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Legends associated with the library include: The collection formed part of the dowry of Sophia Palaiologina, the second wife of Ivan III (married in 1472) and a member of the last Byzantine imperial dynasty. Ivan IV cursed the library before his death, causing blindness to those that came close to locating the books.
The Bradford Exchange is an American producer and seller of collectible goods, jewelry, sports memorabilia and apparel. Now part of the Bradford Group, it was founded in 1973 as The Bradford Gallery of Collector's Plates by J. Roderick MacArthur . [ 1 ]
A black GAZ-21 Volga A black GAZ-24 Volga. Black Volga (Polish: czarna wołga) refers to an urban legend widespread in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Russia, [1] Belarus, Ukraine, Greece and Mongolia, [2] mainly in the 1960s and 1970s.
The word bylina derives from the past tense of the verb to be (Russian: был, romanized: byl) and implies 'something that was'. [4] The term most likely originated from scholars of Russian folklore (folklorists); in 1839, Ivan Sakharov, a Russian folklorist, published an anthology of Russian folklore, a section of which he titled "Byliny of the Russian People", causing the popularization of ...
Ilya Muromets (1914) by Viktor Vasnetsov. Ilya Muromets or Murometz, [1] [a] also known as Ilya of Murom, [2] is a bogatyr in byliny set during the time of Kievan Rus'. [1] He is often featured alongside fellow bogatyrs Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich, [3] [1] the three collectively known in Russian culture as "the three bogatyrs []".
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Far more complicated than the standard one-for-one trades that have played out between the U.S. and Russia, the far-reaching exchange that led to the release of U.S. citizens Paul Whelan, Evan ...
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