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The White Guard first appeared in serial form in the Soviet-era literary journal Rossiya in 1925, [1] but the journal was closed down before the serial was completed. The complete book was published in Paris in 1927. A censored version was published in the Soviet Union in 1966. The complete version was published in 1989.
Dostoevsky in the 1850s, a few years after "White Nights." "White Nights" (Russian: Белые ночи, romanized: Belye nochi; original spelling Бѣлыя ночи, Beliya nochi) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writer's career.
A member of the White movement during the Russian Civil War; A White émigré from the Russian Civil War "White Russian", a song by Marillion from their 1987 album Clutching at Straws; The White Russian, a 2003 novel by Tom Bradby; The White Russians, an Australian band fronted by Pinky Beecroft; White Russian (cocktail), a cocktail made with ...
Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian: Лариса Волохонская) was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, on 1 October 1945.After graduating from Leningrad State University with a degree in mathematical linguistics, she worked in the Institute of Marine Biology (Vladivostok) and travelled extensively in Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka (1968-1973).
The White movement, [c] also known as the Whites, [d] was one of the main factions of the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. It was led mainly by the right-leaning and conservative officers of the Russian Empire, while the Bolsheviks who led the October Revolution in Russia, also known as the Reds, and their supporters, were regarded as the main enemies of the Whites.
The White Duck (Russian: Белая уточка) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki. [1] Andrew Lang included it in The Yellow Fairy Book . [ 2 ]
For the first time, the name "White Guard" was used in Russia for Finnish police detachments created in 1906 to fight the revolutionary movement. [9] Their members wore white bandages on their sleeves; however, this did not have a direct connection with the White Army during the Russian Civil War.
White Tiger (Russian: Белый тигр, translit. Byeli tigr) is a 2012 Russian war film, directed by Karen Shakhnazarov and co-written with Aleksandr Borodyansky based on the novel The Tankman, or The White Tiger (Russian: Танкист, или “Белый тигр”, Tankist, ili "Byeli tigr") by Russian novelist Ilya Boyashov.