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Biography. Born in Sveaborg, part of Helsinki, Vissarion Belinsky lived in the town of Chembar (now Belinsky in Belinsky District of Penza Oblast) and in Penza, where he studied in gymnazia (1825–1829). In 1829–1832 he was a student of Moscow University. In Moscow he published his first famous articles.
The Russian Olympic Committee was created in 1991 and recognized in 1993. The Soviet Union hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and the Russian Federation hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. In twelve appearances from 1994 to 2016, Russian athletes won a total of 422 medals at the Summer Olympic Games and another 120 at the Winter ...
Oblomov. Oblomov (Russian: Обломов; [ɐˈbɫoməf]) is the second novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is the central character of the novel, portrayed as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature.
Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky[ 1 ] (Russian: Ви́ктор Бори́сович Шкло́вский, IPA: [ˈʂklofskʲɪj]; 24 January [ O.S. 12 January] 1893 – 6 December 1984) was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer. [ 2 ] He is one of the major figures associated with Russian formalism. Viktor Shklovsky ...
At the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 the Russian Olympic team had 330 athletes and the Belarus delegation 104. The Russian team was limited then due to doping violations. Russia has acknowledged ...
Russian athletes depart for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, in Moscow. BEIJING (Reuters) - The Russian athletes taking part at this month's Beijing Olympics will be competing without their flag ...
Jousting. Jousting is a medieval and renaissance martial game or hastilude between two combatants either on horse or on foot. [1] The joust became an iconic characteristic of the knight in Romantic medievalism. The term is derived from Old French joster, ultimately from Latin iuxtare "to approach, to meet".
The Sporting Spirit. " The Sporting Spirit " is an essay by George Orwell published in the magazine Tribune on 14 December 1945, and later in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, a collection of Orwell's essays published in 1950. [1][2] The essay was written on the heels of the 1945 tour of Great Britain by the Soviet football team FC Dynamo ...