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Russian History
The history of Russia begins with that of the Eastern Slavs and the Finno-Ugric peoples.
Various states have existed in this region, including the Garðaríki ("the realm of towns"), Kievan Rus', Muscovy, Russia, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation. ...more
Various states have existed in this region, including the Garðaríki ("the realm of towns"), Kievan Rus', Muscovy, Russia, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation. ...more
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Dostoyevsky’s widow insisted that her husband was to literature what the physicist-founder of the X-ray was to the human body: the inventor of a wholly new means of peering inside the human soul.
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Thus began Anna Dostoyevskaya’s career as Russia’s first sole woman publisher, a career that would in time wrest Dostoyevsky out of debt and continue to provide for their family for almost the next four decades.
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― The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky