These and other works raised his reputation so high that the most flattering offers were sent to him from the Russian court to induce him to remove to St Petersburg, but these were declined, although many of his finest works made their way to the Hermitage Museum.

Ultimately the Russian school of point-set topology, under the direction of Pavel Alexandrov and Pavel Urysohn, formulated Heine – Borel compactness in a way that could be applied to the modern notion of a topological space.

In the service of the Russian Empire, Clausewitz helped negotiate the Convention of Tauroggen ( 1812 ), which prepared the way for the coalition of Prussia, Russia, and the United Kingdom that ultimately defeated Napoleon and his allies.

To counter the threat of the Russian T-34s, another, more powerful 50 mm gun was introduced, only to give way to a larger 75 mm cannon, which was in a fixed mount as the StuG III, the most-produced German World War II armored fighting vehicle of any type.

How It Works, compared chauvinistic husbands to the hedgehog from a well-known Russian fable, The Hedgehog and the Fox ; they have one way of thinking, and it is so engrained that they cannot change it.

During the 1950s and 60s, Afghanistan was able to use the Russian and American need for allies during the Cold War as a way to receive economic assistance from both countries.

The Russian royal family had been the most autocratic and conservative rulers in Europe, and the Finnish people had experienced it by way of the four Finnish estates.

Ever since, football reporters and commentators on England games have called in jest for a " Russian linesman " ( although actually Bakhramov was from Azerbaijan ) whenever there has been a contentious decision to make, especially when that decision has not gone England's way.

To the Orthodox Church and most princes, the fanatical Northern Crusaders seemed a greater threat to the Russian way of life than the Mongols.

Between 1906 and 1912, more than a half-million Russian farms were started as part of the reforms of Russian minister of the interior Petr Stolypin, putting immense pressure on the traditional Kazakh way of life by occupying grazing land and using scarce water resources.

Moreover, owing to the middle-class aspirations of much of the peasantry, Leon Trotsky proposed that the proletariat should lead the revolution, as the only way for it to be truly socialist and democratic ; although Lenin initially disagreed with Trotsky ’ s formulation, he adopted it before the Russian Revolution in October 1917.

At the news of Russian Revolution of February 1917, Bukharin returned to Russia by way of Japan and at once became one of the leading Bolsheviks in Moscow, being elected to the Central Committee.

Although European navigators visited the islands and explored their coastlines thereafter, little was known of the inhabitants by Europeans until the 1870s, when Russian anthropologist Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai made a number of expeditions to New Guinea, spending several years living among native tribes, and described their way of life in a comprehensive treatise.

In probability theory, the probability P of some event E, denoted, is usually defined in such a way that P satisfies the Kolmogorov axioms, named after the famous Russian mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov, which are described below.

The key concept of the space elevator appeared in 1895 when Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris to consider a tower that reached all the way into space, built from the ground up to the altitude of geostationary orbit ( 35, 790 kilometers ( 22, 238 mi ) above sea level ).

A constant flow of illegal narcotics continues to transit Tajikistan from Afghanistan on its way to Russian and European markets, leaving widespread violent crime, corruption, increased HIV incidence, and economic distortions in its wake.

Also, Narcotics from Afghanistan pass through the country on their way to Russian and European markets.

Related words in a few modern Indo-European languages are Russian doroga ( way, road ), Polish droga ( way, road ), Czech dráha ( way, track ), Serbo-Croatian draga ( path through a valley ), and Norwegian dialect drog ( trail of animals ; valley ).

Stanisław was supported in his bid to regain the throne by his son-in-law, King Louis XV of France, who hoped to renew France's traditional alliance with Poland as a way to balance Russian and Austrian power in northern and eastern Europe.

* August 9 – Russian Empress Catherine II issues a decree authorizing the new way to produce vodka ( by freezing ).

Similar attacks led to a humorous Russian saying, " I haven't read Pasternak, but I condemn him ".

Bowie was quoted in Stockholm as saying that " Britain could benefit from a Fascist leader ", and was detained by customs on the Russian / Polish border for possessing Nazi paraphernalia.

Russian physicist Zhores I. Alfyorov, ( Nobel laureate in 2000 ) praised it, saying he was very pleased with Pólya's famous book.

" Ukrainian and Russian sources also describe Vladimir consulting with Jewish envoys ( who may or may not have been Khazars ), and questioning them about their religion but ultimately rejecting it, saying that their loss of Jerusalem was evidence of their having been abandoned by God.

