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The word “Byzantine” is derived from Byzantium, an ancient Greek colony founded by a man named Byzas. It is located on the European side of the Bosporus (the strait between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean), the Byzantium site was ideally situated to serve as a transit and trade point between Europe and Asia. The…

The history of Russia begins therewith of the East Slavs and therefore the Finno-Ugrian peoples. the normal starting of Russian history is that the institution of Kiev an Rus’, the primary united jap Slavic state, in 882. The state adopted Christianity from the geographic area in 988, starting the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures…

German Soviet Nonaggression pact Kyshtym Disaster Literature on the per-modern period refers to “wandering minstrels,” who often were blind, and “strolling beggars,” many of them were disabled, who solicited charity in and around Orthodox Churches and monasteries. Such persons were often referred to in Russian as ubogi, a term that translates literally as “of God,”…

The Soviet Union took its origin in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin occupied the Russian Provisional Government which had replaced Tsar Nicholas II during World War I. In 1922, the Soviet Union was formed by the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR which legalized the unification. The…