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In 1998, New Directions Publishing published a short story collection, ''A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories''. All the works are united by a mystical theme. The book consists of eight stories written by the writer in the early 1990s. [7] A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia [6] Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream; Sleep; Tai Shou ...
It referred to a previous investigation by USA Today, which concluded that "38 Russian businessmen and oligarchs close to the Kremlin died in mysterious or suspicious circumstances between 2014 and 2017." [5] The phenomenon has been called "sudden Russian death syndrome" or "sudden oligarch death syndrome", a play on sudden arrhythmic death ...
Russian troops under the orders of Tsar Alexander II put down a peasant rebellion led by Anton Petrov. The rebels were protesting the details of the Emancipation reform of 1861. Circassian genocide: 1800s–May 21, 1864 Circassia: 1,500,000-2,000,000 The Russian Empire ethnically cleansed the Circassian people. The survivors fled to the Ottoman ...
Known as "The Torso Killer"; killed women across western and central Russia [120] Maslich, Alexander: 1989–1996 5 5 Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment Murdered a man during a robbery in the late 1980s and killed another four while incarcerated [121] Matyakubov, Bakhtiyor: 2015 10 10+ Sentenced to life imprisonment
New Directions New Directions publishes English translations of Victor Pelevin's work including Omon Ra, A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia, Yellow Arrow, and The Blue Lantern and Other Stories. Interview, spring 2002. In English, from BOMB magazine. Shlem - New Book of Victor Pelevin (Interactive)
Following the French invasion of Russia in 1812, the ill-fated retreat saw some of Napoleon's soldiers resort to cannibalism when facing starvation in the Russian winter. In 1816, the French frigate Méduse ran aground off Mauritania, and 147 passengers and crew took to sea on a hastily constructed raft.
It is the corrupt form of the West Slavic word volkodlak (Russian: волкодлак), meaning literally 'wolf-fur' or 'wolf-hide', denoting someone "wearing" a wolf's skin, a werewolf. [3] Other sources suggest that Pushkin borrowed and adapted the word from Lord Byron 's " The Giaour ", which contains a footnote claiming that the Greek word ...
Drug-related deaths in Russia (1 C, 3 P) H. Heads of the federal subjects of Russia who died in office (8 P) P. Deaths by person in Russia (2 C, 8 P)