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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…

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…

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…

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…

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, showing the bonfire, fans, and game photographs.

Paul Hotvedt
Landscape Painter
http://www.groundsite.org/PaulHotvedt.shtml

Over the course of 15 years Paul Hotvedt recorded the landscapes of northeastern Kansas in a series of oil paintings. Several hundred of his works are included in KUs…