Moscow Kremlin

The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, popularly known as St. Basil Cathedral, is located in Moscow Russia. The Cathedral goes by many names but one of the first official names came from the capture of Kazan that occurred on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin. The Russians called it Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat. It later became known as what we call it today. The construction began in 1555 and was completed in 1561. For reasons unknown there was a fire that had…

died. Roman´s father, a builder, also died in 1969 as a result of accident at the construction site. A child became an orphan. At first, he lived in the family of his uncle, Leib Abramovich, in small town Ukhta, which is 700 kilometres away from Moscow. Roman was growing up together with Leib´s two own daughters. They lived in an one-bedroom apartment and then received a two-bedroom apartment. Leib Abramovich was the head of the enterprise called “Ukhtales” and therefore Roman´s…

The framework provided by cooperation of Moscow and Beijing during the early 1950s was transforming China into a socialist state along the Soviet model. After Stalin’s death in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev as Stalin’s successor, however, sought to relieve the tensions with the west and embarked on the…

The next source is a fragment from the Piskarev Chronicle, in which the oprichnina is depicted as division of towns, Boyars and courtiers as a punishment ‘from God through the fury of the tsar for the sins of people.’ In the passage, the clique of Ivan IV who were instrumental in the implementation of the new order such as Vasilii Mikhailov Iur’ev and Aleksei Basmanov are represented as ‘evil men.’ The source also mentions that the tsar resided beyond the river in Petrovka, and his special corps…

This essay is about the defeat of the Russian Tsars during the twentieth century. A tsar is an autocratic ruler or leader. It all started on the year 1917 the date November 6 and 7. During the year 1917 it was the year of explosive political events. The leader of the Bolshevik Party was Vladimir Lenin. During that year there was a provisional government had been assembled by a group of leaders from the Russia’s bourgeois capitalist class. Lenin seized power and destroyed the tradition of…

The video starts with a large riot near the Kremlin or the heart of Moscow. Clearly, the message is to show distain for the current president of Russia, Vladimir Putin. As the police push the crowd further away from the center of town, the riot continues to denounce Putin. The riots began, because Alexei Navalny…

Borodino, Napoleon personally led the Central French army in crossing the Niemen River when nearly 286,000 people, but at the beginning of the campaign but only 161,475 people, most of the soldiers died of hunger and disease. Other most famous is Moscow fire in September 1812, September 7, the French army with the Russian defense…

The Post-Revisionist Perspective The Cold War describes the ironic relationship that emerged post World War Two between the United States and the Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The word ironic is appropriate in describing the relationship as the two fought together during the Second World War in opposition to the Axis powers to help defeat Nazi Germany. This would reasonably lead one to believe that the relationship post-war would have been one of unity given…

is more centralized. As Ivan was trying to increase the borders of Russia, he was able to defeat the Kazan army. When Ivan was able to defeat the Kazan, he decides to commission the construction of a Catholic church called St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow. Ivan was also able to expand the Russian Empire to Siberia. Siberia was reached in the natural resources like mountains and trees, and it was providing a vast natural resource that was not found in Russia…

The administration made sure that a nuclear war wouldn’t take place, instead they found a way to make the Soviet Union lost their income. They did it so that the Soviet Union wouldn’t outdo the United States. Reagan's organization arrange toward Moscow began soon after the begin of his first term and denoted a noteworthy takeoff from the mellow tranquility of the Jimmy Carter administration. In 1981, Reagan supported his rhetoric with a trillion-dollar barrier development. U.S.- Soviet arms…