| 单词 | Volga |
| 例句 | Instead, they’d be protecting the strategic city of Saratov on the banks of the Volga River. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He pointed to cars, said their names and where they were made: Soviet Volgas, American Chevrolets, German Opels. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment was still based at Saratov, using their fast and dangerous solo Yak fighters to defend and protect supplies and transport on the Volga River north of Stalingrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Nina's Russian grandfather on the Volga and Marinas Indian great-grandfather in Guyana were linked by sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Finally, the ruins of Stalingrad appeared—a dark line of demolished buildings stretching endlessly along the Volga. Then came the first explosions of antiaircraft artillery shells.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Marina flew blindly into the side of the Volga River’s high bank. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Levin, a friend who was the director of the Saratov Aviation Factory where the Yaks were made, just across the Volga from Engels. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z A camel named Pashka carried water to the base from the Volga River. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Marina had sent her mother, Anna, and her daughter, Tanya, to safety in a town far up the Volga River when war had first broken out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Once the Germans captured the Volga River and destroyed the Soviet Union’s defenses, they could head north to get at Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Hitler’s new target was Stalingrad, a large industrial city on the Volga—and the one that bore Stalin’s name, an insult to Stalin himself. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Well, one does not drive a Volga and a Benz in the same manner. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Millions of others, including entire ethnic groups such as Chechens and Volga Germans, were forcibly resettled, mostly to Soviet Central Asia. Georgia's Stalin museum to focus on his atrocities 2012-04-09T15:19:11Z And you could sell it, or you could hang onto it, hoping that your enterprise was going to be worth something, and you'd get a Volga, they said, which was a Russian car. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z "Left the Volga, Kept the Vulgar," read one newspaper headline. Reality TV show 'Russian Dolls' stirs controversy 2011-09-01T06:52:10Z The great Danube River, the Continent’s longest after the Volga, originates deep in the Black Forest in Germany and meanders southeastward through 10 countries and four capitals before finally emptying into the Black Sea. Fauna, Flora and Freighters in the Danube Delta 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z The rivers in the region of west-central Russia still bear their Merja names, including Volga. 'Silent Souls' revives ancient Merja traditions 2010-09-04T18:46:00Z From there, the other towns are spaced out about a half day’s drive from each other, as the ring stretches up toward the Volga River. Driving Russia’s Revived Golden Ring 2012-08-31T19:01:44Z Catherine feared foreign ideas and designated an area along the Volga, in southern Russia, as the German settlement. ‘Russen & Deutsche,’ at Neues Museum in Berlin 2013-01-05T00:57:53Z I read up a bit – discovered that jolly guides to moving your expat family stop some way west of the Volga – and applied for the visas with crossed fingers. Even the boys wore woolly tights 2012-11-17T00:05:17Z Our hero has a stash of diamonds sewn into his boots and a barge on the Volga containing $15m worth of gold bullion. Rising Blood by James Fleming ? review 2011-07-29T21:56:00Z And this one is a biker with a shaved head, a huge gut and a Volga boatman mustache. I am cuckoo, but hope is coming 2012-12-12T21:01:00Z Maybe they were worth less than 40 bucks, those Volgas. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Alas, the apple and saucer I eventually procured don't show the Tzar and the Volga, trading ships and basking sturgeons, but the apple does look like a bit like a "little misty whirlpool" when spun. Fictional cravings: what are your storybook desires? 2010-03-25T13:30:00Z The name is a pun on a Russian folk tune about the “Volga Boatmen.” An Obsessive Listen to a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Album 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z His Barge Haulers on the Volga brutally presents the miserable serfs, exhaustedly dragging a boat upstream. Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z “In a nice, clichéd way, it’s very Russian,” Mr. Botstein said about Stravinsky’s arrangement of “Song of the Volga Boatmen,” which opened the program with the bass-baritone Keith Miller as soloist. Music Review: American Symphony?s Stravinsky at Carnegie - Review 2012-01-22T23:07:34Z We got to Plyos by evening, in time to have dinner at a cafe on the Volga, where we watched the late evening sun sink over the river. Driving Russia’s Revived Golden Ring 2012-08-31T19:01:44Z They were brought to the area when settled by immigrants from the Volga/German region of Eastern Europe. Frugal Traveler: Tips for the Next Heartland Road Trip 2013-09-03T21:16:53Z Wrestle nude on the frozen banks of the Volga with Vladimir Putin? Movie Review: ‘Skyfall,’ With Daniel Craig as James Bond 2012-11-07T19:59:51Z A photograph showing the Volga River is reproduced in the background on wooden panels, which are later turned over to create a simple, two-tiered structure for Katerina and Boris’s nighttime escapades in the bushes. In Russian Plays, Don’t Mention the War 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The councillor was filmed behind the wheel of his GAZ Volga with Tarivadiev’s Seventeen Moments theme, Somewhere Far Away, playing in the background. Russia's answer to James Bond: did he trigger Putin's rise to power? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Sir Elton vowed last month to raise the issue on stage when he plays tonight's sold out date in Moscow and a show in the Volga city of Kazan on Saturday. Elton John's Russia gigs to go ahead 2013-12-06T11:30:54Z Volgas whose doors clunked shut with a heavy perfection that made Mercedes engineers munch their moustaches in envy. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z A discussion of separatism mimics a passage in an article published by Vasily Volga, a former senior financial official, now under arrest. Ukraine's leader accused of plagiarism in new book 2011-10-27T10:36:08Z Over time, his hobby began taking up more and more space and eventually Krasinets was forced to relocate his beloved vintage cars, which included Moskvitch, Volga and other models. Rust in peace: Soviet-era cars fill Russian mechanic's field 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z “Russian Dolls” may be a mass of Volga clichés, but it’s still an experiment of a more cosmopolitan, if hilariously narrow and parochial sort. Television Review: Left the Volga, Kept the Vulgar 2011-08-10T22:02:55Z The setting is magnificent, above a broad sweep in the Volga, one of the great rivers of the world. City of wood 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z Since there is only one women's penal colony near Moscow, female prisoners from the capital are commonly sent to Mordovia, a swampy, mosquito-infested province on the Volga River. Pussy Riot members face tough life in penal colony 2012-10-14T10:33:10Z "I hope the Volga will follow them already next year." Focus: Made in Russia? Chinese cars drive a revival of Russia's auto factories 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Moscow is also seeking the reopening of the ammonia pipeline from Togliatti on the Volga River in western Russia to the Black Sea port of Odesa in Ukraine. UN to keep pushing for extension of food and fertilizer exports from Russia and Ukraine 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z I would guess the independence movements along the Volga and in the North Caucasus are watching Moscow’s weakness very carefully now. Russia: All eyes on Moscow’s weakness 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Local governor Alexei Russkikh said the poisoned substance was labelled "Mister Cider" and had been sold on tap after being brought into the region, located on the river Volga, in 30 litre kegs. Poisoned cider kills eight in Russia, dozens sick 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z Catherine would go on to introduce reforms meant to improve the Russian economy, creating the first state-financed banks and welcoming German settlers to the region of the Volga River to modernize farming practices. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z With their help, Russia established steamship lines, and as early as 1820 steamships were regularly traveling the Volga River, Russia’s main waterway. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z In Kazan, a regional capital on the Volga River, people brought flowers, toys and pictures of Ukrainian cities destroyed by the Russian army to a monument commemorating victims of political repression. Protests in Russia denounce Ukraine invasion; antiwar rallies held worldwide 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z “We live in the Russian Federation, and our city lives by Moscow time,” Alexander Volga said in a video posted on Telegram. Ukraine: Blackouts back in Kyiv as war takes multiple fronts 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z "The decision will affect the company's major investment project in the Moscow region, a plant construction project in the Volga region and a production expansion project in Krasnodar region," it said. Russian soft drinks maker to cut back investments, hiring over new sugar tax 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z A pipeline transporting ammonia from Russia's Volga region to Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa was shut down when Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. UN trying to get Russian ammonia to world through Ukraine 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z By the end of the day, the number had grown to more than 40, including municipal representatives from the remote city of Yakutsk in Siberia and from Samara on the Volga River. As Russian Losses Mount in Ukraine, So Does Criticism Back Home 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Shorn of his security detail and big limousine, Gorbachev was carrying his suit coat over his shoulder as he walked back to a simple Volga sedan. Covering Gorbachev: AP remembers his wit, wisdom, warmth 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Alexander Volga was quoted as saying they would be accommodated in the power plant's hotel in Enerhodar. Eight to 12 inspectors to stay at Zaporizhzhia - Interfax, citing official 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Alexander Volga, head of the Russia-installed Enerhodar city administration, also said the Ukrainian troops that attempted to land were “blocked and destroyed.” U.N. nuclear agency team arrives at Ukraine power plant 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z "In case a reactor is hit, it will be not a local, but a global catastrophe," said Alexander Volga. 'It's like sitting on a powder keg', say people near Ukraine nuclear plant 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Reuters found cans of Bud with markings saying they had been produced in the Volga city of Ulyanovsk in late June. Last orders? Foreign beers remain on Russian shelves months after brewers halt sales 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The first Caspian cruise ship, he said, would sail next year from Russia’s Astrakhan region at the Volga River delta. Patient and Confident, Putin Shifts Out of Wartime Crisis Mode 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z "Saltivka is a desert now," said Leon Petrosyan, a 50-year-old engineer who was carefully navigating a beaten-up black Volga around shell craters and debris, in order to hand out the food. 