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Now part of the Bradford Group, it was founded in 1973 as The Bradford Gallery of Collector's Plates by J. Roderick MacArthur. [1] The company created its first live price quotation market in 1983, [ 2 ] but increasingly turned to creating new lines of collectibles (rather than just facilitating exchanges between collectors).
The Russian folklore, i.e., the folklore of Russian people, takes its roots in the pagan beliefs of ancient Slavs and now is represented in the Russian fairy tales. Epic Russian bylinas are also an important part of Slavic paganism .
On 14 September 987, Bardas Phocas proclaimed himself emperor. Anxious to avoid the siege of his capital, Basil II turned to the Rus' for assistance, even though they were considered enemies at that time. Volodimer agreed, in exchange for a marital tie; he also agreed to accept Christianity as his religion and bring his people to the new faith.
The calling of the Varangians in the Laurentian Codex (1377). According to Cross & Sherbowitz-Wetzor (translators of the 1930/1953 English editions of the Laurentian Codex), the invitation of the Varangians 'has inspired a larger volume of controversial literature than any other disputed point in Russian history.' [16] Contentions have centred on the meaning of the ethnonyms and toponyms used ...
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The Mistress of the Copper Mountain (Russian: Хозяйка медной горы, romanized: Hozjajka mednoj gory), also known as The Malachite Maid, is a legendary being from Slavic mythology and a Russian fairy tale character, [1] the mountain spirit from the legends of the Ural miners and the Mistress of the Ural Mountains of Russia.
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A black GAZ-21 Volga A black GAZ-24 Volga. Black Volga (Polish: czarna wołga) refers to an urban legend widespread in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Russia, [1] Belarus, Ukraine, Greece and Mongolia, [2] mainly in the 1960s and 1970s.