The name " Molokan " was used for the first time in the 1670s, in reference to the people who ignored the 200 fasting days, drinking milk ( moloko means " milk " in Russian ).

Lebowski is frequently shown drinking a White Russian, which Lebowski sometimes refers to as a " Caucasian.

In the show How Not to Live Your Life, Eddie is asked if he is drinking a White Russian, while he is drinking a glass of milk.

* Myod — Traditional Russian mead, historically available in three major varieties: aged mead (" мёд ставленный ") — a mixture of honey and water and / or berry juices, subject to a very slow ( 12 – 50 years ) anaerobic fermentation in airtight vessels in a process similar to the traditional balsamic vinegar, creating a rich, complex and high-priced product ; drinking mead (" мёд питный ") — a kind of honey wine made from diluted honey by traditional fermentation ; and boiled mead (" мёд варёный ") — a drink closer to beer, brewed from boiled wort of diluted honey and herbs, very similar to modern medovukha.

Electrolytically-dissolved silver has been used as a water disinfecting agent, for example, the drinking water supplies of the Russian Mir orbital station and the International Space Station.

In A Confession, Leo Tolstoy, a famous Russian writer, spoke of running away from his troubled life by drinking kumis.

* Clubhouse — designed by Bernard Maybeck in 1903, completed in 1904 on a bluff overlooking the Russian River ; a multi-purpose dining, drinking and entertainment building ; the site of the Manhattan Project planning meeting held in 1942.

The proper Russian term is-опохмел (" after being drunk "), which indicates a process of drinking to decrease effects of drinking the night before.

Russian émigré memoirs depict Shkuro as a very lively man who enjoyed social gatherings with plenty of dancing, singing, drinking, and vivid storytelling about times past.

For example, Chabad Hasidim have adopted the French tunes of La Marseillaise and Napoleon ’ s March, as well as Russian or German drinking songs as a part of their liturgy.

A Russian tea glass-holder is a traditional way of serving and drinking tea in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, other CIS and ex-USSR countries.

( See Kuleshov Experiment ) He took an old film clip of a head shot of a noted Russian actor and intercut the shot with a shot of a bowl of soup, then with a child playing with a teddy bear, then with a shot an elderly woman in a casket.

A notable exception is the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose symphonies use the theme of angst in post-World War II compositions depicting Russian strife during the war.

A 1914 Russian poster depicting the Triple Entente.

In depicting the 1905 Russian Revolution Potemkin sought to create a new history for Russia, one led and triumphed over by the formerly oppressed masses.

The U. S. S. R also screened films depicting partisan activity and the suffering inflicted by the Nazis, such as Girl No. 217, which showed a Russian girl enslaved by an inhumane German family.

An 18th-century Russian icon depicting various types of the Theotokos icons

Russian icon | Russian Icon depicting Andrew of Crete | St. Andrew of Crete ( left ) and St. Mary of Egypt.

A French political cartoon depicting Qing dynasty | China as a king cake is about to be carved up by Queen Victoria ( British Empire | Britain ), Wilhelm II ( German Empire | Germany ), Nicholas II of Russia | Nicolas II ( Russian Empire | Russia ), Marianne ( Third French Republic | France ), and a samurai ( Empire of Japan | Japan ) while a Mandarin ( bureaucrat ) | Mandarin official helplessly looks on.

In 1974, a massive tall statue Alyosha, depicting a Russian World War II soldier, was installed on a high foundation.

1914 Russian poster depicting the Triple Entente – Britannia ( right ) and Marianne ( left ) in the company of Mother Russia.

Political cartoon depicting the Afghan Sher Ali Khan | Emir Sher Ali with his " friends " the Russian Bear and Lion | British Lion ( 1878 )

An 1800s Russian engraving depicting the Whore of Babylon riding the seven-headed Beast ( a Sirrush )

* Charles Joseph Minard's 1861 diagram depicting Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812

Russian map depicting positions of the Eastern detachement and Japanese advance.

A 1958 stamp of the Soviet Union depicting a 16th century mail courier for the 100th anniversary of Russian postage stamps.

The first stamps of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic appeared in 1918, as two values depicting a sword cutting a chain.

Ehrenburg was also active as a poet till his last days, depicting the events of World War II in Europe, the Holocaust and the destinies of Russian intellectuals.

An old postcard depicting the Russian Orthodox monastery in Tambov

In 1896, the article depicting Popov's invention was reprinted in the ' Journal of the Russian Physical and Chemical Society '.

* Borodino Panorama, depicting the Battle of Borodino between Napoleon I of France and a Russian Army outside Moscow in 1812.

* Stalingrad Battle Panorama, depicting the Battle of Stalingrad between Nazi Germany army and the Russian Army in 1942-1943.

Russian stamp depicting Meyerhold ( left ) and Constantin Stanislavski | Stanislavski ( right ), 2000.

His technique and imagination in depicting the shimmering play of light on the waves and seafoam is especially admired, and gives his seascapes a romantic yet realistic quality that echoes the work of English watercolorist J. M. W. Turner and Russian painter Sylvester Shchedrin.

After an altercation over jurisdiction with the Russian Winter Guard ( a fight which Samson uncharacteristically starts ), Samson and Ross return to the United States to consult with Banner, who is imprisoned in a high-security facility.

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

Like Roosevelt, he can distinguish an attitude toward a Russian leader he may share with a host of Americans from the responsibilities diplomatic convention may impose upon him.

This, together with a derby hat and horn-rim eyeglasses, gave me the appearance of a Russian nihilist.

There, along the east bank of the Southern Bug, opposite the hamlet of Zhitzhakli a few miles north of the Black Sea, he arrived at General Headquarters of the Russian Army.

To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.

Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.

England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

It was probably at this period that Littlepage got his first good look at the ordinary Russian soldier.

Never once during the trying thirties did I come so close to succumbing to the private climate of opinion as to grant Russian communism even that most weasel-worded of encomiums `` an interesting experiment ''.

There was, it seems to me, enough in the openly declared principles and intentions of Russian leaders to alienate honorable men without their having to wait to see how it would turn out.

It works with English, Russian, German, Hungarian or almost any other foreign tongue.

The reason was to speed up domestic production in the USSR, which Khrushchev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end the permanent recession in Russian living standards.

Previous presentations have been on French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, German and Japanese.

His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.

Then people wonder why Russian pupils are more advanced than American students.

In your editorial of Sept. 30 `` The Smoldering Congo '' you make the following comment: `` Far too many states are following the Russian example in refusing to pay their assessments.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Pauling's estimate of 200 megatons yield from the present series of Russian tests will probably turn out to be too high, but a total of 100 megatons is a distinct possibility.

If the new Soviet series has followed the general pattern of previous Russian tests, the shots were roughly half fission and half fusion, meaning a fission yield of 30 to 40 megatons thus far.

The third choice, negotiation, presupposes, as Russian behavior demonstrates, a great deal of wishful thinking to make it appear reasonable.

Too often in the past Russian tactics have been used to justify like tactics on our part.

We can force Britain and France out of the Suez, but we cannot so much as try to force the Russian tanks back from Budapest.

By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.

In fact, one of the major reasons for the failure of the ill-starred expedition appears to have been a lack of full information on the extent to which Cuba has been getting this Russian military equipment.

Somehow, the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought home to all of us the stark, blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home.