'It's like Chernobyl now': Life in Kharkiv's ghost town 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z When it was officially announced in March 2021, SCS said the Heart of Russia expansion wouldn’t allow players to drive through the entirety of the country, but aimed to reach the “upper Volga river.” Trucking simulator shelves Russia-themed expansion after Ukraine invasion 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z From there, the ivory would have been shipped across the Baltic Sea and down the Volga and Dniepr rivers to the Black Sea. Vikings shipped walrus ivory from Greenland to Kyiv, ancient skulls show 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Reuters found social media posts from a school in Samara, on the Volga river, and a school in Minusinsk, southern Siberia, showing slides from the same presentations being used. Russian teacher rejected Kremlin propaganda, then paid the price 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Finally, near the banks of the southern Volga River, the Middlebury team looked at Saratov-63, a nuclear arms storage site for long-range missiles as well as Russia’s air force. How America watches for a nuclear strike 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z The center of Russia’s chemical-weapons universe — past and present — is an industrial complex in Shikhany, a small town on the west bank of the Volga River, just upstream from the city of Saratov. A legacy of ‘secrecy and deception’: Why Russia clings to an outlawed chemical arsenal 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z "The management of Volga Dnepr has made a conscious decision to find a possible solution together with partners and state regulators," it said. Russia's biggest cargo airline to suspend all Boeing flights 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The list also includes business executives with close ties to Putin and his administration such as Volga Group, Transneft, the Private Military Company Wagner and USM Holdings. Live: Live updates: NATO chief: Targeting civilians ‘unacceptable’ 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z With an estimated net worth of $16.2 billion, Timchenko is the founder of the Volga Group, which specializes in investments in energy, transport and infrastructure assets. Fleeing sanctions, oligarchs seek safe ports for superyachts 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, it was located near three major rivers: the Volga, Dnieper, and Don. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Rashkin admits that his friends “had a good party” the day of the moose shooting near Saratov on the Volga River, but added: “I don’t drink.” In Russia, a dead moose and a Putin critic add up to a political scandal 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Rashkin admits his friends “had a good party” the day of the moose shooting incident near Saratov on the Volga River, but added: “I don’t drink.” In Russia, a dead moose and a Putin critic add up to a political scandal 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Prior to 3300 B.C.E., calculus from the teeth of people living in settlements along the Volga and Don rivers contained virtually no milk proteins. Milk fueled Bronze Age expansion of ‘eastern cowboys’ into Europe 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z A field near the Volga River where Gagarin landed after his historic 1961 flight bears an obelisk and a Gagarin statue added later. AP PHOTOS: From Moscow to Pacific, Russia glorifies Gagarin 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z A reserve chute unfolded in addition to the main parachute, making it hard for him to control his descent, but he landed safely on a field near the Volga River in the Saratov region. Soviet cosmonaut made pioneering spaceflight 60 years ago 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Early on, he naively planned to drive across his new homeland in his gifted Volga. George Blake, notorious Cold War double agent who helped Soviets, dies at 98 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z He is suspected of being the so-called "Volga maniac", who is linked to numerous crimes and killings committed in regions along Russia's Volga River. 'Volga maniac' murder suspect arrested in Russia 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Olympic delegation replete with vodka and whitefish caught in the Volga River, toasting goodwill under paintings of Joseph Stalin and the Politburo. 1952 Helsinki: The Cold War comes to the Olympics 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z The customer that took over Volga’s order for two 777 freighters was not identified. Boeing in May: More MAXs canceled and no passenger jets delivered 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Volga, blaming the global pandemic, told Boeing early in the year it couldn’t secure financing for the planes. Boeing lines up new 777X and 787 orders as it sells off jets once meant for Russian cargo carrier 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Volga alleges Boeing is keeping more than $146 million it provided in advance payments while taking money from the new buyers too, and seeks an injunction to stop Boeing from selling the airplanes elsewhere. Acrimony with Russian air cargo customer doesn’t threaten Boeing’s dominance in freighter market 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Much of Moscow’s bureaucracy had been evacuated in 1941 to the Volga River city of Samara, including 300 female trainees. This woman flew Soviet combat missions in WWII. She is the last one left. 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z It’s 50 years to the day since the first Lada ran off the production line in Tolyatti, a Russian company town – also known as Togliatti – on a bend in the Volga. Take me to your Lada: Cuba's passion for a little Russian box 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Boeing removed all three former Volga orders from its “dubious orders” category and returned them as new customer orders to the firm backlog count. Boeing in May: More MAXs canceled and no passenger jets delivered 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z When Boeing responded that it was already finalizing a resale of the aircraft to other customers, Volga sued. Boeing lines up new 777X and 787 orders as it sells off jets once meant for Russian cargo carrier 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Now Volga is “seeking an emergency remedy, only after a dramatic change in the market created an unforeseen economic opportunity,” Boeing says. Acrimony with Russian air cargo customer doesn’t threaten Boeing’s dominance in freighter market 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z “Visits to Yaroslavl churches and a boat trip on the Volga proved especially memorable to the guests,” an internal Soviet report says. As Bernie Sanders Pushed for Closer Ties, Soviet Union Spotted Opportunity 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Volga Railways confirmed to Interfax news agency that the the train suffered a delay of more than 40 minutes. Russian camel causes chaos for train passengers 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Their findings, published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, show that the earliest evidence of the deadly illness is from Laishevo, in Russia's Volga region. Ancient DNA puts Black Death's origin in Russian region 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z “The Court finds it unlikely that Volga may prevail on the merits of this claim.” Boeing lines up new 777X and 787 orders as it sells off jets once meant for Russian cargo carrier 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z However, Boeing no longer seems to need Volga for that purpose. Acrimony with Russian air cargo customer doesn’t threaten Boeing’s dominance in freighter market 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z During a boat ride on the Volga River, Sanders interviewed the city’s mayor for a Burlington radio show, quizzing him on the costs of housing and health care. Inside Bernie Sanders’s 1988 10-day ‘honeymoon’ in the Soviet Union 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The incident took place near the Russian-Kazakh border in Astrakhan Region, Volga Railways confirmed. Russian camel causes chaos for train passengers 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z A man cools himself off in the water at the banks of Volga River, Russia, 2018.Credit: Reactor shutdown, record heat and Indonesia protests 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The court filings also include an April 2 purchase agreement with another unnamed airline, Customer B, to purchase two of the three 777Fs originally meant for Volga. Boeing lines up new 777X and 787 orders as it sells off jets once meant for Russian cargo carrier 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z There are just 17 remaining orders for the 747, all freighters, of which four are for Volga and the rest for UPS. Acrimony with Russian air cargo customer doesn’t threaten Boeing’s dominance in freighter market 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Voronenkov arrived in Moscow at the turn of the century from humble origins in Nizhny Novgorod, a city on the banks of the Volga River. He Played by the Rules of Putin’s Russia, Until He Didn’t: The Story of a Murder 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z An outstanding officer, he trained tactical reconnaissance sergeants and served in the intelligence division of the Volga military district headquarters – an experience Suvorov describes in Aquarium. ‘Will they forgive me? No’: ex-Soviet spy Viktor Suvorov speaks out 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z In 1942, Hitler dispatched a million men, 10,000 artillery pieces, and 500 tanks to breach the Volga River at Stalingrad and capture Russia’s heartland for lebensraum. Trump’s trade Czar, the latest architect of imperial disaster 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z During their Russia-wide tour, which began last month and has spanned venues from the Volga River city of Kazan to far eastern Siberia, six of their 11 concerts have been cancelled. Russian rappers, other artists targeted in crackdown 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z One example was the Volga River in modern-day Russia. What have the Vikings ever done for us? 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The Danube is Europe’s second longest river after the Volga and flows through nine countries, starting in Germany’s Black Forest, before passing through Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine. Romania gets $68 mln from EU to modernize Danube shipping 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Ivanka will bring in her children, dressed in Red Army Choir uniforms, to sing “Song of the Volga Boatmen” and recite a poem they wrote about how dictators are our hope for the future. Opinion | Trump and His Very Special Guest 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Trickiest off-field moment The flies, the flies, the flies of Volgograd, who swarmed all day off the Volga marshes. World Cup 2018: Guardian writers pick their highs and lows 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Samara, another big industrial city on the Volga, faced similar problems. Peeking Around Corners in the World Cup’s Provincial Cities 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z The Volga Trade Route opened up Northern Europe to the possibilities and potential of trade with Arabic nations and the Byzantine Empire. What have the Vikings ever done for us? 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z By the entrance to the gondola on the bank of the Volga River. AP PHOTOS: Summer in host city means ice cream at every turn 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The city, which during Soviet times was known as Kuibyshev, became a strategic point during World War II because it was far from the conflict and it provided an escape route through the Volga River. Where do World Cup fans meet? At Stalin’s secret bunker 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Whatever its past, this city of 1.2 million people at the confluence of the Volga and Oka rivers is now open and rocking. Russia puts on best face for rocking World Cup 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Sakharov was confined for seven years to a modest apartment around Gagarina Prospekt, an avenue about a 25-minute drive from the new World Cup stadium located at the confluence of the Volga and Oka rivers. Nizhny Novgorod: Soviet ‘closed city’ teems with tourists 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Then it largely collapsed with the Soviet Union, and its tired and weathered historic district, overlooking the east bank of the Volga River, speaks more to the past than the present. Brazil and the Russian city it will play in are both seeking a comeback 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z About 2,300 were descending on Nizhny Novgorod, drinking beer in sun-kissed cafes and lolling on grassy banks next to the Volga river. England brace for sizzling sun versus Panama 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z “Russia is not like what I saw in Hollywood movies or the news,” said Indonesian teacher Ahmed Hanafi as he bought souvenirs of Volgograd on a sunny afternoon by the wide Volga river. 'Let's hang out!': Friendly Russians revel in influx of visiting fans 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The Croatians opened with a 2-0 win over Nigeria, putting them in a better spot in Group D than Argentina when the teams meet on the banks of the Volga in Nizhny Novgorod. Tick, Tock: Time running out for Messi to deliver World Cup 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Helicopters were deployed days ago to spray pesticide over the area surrounding the arena, including marshlands on the outskirts of the Volga river, which runs through the city. England vs. Tunisia 2018 World Cup: Keep on eye on victorious England. No, really, do. 