The only information about him is contained in the 12th-century Russian Primary Chronicle, which states that Chuds, Slavs, Merias, Veses and Krivichs "… drove the Varangians back beyond the sea, refused to pay them tribute, and set out to govern themselves ".

The first Russian mention of the mountains to the east of the East European Plain is provided by the Primary Chronicle, when it describes the Novgorodian expedition to the upper reaches of the Pechora in 1096.

Until recently the history of the Viking Age was largely based on Icelandic Sagas, the history of the Danes written by Saxo Grammaticus, the Russian Primary Chronicle and The War of the Irish with the Foreigners.

Until recently, the history of the Viking Age was largely based on Icelandic sagas, the history of the Danes written by Saxo Grammaticus, the Russian Primary Chronicle and The War of the Irish with the Foreigners.

* The Russian Primary Chronicle ends.

* The Russian Primary Chronicle, Laurentian Text.

* Nestor, The Russian Primary Chronicle: Laurentian Text ,, Samuel Hazzard Cross, Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor, Published by Mediaeval Academy of America, 1953

The earliest extant manuscript of the Russian Primary Chronicle, the Laurentian Codex, was written for him by the local monk Laurentius in 1377.

According to the 12th century Russian Primary Chronicle, prisoners of war were sacrificed to the supreme Slavic deity Perun.

Primary influences on the style of Russian Symbolism were the irrationalistic and mystical poetry and philosophy of Fyodor Tyutchev and Vladimir Solovyov, the novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the operas of Richard Wagner, the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, French symbolist and decadent poets ( such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine and Charles Baudelaire ), and the dramas of Henrik Ibsen.

According to Russian Primary Chronicle, Smolensk ( probably located slightly downstream, at the archaeological site of Gnezdovo ) was the capital of the Slavic Krivich tribe in 882 when Oleg of Novgorod took it in passing from Novgorod to Kiev.

But Thietmar states that Boleslaus I of Poland firstly supported his son-in-law against Yaroslav in 1017, which is the date, according to the Russian Primary Chronicle, of Svyatopolk's first defeat by Yaroslav.

According to the Russian Primary Chronicle, the town was the seat of Rurik's brother Truvor from 862-864.

Ipatiev Monastery gives its name to the Hypatian Codex of the Russian Primary Chronicle

It obtained great popularity, and was used by various writers until the ninth century ; it was translated into Slavic probably in the tenth century, and parts of it were used for the Old Russian Primary Chronicle.

Mokoš ( Old Russian ) is a Slavic goddess attested in the Primary Chronicle, connected with female activities such as shearing, spinning and weaving.

The legendary account of the Russian Primary Chronicle tells that Saint Andrew was amused by the Slavic customs of washing in hot steam bath, banya, on his way.

The Russian Primary Chronicle: Laurentian Text, 1953

In the Russian Primary Chronicle there is a story of how kissel saved a 10th-century city, besieged by nomadic Pechenegs in 997 ( the first mention of this type of dessert ).

Both space suit models currently in use, the U. S. EMU and the Russian Orlan, include Primary Life Support Systems ( PLSSs ) allowing the user to work independently without an umbilical connection from a spacecraft.

Vseslav died April 24, 1101, the Wednesday before Good Friday according to the Russian Primary Chronicle — indeed the chronicles strangely link the two events, as if the sorcerer had died as a result of the crucifixion and resurrection.

The Russian Primary Chronicle states that he was conceived by sorcery and was born with a caul ( the remains of the placenta ) on his head, and that the sorcerers told his mother that this should be bound to his head for the rest of his life as it was a sign of good luck.

* Russian Primary Chronicle

According to the Russian Primary Chronicle, in 980, Vladimir I of Kiev « placed the idols at the hill outside the palace: wooden Perun … and Hors, Dažbog and Stribog and Simargl and Mokosh ».

A movie titled " Веселая хроника опасного путешествия " ( Amusing Chronicle of a Dangerous Voyage ) was made in the Soviet Union in 1986 starring a famous Russian actor Alexander Abdulov.

The term " Beatnik " was coined by Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle on 2 April 1958, a portmanteau on the name of the recent Russian satellite Sputnik and Beat Generation.

In a bit of propagandist retaliations against Magnus, the Russians drew up an allegedly autobiographic account known as the Testament of Magnus ( Rukopisanie Magnusha ) which has been inserted into the Russian Sofia First Chronicle, composed in Novgorod, which claimed that Magnus in fact, did not drown at sea, but saw the errors of his ways and converted to Orthodoxy, becoming a monk in a Novgorodian monastery in Karelia.

