With the beginning of the slow decline of the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century, and as a result of the expansionist policies of Czarist Russia in the Caucasus, many Muslim nations and groups in that region, mainly Circassians, Tatars, Azeris, Lezgis, Chechens, and several Turkic groups left their ancestral homelands and settled in Anatolia.

Flustered, Pasternak denied that there was any discussion or that there were any literary circles left in Soviet Russia.

Georgia left the CIS in August 2008 after a clash with Russia over South Ossetia.

The right was now eager for independence because sovereignty would assist them in controlling the left and in minimizing the influence of revolutionary Russia.

The disintegration and weakness of Russia induced an idea of " Grand Finland " among the more nationalistic factions of both the right and left ; a part of the Red faction had plans concerning the same areas ( Heimosodat ).

Georgia relationships with Russia are at it lowest point in modern history due to Georgian-Russian espionage controversy and due to the 2008 South Ossetia war, Georgia broke off diplomatic relations with Russia and has left the Commonwealth of Independent States.

The provinces east of the Oder and Neisse rivers ( the Oder-Neisse line ) were transferred to Poland, Lithuania, and Russia ( Kaliningrad oblast ); the 6. 7 million Germans living in Poland and the 2. 5 million in Czechoslovakia were forced to move west, although most had already left when the war ended.

Warfare with the Cossacks and Russia left Ukraine divided, with the eastern part, lost by the Commonwealth, becoming the Tsardom's dependency.

The Confederation took over the government, but Russia and Prussia in 1793 arranged for and executed the Second Partition of the Commonwealth, which left the country with critically reduced territory, practically incapable of independent existence.

Napoleon assembled the largest army Europe had ever seen, including troops from all submitted states, to invade Russia, which had just left the continental system and was gathering an army on the Polish frontier.

Although there still were battles such as Maloyaroslavets the Napoleonic army left Russia in late 1812 annihilated, most of all by the Russian winter, exhaustion, and scorched earth warfare.

He left Russia in 1842 to Western Europe, where he became active in the socialist movement.

Not only must Latin America be left alone, he warned, but also Russia must not encroach southward on the Pacific coast.

Notable towns visited by Elias Lönnrot during his 15 years of field trips – to the right is Russia, to the left Finland

Rasmussen left the team and traveled for 16 months with two Inuit hunters by dog-sled across North America to Nome, Alaska-he tried to continue to Russia but his visa was refused.

Concerned about the continuing turmoil in Russia, Euler left St. Petersburg on 19 June 1741 to take up a post at the Berlin Academy, which he had been offered by Frederick the Great of Prussia.

The Mensheviks largely maintained that Russia had the right to defend herself against Germany, although Martov ( a prominent Menshevik ), now on the left of his group, demanded an end to the war and a settlement on the basis of national self-determination, with no annexations or indemnities.

When a church was built over the spot in St Petersburg where Tsar Alexander II of Russia had been assassinated, the " Church of the Savior on Blood ", the natural style to use was one that best evoked traditional Russian features ( illustration, left ).

When the Tsar took control of the army in the front lines during World War I, he left his wife in charge of Russia for he trusted only her.

From left to right, Grand Duchess Anastasia, Grand Duchess Olga, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarevich Alexei, Grand Duchess Tatiana, and Grand Duchess Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia ( 1899 – 1918 ) | Maria, and Kuban Cossacks

After the Revolution, Prokofiev left Russia with the official blessing of the Soviet minister Anatoly Lunacharsky, and he lived in the United States, then Germany, then Paris, during which time he married a Spanish singer, Carolina (' Lina ') Codina, with whom he had two sons.

He soon found himself in financial difficulties, and, in April 1920, he left for Paris, not wanting to return to Russia as a failure.

Sarkel was located on the left bank of the lower Don River, in present-day Rostov Oblast of Russia.

In games originating in North and West Europe, Russia, and the United States and Canada, the rotation is typically clockwise, i. e. play proceeds to the left ; in South and East Europe and Asia it is typically counterclockwise, so that play proceeds to the right.

He left the troupe in May 1906, and joined the juvenile comedy act Casey's Court Circus.

In 1891, Hughes left the practice of law to become a professor at the Cornell University Law School, but in 1893, he returned to his old law firm in New York City to continue practice until he ran for governor in 1906.

He left school at 11 to be apprenticed to his father and enrolled at night school before working as a draughtsman for C. J. Begeer, a jeweller in Utrecht, from 1906 to 1911.

A depiction of a young Hel ( center ) being led to the assignment of her realm, while her brother Fenrir is led forward ( left ) and Jörmungandr ( right ) is about to be cast by Odin ( 1906 ) by Lorenz Frølich.

There he kept a permanent room at the Hotel Reina Victoria ( built in 1906 ) where his room remains to this day as he left it, a mini-museum of Rilkeana.

The departure of the Boers and later removal of the remaining garrison in 1906 ( with the disbandment of the St Helena Volunteers, this was the first time the island was left without a garrison ) both impacted on the island economy, which was only slightly offset by growing philatelic sales.

From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight by airplane, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | Kitty Hawk in 1903 ; U. S. President William McKinley is William McKinley assassination | assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition ; An 1906 San Francisco earthquake | earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, killing at least 3, 000 in 1906 ; United States | America gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine – American War ; Rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal ; Admiral Heihachiro Togo | Togo before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, part of the Russo-Japanese War, leading to Japanese victory and their establishment as a great power.

* April 18, 1906 — The 1906 San Francisco earthquake ( estimated magnitude 7. 8 ) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, USA, killing at least 3, 000, with 225, 000 – 300, 000 left homeless, and $ 350 million in damages.

Monmouth Gasworks, 1906 Charles Rolls ( in basket ) and his balloon, with Lord Llangattock ( one right of Rolls ) and Lady Llangattock ( left of basket ).

Concerning Gauguin's impact on Picasso John Richardson wrote, The 1906 exhibition of Gauguin's work left Picasso more than ever in this artist's thrall.

From 1906 onward he held the position of a lecturer where teaching six hours per week left him time for research.

Examples of which were the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 which left over 20 dead and the racial problems in Forsyth County.

In 1906, gold seekers left for Fairbanks or Nome ; however, the Galena lead mines began operating in 1919.

Gold prospectors left the Yukon River area for Fairbanks and Nome in 1906.

* George Stone ( 1876 – 1945 ), Major League Baseball left fielder who was the 1906 batting champion

Chamberlain could, perhaps, have led the Unionists despite these drawbacks, but in July 1906 he suffered a stroke, which left him physically crippled.

In 1906 she shocked society and left her husband, finally divorcing in 1921.

King Frederick seated to the left of his nephew King George V at the funeral of Edward VII with nine other monarchs of EuropeFrederick VIII in 1909Frederick became king of Denmark as Frederick VIII on Christian IX's death on 29 January 1906.

In 1906 twelve fathers and twelve brothers were working in thirteen stations, and several Sisters of St. Francis left Luxembourg to take charge of the ten schools, in which were 262 children.

In 1906, he left McClure's, along with Tarbell and Baker, to form The American Magazine.

In 1906, Baker, Steffens and Tarbell left McClure's and created The American Magazine.

Having left higher education, Spare became employed as a bookplate designer and illustrator, with his first book commission being for Ethel Rolt Wheeler's Behind the Veil, published by the company David Nutt in 1906.

He kept serving as Governor and left Wisconsin's U. S. Senate seat unfilled until January 1, 1906, when he resigned to join the U. S. Senate.