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z But retired teacher Pete Courts, taking in the view over the wide Volga river that flows past the city, vowed English fans would find their voice at the Volgograd Arena on Monday. Blink and you'll miss them: Few England fans make trek to Russia 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z At the fan park on the banks of the river Volga, England fans mingled with Tunisians and locals to watch the three World Cup games on Sunday. England camp on high terror alert before Volgograd opener 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z A different approach is in view on the banks of the Volga River in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan. Russia’s HIV/AIDS epidemic is getting worse, not better 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Nearly 4,000 years ago, a woman and a man were buried together just east of the Volga River in modern-day Russia, with a secret locked away in the pulp of their teeth. Ancient Teeth Unlock Plague Secrets 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Some of the best selections are in Volga River cities like Samara, Volgograd and Kazan — all of which are hosting World Cup games. Dining Russian-style at the World Cup 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Some of the best selections are in Volga River cities like Samara, Volgograd and Kazan - all of which are hosting World Cup games. Dining Russian-style at the World Cup 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z "I was the first Muslim captain in Moynaq and my ship was the Volga. Captains were usually ethnic Russians," Almas says proudly. Planting a forest on the Aral's dried-out seabed 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Ufa, a city of more than one million inhabitants in Bashkiria on the Volga river, was overlooked for football's major event, but will instead host the premiere of "On Football", the Vesti.ru news website reports. Ballet and football collide on Russian stage 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z In the western city of Kaliningrad and the Volga city of Nizhny Novgorod – both due to host the English team during the group stages – local activists say authorities use a “Trap, Neuter, Return” policy . Is Russia killing stray dogs ahead of the World Cup? 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Crooked like an elbow, the Volga passes from the Valdai hills near Moscow down to Astrakhan by the Caspian Sea. Mother of all rivers: how the Volga links a divided Russia 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z This is “closely inspired,” it is alleged, “by elements from the Volga countryside”. Russia uncovered: writers on the World Cup host nation 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z In 1961, Stalin successor Nikita Khrushchev named the city Volgograd - the “city on the Volga” - as he tried to dismantle Stalin’s cult of personality. WORLD CUP: Wartime history crucial to Volgograd’s identity 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The wide Volga River dominates the city, and its long embankment is dotted with restaurants and cafes, as well as artificial beaches. WORLD CUP: Samara famed for Volga river and Soviet beer 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Images from cities as far-flung as Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea, Nizhny Novgorod on the Volga River, Krasnoyarsk in Siberia and Khabarovsk in the Far East showed hundreds or thousands of protesters. Russian police detain more than 1,600 protesting Putin’s 4th presidential term 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z For many foreigners, the world’s biggest football event will also mark their first interaction with these diverse Volga cities, far from the touristy streets of Moscow and St Petersburg. Mother of all rivers: how the Volga links a divided Russia 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Built where the storied Volga River meets the smaller Oka, the roof of the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium seems to float atop a ring of thin white columns. WORLD CUP: Nizhny Novgorod a city of cafes with own kremlin 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z In August, he was shown on television visiting the Volga city of Nizhny Novgorod, where he comforted victims of deadly wildfires that killed dozens and scorched millions of acres. Vladimir Putin's 18 years in power — the highs and lows, and don't forget the shirtless pics 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union’s Lada cars were named after a type of Volga boat and built near Samara. WORLD CUP: Samara famed for Volga river and Soviet beer 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z I thought perhaps they would play the "Song of the Volga Dopemen". Whenever a Russian Athlete Wins Gold You’ll Hear a Golden Oldie 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The Volga was old Rus’s frontier with the Tatar east. Mother of all rivers: how the Volga links a divided Russia 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z History runs deep in Volgograd and its long embankments along the mighty Volga River, an important strategic and commercial artery in Russia. Russian millennials look to their future: 'If we don't do anything now, we will keep living like our parents' 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Volgograd is a city of some one million inhabitants sprawled along the Volga River. Putin Supporters’ Election Pitch: Remember Stalingrad 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Putin on Friday visited Volgograd, the current name of the city in southern Russia that stretches along the western bank of the Volga River. Putin presides at events marking end of Stalingrad battle 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The FSB said in a statement Thursday that the man resisted and was killed by security forces in the Volga River city of Nizhny Nogvorod. Russia says it thwarted presidential election day attack 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z For a few years after 1961, the Volga hydroelectric station was the largest in the world. Mother of all rivers: how the Volga links a divided Russia 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z It has been so cold that the Potomac River resembles the ice-choked Volga: frozen over. Perspective | A strong finish for The Washington Post Helping Hand: We smashed past our goal 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Edward was sent to the Volga River, where he laboured as a logger and at a hydro-electric plant. The house that Edek built 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z He made the announcement in a speech to workers at a car factory in the Volga city of Nizhny Novgorod. Putin to run again for Russian president 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The city itself should be an enjoyable visit – raw, energetic and beautifully situated at the confluence of the Samara and Volga rivers. Russia 2018 World Cup: the complete guide to all the stadiums 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z That evening the sun set over the Volga and turned the sky a shimmering purple. Mother of all rivers: how the Volga links a divided Russia 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z It said the source of the pollution was probably an accident somewhere between the Volga river and the Ural mountains, adding that the concentrations measured in Europe were not a danger to public health. Russia reports radioactivity 986 times the norm after nuclear accident claim 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The agency said the “plausible zone of release” was between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains. France: Russian accident caused recent radioactivity spike 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z The capsule was put together in the once-closed city of Samara by the banks of the Volga River. 25th anniversary of Russia’s ballistic goodwill gesture with Northwest 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z Several versions are available on YouTube, but the finely modulated closing refrains here, with film of the sun setting over the Volga, seem especially poignant for the occasion. null 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The Volga once teemed with sturgeon, but the cascade of dams built by the Soviets blocked off their traditional spawning grounds. Mother of all rivers: how the Volga links a divided Russia 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z The second half describes Alyokhina’s stints in prison colonies in Russia’s Perm region, near the Ural mountains, and in the Volga city of Nizhny Novgorod. Pussy Riot's Mariya Alyokhina: 'Politics is not something that exists in one or another White House. It is our lives' 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z The stadium’s riverbank location was a key site in one of the war’s pivotal battles, where German forces were first stopped from crossing the Volga, then gradually surrounded and beaten. Stalingrad History a constant presence for World Cup workers 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Designed to allow the Volga river to flow into Russia's capital, the giant project was built with forced labour at the height of Stalin's rule. Wall of Grief: Russia remembers victims of Soviet repression - BBC News 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z He was the mainstay in the group’s mainstay, “The Song of the Volga Boatmen.” null 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z On the road back we drop into Mezhdurechensk, a roadside town on an isthmus between the Volga and Usa rivers that hosts a well-known fish market, where women hawk dried perch, grayling, bream and burbot. Mother of all rivers: how the Volga links a divided Russia 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z At the same time, the empire banished dissidents to Kazakhstan and resettled Chechens, Koreans, Greeks, Volga Germans and numerous other disparate populations here. I’ll get my goat: Kazakhstan's ancient sport for modern times 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Its early years were marred by huge fires and Cossack revolts, but the city grew into a trade hub thanks to its location near the Volga and Don rivers. Volgograd in the spotlight: is Stalingrad being used as propaganda once again? 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z In fact, a reboot might be titled America on the Volga. What Trump’s Putin love reveals about conservatives 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z He seems determined to remain an enigma even as he appears to be in charge of everything from the Nile to the Volga. Opinion | Is Jared Kushner doomed? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z It stretches for miles like a banana around the bended Volga. Mother of all rivers: how the Volga links a divided Russia 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Instead of Stierlitz driving his car back to Berlin, Putin is seen at the wheel of a Russian Volga car, with the film's theme tune playing in the background. Was the Soviet James Bond Vladimir Putin's role model? - BBC News 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Locals also rely on minibuses and electric trolleybuses to get around the sprawling city, which stretches more than 37 miles along the western bank of the Volga. Volgograd in the spotlight: is Stalingrad being used as propaganda once again? 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z So say truckers in Vladivostok in the Far East, in St. Petersburg in the north, across Siberia and along the Volga, and on the outskirts of Moscow. The latest protest Moscow is trying to ignore: Thousands of angry truckers 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z A video of a violinist in an orchestra in the Volga River city of Cheboksary being detained during a rehearsal went viral. A near-no show on Red Square highlights problems of Russia’s protest movement 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z The brown areas are part of the Volga delta. Satellite eye on Earth: February 2017 – in pictures 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Hill was duck hunting with his brother, 23-year-old Matthew Hill of Volga, when their boat capsized in early December. Body of 2nd missing duck hunter found in South Dakota 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z “Our curse is the roads,” Arkady Grushko, the chairman of Volgograd’s World Cup organising committee, said in 2014, promising to renovate 11 roads and build a orbital highway around the Volga. Volgograd in the spotlight: is Stalingrad being used as propaganda once again? 