:* Two patients share names with actual authors: Haruki Murakami, a Japanese writer and translator whose works include The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and Mikhail Bulgakov, a Russian novelist and playwright.

The fortress was rebuilt in stone in 1352 by Archbishop Vasilii Kalika of Novgorod ( 1330 – 1352 ), who, according to the Novgorod First Chronicle, was sent by the Novgorodians after several Russian and Lithuanian princes ignored the city's pleas to help them rebuild and defend the fort.

He is of Russian Jewish descent, but describes himself in interviews as an atheist who sometimes believes in God.

A shy former German princess who is not highly thought of by the Russian royal court, she is isolated, but is befriended by Grigori Rasputin ( Tom Baker ), a Siberian peasant who describes himself as a religious pilgrim or holy man.

Agitprop (; from Russian: ) is derived from agitation and propaganda, and describes stage plays, pamphlets, motion pictures and other art forms with an explicitly political message.

: This article describes Earl Pitts, the Russian spy.

This link ( in Russian ) describes a risky diving incident from a submerged submarine: the sub was neutrally buoyant at the start, but when the first frogman airlocked, the sub's buoyancy changed causing the sub to start floating up.

* Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's 1975 film Dersu Uzala, based on a book by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, describes the friendship of a Russian explorer and his Nanai guide named Dersu Uzala.

Chris Hutchins, a biographer of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, describes the relationship between Russian president and Abramovich as like that between a father and a favorite son ; Abramovich himself has stated that his relationship with Putin is a professional business relationship, as signified by his use of the Russian language's formal " Вы " ( like Spanish " usted " or French " vous ") in addressing Putin, as opposed to the informal " ты " ( Spanish " tú " or French " tu ").

In the Lectures on Russian Literature ( 1981 ), in the essay ‘ Philistines and Philistinism ’ Nabokov describes the philistine man and woman as:

" While the party describes itself as centrist and reformist, it is usually regarded as far-right and is identified with Russian ultranationalism, right-wing populism ( or " national populism ") and conservativism.

In fact, " Russian Formalism " describes two distinct movements: the OPOJAZ Obshchestvo Izucheniia Poeticheskogo Yazyka-Society for the Study of Poetic Language in St. Petersburg and the Linguistic Circle in Moscow.

A story about “ Derevnia ” …” a Russian word meaning village, or home town .” which describes the Old Village of Afognak up to and including the strongest earthquake ever recorded on the North American continent and the resulting Tsunami of March 27, 1964 which destroyed the old village.

The Russian deacon Zozimos describes it as being a mosque in 1421.

In it, a Russian security officer describes the protagonists as " metahuman terrorists ".

Miller entitled “ Historical Songs of the Russian People of the XVI-XVII Centuries .” One song describes how “ Ermac ’ s men kill the Muscovite ambassador to Persia named as Semen Konstantinovich Karamyshev ” while others speak of Ermac ’ s acts of piracy and pillaging with his Cossack brigade.

The work describes life and achievements of Alexander Nevsky, a Russian ruler and a military leader, who defended the northern borders of Rus against the Swedish invasion, defeated the Teutonic knights at the Lake Chud in 1242 and paid a few visits to Batu Khan to protect the Vladimir-Suzdal Principality from the Khazar raids.

According to the positions of OAKKE, which describes itself as a proletarian revolutionary and anti-imperialist organization, it conducts a struggle mainly against “ Russian social imperialism ”, which is currently considered by it the biggest threat to world peace, as was the pre-war Nazi Germany, based, as said before, on the Maoist strategy of the three worlds.

In a testimony printed in French and English in the accompanying booklet, Svetlanov describes Myaskovsky as ' the founder of Soviet symphonism, the creator of the Soviet school of composition, the composer whose work has become the bridge between Russian classics and Soviet music ... Myaskovsky entered the history of music as a great toiler like Haydn, Mozart and Schubert.

The final section describes the Russian volunteers marching to assist the Serbs.

He describes it as " a foolish comedy from the German " and adds that at the time he first saw it in Odessa, Ukraine, he, well versed in Russian theater, viewed it as an example the shortcomings of the then-nascent Yiddish theater: " Why if we must steal, I asked myself, must it always be something old and stale?

Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky (, born in Odessa on March 5, 1951 ) is a Russian political scientist ( he describes himself as a " political technologist ").