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Nicolas-Gabriel Clerc (1726-1798). Histoire physique, morale, civile et politique de la Russie ancienne. Paris: Froulle, 1783-1785. 6 vols. and atlas. H82: atlas
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Put Her in a Pumpkin Shell... The palatial Peterhof or Petrodvorets, Peter's favorite home, was 30 versts or about 20 miles from the old St. Petersburg. Was it indeed still part of larger Petersburg today? We discovered that although it's still…
Adam Olearius (1603-1671). Aussführliche Beschreibung der kundbaren Reyse nach Muscow und Persien. Schlesswig, gedruckt in der Fürstl. Druckerey, durch Johan Holwein, im Jahr 1663. Ellis Omnia E30
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Coming in 1703 to a Swamp Near You... In the 10th century the marshes where Sankt Pieter Burkh would begin to be built almost 800 years later were a part of Novgorod land, originally the area around Lake Il'men, home to the Il'men Slavs. The town of…
Heinrich Friedrich von Storch (1766-1835). Statistische Übersicht der Statthalterschaften des russischen Reichs. Riga: Hartknoch, 1795. E1032
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Beginning of Russian Bibliographical Statistics... The Great Soviet Encyclopedia adopts as Russians many of the European admirers of St. P. who spent much of their lives in Russia. H. F. Storch, a German born in Riga and called Andrei Karlovich…
Eléazar de Mauvillon ( 1712-1779). Histoire de Pierre I. surnommé le grand, empereur de toutes les Russies. A Amsterdam et a Leipzig: chez Arkstée et Merkus, 1742. 3 vols. C6408, v.1
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All of 6-foot-6 in Stocking Feet... The following quotation is from the column, "Who am I? Test your biography I.Q.," in the pop-magazine Biography for Jan. 2002: One of the most controversial figures in Russian history, I brought many reforms to my…
Drevni︠a︡i︠a︡ rossiĭskai︠a︡ istorii︠a︡ ot nachala rossiĭskago naroda do konchiny velikago kni︠a︡zi︠a︡ I︠A︡roslava Pervago ili do 1054 goda / sochinennai︠a︡ Mikhaĭlom Lomonosovym.
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This is the history of Russia after the founding of St. Petersburg... although that's not quite true, because although it was written after the founding, Lomonosov's History takes us only to the year 1054. Maybe the reason for the discrepancy in size…
Friedrich von Adelung (1768-1843). Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein: mit besonderer Ruecksicht auf seine Reisen in Russland. St. Petersburg: N. Gretsch, 1818. C135
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Patron Saint of "Russian" Librarians... Friedrich von Adelung was a Prussian historian, linguist, and bibliographer, a.k.a. Fedor Pavlovich Adelung when he pulled up roots and moved to Russia at age 26. He was dubbed patron saint of Russian…
The Russian catechism, compos’d and publish’d by order of the Czar. 2d ed. London: W. Meadows, 1725. B5085
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Kyrie Eleison...Lord Have Mercy... The following list of complaints and the engraving on the right provide the reader with the English view of Russian Orthodoxy: Of the Muscovites and the Russians The Muscovites, and Russians as they were converted…
"Didn't He Weep, Didn't He Wail?" Jayhawker Yearbook page for the 1913 KU v. Missouri football game, with an image of the long-legged Jayhawk
"Didn't He Weep, Didn't He Wail?" Jayhawker Yearbook page for the 1913 KU v. Missouri football game, showing the bonfire, fans, and game photographs.
