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To a modern Russian, the names of most of these toys are meaningless and survive only as part of some set phrases, the origins of which ha

What toys did Russian peasant children play with? Karl Lemokh; Eugene Zelenko (CC BY-SA 4.0) To a modern Russian, the names of most of these toys are meaningless and survive only as part of some set phrases, the origins of which have been lost in time. And yet, over the centuries, these toys helped entertain and develop countless generations of Russian children. Let's discover some of them. What unites all traditional Russian toys is their simplicity and low cost. Parents made such toys for their children from whatever material they could find and in the little free time they...

София. Денят на храбростта - 6 май, започва да се чества в Българската армия още с нейното създаване. На 1 януари 1880 г. с Указ № 1 княз Александър I учредява първото българско отличие ¬ ордена “За храброст”. Той е предназначен само за отличили се по време на война българи, проявили мъжество, героизъм и подвизи на бойното поле. А с у�...

Top 5 books Pushkin loved to reread Vasily Tropinin; Pixabay; Berkley; Illustrated edition,2003; Arcturus Publishing Ltd, 2020; Ignatius, 2011; NYRB Classics; Reprint edition, 2012 Brits have Shakespeare, Italians have Dante, Germans – Goethe and the French – Rabelais, so it’s only fair that Russians have their own source of great national pride in Alexander Pushkin. “It’s our everything,” they often say in all seriousness. Pushkin was an unapologetic bibliophile in his own right and had his own selection of favorite books and authors he loved to read and take in...

Prince Philip yesterday took the controls of Concorde, the world's first supersonic airliner. Ten miles high over the Bay of Biscay, he flew the plane at 1,340mph — twice the speed of sound. The Prince, in sports jacket and cavalry twill trousers, stayed at the controls for 30 minutes. His verdict: 'A very pleasant aircraft to fly — nothing mysterious or complicated.' The Duke of Edinburgh takes the controls of a Boeing 757 airliner during a demonstration flight near Seattle, Washington Prince Philip's rating from his Concorde 'instructor,' chief test pilot Brian Trubshaw, was: 'A pretty ...