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.

* 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 ».

The Russian Primary Chronicle describes Chudes as cofounders of the Rus ' Khaganate state along with Krivichi, Veps, Ilmen Slavs and Vikings.

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.

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.

One of the documents of that time states, " The Victory immediately gained the general sympathy of Russian society and it continued to grow.

In 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved into separate nations, and the Cold War formally ended as the United States gave separate diplomatic recognition to the Russian Federation and other former Soviet states.

In the Treaty of Versailles ( 1919 ) the winners imposed relatively hard conditions on Germany and recognised the new states ( such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Yugoslavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ) created in central Europe from the defunct German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires, supposedly out of national self-determination.

Although it was intended to attract writers from both France and the German states, the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher was dominated by the latter, with the only non-German writer being the exiled Russian anarcho-communist Michael Bakunin.

Princess Dagmar and her ill-fated fiance Tsarevich Nicholas. The marriage of Princess Dagmar of Denmark to Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovitch. The Anichkov Palace in 1862. The rise of Slavophile ideology in the Russian Empire led Alexander II of Russia to search for a bride for the heir apparent, Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia, in countries other than the German states that had traditionally provided consorts for the tsars.

Two weeks after Soviet armies had entered the Baltic states, Berlin requested Finland to permit the transit of German troops, followed five weeks thereafter by Hitler's issuance of a secret directive " to take up the Russian problem, to think about war preparations ," a war whose objective would include establishment of a Baltic confederation.

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.

In their calculations they concluded that there was little danger of a large-scale retreat of the Soviet army into the Russian interior, as it could not afford to give up the Baltic states, the Ukraine, or the Moscow and Leningrad regions, all of which were vital to the Red Army for supply reasons and would thus have to be defended.

With the breakup of federal states such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia and the problem of Russian and Serbian dominance in any proposed all-Slavic organisation, the idea of Pan-Slavic unity is mostly considered dead.

The Norwegian-Russian Chamber of Commerce also states that " orruption is one of the biggest problems both Russian and international companies have to deal with.

In contrast, the Russian government and state officials maintain that the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states was legitimate.

Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, Siberia was part of the Soviet Union ( USSR ) from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, colonized the region during the 16th to 19th centuries.

Meanwhile, existing victorious Allies such as France, Belgium, Italy, Greece and Romania gained territories, while new states were created out of the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the Russian and Ottoman Empires.

* Dissolution of the German colonial empire, Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire, reorganization of European states ' territorial boundaries, and the creation of several new European states and territorial entities: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, Free City of Danzig, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Saar, briefly the Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.

Currently, only twenty-four nations have spaceflight technology: Russia ( Russian Federal Space Agency ), the United States ( NASA, the US Air Force, SpaceX ( a U. S private aerospace company )), the member states of the European Space Agency, the People's Republic of China ( China National Space Administration ), Japan ( Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ), and India ( Indian Space Research Organisation ).

The oldest OCA Russian Orthodox church in the lower forty-eight states, established in 1857, is Holy Trinity Cathedral in San Francisco.

impossible to say who wrote the Zinoviev Letter " though her best guess was that it was commissioned by White Russian intelligence circles from forgers in Berlin or the Baltic states, most likely in Riga.

All Russian states had to submit to Mongol rule and became part of the Golden Horde empire ; some of it lasted until 1480.

All of Russian states submitted to the Mongol rule, including Novgorod, Smolensk, Galich and Pskov.

Western nations view Russian bellicosity and belligerence as having markedly increased as of late, with tests of new nuclear-capable missiles occurring on a regular basis, military conflicts with neighboring states, claims of a Russian " sphere of influence " on the perimeter of the old Soviet Union, the rise of ultra-nationalist " Putin Youth " groups, aggressive politicization of and threats of withdrawal of natural gas supplies to Europe should the Europeans not make certain policy concessions, and even threats of a nuclear first strike against Poland have been heard to be made by certain Russian generals.