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z It was delivered to his family home in Togliatti, a city on the Volga river, by someone in civilian clothes who did not identify himself, according to relatives. Ghost soldiers: the Russians secretly dying for the Kremlin in Syria 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Where the run-off from the Volga pours into the Caspian Sea, sediment – and possibly blooms of phytoplankton – colour the brackish water with a variety of tans, greens, and aqua. Satellite Eye on Earth: August 2016 - in pictures 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The U.S. company announced a preliminary deal with Volga Dnepr last year. Airbus set for Virgin, Germania order boosts at Farnborough 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z At the Society for American Archaeology meetings earlier this month in Orlando, Florida, researchers reported analyzing the remains of medieval victims in London; Barcelona, Spain; and Bolgar, a city along the Volga River in Russia. How Europe exported the Black Death 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Magnitogorsk lies near the northern edge of the steppe: the tawny, featureless grasslands that extend west toward the Volga River and east into nearby Kazakhstan. Story of cities #20: the secret history of Magnitogorsk, Russia's steel city 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Sanders interviewed Alexander Ryabkov, his Yaroslavl counterpart, as they floated in a boat down the Volga and they visited landmark sites. Bernie Sanders May Hear the Word 'Socialist' More, From Democrats 1462-04-03T05:00:00Z Based in the town of Togliatti on the Volga River some 300 miles west of Moscow, AvtoVAZ was long the pride of the Soviet auto industry. Renault Faces Cash Call in Russia 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z A bare-chested Viking offers a slave girl to a Persian merchant in an artist’s rendering of a scene from Bulgar, a trading town on the Volga River. Kinder, Gentler Vikings? Not According to Their Slaves 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z “This party is untested,” he said as he fished along the Volga. Ilya Yashin: the Kremlin opponent seeking a foothold in a small town 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Famine, violence, and mass dislocation wreaked havoc throughout Ukraine, the North Caucuses and Russia’s Central Volga Region, resulting in the deaths of more than 5 million people by the end of 1932. How One Photographer Captured the Soviet Union's Dramatic Rise as the U.S. Economy Tanked 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z A hundred and fourteen tons of pork were annihilated in the Russian city of Samara, on the Volga River. Why Is Russia Destroying Food? 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z When it rains, it pours, and the roads turn into tributaries that flow into the Volga and Kazanka Rivers. Kazan, a Russian Cultural Hub, Finds It’s Good at Sports 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z In early May, Sugrobov was arrested as he was driving back to Moscow from a fishing trip on the Volga delta with his wife and twelve-year-old son. A Murder in Putin’s Police Force 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Samara, a city on the Volga river, is one of 11 sites designated to host the World Cup. Jérôme Valcke, a Top FIFA Official, Says He Authorized $10 Million Transfer 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z They said they serve in a unit of the main intelligence directorate of the Russian general staff, based in the city of Togliatti on the Volga River. Special Report: Russian fighters, caught in Ukraine, cast adrift by Moscow 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z His umbrella company, Volga Group, is also on the US blacklist. Peter Greenaway to direct Russian film backed by sanction-hit Putin ally 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Alexander Alexandrov of the Russian Special Forces from the Volga River city of Togliatti and said he was operating in the area in a group consisting of 14 men. Ukraine says 2 Russian officers captured near rebel area 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z While living in Volga, he was elected to three terms in the South Dakota Senate as a Republican from 1983 to 1989. Former state senator, congressional aide Walter Conahan dies 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Captured by the Red Army, his father was marched to a camp in the Volga; his mother to a gulag in Siberia. Daniel Libeskind Interview: Childhood Bullies, Nazi Germany and the Jewish Museum He Built 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The sinking is the deadliest Russian maritime disaster since 2011, when a tour boat sank on the Volga River in central Russia, killing 112 people. Death Toll in Sinking of Russian Ship Rises to at Least 56 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The movie with the working title “Volga” will “look at the past and future of Russia, a country on the border between Europe and Asia”, a foundation headed by Gennady Timchenko said on Friday. Peter Greenaway to direct Russian film backed by sanction-hit Putin ally 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z An overcrowded tourist vessel sank in the Volga River in 2011, killing 122 people, and more than 50 died when a drilling rig sank in a storm later that year off Sakhalin Island. Search halted for the missing after Russian trawler sinks; 56 dead 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In 2011, an aging, overcrowded tourist boat sank in Russia's Volga River, killing nearly 130 people in one of the worst post-Soviet ship disasters. At Least 54 Dead After Russian Trawler Sinks Off Kamchatka 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z He spoke at public meetings in Moscow, and St Petersburg and he went on a lecture tour to the cities of the Volga. The beauty, the journalist, and the Titanic 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z The industry was hit hard by the recession, according to Marv Post, a Volga farmer and leader of several dairy associations. South Dakota dairy industry seeing a resurgence 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Back in the 1550s when Tsarist Russia was at war with the marauding Tatars, Ivan the Terrible constructed a line of defensive forts along the Volga through the lands of these minority peoples. The people with the reddest hair in the world 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Gorky was proud of its giant automobile plant producing trucks and Volga automobiles. Death and Recession in the City That Shrinks by 15,000 People a Year Volga Group owns the majority of Stroytransgaz, a major construction firm building stadiums and facilities for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Sochi organizer takes job in business 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Late last month Yelena Tumanova was handed the body of her son in a coffin at her home in Russia's Western Volga region. Special Report: Moscow stifles dissent as soldiers return in coffins 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z His beloved car, a sky-blue Volga 21 kept in mint condition for three decades, is now a tangle of gnarled metal; even his bicycle is destroyed. Despair in Luhansk as residents count the dead 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z That drill in the Volga region and the Urals involved 65,000 troops. Putin orders forces in the east on combat drill 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z A form of polka music big in the German-Russian community from the Volga Region of Russia, Dutch Hop is an instrumental form of music most often featuring an accordion, trombone, keyboard and hammered dulcimer. Crew films Greeley Dutch Hoppers for documentary 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z He owns Volga Group, an investment firm with stakes in energy, transport and infrastructure, including Novatek, Russia's second biggest gas producer. How far do EU-US sanctions on Russia go? 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z When Russia won the right to host the World Cup in 2010, its bid presentation showed Samara’s stadium on an island in the Volga river. A look at the venues hosting 2018 World Cup 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Along the Dnieper and Volga, the traders were generally known as Varangians or “rowers” and formed the personal guard of the Byzantine Emperor; sometimes as Rus, from which modern Russia takes its name. How the Vikings became the world’s first climate change profiteers 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z The local committees are in Java, Humboldt, Dallas, Volga, Valley Springs and Peever, and by a Daughters of the American Revolution group in the Black Hills. More statehood anniversary committees established 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Overfishing, poaching, and pollution in the Caspian Sea and Russia’s Volga River drove the species of sturgeon that produces the treasured beluga, osetra, and sevruga caviars to the brink of extinction. American Caviar No Longer Draws Sneers 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The Volga River in Russia, he once proclaimed, will be Germany’s Mississippi. Benghazi nuts, anti-vaxxers, birthers: Do they really buy their own nonsense? 2014-05-13T17:45:00Z Also targeted are four subsidiaries of Bank Rossiya, a previously sanctioned bank in which Volga Group holds an 8 percent stake, according to the group’s website. Why the U.S. Is Targeting the Business Empire of a Putin Ally 2014-04-28T17:00:04Z They were his investment vehicle Volga Group and energy transport firm Transoil. UPDATE 2-Sechin's "bourbon ban" won't hurt Rosneft, oil traders reckon 2014-04-28T17:20:21Z Sokoloff was Russian, born and raised in a city on the Volga River. An Adaptation From ‘Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,’ by Michael Lewis 2014-03-31T09:00:22Z Mr. Timchenko, through his holding company, Volga Group, owns a 23 percent stake in Novatek, Russia’s largest private gas producer, and its shares fell nearly 9 percent on Friday in Moscow. Russia Starts to Feel Effect of Sanctions 2014-03-22T01:36:12Z Natives of Eastern Europe in the genus Dreissena, zebra and quagga mussels began moving up the Volga River toward Western Europe 200 years ago. Science Takes on a Silent Invader 2014-02-24T23:43:50Z Finally the Volga stopped, and the priests got out in the middle of a highway on-ramp. Sochi or Bust: Have Niva, Need Hammer 2014-02-07T20:29:15Z Being driven away from the prison in a black Volga car, once a symbol of Russian officialdom, was "a conceptual release", noted Maria Alyokhina, smiling wryly. Pussy Riot: Punk band members remain defiant 2013-12-23T23:03:46Z The other, Volga Adams, in her mid-30s and known as a gypsy princess in New York City, said, “There is evil in you.” Crime Scene: Devil’s Head, Dead Chicken and a Swindle 2013-08-02T23:30:18Z Its sprawling grounds host a Soviet-built teal Volga car recovered in Afghanistan by embassy staff and a memorial to the 15,000 Soviet lives lost in the war against mujahideen fighters. Fearing Afghan instability, Russia mulls border troops 2013-05-17T08:18:01Z Its production assets are located in the Volga river regions of Samara and Ulyanovsk. UPDATE 1-LUKOIL buys Russia oil firm from Hess for $2 bln 2013-04-01T14:53:16Z A taxi driver in an old Volga picked us up and drove us through the construction site that would host the Olympics in a couple of weeks. Sochi or Bust: Have Niva, Need Hammer 2014-02-07T20:29:15Z If President Bashar al-Assad were to fall, he speculated, the instability would quickly ripple to the Russian Caucuses, then to the Volga region and the Urals, until all of "Mother Russia" would be "dismembered." The Lede Blog: Vacation on Syria's Front Lines Goes Wrong for Russian Judge 2013-02-01T01:28:38Z One of his most vivid memories of the almost unrecognisable city was also the burning Volga. Remembering the horrors of Stalingrad 2013-01-31T07:42:13Z The Volga, an overpowered slab of steel, was once the vehicle of choice for K.G.B. agents. Foreign Automakers See Potential in Russian Market 2012-12-26T01:07:05Z Attacks on government-backed Muslim leaders in the Volga River province of Tatarstan in July added to fears of a spread of Islamist violence. Russian police detain members of banned Islamic group 2012-11-12T09:25:18Z He recalled his naïve intention, after the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service awarded him with a Volga car, to climb into it and drive across the country. George Blake, British Double Agent, Turns 90 in Moscow 2012-11-12T05:08:50Z The top winners were entitled to a “chic” Volga sedan, while second prize was a Zhiguli. The Soviet relics that would sink modern-day Russia 2012-09-02T01:48:00Z Commanding a spectacular view over the River Volga, it was one of the most important strategic sites during the battle and was fought over bitterly. Remembering the horrors of Stalingrad 2013-01-31T07:42:13Z The sect was uncovered in a suburb of the city of Kazan during an investigation into recent attacks on Muslim clerics in Tatarstan, a mainly Muslim region on the River Volga. 'Catacomb sect' members charged 2012-08-08T16:15:01Z The KirovLes deal, which dates back to 2009, was the basis of a previous criminal charge against Mr. Navalny, which was closed by investigators in the Volga region earlier this year. Aleksei Navalny Charged With Embezzlement 2012-07-31T13:17:22Z Wild hemp still grows on the banks of the lower Ural, and the Volga, near the Caspian Sea. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The traveller would not confuse the Rhine with the Danube, or the Nile with the Volga. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z In November, as winter set in, she and her mother fled to a nearby ravine leading down to the Volga. Remembering the horrors of Stalingrad 2013-01-31T07:42:13Z On one journey from camp to camp, they travelled for five weeks along the banks of the Volga, nearly always on foot, and often without food. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z It also leveled new accusations against a police officer in the Volga River city of Kazan; the officer is already in custody on charges of torturing a man to death. | Europe: Russia: New Police Brutality Charges 2012-03-30T06:37:55Z The Posts come hourly in, and bring new danger; The enemy is past the Volga, and bears hither With all the blood and cruelty he carries, My Brother now will find his fault. Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10): The Loyal Subject 2012-03-26T02:00:33.817Z No Volga Viking, he is a bit portly, sporting a sheepish grin and a shaggy haircut. Gregory Davidzon, a Kingmaker of Brooklyn?s Little Russia 2012-03-10T16:00:49Z At present we have functioning a series of labor armies—the First, the Petrograd, the Ukrainian, the Caucasian, the South Volga, the Reserve. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z This estate turned out highly profitable, because it was only a hundred versts from Samára and about fifty from a number of ports on the Volga. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z The travelers traversed the Jabkan Valley and passed north of the River Bal Cash, following a rather direct course which led them to the mouth of the Volga. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Catherine's colonization, especially on the Volga and in. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z To-morrow we shall cross the Volga by the famous steel bridge of nearly a mile. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Urals, a blend of crudes from the Volga region and western Siberia, accounts for about 80 percent of Russia’s 5.6 million barrels a day of exports. Putin’s Goal of Benchmark Urals Seen in Rotterdam Tanks: Freight 2011-12-28T23:25:06Z Unlike the Amazon, Mississippi, Nile, Ganges, Volga, and, indeed, almost all other great rivers, the Congo has no delta. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z There I should strike the Volga: and my plan was to escape by river; working my way on the boats down to Tsaritsin and thence across by train to the Don. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z It rose to the top of the Volga Conference in the Youth Hockey League, or M.H.L.. A Roster's Rebirth: Russian City Embraces Soul of Lokomotiv Team Lost in Crash 2011-12-15T03:24:30Z Beyond the Danube Darius blindly follows the division of Scopasis, wherever it leads him away to the east and north as far as the Volga. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z Europe I had traversed quite thoroughly, from the Crimea to Nijnii Novgorod, from the Volga to the Thames, from Spain to Finland. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z The banks in New Street were broken open, and the gold stuffed into the pockets of the uncouth dwellers on the Don and the Volga, Chamberlain's Memorial was wrecked, and Queen's College occupied by infantry. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z He reached the headquarters of Batu, on the Volga, in February Asiatic journeys. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The Russian team was heading to Minsk, Belarus, to play its opening game of the Kontinental Hockey League season when the plane crashed into the Volga River bank shortly after takeoff and burst into flames. Avs start camp with heavy hearts after plane crash that claimed lives of 2 former teammates 2011-09-16T22:15:56Z That story has no doubt arisen from the supposed object of it—the assumed eight fortresses of Darius on the Volga, the remains of which were in existence in Herodotus' time. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z There the traveler, who is too indolent or too poor to see the remote tribes of the earth, may have all these strange and outlandish races come to him, on the banks of the Volga. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z The team was heading to Minsk, Belarus, to play its opening game of the Kontinental Hockey League season when the plane crashed into the Volga River bank shortly after takeoff and burst into flames. Only player to survive Russian plane crash dies 2011-09-12T13:28:18Z He travelled through Russia to Bokhara, and returned by the Caspian and Volga. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Medvedev also ordered “a complete review” of passenger boats after a July 10 shipwreck on the Volga River left 119 dead. Medvedev Seeks Aviation Revamp as Hockey Team Crash Kills 43 2011-09-08T16:46:04Z Emergency workers quoted by Russian news agencies said they were still searching the waters of the Volga River where the plane crashed. Russia mourns loss of hockey team in plane crash 2011-09-08T07:01:22Z Here is a video uploaded on YouTube Wednesday that is said to show the wreckage in the Volga River, partly engulfed in flames. The Lede Blog: Video of Russian Plane Wreckage 2011-09-08T03:02:00Z Yaroslavl is on the Volga River, about 150 miles from Moscow. Former Blackhawks among dead in Russian hockey team plane crash 2011-09-07T18:41:00Z Swarms of police and rescue crews rushed to Tunoshna, a picturesque village with a blue-domed church on the banks of the Volga River. Russian jet carrying top hockey team crashes, killing at least 43 2011-09-07T15:50:00Z The "fair Theiss," as purely an Hungarian as the Volga is a purely Russian river, plays a leading part in the story. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z Now and again we caught glimpses of the dim lights in farms, and once we saw the old moon reflected in the Volga. The Image and the Likeness 2011-08-23T02:00:33.617Z The meeting on the Volga was not announced in advance. Medvedev and Putin spend day fishing in Volga river 2011-08-16T20:50:14Z They are descendants of Germans who settled in two villages in the Volga region of Russia in the 1760s, and later settled in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Special report: With Alzheimer's in the genes, when do you test? 2011-07-20T08:39:01Z Russia's creaky infrastructure, negligence and rampant corruption and were in the spotlight this week following the worst river accident in three decades, when a tourist boat sunk on the Volga killing up to 129 people. Two Russian coal miners missing, one trapped in accident 2011-07-17T14:27:38Z The most important, that of Nijni Novgorod, held annually in July and August at the confluence of the rivers Volga and Kama, was instituted in the 17th century by the tsar Michael Fedorovitch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Now passenger vessels are being stopped and inspected along the Volga and other rivers. VIDEO: Volga boats face new safety checks 2011-07-15T06:03:25Z Officials say 79 of 208 passengers survived the sinking of an aging, overcrowded tourist boat when it sank in the Volga River on Sunday. Death toll in Russian boat disaster reaches 100 2011-07-13T16:24:39Z Officials say 79 people of 208 passengers survived the sinking of an aging, overcrowded tourist boat when it sank in the Volga River on Sunday. Death toll in Russian boat disaster reaches 100 2011-07-13T13:31:30Z Twenty-nine of the 208 people who were aboard the aging, overcrowded boat when it sank in the Volga River on Sunday were still unaccounted for and feared dead. Death toll in Russian boat disaster reaches 100 2011-07-13T06:02:12Z Russia is observing a day of mourning after as many as 110 people died when an overloaded boat sank on the Volga river. Day in pictures 2011-07-12T11:52:50Z Cruises on the Volga, which cuts through the heart of Russia hundreds of kilometers east of Moscow and drains into the Caspian Sea, are popular among Russians and foreigners. Russia says 128 likely dead in Volga river accident 2011-07-12T07:00:46Z Vivacious representatives of the Young Women's Christian Association sent word through the little villages along the Volga that there would be games for the Russian children on the village squares. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z The Volga River is crowded with boats in the summertime, including oil tankers and barges. 100 Dead, Many Children, in Boat Sinking in Russia 2011-07-11T13:20:21Z Officials in Russia say there is little hope of finding any more survivors after a tourist boat sank in the Volga River. VIDEO: Russian boat sinks - 110 missing 2011-07-11T13:16:51Z He declared Tuesday a day of mourning across Russia for the Volga River victims. Russian review after boat tragedy 2011-07-11T11:24:04Z Cruises on the Volga, which cuts through the heart of Russia and drains into the Caspian Sea, are popular among Russians as well as foreigners. Over 100 missing after boat sinks in Russia's Volga 2011-07-11T00:55:08Z More than 100 people are missing and feared dead after a tourist boat sank on the Volga River in Russia. VIDEO: Many missing as Russian boat sinks 2011-07-10T22:23:17Z More than 90 people are missing after a passenger boat sank on the Volga River in Russia, officials say. Many missing as Russia boat sinks 2011-07-10T15:00:59Z The carriage is effected for this part of the empire by land; in one direction by the Volga, the Don, and the Sea of Azov, in another by the Dniepr. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z It was necessary to find some substitute for it, and the idea of opening the performance with a Russian folk song suggested itself to Diaghileff, who chose the famous Volga Boat Song. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z The animated abbots are joined by a troupe of dancing girls with large fluffy pompoms and smiles as broad as the Volga River. New highs 2011-04-23T13:19:23Z The Volga, which enters the Caspian Sea, an inland sheet without outlet, is the longest of European rivers, having a direct length of nearly 1700 miles, including windings 2400 miles. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Dubov�ka, a town of South Russia, government of Saratov, on the Volga; it has an extensive river trade in wool, iron, oil, and grain. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The barges on the Don and the Volga are flat; 112 feet long, from twenty to twenty-six wide, and about six feet deep. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Gagarin bailed out before his capsule hit the ground, parachuting to a safe landing near the Volga River. A journey that shook the world 2011-04-10T23:58:42Z Their greatest strength was found in the districts of Petrograd, Moscow, the Baltic Provinces, the Volga, the Ural, and Asiatic Russia, where the Great-Russian working masses dominate. The myth of the Jewish menace in world affairs or, The truth about the forged protocols of the elders of Zion 2011-04-01T02:00:43.730Z Denmark belongs to the Cretaceous period, as does also a large part of Russia between the Volga and the basin of the Dnieper. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z It is navigable as far as Suchona, and is connected with the Volga and Neva by canal. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The Moravian colony, shut in within a bend of the Volga, in the midst of the Kalmuck hordes, eloquently demonstrates what miracles decision and perseverance can effect. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Pugatchef advanced along the banks of the Volga towards Moscow, committing the most terrible atrocities at the various places he captured. Claimants to Royalty 2011-03-31T02:00:20.557Z Earlier than the Gothic was the Letto-Lithuanian contact, as shown by the fact that its traces are perceptible in the language of the Volga Finns, in which German loan-words are absent. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Bush sent troops into Afghanistan and under completely false pretenses, they sent troops to Iraq and liquidated the entire Iraqi leadership,” Putin said today on a visit to Votkinsk in the Volga region. Medvedev Clashes With Putin After Premier Slams Libya ‘Crusade’ 2011-03-21T16:39:30Z There was probably a trade route up the Volga in the 4th century B.C. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z All the priests of this khouroul, appeared to us incomparably less devout than those of the Volga and the Caspian. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Finally, surprised by the Imperial troops, his hordes were routed with great slaughter, and he himself narrowly escaped by swimming across the Volga, and gaining the almost inaccessible steppes of the Ural. Claimants to Royalty 2011-03-31T02:00:20.557Z Nor did this name disappear from the Volga lands after the great migration of Bulgar hordes to the Don basin during the third and fourth centuries A.D. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Spelt is cultivated in the south-west of Germany, Belgium and northern Switzerland, on the middle Volga and in Dalmatia and Servia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Finn and Finnish are used not only of the inhabitants of Finland but also in a more extended sense of similar tribes found in Russia and sometimes called Baltic Finns and Volga Finns. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Here and there only we encountered numerous herds of camels going to drink the clear water of the Volga, or wandering among the Kalmuck kibitkas scattered over the steppes. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Some of these projects—such as the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Volga Hydroelectric Station—have come to fruition. The Russian Vegas … in Siberia 2011-03-03T22:00:00Z It fell to pieces during the later "Tatar" wars, and nothing now remains of the Volga Bulgars, except the Volga itself from which they were named. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z A new Nordic people, the Goths, coming originally from Gothland in Sweden, had migrated across Russia to the Volga region and the shores of the Black Sea and taken to the sea and piracy. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z The Cheremissians, or Tcheremissians or Cheremis, who call themselves Mari, inhabit the banks of the Volga, chiefly in the neighbourhood of Kazan. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z This encroachment of the sands, which increases every year in extent, will soon change the already dreary banks of the Volga into a real desert. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z I fancied myself at moments carried away by force into the Steppes of Tartary, or that I was Elizabeth crossing the Volga, and I believe I even shed tears at my fancied distress. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Owns 25 percent of AvtoVAZ and has agreed to build its own models at the Russian firm's plant in Togliatti, on the Volga river south-east of Moscow. FACTBOX-Car makers fight for slice of Russian market 2011-02-24T16:44:35Z Behind these in south Russia were the East Goths or Ostrogoths, and beyond these again in the Volga region the Alans. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Those inhabiting the right bank of the Volga are physically stronger and are Cheremissians. known as Hill Cheremiss. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z These Cossacks were originally from the Don, and were sent by the government to defend the frontiers of the Volga against the incursions of the nomades. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z There are the Lithuanians and the Finns in the west and north-west, the Tartars and Bashkirs in the east, and the Kalmucks, a Mongol people, who live beyond the Volga. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z Once, when my father was fighting against a neighbouring nation, my mother endeavoured to while away her grief at his absence by her accustomed diversion, and caused the nets to be spread in the Volga. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z According to David L. Knabel, the owner and president of Louisville-based matchmaker A Volga Girl, "It's no different than a dating site in the U.S.—except it's international marriage." Mail-Order Brides 2011-01-06T22:00:00Z At an unknown period the Finns, still undivided, moved into Europe and perhaps settled on the Volga and Oka. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z It is built in the Chinese style, and is prettily seated on the gentle slope of a hill about a hundred feet from the Volga. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Jordan was on a weekend fishing trip near the Volga River city of Tver when he received a cell phone call from his former partner. Renaissance Capital: A Moscow Survivor 2010-12-29T22:00:00Z He strode across the Volga, and went straight to the stone horse. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z Every wilderness, every savage ravine, from the Matra mountains to the Volga, offered them a secure retreat. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z We also know that there were considerable settlements of these tribes, perhaps amounting to states, on the Volga and in south-eastern Russia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Agriculture is there wholly unproductive; in general nothing is sowed but a little maize and barley, provisions of all kinds being procured from Saratof, by way of the Volga. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z By means of the Duke Alexander of W�rttemberg Canal, the river is connected with the Neva and the Volga. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z I soon found an opportunity of making my escape, and wandering a whole day without food, was at last taken by the robbers of the Volga, and brought to thy court. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z I know St. Petersburg and Moscow well, but I really wanted to get a look at some other parts of the country, along the Volga by Sochi, to get a sense of other areas. Goal: Q&A: FIFA's Chuck Blazer 2010-12-16T17:57:10Z Mr. Kunz was an ethnic German born in a small village on the Volga River in Russia. Accused Nazi Guard, 89, Dies Ahead of Trial 2010-11-22T18:06:00Z Some of the brethren established in the great towns of the empire were the active and honest correspondents of the Volga colonists. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z First up was a Volga win in their away game against SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk. Planet Sport: Russia get in on match fixing - allegedly 2010-09-04T23:07:00Z As this city lies on the banks of the Volga, it offers great facilities for fishing, a diversion to which my mother was extremely partial. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z It’s a city on the Volga that has 30 universities. Goal: Q&A: FIFA's Chuck Blazer 2010-12-16T17:57:10Z "The speculators need to be caught," Medvedev said at the meeting in Saratov, a city on the Volga river in an agricultural region hit by the drought. Russia warns speculators after food prices rise 2010-09-02T12:08:00Z A steamer, no less, puffing and smoking, and lashing the astonished waters of the calm Volga into foam. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Then I found the Volga Boatmen song going through my mind. Phys Ed: Does Music Make You Exercise Harder? 2010-08-25T04:01:00Z The fields of Russia's traditionally fertile Volga River region are strewn with withered wheat stalks. Wheat-Price Spike Ignores Abundant Inventories 2010-08-02T18:44:00Z The Emergencies Ministry said the most difficult situation was in the Ural, Volga River and Central regions. Wildfires spread in western Russia, kill 28 2010-07-31T14:30:00Z He rode Hidden Lake, who was named champion older female in 1997; and the multiple stakes winners Affirmed Success, Volga and Tenski, to name a few. Richard Migliore, a Peerless Horseman, Retires 2010-06-02T21:41:00Z It was like nothing I could compare it to but an opera scene suddenly got up on the banks of the Volga. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The settlement was established in 1956, when the Soviet government set aside the land for employees of the Moscow Canal, which connects the Moscow and Volga rivers. In Russia, summer homes have become a cause c??l??bre 2010-02-21T05:00:00Z The Kalmucks are a Buddhist and Mongolian people who originated in a confederacy of tribes dwelling in Dzungaria, migrated to Siberia, and settled on the Lower Volga. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Whatever the truth may be, open hostilities began on May 26, 1918, when Czecho-Slovak forces began operations in the Volga district and in Siberia simultaneously. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. It consists almost entirely of two vast steppes, separated from each other by the Volga, and forming for the most part arid sterile deserts. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Astrakhan has for some years had a lazaret on the mouths of the Volga at seventy-five versts from its walls. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The river Darling shows well upon paper, and judged by its aspect on the map it is a river which might rank with the Volga and the Amazon. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands In northern Asia there is a generally equal rainfall of 19 to 29 in. between the Volga and the Lena in Manchuria and northern China, rather more considerable increase in Korea, Siam and Japan. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Early in June, 1918, they had taken possession of a considerable stretch of territory in the Volga district, including several important towns. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. A larger number of German immigrants, 55,000, comes from Austria-Hungary and Russia, those from the latter country being driven from the Baltic provinces and the Volga settlements by the “Russianizing” policy of the Slav. Races and Immigrants in America At some distance from the colony, a dull white line, scarcely distinguishable through the gloom, announced the presence of the Volga. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The great majority of the inhabitants of Manchuria and Jungaria are of Calmuck descent, and even in Russia in Europe there are many settlements of this tribe along the Volga and the Don. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar Eight miles above Astrakhan, on the right bank of the Volga, are the ruins of two ancient cities superimposed one upon the other. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Meanwhile the Czecho-Slovaks in the Volga region were also engaged in heavy fighting with the Soviet troops. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. What is shouted on the banks of the Volga in the morning, at noon is shouted on the Clyde, and at the setting of the sun in New York. Victory out of Ruin At daybreak, our eyes were bent eagerly on the Volga, that gleamed in the colours of the morning sky. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z BOLGARI, or Bolgary, a ruined town of Russia, in the government of Kazan, 4 m. from the left bank of the Volga, in 55�N. lat. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Fishing off the mouth of the Volga gives occupation to 50,000 persons; the fish, chiefly herrings and sturgeon, together with the caviare prepared from the latter, are sold for the most part at Nizhniy-Novgorod. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" She is virtually self-sustaining in cereals, and the small surplus needed can readily be obtained from the fields of Siberia and the region of the Volga. Memorandum to the Government of the United States on the Recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic We are in bondage: Like the Volga, in its chains of ice, We are bound in the bitter ice of sorrow. Shadows of Flames A Novel There is no copying of European fashion, no Frank costumes, no mixed population; every thing is Cossack, except a few Kalmuck figures, telling us of the vicinity of the Volga. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Fisheries.—No other inland sea is so richly stocked with fish as the Caspian, especially off the mouths of the large rivers, the Volga, Ural, Terek and Kura. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The banks of the Volga are to modern, what those of the Nile were to ancient Rome. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 The country between the stream just named and the Volga was the grand centre of early Tartar history. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia The Mongols who live in Europe have fixed their tents on each side of the Volga and along the coast of the Caspian Sea near Astrachan. Lectures on The Science of Language This town has been placed sometimes at Riazan, sometimes at the mouth of the Volga, on the site of Astrakhan, sometimes on the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Some 50,000 persons are engaged in this industry off the mouth of the Volga alone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Pioneer settlements were encouraged in the eastern part of European Russia, beyond the lower Volga. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) On reaching Tver we crossed the Volga by a high iron bridge,—one of the greatest rivers of the world, the Mississippi of Russia. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia In 568 Turkish tribes occupied the country between the Volga and the sea of Azov, and numerous reinforcements have since strengthened their position in those parts. Lectures on The Science of Language After the Khirghis, we have also on the left bank of the Volga, near its mouths, a small Tatar horde, called Koundrof, an offshoot of the great tribe of the Kouban. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z It appears that at the end of his life Dominic had the idea of going himself to preach to the heathen Kuman Tatars on the Dnieper and the Volga. