidov-Lopukhin. The present Prince Lopukhin-Demidov is Nikolai Alexander Paul Demidoff born in 1976.
Mikhail Hryhorovych Krivoshlyk, was a Russian Journalist, Writer, editor-publisher and State Councillor.
Alexander Ivanovich Vakhrameyev was a Russian painter.
The Circassian Revolution refers to a series of revolts by Circassian farmers which resulted in the most developed regions of Circassia abandoning social classes and switching to democracy.
The Siege of Anapa was a siege that took place on June 22 (O.S) 1791 when the Russian Empire attacked the Turkish-regulated Anapa fort in Circassia as part of the Russo-Turkish War and the Russo-Circassian War.
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