Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov

He liberated most of the Soviet Union from the Nazis and captured Berlin

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March 16th 2010
On returning to Moscow from Kiev I tell a friend how beautiful the latter is. "Moscow really can't compare," I say. "What do you mean? What about the Kremlin and Red Square? St. Basil's Cathedral?" he asks. "Well yeah, I guess..." And what about this, that, the other, such and such a monastery, park, cathedral...? It suddenly dawns on me what a ridiculous claim I have just made ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Moscow

Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more

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