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Their incursions led them early in the seventeenth century into Russian territory, where they secured a foothold in the region east of the Volga. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) The Volga by this system communicates with the White Sea, the Baltic, and the Euxine,—statistics showing that no less than fifteen thousand vessels navigate this great river annually. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia The Bulgaria branch comprises the Tcheremissians and Mordvinians, scattered in disconnected colonies along the Volga, and surrounded by Russian and Tataric dialects. Lectures on The Science of Language Latterly, however, they appear to have lived in harmony with the Kalmucks of the Volga. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The Don is navigable throughout the government, and at Kalach is connected by a railway, 45 m. long, with Tsaritsyn on the Volga, routes by which an enormous amount of heavy merchandise is transported. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Their incursions led them early in the seventeenth century into Russian territory, where they secured a foothold in the region east of the Volga. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) The Volga has a course of over twenty-four hundred, and the Oka of eight hundred and fifty miles. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia The Permic tribes were driven westward by their eastern neighbors, the Voguls, and thus pressed upon their western neighbors, the Bulgars of the Volga. Lectures on The Science of Language Only a small remnant of them accompanied the Derbetes to the banks of the Volga. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Caspian Sea, so called from the large river Volga, or Wolga, which empties itself into it. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Their home, at the time they first appear in history, was the country about the sources and upper course of the Volga and its tributaries, the Dnieper, Don, and Northern Dwina. Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century Even the weekly bath must be given up here, unless it consists of a brief plunge into the Volga. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia The similarity between the Hungarian language and dialects of Finnic origin, spoken east of the Volga, is not a new discovery. Lectures on The Science of Language Those that grow on the banks of the Volga are never quite covered in the highest floods. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The name of this king is honored wherever the teachings of Buddha have spread, and is reverenced from the Volga to Japan, from Ceylon and Siam to the borders of Mongolia and Siberia. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning His recent stories, "The Asking in Marriage," and "Beyond the Volga," show signs of great strength and power of observation. Contemporary Russian Novelists Abandoning the steppes and forests of Western Siberia, our travellers crossed the great Ural range of mountains, made their way to Perm, and thence to the Volga. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century They were then settled east of the old Bulgarian kingdom, the capital of which, the ancient Bolgari, on the left of the Volga, may still be traced in the ruins of Spask. Lectures on The Science of Language The great caravans of the Volga and the Kouban disappeared, the navigation of the Caspian was almost annihilated, and Astrakhan was reduced exclusively to local commerce with the adjoining districts of Russia. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z It reached Uzun-ada on the 6th of June; crossed to Baku, June 18th; Astrakhan, June 24th; then up the Volga to Nizhniy-Novgorod, arriving at Moscow and St Petersburg early in August. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" First apprenticed to an engraver, and then as a gardener, he finally became a scullion on one of the boats that plies up and down the Volga. Contemporary Russian Novelists At daybreak our eyes were turned eagerly towards the Volga, that flashed in the glories of the morning sky. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century It is the glory of Pope Formosus, the same whose body underwent a posthumous trial, that he converted the Bulgarians, a people who came from the banks of the Volga. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The vessels that ply in the mouths of the Volga are some of them decked, some open. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Those who live on the right bank of the Volga are sometimes known as Hill Cheremis, and are taller and stronger than those who inhabit the swamps of the left bank. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" Thomas's father is a merchant on the banks of the Volga; he is an energetic man who carries out all his ideas. Contemporary Russian Novelists Assuredly, the details of every-day life were left behind when the courageous lady embarked upon the Volga, and set out for the famous city of Astrakhan. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century Then—a lighter mood—again the green woods and water—oh for the happy song of the boatman on the Volga. Futurist Stories The boats that float down the Volga to Astrakhan from the interior, are of extreme diversity of construction. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z According to some authorities, rinderpest has its home in the territory around the Black Sea and the Volga River in Russia; according to others, in Central Asia. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle Leaving Tiflis after a short sojourn there, he came to the banks of the Volga, in his native country, and began to write stories for the local papers. Contemporary Russian Novelists We came from Persia, from the land of the East; an army of us swam across the Volga, driven by an earthquake from our own country. The Rambles of a Rat I write with personal knowledge of their working, for I watched it at close quarters in the Volga district and the Caucasus with the assistance of an experienced bank manager. England and Germany Indeed the fact seems clearly ascertained that the Volga has undergone a great diminution of volume within the last century. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z But the place to see this famous sight at its best is the Volga, which, with its two thousand miles of length, brings down ice enough to overwhelm a whole city. Harper's Young People, May 4, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly In "The Disciple," we see a young sharper on a boat on the Volga. Contemporary Russian Novelists The black rat was in possession of many European towns before the brown rat crossed the Volga in 1727; whenever the brown rat arrived, the black rat had to go to the wall. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The Volga by this system communicates with the White Sea, the Baltic, and the Euxine. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands The Tatars also gave the name of Etchil to the Volga. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z He fled to the Christian Duke of Lithuania, again returned to the banks of the Volga, and, after fifteen battles with a domestic rival, at last perished in the wilds of Siberia. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 He drank a little, but rowdily, and managed to spend in a cheap tavern like the Volga as much as twenty roubles in an evening. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories It was a time when Alan chiefs from the Volga served as police in Tunking, and Chinese physicians could be consulted at Tabriz. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest On reaching the city of Tver, we cross, by a high iron bridge, the river Volga,—one of the greatest in the world,—the Mississippi of Russia. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands The whole traffic and navigation of the Don, down stream, from Kahalnitzkaia, depends on the arrivals from the Volga. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z While he triumphed on the Volga or the Ganges, his servants, and even his sons, forgot their master and their duty. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 The Volga is wide, and at the end of a straggling village, in the wine-shop, bearded men in rough sheepskin coats sit drinking. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands At early morning he was roused and ordered to alight, and in the same order as before the prisoners were marched through the streets of Nijni Novgorod to the bank of the Volga. Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia The Volga is the largest river in Europe. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Most of the hordes were then assembled in the steppes on the left bank of the Volga, and the whole multitude followed him. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Some time in the night we passed the large town of Vladimir, and with the rising sun were well on our way to the Volga. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Pallas profited by the opportunity to undertake a new journey in the northern provinces of the empire, the Steppes of the Volga, and the countries which border the Caspian Sea as far as the Caucasus. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Ordinary prisoners, of whom from fifteen to twenty thousand are sent annually to Siberia, are taken down the Volga in a convict barge, towed by a steamer, in batches of six or seven hundred. Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia The Volga has a course of twenty-four hundred, and the Oka of eight hundred and fifty miles. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Only 15,000 families remained in Russia, because the Volga remained unfrozen to an unusual late period, and prevented them from crossing over to the rendezvous. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z We were unwashed and hungry; and neither the tumult of the lower town, nor the view of the Volga, crowded with vessels of all descriptions, had power to detain us. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 The Huns, having crossed the Volga, drove the Alani before them to the Danube. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 He now fled to the Volga, wasting the land as he went, burning the crops and villages, and leaving desolation in his track. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality The Kremlin, like that at Moscow, is situated on an elevation overlooking the town and the broad valley of the Volga. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands We left Astrakhan at eight in the evening, and were ferried across the Volga in a four-oared boat. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z We had heard of the Russian Volga, but never of the Volta. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason They later settled themselves in the country between the Volga and the Tanais, at an equal distance from the Black Sea and the Caspian. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Pugatchef continued to fight till his army was destroyed, then made his escape, as so often before, swimming the Volga and vanishing in the desert. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Volga is the largest river in Russia, and, in fact, the largest in Europe. Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget The landscape, as it presented itself successively to our eyes, with the unruffled mirror of the Volga for its framework, wore a calm, but strange and profoundly melancholy character. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z A considerable part of the product is sent by tank steamers to Astrakhan, and thence up the Volga to Russian markets. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Rubruquis left the mountains inhabited by the Circassians to the south, and after a wearisome journey of two months arrived at the camp of Prince Sartach on the banks of the Volga. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Meanwhile the banks of the Volga had been the locality of a remarkable event. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality The Encyclopædia River, as described by Mr. Roosevelt, resembles the Volga, the Hoang-ho and the Mississippi; but it is richer in snags and of a deeper and more luscious purple than any of them. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 13, 1914 The navigation of the Volga, appears by the sailors' accounts, to be growing more difficult every year; some parts of the river are already impracticable for boats of a certain draught. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The normality of the Turanian movement is shown by its simultaneous appearance at such widely sundered points as Turkish Constantinople and the Tartar centres along the Russian Volga. The New World of Islam Rubruquis complied with the request, and crossing the country lying between the Volga and the Don, they arrived at their destination. