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27,000 Jews and other Soviet Civilians. Organized by Nazi forces; part of the Holocaust in Russia [7] Nizhny Chir massacre [ ru] 2 September 1942. Nizhny Chir, Stalingrad Oblast. 47. Killing of 47 children with intellectual disabilities organized by Nazi forces [8] [9] Bolshoye Zarechye massacre [ ru] 30 October 1943.
Nikolai Erdman (1900–1970), playwright, The Suicide. Victor Erofeyev (born 1947), writer, literary critic and magazine editor, Russian Beauty. Alexander Ertel (1855–1908), novelist and short story writer, A Greedy Peasant. Mikhail Evstafiev (born 1963), artist, photographer and writer, Two Steps from Heaven.
He was a member of the “Red Cross of the Narodnaia Volia,” and organized the supply of revolutionary literature to Russia. In 1905, during the first Russian revolution, he made a tour of America, lecturing on the subject and collecting funds for the struggle against the Imperial regime. In 1907 he returned to Russia.
Anton Chekhov was born into a Russian family on the feast day of St. Anthony the Great (17 January Old Style) 29 January 1860 in Taganrog, a port on the Sea of Azov – on Politseyskaya (Police) street, later renamed Chekhova street – in southern Russia. He was the third of six surviving children.
The Russian Empire [e] [f] was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about 22,800,000 square kilometres (8,800,000 sq mi), roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the third-largest empire in history, behind only the British and Mongol empires.
4.6%. Winning party by constituency. Composition of the elected legislature. Elections to the Russian Constituent Assembly were held on 25 November 1917, although some districts had polling on alternate days, around two months after they were originally meant to occur, having been organized as a result of events in the February Revolution.
Coordinates: 59°55′49″N 30°19′09″E. Siege of Leningrad. Part of the Eastern Front of World War II. Soviet antiaircraft battery in Leningrad near Saint Isaac's Cathedral, 1941. Date. 8 September 1941 – 27 January 1944. (2 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 5 days) Location. Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
1040. ISBN. 0-913460-83-4. History of the Russian Revolution is a three-volume book by Leon Trotsky on the Russian Revolution of 1917. The first volume is dedicated to the political history of the February Revolution and the October Revolution, to explain the relations between these two events. The book was initially published in Germany in 1930.