Also, in 1927, he wrote to Stalin protesting at what was being done to Russian intellectuals and saying he was ashamed to be a Russian.

The final entry in Tatiana's final notebook at Yekaterinburg was a saying she had copied from the words of a well-known Russian Orthodox holy man, Father Ioann of Kronstadt: " Your grief is indescribable, the Savior's grief in the Gardens of Gethsemane for the world's sins is immeasurable, join your grief to his, in it you will find consolation.

There has been some speculation that the identity of this officer was Oleg Penkovsky, however during his radio interview to Russian station Echo of Moscow Vladimir Rezun ( alias Victor Suvorov ) denied this, saying " I never mentioned it was Penkovsky " No executed GRU traitors ( Penkovsky aside ) are known matching scant Suvorov's description given in " Aquarium "

Been later stated, " There was a great deal happening politically-Grenada, Lebanon, or the government saying the Russians are evil and the Russian government probably saying the same about us.

The soldiers kept yelling, Babo, ovsa (" Granny, give us oats ") but the woman, who was old and probably had difficulty hearing, thought they were saying Hopsa (" Jump "), so she repeatedly jumped, to the very great frustration of the Russian soldiers.

Moskovskij Komsomolets cited a Russian special forces operative saying that " if it were a usual storming, we'd have had 150 casualties among our men, added to the hostages.

On 29 October, Putin released another televised statement, saying: " Russia will respond with measures that are adequate to the threat to the Russian Federation, striking on all the places where the terrorists themselves, the organizers of these crimes and their ideological and financial inspirers are.

As the names of the main Communist newspaper and the main Soviet newspaper, Pravda and Izvestia, meant " the truth " and " the news " respectively, a popular Russian saying was "" ( In the Truth there is no news, and in the News there is no truth ).

His daughter, Yelena ( b. ~ 1947 ), married a Russian atheist, later saying that she had not felt her Jewishness for much of her life.

The Russian Futurists sought controversy by repudiating the art of the past, saying that Pushkin and Dostoevsky should be " heaved overboard from the steamship of modernity ".

In Gordievsky's opinion, the villain was a UK-based Russian business associate who had supplied him with pills, which he said were the sedative Xanax, purportedly for insomnia ; he refused to identify the associate, saying British authorities had advised against it.

The duo spoofed the commercials " we love to hate " with their own versions: " Crazar TVs " spoofed the " Quasar " TV brand with the high-pitched overture ; " Oil of Oyvay " spoofed the de-aging Oil of Olay ; " Macedonian Formula " spoofed Grecian Formula, and questioned why a man would say he used it and thus reveal he has grey hair ; " Russian Express " spoofed American Express, with a muscular KGB agent saying " Don't leave home!

The media quoted some of Hancock's former Council of Europe's liberal group colleagues as saying that in the 2000s Hancock would usually come to their regular private gatherings alongside a series of young Russian and Ukrainian women-in spite of protests by some of those ; Hancock's former colleagues said they had witnessed his alleged assistants using the computers of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, the liberal group secretariat, which were supposed to be protected by a password ; apparently his ' assistants ' knew the password.

On February 14, ITAR-Tass and Interfax quoted General Yuri Baluyevsky, the Russian military's chief of general staff, as saying that Russia could pull out of the INF, and that the decision would depend on the United States ' actions with its proposed Ground-Based Midcourse Defense missile defense system, parts of which the U. S. at the time planned to deploy in Poland and the Czech Republic ( since then, the plans have been abandoned in favor of different systems based on sea and in Romania, see National missile defense ).

The foreword of the book explains the book's approach by saying, " the authors of the present book, who come from a country ( Estonia ) which has shared the fate of nations in the Russian and Soviet empires, endeavour to publicize the plight of the small nations whose very existence is threatened as a result of recent history.

He was reported saying, " What the Russian bayonet didn't accomplish, the Russian school will.

With VID, Listyev started a number of new TV projects — Pole Chudes (" A Field of Wonders ", the Russian version of Wheel of Fortune ), Ugadai melodiu (" Guess the melody ", the Russian version of Name That Tune ), Tema (" The Theme "), and Chas Pik (" The Rush Hour ").

VID, a Russian TV Company has used a modified image of Guo Xiang's death mask as their logo.