The main strongholds of the Red defence were the Workers Hall, the Railway station, the Red Headquarters of " Smolna " ( the former palace of the Russian governor-general, in southern Esplanade ), the Senate-University area, and the former Russian garrisons in Helsinki.

The threshold of political violence had been crossed in the primarily peaceful Grand Duchy of Finland during the first period of Russification 1899-1905 when Finnish nationalists murdered a Russian governor-general, police officers and a Finnish civil servant.

From April 1903 until the Russian Revolution of 1905, governor-general was granted dictatorial powers.

After the Second Partition of Poland, he was made governor-general of the newly acquired Lithuanian provinces, where he also commanded the Russian forces during the Kościuszko Uprising.

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.

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

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 most sports, as in most walks of life, the angels are on the side of those who begin young, and the Russian competitor of 16 has at least thirteen years of training behind him.

We stood under a gigantic tree in the rolling country just outside of Moscow looking at silent flowers on the grave of a Russian poet and writer who cherished the love for his country to the point of foregoing the highest international honor.

Among the subjects discussed will be Russian restrictions on poets and writers in the USSR ( Channel 9 at 9:30 ).

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

A veteran diplomat with an extraordinary knowledge of Russian language, history and literature, Kennan recalls how, at the time of Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, he penned a private note to a State Department official, expressing the hope that `` never would we associate ourselves with Russian purposes in the areas of eastern Europe beyond her own boundaries ''.

Told strictly from the viewpoint of the Russian conquerors, the film compassionately peers over the shoulders of a smitten Soviet couple, at both sides of the conflict's aftermath.

Korzybski was born in Warsaw, Poland which at that time was part of the Russian Empire.

He learned the Polish language at home and the Russian language in schools ; and having a French governess and a German governess, he became fluent in these four languages as a child.

It was controversially shut down by the Russian authorities in June 2006, at the height of a Russian-Georgian spy scandal.

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

* 1758 – Seven Years ' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.

* 1912 – Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.

* 1770 – The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.

This resulted in two of his most original operas being consigned to his desk drawer, namely Cublai, gran kan de ' Tartari ( Kublai Grand Kahn of Tartary ) a satire on the autocracy and court intrigues at the court of the Russian Czarina, Catherine the Great, and Catilina ( Cataline ) a semi-comic-semi-tragic account of the Catiline conspiracy that attempted to overthrow the Roman republic during the consulship of Cicero.

Both sought refuge in Persia, whence Abdur Rahman placed himself under Russian protection at Samarkand.

In 1885, at the moment when the Amir was in conference with the British viceroy, Lord Dufferin, in India, the news came of a skirmish between Russian and Afghan troops at Panjdeh, over a disputed point in the demarcation of the northwestern frontier of Afghanistan.

Carl-Magnus, preparing to romance Desiree, sees this and challenges Fredrik to Russian Roulette, at which a nervous Fredrik misfires and simply grazes his own ear.

Abdur Rahman lived in exile in Tashkent, then part of Russian Turkestan, for eleven years, until the 1879 death of Sher Ali, who had retired from Kabul when the British armies entered Afghanistan.

In 1906, the Trans-Aral Railway between Orenburg and Tashkent was completed, further facilitating Russian colonisation of the fertile lands of Semirechie.

However in July 1918 a coalition of Mensheviks, Social Revolutionaries and Tsarist former officers of the Imperial Russian Army revolted against the Bolshevik rule emanating from Tashkent and established the Ashkhabad Executive Committee.

Outside of Tatarstan, urban Tatars usually speak Russian as their first language ( in cities such as Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, Tashkent, Almaty, and cities of the Ural and western Siberia ) and other languages in a worldwide diaspora.

* Central Asia ( since 19th century ) ( Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Xinjiang )-19th Russian officers and soldiers, tradesmen, religious emigrants, 1920-1930s-industrialization, Soviet education program for Central Asia peoples, 1948, 1960-help for Ashgabat and Tashkent ruined by earthquakes-re-emigration in 1980s

The modern spelling of Tashkent reflects Russian orthography.

He abolished taxes for a year, rode unarmed through the streets and bazaars meeting common people, and appointed himself " Military Governor of Tashkent ", recommending to Tsar Alexander II that the city be made an independent khanate under Russian protection.

Far from being granted independence, Tashkent became the capital of the new territory of Russian Turkistan, with Kaufman as first Governor-General.

The Tashkent Soviet of Soldiers ' and Workers ' Deputies was soon set up, but primarily represented Russian residents, who made up about a fifth of the Tashkent population.

The Tashkent conference, under UN, American and Russian pressure, compelled Pakistan and India to restore their national boundary and the 1949 ceasefire line in Kashmir.

During 1999, Professor Paksoy ’ s ALPAMYSH: Central Asian Identity under Russian Rule ( Hartford: AACAR, 1989 ) was at first highly praised in the Ozbek press, and then involved in an attack by the Ozbek polemicists, which prompted Professor Paksoy to respond with “ An Open Letter to the Editorial Board of Hurriyat ( Tashkent )” in 2000, which is also included in his Lectures on Central Asia ( Malaga: Entelequia, 2010 ) 2nd Ed.

The fact that Bolshevism in Turkestan was dominated by Russian colonists in Tashkent made Tsarist and Soviet rule appear identical.

Russian Turkestan was ruled from Tashkent as a Krai or Governor-Generalship.

After the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 and the Russian Civil War began, Turkestani Muslim political movements attempted to cooperate with the Bolshevik Tashkent Soviet, forming the Kokand Autonomous Government in the Ferghana Valley.

The Tashkent Soviet of Soldiers ' and Workers ' Deputies, an organization dominated by Russian railway workers and colonial proletarians, rejected Muslim participation in government.

With Tashkent in a vulnerable military position, the Bolsheviks left Russian settlers to organize their own defense.

By 1867 Russian forces had captured enough territory to form the Guberniya ( Governorate General ) of Turkestan, the capital of which was Tashkent.

Russian General Mikhail Chernyayev, the “ Lion of Tashkent ” failed in his first attempt to take Jizzakh, but succeed in his second try, with a loss of 6 men, against 6000 dead for the defenders.

That year the Russian forces took the city of Tashkent under the leadership of General Mikhail Chernyayev expanding the territories of Turkestan Oblast ( part of Orenburg Governorate-General ).

This would usher in a still bloodier chapter in Turkestan's history, as the Bolsheviks of the Tashkent Soviet ( made up entirely of Russian soldiers and railway workers, with no Muslim members ) launched an attack on the autonomous Jadid government in Kokand early in 1918, which left 14, 000 dead.

Approximately 2, 500 Russian settlers are thought to have been killed by the Kazakhs in the violence that followed in Zhetysu, and this was followed by equally bloody reprisals against the nomadic population, led by the ( all-Russian ) workers ' & soldiers ' Soviets in Tashkent and Verny.

In 1867 the Governor-Generalship of Russian Turkestan was established under General Konstantin Petrovich Von Kaufman, with its headquarters at Tashkent.

Much of the population of Soviet Central Asia was indifferent to the collapse of the Soviet Union, even the large Russian populations in Kazakhstan ( roughly 40 % of the total ) and Tashkent, Uzbekistan.