Sentences with phrase «turn of the century russian»
Around the turn of the century the Russian writer Vladimir Soloviev published his famous story about the Antichrist.
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Each of Europe's great nations in turn asserted its own claim to election, starting with Isidore of Seville and the Visigothic kingdom of Spain in the seventh century and followed in turn by the French, the British, the Russians, and the Germans.
We will find it hard to explain the unexpected turn of Russian diplomacy in the Transnistrian conflict resolution process if we still perceive Russia as a typical 19th century Great Power, striving to maintain its special status in international relations by establishing physical control over territories in the post-Soviet space.
The principle comes from the Russian researcher Ivan Pavlov, who, around the turn of the last century, taught dogs to associate a certain sound with food so that they began to drool on hearing the sound.
Industry experts believe that the Chinese — thanks to new plans to collaborate with cash - strapped Russian space scientists — will be able to send their first cosmonauts into space by the turn of the century.
In Scandinavia, saunas have been used for centuries to promote wellness, and it turns out that the Russians and Finns may have understood something the rest of us didn't.
One of the leading high - end restaurants in St Petersburg, «L'Europe» located in the Belmond Grand Hotel Europe on Nevsky Prospekt effortlessly blends handsome turn - of - the - century décor with flawless haute cuisine, offering a mix of Russian and European cuisine, including a sumptuous caviar and champagne brunch on Sundays.
The original press release for the work claimed that the inspiration was a porcelain piece «found at a Russian factory at the turn of the 20th century».
Around the turn of the 20th century, herders in the Russian North endured frequent anthrax outbreaks that killed 1.5 million reindeer, two members of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported in a paper published in 2011.