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๐ Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto (Russian: ะะฐะฟะพัะพะถัั ะฟะธััั ะฟะธััะผะพ ัััะตัะบะพะผั ััะปัะฐะฝั), is a painting by Russian artist Ilya Repin. The 2.03ย m (6ย footย 7ย inch) by 3.58ย m (11ย footย 9ย inch) canvas was started in 1880 and finished in 1891. Repin recorded the years of work along the lower edge of the canvas. Alexander III bought the painting for 35,000 rubles, at the time the greatest sum ever paid for a Russian painting. Since then, the canvas has been exhibited in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.
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- "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV" | 2021-06-22 | 185 Upvotes 85 Comments
- "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks" | 2019-05-18 | 135 Upvotes 13 Comments
๐ Alcohol Belts of Europe
The alcohol belts of Europe divide Europe by their traditional alcoholic beverages: beer, wine, or spirits. They do not necessarily correspond with current drinking habits, as beer has become the most popular alcoholic drink world-wide. The definitions of these belts are not completely objective.
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- "Alcohol Belts of Europe" | 2019-08-31 | 166 Upvotes 130 Comments
๐ Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Abram Petrovich Gannibal, also Hannibal or Ganibal, or Abram Hannibal or Abram Petrov (Russian: ะะฑัะฐฬะผ ะะตััะพฬะฒะธั ะะฐะฝะฝะธะฑะฐฬะป; c. 1696 โ 14 May 1781), was a Russian military engineer, major-general, and nobleman of African origin. Kidnapped as a child, Gannibal was taken to Russia and presented as a gift to Peter the Great, where he was freed, adopted and raised in the Emperor's court household as his godson.
Gannibal eventually rose to become a prominent member of the imperial court in the reign of Peter's daughter Elizabeth. He had 11 children, most of whom became members of the Russian nobility; he was a great-grandfather of the author and poet Alexander Pushkin.
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- "Abram Petrovich Gannibal" | 2021-06-03 | 55 Upvotes 4 Comments
๐ Kvass
Kvass is a fermented cereal-based non-alcoholic or low alcoholic (0.5โ1.0% or 1โ2 proof) beverage with a slightly cloudy appearance, light-dark brown colour and sweet-sour taste. It may be flavoured with berries, fruits, herbs, honey
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- "Kvass" | 2022-02-04 | 22 Upvotes 13 Comments
๐ Russian political jokes
Russian political jokes are a part of Russian humour and can be grouped into the major time periods: Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and finally post-Soviet Russia. Quite a few political themes can be found among other standard categories of Russian joke, most notably Rabinovich jokes and Radio Yerevan.
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- "Russian political jokes" | 2016-09-11 | 10 Upvotes 1 Comments
๐ DenรฉโYeniseian Languages
DenรฉโYeniseian is a proposed language family consisting of the Yeniseian languages of central Siberia and the Na-Denรฉ languages of northwestern North America.
Reception among experts has been largely, though not universally, favorable; thus, DenรฉโYeniseian has been called "the first demonstration of a genealogical link between Old World and New World language families that meets the standards of traditional comparative-historical linguistics," besides the EskimoโAleut languages spoken in far eastern Siberia and North America.
๐ Russian Cross
The Russian Cross is the name of a demographic trend that occurred in Russia and many other countries of the former Warsaw Pact. In Russia, starting in 1988, birth rates among native Russians (as well as most other ethnic groups of the European part of the former Soviet Union) were declining, while from 1991 the death rates started climbing.
In 1992, the number of deaths exceeded the number of births, and continued to do so to a greater or lesser degree until 2013. When this trend is plotted on a line graph starting from the mid-1980s, the lines cross at 1992, hence the name.
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- "Russian Cross" | 2021-08-02 | 11 Upvotes 1 Comments