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Some thirty years before, a number of Dutch ship-carpenters had been brought from Holland and had built some vessels on the Volga River for the czar Alexis. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality A fleet of tank-steamers conveys the oil products to the interior of Russia by the Caspian Sea and Volga River route. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania As fish was an important article of commerce between them and the Russians, it may be presumed that they adopted this means to keep the fish from ascending to the upper portions of the Volga. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Clustered thickly along the Volga, especially at Kazan and Astrakhan, retaining much of the Crimea, and forming a considerable minority in Transcaucasia, the Tartars remained distinct "enclaves" in the Slav Empire, widely scattered but indomitable. The New World of Islam He speaks here of two large rivers, one of which, the Araxes, would be the Volga, and the other, that he calls the Ista, must be the Danube. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World He agrees with Pliny about the four islands in the neighbourhood of Scandinavia, and draws the Volga correctly, He realises, too, that the Caspian is an inland sea, and unconnected with the surrounding ocean. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole With a Voyage down the Volga and a Tour through the Country of the Don Cossacks. Cattle and Cattle-breeders I have found it in the Danube, the Volga, and the Dniepr, where its voracity and strength make it formidable to bathers. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z But during the night Vazuza rose silently, fled away from Volga, chose the nearest and the straightest line, and flowed away. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore At that moment, the ornate Volga pulled up to a smooth stop before a large, richly decorated building that glowed brightly under the electric lights of a large sign. Supermind William and his chosen companions had a painful and difficult journey of some months before they reached the camps on the Volga of one of the great Mongol lords. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole We have seen how the Gothic invasion, coming from the Baltic to the Black Sea, pushed on to the borders of the Hun people living east of the Volga. Bulgaria "Give the source and course of the Volga." The Wrong Woman When Volga awoke, she set off neither slowly nor hurriedly, but with just befitting speed. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore They were not bomb-throwing Russians, bearded Russians or even "Volga Boatman"-singing Russians. Supermind The city of Astrakan offered no attractions and no hope of trade, so Jenkinson boldly took upon himself to navigate the mouth of the Volga and to reach the Caspian Sea. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole This time he found himself a place, and succeeded in getting on board one of the Volga steamboats as a scullion. Maxim Gorki His Christian name was Alexander, and his father was a laboring man in the service of a monastery on the banks of the Volga. Peter the Great So threatening was her mien, that Vazuza was frightened, declared herself to be Volga’s younger sister, and besought Volga to take her in her arms and bear her to the Caspian Sea. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore The two silent men in the front seat of the gleaming Volga sedan were waiting patiently. Supermind Accordingly the horde of Chozars, as this Turkish tribe was called, at the Emperor's invitation, transported their tents from the plains of the Volga through the defiles of the Caucasus into Georgia. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity Nishni stands on a high promontory, whose base is washed on one side by the Volga, on the other by its tributary the Okka. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar The Land's great lamentations, The mighty mourning of cannon The myriad flags half-mast— The late remorse of the nations, Grief from Volga to Shannon! Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings And so to this day Vazuza is the first to awake in the Spring, and then she arouses Volga from her wintry sleep. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore In the far northern government of Kostromá, on the Volga, two more ballads on the same subject have been taken down on the typewriter, so that the bard could readily correct them. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections He travelled as far east as Tchistopol, on the Volga, and south as far as Odessa, on the Black Sea, trying his luck at various occupations within the usual Jewish restrictions. The Promised Land Towards evening of the second day the carriages of the travellers reached a village standing on a height overlooking that father of European rivers, the Volga. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar Then the Cossacks of the Don broke out, and until 1671 the territory between that river and the Volga suffered terribly. The Story of Russia About the Volga and its affluent, the Vazuza, the following story is told:— Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore Their desire to open trade relations with Asia induced them to travel to the Crimea, and thence across the Volga and through Bukhara to the court of the Great Khan, Kublai. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People From his observations made on the Volga and about its mouth, he presented proofs of the former extension, in comparatively recent times, of the Caspian Sea. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work I was one year at Jaroslaf, on the Volga, at that period. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar The Cossacks started on their long journey, by crossing the Volga on the floating ice when, on the 24th of March, 1801, Paul was assassinated in his palace. The Story of Russia Volga and Vazuza had a long dispute as to which was the wiser, the stronger, and the more worthy of high respect. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore At Batraki we pass over the Volga by a bridge nearly a mile long. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People I will fling these two bombs under the foremost car at the middle of the Volga Bridge. Old Man Savarin and Other Stories The Kremlin, or Citadel, with its low, embattled walls, stands on the highest point, and overlooks a vast plain, through which, at the base of the hill, the Volga flows proudly past. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar He also joined the Volga and the Don by a canal. The Story of Russia It is said that Stenka Razin, the insurgent chief of the Don Cossacks in the seventeenth century, once offered a human sacrifice to the Volga. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore By the Volga and its canals one can travel by steamer from the Baltic to the Caspian Sea, and from the Caspian Sea by the Volga into the Dwina and out to the White Sea. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People The comrades, though willing to risk death at the Volga Bridge, were horrified by Kojukhov's tapping of the iron bombs together, and all rose in fear of their explosion, all except Verbitzsky and me. Old Man Savarin and Other Stories The mighty Volga, even here a fine river, presented an interesting scene. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar Smolensk was an important dukedom, because it contained the sources of the Volga, the Dnieper, and the Dwina, and embraced the ancient forest of Okof. The Story of Russia The Dnieper, Volga, and Dvina used once to be living people. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore The town stands on both sides of the small Moskva River, which falls into the Oka, a tributary of the Volga, and is inhabited by more than a million souls. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People But in recompense, and as a reward for their services and their zeal, Ivan made to Simeon Bolkovsky a concession of two borough towns, the Great and Little Sol, on the Volga. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 They are made of rushes which grow on the banks of the Volga. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar In 1376, he sent a large army to Kazan on the Volga, and forced two Mongol chiefs to pay tribute. The Story of Russia The Dnieper was a boy, and the Volga and Dvina his sisters. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore The Volga is navigable almost throughout its length, and has also forty navigable tributaries. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People From St. Petersburg to Moscow in six days, drawn by three horses at breakneck pace, from Moscow to Kazan through the endless forests, on to the Volga, Brown and Ledyard hastened. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward I will not detain you longer with an account of our progress towards the Volga. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar Near it, in Lake Volgo, rises the largest river of Europe, "Mother Volga," as the Russian ballad singers love to call it. The Story of Russia Therefore is it that his flow is swifter than that of the Volga and the Dvina; therefore also is it that he has many rapids and many mouths. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore The Volga is not only an important highway for goods and passengers, but also an inexhaustible fish preserve; indeed the sturgeon and sterlet fisheries constitute its greatest wealth. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People To Goga she was home, a white house on the Volga, tennis, long evenings, early mornings, holidays in a tangled wilderness of happiness. The Dark Forest I stood at length on the banks of the mighty Volga among a crowd of travellers, waiting for the appearance of a steamer which was to touch at that village. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar The Kama, one of the tributaries of the Volga, is 1,266 miles long; the Oka, another confluent, has a length of 633 miles. The Story of Russia I live," the composer of "Prince Igor" wrote to a friend one summer, "on a steep and lofty mountain whose base is washed by the Volga. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The Volga is the largest river of Europe and has its own sea, the Caspian. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People When frightened by an earthquake, numbers swam over the Volga from countries bordering on the Caspian Sea. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon The distance to St. Petersburg from the Volga is considerable, and a good-sized fish will often cost from thirty to forty roubles, and sometimes even a great deal more. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Since time immemorial, the Volga has been a great highway of trade. The Story of Russia It came originally from the Volga, and has been grown in this country since 1573. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure And I wondered if in some lonely cabin by the Volga a woman was praying for her boy. Italy at War and the Allies in the West Later I was elected Mayor of Samara, capital of the Volga district, a district with over a quarter of a million inhabitants. The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 On alighting at the station we drove through a flat, marshy ground, intersected by broad canals, to a triangular space between the Oka and the Volga at their confluence, where the fair is held. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers They were divided into a number of tribes, among them the Russian Slavs who settled about the sources of the Volga and the Oka, and were the founders of Novgorod, Pskof, and Izborsk. The Story of Russia This kept up all the while the ship was passing over the Caspian Sea; as they were turning up the Volga valley, one of the ship's officers came down from the control deck, above. Last Enemy The Caspian is "made out of the Volga and the rivers that flow into it from Persia." Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. He did indeed send a fleet down the Volga, and another down the Don. Lectures on Modern history The southern Steppes have a characteristic and well-marked flora, forming a continuation of that of the Aral, Caspian and Volga plains. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers This conquest was followed by that of Astrakhan in 1554; the Volga from its source to its mouth was thereafter a Russian river. The Story of Russia The doctor knew him, but said that he was not with the army, but was, he believed, away visiting some towns on the Volga, where a serious pestilence was raging. A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden Higher in their course the Don and the Volga "are not more than ten days' journey apart, but diverge as they run south." Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. They are smaller than those from the steppes of the Volga, but have finer wool, and evidently belong to a finer breed. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 |
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