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Inside the New Russia offers readers a fresh perspective on the people, cultures, and diversity of modern Russia
In Inside the New Russia: Your Source of Information, project director Vitaly Michka provides readers with an engaging introduction to one of the world’s most complex and misunderstood nations. Through accessible explanations, detailed reference materials, and firsthand insights, the book seeks to answer common questions about Russia while offering a broader understanding of its people, cultures, and regions. For many outside observers, perceptions of… 
With the departure of the eighteenth century there also disappeared from Russia that dazzling glitter which for well-nigh half a century had blinded the eyes of Europe. Catherine was now dead, Potyomkin was dead, Suvorof was living an exile in a village, and Panin was idle on his estates. And now stripped of its coat of whitewash, autocracy stood bare in all its blackness.…
Alexander Sergevitch Pushkin was born in 1799 at Pskoff, and was a scion of an ancient Russian family. In one of his letters it is recorded that no less than six Pushkins signed the Charta declaratory of the election of the Romanoff family to the throne of Russia, and that two more affixed their marks from inability to write. In 1811 he entered the…
