The demi-lancers and the heavily armored sword-and-pistol reiters were among the types of cavalry whose heyday was in the 16th and 17th centuries, as for the Polish winged hussars, a heavy cavalry force that achieved great success against Swedes, Russians, and Turks.

The ancestors of the Russians were the Slavic tribes, whose original home is thought by some scholars to have been the wooded areas of the Pripet Marshes.

That endeavor left the newly independent Republic of Kazakhstan a mixed legacy: a population that includes nearly as many Russians as Kazakhs ; the presence of a dominating class of Russian technocrats, who are necessary to economic progress but ethnically unassimilated ; and a well-developed energy industry, based mainly on coal and oil, whose efficiency is inhibited by major infrastructural deficiencies.

The ancestors of modern Russians are the Slavic tribes, whose original home is thought by some scholars to have been the wooded areas of the Pinsk Marshes.

Supporters of Nordicism and Germanism consider Nordic people ( Scandinavians, Germans, English, Balts and Dutch ) to be superior, shunning those of Southern and Eastern Europe ( who may have darker features and different cultures ), including mostly Jews, Poles, Celts ( Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Basque ), Gypsies, Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, white Latin Americans, Lusophone, white Africans, and Russians, along with anyone whose ethnic heritage is not European.

* On August 2, 2012 Aleksandr Tkachev governor of Russia's Krasnodar Krai announced plans to deploy a paramilitary force of Cossacks in September, 2012 whose mission would be to discourage internal migration by Muslim Russians.

A war of attrition was better for Britain with her population of some fifty million than Germany whose population of some seventy million also had to sustain operations against the French and Russians.

In this they were joined by Britain, whose leaders feared that the Russians ultimately aimed to relieve Britain of its empire in India and to create a Eurasian superpower.

The Russians surrender all the information they had collected on her father ’ s disappearance and the book ends with Cayce coming to terms with his absence while in Paris with Parkaboy, whose real name is Peter Gilbert.

Spain was driven to establish missions and other outposts in Alta California out of fear that the territory would be claimed by either the English, who not only had colonies on the East Coast of the continent, but had recently conquered Canada, or the Russians whose fur hunters were pressing down from Alaska to the Pacific Northwest's lower reaches.

When told by the Russians to submit to the rule of the Tsar and to pay yasak ( tribute ), the Daurs would often refuse, saying that they already pay tribute to the Shunzhi Emperor ( whose name the Russians recorded from the Daurs as Shamshakan ).

* In the initial draft of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, Captain Nemo was a Polish nobleman whose family had been brutally murdered by the Russians during the January 1863 Uprising.

The belief that Sweden was best served by a defense in Finland was enacted primarily by Douglas, whose Northern Army Corps comprised around 26, 600 men who had been mobilised to guard the Swedish border with Finland in case the Russians invaded.

During this chaos, the Colour party of the regiment, whose Colours had been shot through, held their ground against the overwhelming Russian force, and safeguarded the Colours from the Russians, as well as helping to rally the regiment.

* Pinky Beecroft formed Pinky Beecroft and the White Russians, whose name was later shortened to just The White Russians.

Today, more than 90 percent of our retaliatory capacity is made up of aircraft and missiles which have fixed, un-protectable bases whose location is known to the Russians.

On 26 October 1854 at Sebastopol, the Crimea, an attack by the Russians was repulsed and the enemy fell back pursued by men of the 49th Regiment, led by Lieutenant Conolly, whose gallant behaviour was most conspicuous in this action.

Some scholars postulate that onion domes were borrowed by Russians from Muslim countries-probably from the Khanate of Kazan, whose conquest Ivan the Terrible commemorated by erecting St.

He tried in vain to interest the Russians whose small army of 2, 000 was slowly making its way from Tongku to Tientsin.

His mother Dina Sergeevna Muhina, of Ukrainian, Jewish and Russian roots, is a native of the city of Kherson, whose ethnic composition at the time, when she was born was the following: 36 % Ukrainians, 36 % Russians, 25 % Jews, 3 % others, making it the city with largest concentration of Jews in the Ukrainian SSR ( source: 1926 Census in the Soviet Union ).

While in other nations of Eastern Europe Russia remains unpopular due to its influence over those nations during the Cold War, in Serbia and Montenegro, whose nations are both predominately Eastern Orthodox, the faith expressed by a vast majority of Russians, there was no Soviet influence and Russians were always seen as friendly brotherly people.

