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…Peter I the Great 1672 - 1725 Russian Czar Peter was born in Moscow. He was joint czar with his mentally retarded half-brother, Ivan, under the regency of their sister, Sophia (1682-9). On Ivan's death (1696) Peter became sole czar. Peter I…

…on the Black Sea in 1696. In 1697 and 1698, Peter toured Western Europe with a group of Russian delegates to seek allies for Russia against the Ottoman Empire. He traveled for about 17 months, mostly in England and the Netherlands. Peter also recruited Western…

…many different options Kennedy decided on a response. The Russian Premier Nakita S. Khrushchev was to remove all the missile bases and Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba. This was in order to prevent Russian ships from bringing additional…

…knew that it had the ability to produce the atomic bomb. They made a conscious decision to keep that information from the Russians. When the United States was able to successfully test the first atomic bomb they knew that they were the first to have…

…. A French scientist discovered creatine in 1832 by the name of Chevreul, who named the product after the Greek word for flesh. The Russians did not reportedly use creatine until the 1970s and Bulgarian Olympic teams also used creatine to boost performance…

…’s official language is Armenian. The Armenian alphabet consists of 38 letters. Russian is also commonly spoken in Armenia. The majority of Armenia’s population is Christian. Armenia was the first country to adopt Christianity as its official religion…

…other. The fact that Russian was communist was coincidental. In 1835 (13 years before communism was introduced) Alexis de Tocqueville wrote “ There are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, but seem to tend…

…the orders to destroy all factories and manufacturing buildings. Russia thought they key to winning the battle would be who would make it through the winter. Since Russians were better equipped for these cold times, Russia wanted to prolong the battle through…

…reporter, received a phone call from Times headquarters saying that the Soviets had successfully launched a "Sputnik". The Russian name for satellite, Sputnik, became the name for the first space program. They had beaten the U.S. astronauts into space…

…Russians hold Pushkin in such high esteem that his place in Russian literature can reasonably be compared to that of Shakespeare in the literatures of the English language. Pushkin's literary genius seems to have been almost limitless: in addition…