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Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He was known as one of the most important and influential composers in the 20th century. His father, Fyodor Stravinsky (1843-1902) was a well known bass player and his mother Anna (1854-1939) was a native Kiev. Stravinsky had two wives. The first one was his first cousin. They have known each other since their early childhood. Her name was Yekaterina Gabrielovna Nossenko. They were married from 1906 to 1939. His second wife was Vera de Bosset. They…

for the expansion, the Vikings chaos and destruction led to the establishment of Normandy, after this they set out to conquer England, and later southern Italy and Sicily. They also went eastward and settled the first russian state centered around Kiev and later the Byzantine empire. The Byzantine empire brought Christianity, architecture and the Cyrillic alphabet. All of this is elements of the russian culture. To the west, they founded a state in Iceland, continued across the Atlantic and…

Despite all the bad things that came out of the Fall of the Roman Empire, it made an impact on other regions. One change that resulted from the fall of the western half of the Roman Empire was the imperial power shifted to the Byzantine Empire, that is, the eastern part of the Roman Empire, with its capital at Constantinople. (Doc.3 ) After the fall of Rome the Middle Ages went through the Dark Ages and the Byzantine Empire became the rich center of trade. During the Dark Ages learning and…

On December 1941, Germans forces marched close to Moscow. While Josef Stalin was preoccupied about inside loyalty, the Germans drew near the heart of the Soviet Union. Germany’s leader, Adolf Hitler, had broken the Nazi Soviet non-aggression pact, which involved splitting Poland in half and not attacking each other. Stalin believed that while Germany was invading Britain they would not invade Russia, because Hitler had written about avoiding a two front war. Stalin carelessly believed that…

pursuing career in medical field. I decided to choose a degree in psychology instead. During the college years my main areas of interest were medical psychology and behavioral medicine. I was offered an internship position as a Psychologist in one of the Kiev hospitals where I researched quality of life of patients who suffer from kidney failure and receive treatment by hemodialysis. During this project…

founded by the Rus Viking, Ulrich. 866 - Danish Vikings establish a kingdom in York, England. 871 - Alfred the Great becomes king of Wessex; the Danish advance is halted in England. 872 - Harald I gains control of Norway. 879 - Rurik establishes Kiev as the center of the Kievan Rus' domains. 886 - Alfred divides England with the Danes under the Danelaw pact. 900 - The Vikings raid along the Mediterranean coast. 911 - The Viking chief Rollo is…

learning about the death of a Russian child. The Jews are blamed for the murder of this child, claiming it to be a ritual murder (or a religious sacrifice). Yakov is frightened, fearing that the police will accuse him because he lives in the city of Kiev, where Jews are forbidden to live in. The book subsequently proceeds to tell the story of Yakov’s life 6-8 months before the timeline in the first chapter. The authors captures the reader’s attention by going back in time, before Yakov’s…

into confinement, to be deported to further East. It is also said that the Germans killed over 65,000 Polish intelligentsia, noblemen, clergy, and teachers, by the end of 1939 to destroy the identity of Poland. But the final blow came in 1941 when Kiev became the site of one of the worst Nazi mass murders of the Holocaust. About 34,000 Jews were rounded up and killed in the ravines of Bai Yar, Ukraine. It is estimated that anything between 100,000 to 150,000 people were killed at Babi Yar during…

who produced Trigger Happy TV with him, and drive all the way from Dallas to New York. People in America were not as friendly and were rather nasty. Joly was questioned at the immigration on why he would want to visit a place like Iran. Going to Kiev in Ukraine was an enjoyable experience for Joly. The country was a full of life and great city. He went to Chernobyl to see the heart of the nuclear explosion zone and what a day in the 1986 under the old Soviet regime is. Cambodia was Joly’s…

term, invading and destroying the Soviet Union would annihilate Britain’s last hope for survival. This operation consisted of a three pronged attack on Russia’s three major economy driving cities. The German army would attack Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev in hopes to defeat Russia’s military and to cause an economic collapse of the Soviet state. Although the Germans had much success, they would later suffer a great amount of casualties and slowly erode their progress. The final key theme that we…