On This Day
Notable events on this day in Russian history
1800: Alexander Suvorov, general, died
1868: Nikholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, born
1868: Tsar Nicholas II, eldest son of Tsar Alexander III, was born.
1896: Stampede at Nicholas II's coronation celebration
1935: The Maxim Gorky, a massive, 206-foot wingspan behemoth of an airplane, crashes after a tragic mid-air collision.
1944: Crimean Tatars deported to Siberia.
1944: In the Soviet Union, the expulsion began of more than 200,000 Tatars from the Crimea. They were accused of collaboration with the Germans.
1977: The United States, Soviet Union and 29 other nations signed a U.N. pact banning artificial use of the weather as a weapon of war, pledging never to attack each other by triggering storms, earthquakes or tidal waves.
Featured Articles
- February 29, 2012
- Alexander Herzen
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- By Ilya Ovchinnikov
The Russian writer Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was born in Moscow on March 25, 1812 (April 6, New Style). Thanks to a famous phrase from Lenin’s “In Memory of Herzen” – “The Decembrists awakened Herzen. Herzen began the task of revolutionary agitation.” – everyone who grew up in the Soviet Union knew Herzen’s name, whether or not they had ever read a line of his work.
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literature,
revolution
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- August 14, 2008
- Suppressed Testament of Lenin - pt. 13
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Radek as a Source of Information
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lenin,
trotsky,
politics
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- September 3, 2001
- Soviet Foreign Policy
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- By Linda DeLaine
A series of articles which deal with Soviet foreign policy. In Part One, we make our way through a series of treaties, pacts and secret alliances during the years leading up to WWII and Germany's attack on Russia.
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stalin,
soviet union,
politics
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- February 22, 2000
- Yeltsin's Surprise Resignation
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- By Linda DeLaine
On New Year's Eve, 1999, while many braced for a possible Y2K disaster, Boris Yeltsin resigned as president of the Russian Federation leaving a little known prime minister in charge.
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russia,
yeltsin,
resignation
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- August 16, 2007
- Yeltsin's Death
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A review of the life and work of Boris Yeltsin.
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yeltsin,
death,
president,
russia
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Coming Events
from our online database
In the Search of an Absolute: Art of Valery Yurlov (New Brunswick, NJ), From December 03, 2011 to
June 03, 2012.
From Thaw to Meltdown: Soviet Painting of the 1950s-1980s (Minneapolis, MN), From February 25, 2012 to
September 15, 2012.
Sculptures by Naum Mogilevsky (Minneapolis, MN), From March 03, 2012 to
July 15, 2012.
Ted Vasin: Poison Bliss (Miami, FL), From April 14, 2012 to
June 06, 2012.
New Russian Film: ELENA (New York, NY), From May 16, 2012 to
May 29, 2012.
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