Russian icons | Russian icon by Fyodor Zubov, 1660.

The Miracle of St. Michael at Chonae, a 15th-century Russian icon.

Russian icon | Russian icon of the Prophet Elijah, 18th century ( Iconostasis of Kizhi monastery, Karelia, Russia ).

Russian icon | Russian icon of the Prophet Ezekiel holding a scroll with his prophecy and pointing to the " closed gate " ( 18th century, Iconostasis of Kizhi monastery, Russia )

Russian icon of Haggai, 18th century ( Iconostasis of Kizhi monastery, Karelia, Russia ).

Russian icon of Holy Trinity

12th-century icon of Archangel Gabriel from Novgorod, called " Golden-Locked Angel ", currently exhibited in the State Russian Museum.

Russian Orthodox Church | Russian icon of the Prophet Isaiah, 18th century ( iconostasis of Transfiguration of Jesus | Transfiguration Church, Kizhi monastery, Karelia, Russia ).

* 1579 – Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.

Russian Orthodox Church | Russian Orthodox icon of Jonah, 16th century ( Iconostasis of Kizhi monastery, Karelia, Russia ).

The Old Testament righteous follow Christ from Hades in Christianity | Hades to Heaven ( Christianity ) | Heaven ( Russian icon )

Russian Orthodox icon of the prophet Moses, gesturing towards the burning bush.

Russian Orthodox icon of the Prophet Nahum, 18th century ( Iconostasis of Transfiguration of Jesus | Transfiguration Church, Kizhi Monastery, Karelia, Russia ).

Theotokos and Jesus | The Child, the late 17th century Russian icons | Russian icon by Karp Zolotaryov, with a notably realistic depiction of faces and clothing.

The number of domes typically has a symbolical meaning in Russian architecture, for example 13 domes symbolize Christ with 12 Apostles, while 25 domes means the same with an additional 12 Prophets of the Old Testament.

* Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov: Two Prophets ( with Roy Medvedev ) ( 2004, in Russian ) ISBN 5-94117-065-3

* Vympel R-33 ( AA-9 Amos ), the Russian air-to-air missile most similar to the AIM-54 Phoenix

An 18th century Russian icon of the prophet Zephaniah

* Ilya, Russian name for prophet Elias

Opponents denounced Reb Noson to the Russian authorities, claiming that he was a false prophet whose activities opposed the interests of the Czar.

Disposal of waste by simply dumping it at the shoreline such as here at the Russian Bellingshausen Island | Bellingshausen base is no longer permitted by the Protocol on Environmental Protection

President of Russia | Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the Bundestag

The now-deceased Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Patriarch Alexius II | Alexius II, consecrating a Russian Orthodox diocesan bishop.

The Wedding of Nicholas II and Grand duke | Grand Duchess Alexandra Fyodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) | Alexandra Feodorovna, by Ilya Repin | Ilya Yefimovich Repin, 1894 ( Russian Museum | Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg | St. Petersburg ).

File: Bova1860. jpg | Prince Bova fights Polkan, Russian lubok ( 1860 )

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and former Prime Minister of Denmark | Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen hold a joint press conference, April 2010.

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Workers demanded food and a complete shifting of legislative power from the Russian Provisional Government | Russian government to the Parliament of Finland | Finnish parliament.

After the arrival of missionaries in the late 18th century, many Aleuts became Christian by joining the Russian Orthodox Church.

In 18th century, Russian furriers promyshlenniki established settlements on the islands and exploited the people.

At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.

The current resistance to Russian rule has its roots in the late 18th century ( 1785 – 1791 ), a period when Russia expanded into territories formerly under the dominion of Turkey and Persia ( see also the Russo-Turkish Wars and Russo-Persian War ( 1804 – 1813 )), under Mansur Ushurma — a Chechen Naqshbandi ( Sufi ) Sheikh — with wavering support from other North Caucasian tribes.

The word " glasnost " has been used in Russian at least since the end of the 18th century.

Significant internal reforms were introduced during the later part of the 18th century, but the reform process was not allowed to run its course, as the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy through a series of invasions and partitions terminated the Commonwealth's independent existence in 1795.

By the 18th century, the Tsardom of Russia had become the huge Russian Empire, stretching from the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth eastward to the Pacific Ocean.

From the 16th to the 18th centuries, Commedia dell ' arte performers improvised based on a broad outline in the streets of Italy and in the 1890s theatrical theorists and directors such as Russian, Konstantin Stanislavski and the French, Jacques Copeau, founders of two major streams of acting theory, both heavily utilised improvisation in acting training and rehearsal.

Russian Orthodox Icon of St. Jacob, 18th century ( Iconostasis of Kizhi monastery, Russia ).

After partition of Lithuania in the late 18th century, it become a part of Russian empire.

In Europe, in the 18th century, the classic non-national states were the multiethnic empires, ( the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire ) and smaller states at what would now be called sub-national level.

A series of wars were fought between the Russian and Ottoman empires from the 18th to the 19th century.

In the article “ Tensions in Proverbs: More Light on International Understanding ,” Joseph Raymond comments on what common Russian proverbs from the 18th and 19th centuries portray: Potent antiauthoritarian proverbs reflected tensions between the Russian people and the Czar.

By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland in Europe to Alaska in North America.

The Russian army organized small units of horse artillery that were distributed among their cavalry formations in the early 18th century.