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It was part of a defensive line stretching along the rivers Neman–Biebrza–Narew–Vistula–Wieprz. [1] A red line marks the segment sometimes labeled on maps as Carska Droga , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] while a bold line highlights the section passing through areas such as the marshes of Biebrza National Park
M. Presnyakov. Great Abatis Border. 2010.Oil on canvas. Map of Zasechnaya cherta in 17th century. Zasechnaya cherta (Russian: Большая засечная черта, loosely translated as Great Abatis Line or Great Abatis Border) was a chain of fortification lines, created by Grand Duchy of Moscow and later the Tsardom of Russia to protect it from the Crimean-Nogai Raids that ravaged the ...
Its shape left a 450-kilometer stretch between the Belgorod Line and the Volga forts, and a 600km stretch from the eastern end of the Abatis Line to the Don Cossacks in the south. This area had a lot of open steppe and roughly corresponded to the 'Nogai Road,' the raiding trail from the lower Volga.
The native land of the Cossacks is defined by a line of Russian town-fortresses located on the border with the steppe, and stretching from the middle Volga to Ryazan and Tula, then breaking abruptly to the south and extending to the Dnieper via Pereyaslavl. This area was settled by a population of free people practicing various trades and crafts.
The House of Romanov [b] (also transliterated as Romanoff; Russian: Рома́новы, romanized: Romanovy, IPA: [rɐˈmanəvɨ]) was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917. They achieved prominence after Anastasia Romanovna married Ivan the Terrible , the first crowned tsar of all Russia .
In 1816 U.S. Government surveyor John C. Sullivan surveyed a line stretching 100 miles (160 km) north from the confluence of the Kansas River with the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri and then back east to the Des Moines River. The distance matched the rapids but when Missouri entered the Union in 1820 its constitution instead referred ...
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The Presidium reversed its vote under pressure from Khrushchev and the defense minister and deferred the decision to a later meeting of the full Central Committee. 29 June A Central Committee vote affirmed Khrushchev as First Secretary and deposed Anti-Party Group members Molotov , Kaganovich , and Malenkov from the Secretariat of the CPSU ...