In contrast, the British repatriated the Russians who fought on the side of Germany to the USSR, where they were summarily treated as traitors and most of them executed, including their families.

Negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth ( 1905 ) — From left to right: The Russians at far side of table are Korostovetz, Nabokov, Sergei Witte | Witte, Roman Rosen | Rosen, Plancon and the Japanese at near side of table are Mineichirō Adachi | Adachi, Ochiai Kentaro | Ochiai, Komura Jutarō | Komura, Takahira Kogoro | Takahira, Aimaro Sato | Satō.

In June 1900, the Chinese bombarded the town of Blagoveshchensk on the Russian side of the Amur, and in retaliation, the Russians massacred several thousand Chinese and Manchus in that town.

Norman explained this choice of song: " I wanted us to feed the poor, and to stop worshipping the space program thinking this proved that God was on our side and not the Russians ' because we were superior in the space race to the moon.

Morand's division then crossed to the north side of the Semyenovka stream, while the remainder of Eugène's forces crossed three bridges across the Kolocha to the south, placing them on the same side of the stream as the Russians.

The fighting was of the most desperate kind: every casemate and every traverse was taken and retaken time after time as each side attacked and counterattacked, but ultimately the French maintained the prize, and though the British attack on the Redan failed, with the fall of the Malakoff, the Russians positions around the city came into range of the French siege guns.

That night the Russians filed over the bridges to the north side, and on 9 September the victors took possession of the empty and burning city.

The group had heard that the Russians intended to send displaced persons back home via Odessa, a port in Ukraine on the Black Sea ; considering that too far of a side trip, Dries, Nell, Joke, and Henriette stayed behind to take Fafa to a local civilian hospital instead, and then set out on their own for the Netherlands.

Negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth ( 1905 ) -- from left to right: the Russians at far side of table are Korostovetz, Nabokov, Sergei Witte | Witte, Roman Rosen | Rosen, Plancon ; and the Japanese at near side of table are Acachi Mineichiro | Adachi, Ochiai Kentaro | Ochiai, Komura, Takahira Kogoro | Takahira, Aimaro Sato | Sato.

Finland initially regained the lost territory, reaching the Russian side of the border of 1939 and seen by the Russians as indirectly contributing to the Siege of Leningrad ( see Finnish reconquest of the Karelian Isthmus ( 1941 )).

Negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth ( 1905 ) -- from left to right: the Russians at far side of table are Korostovetz, Nabokov, Witte, Roman Rosen | Rosen, Plancon ; and the Japanese at near side of table are Acachi Mineichiro | Adachi, Ochiai Kentaro | Ochiai, Komura Jutarō | Komura, Takahira Kogoro | Takahira, Aimaro Sato | Sato.

Nothing else was done on either side for six months more ; and then the Swedish generals made a " tacit truce " with the Russians through the mediation of the French ambassador at Saint Petersburg.

The Russians recognized the Polish right to autonomy and allowed formation of the Polish National Committee, which supported the Russian side.

The United States entered the conflict on the Allied side, while a process of revolutionary upheaval in Russia weakened her and then removed the Russians from the Eastern Front, finally bringing the Bolsheviks to power in that country.

The Russians were represented by Field-Marshal Rumyantsev while the Ottoman side was represented by Musul Zade Mehmed Pasha.

Sweden also drew the rising Cossack Hetmanate to its side that stood in the strong opposition to the Polish government and promised military support if the Cossacks will break with the Russians.

Before 1896, when the Russians arrived and built a fort, the main town in the area was Kala-i Bar Panj ( or Bar Panja Qal ' a ) somewhat downriver on the Afghan side.

Massena's troops concentration to Dietikon with more than 8, 000 men of the Division Lorge and artillery with 26 guns were on the other side of the Limmat between Würenlos Wipkingen and only 2, 600 Russians over under General Markow, including 1, 100 men under Markov himself in space Oetwil Würenlos, 290 men and 2 guns of the Cossack regiment Misinow between the rise of the monastery drive and the hard woods, 220 men of the Grenadier Battalion good blood on the western edge of the hard woods and four squadrons of dragoons, with 550 men under Major General Schepeleff at Wipkingen.

After the war the Russians started a massive fortification programme on the eastern, Russian, side of the Kymi river, building the sea fortress Fort Slava and the land fortress Kyminlinna.

At the same time, on the other side of the Bothnian Gulf, the Finnish main railway to Oulu had almost been completed, and would soon be of great use for the Russians to transport military personnel and supplies towards the Swedish border in case of war.