Publication of Novgorod in Focus (1996)

“Novgorod Marketplace”, a painting by Appolinary Vasnetsov (1856-1933). Slovensk (Novgovord) in the 1st century AD (reconstruction). The settlement was composed of wooden houses. For nearly 70 years the medieval site of Novgorod in the former Soviet Union has been excavated, the largest excavation ever undertaken in Russia. The scale of work undertaken at the site, […]

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Ufa Offensive I

Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1874 – 7 February 1920) was a polar explorer and commander in the Imperial Russian Navy, who fought in the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War. During the Russian Civil War, he established an anti-communist government in Siberia—later the Provisional All-Russian Government—and was recognised as the […]

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