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History of Russia. Medieval Russian states around 1470, including Novgorod, Tver, Pskov, Ryazan, Rostov and Moscow. The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in 862, ruled by Varangians.
Balalaika [3] (Russian: балала́йка, [bəlɐˈlajkə] ) A triangle-shaped mandolin -like musical instrument with three strings. Balaclava (Russian: Балаклава) (Tatar origin) A knitted hat that covers the face, also known as a ski mask in the US and elsewhere. First used in the British army during the Crimean war of 1853–56.
Modern Russian literature is considered to have begun in the 17th century, with the autobiography of Avvakum and a corpus of chronique scandaleuse short stories from Moscow. [citation needed] Church Slavonic remained the literary language until the Petrine age (1682–1725), when its usage shrank drastically to biblical and liturgical texts ...
t. e. Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia, its émigrés, and to Russian-language literature. [ 1] Major contributors to Russian literature, as well as English for instance, are authors of different ethnic origins, including bilingual writers, such as Kyrgyz novelist Chinghiz Aitmatov. [ 1] At the same time, Russian-language ...
Kievan Rus'. Orthodox Christianity (official since 10th cent.) Kievan Rus', [a] [b] also known as Kyivan Rus ', [c] [7] [8] was the first East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities [9] in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. [10] [11] Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse ...
e. The modern history of Russia began with the Russian Republic of the Soviet Union gaining more political and economical autonomy amidst the imminent dissolution of the USSR during 1988–1991, proclaiming its sovereignty inside the Union in June 1990, and electing its first President Boris Yeltsin a year later.
The Russian Primary Chronicle, commonly shortened to Primary Chronicle [b] ( Church Slavonic: Повѣсть времѧньныхъ лѣтъ, romanized: Pověstĭ vremęnĭnyxŭ lětŭ, [c] commonly transcribed Povest' vremennykh let ( PVL ), [a] lit. 'Tale of Bygone Years' ), [6] [2] is a chronicle of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110.
Other Germanic languages with which Old Norse still retained some mutual intelligibility. The Rus ', [a] also known as Russes, [2] [3] were a people in early medieval Eastern Europe. [4] The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, who settled and ruled along the river-routes ...