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Ermak Timofeevich, the sixteenth-century Cossack leader and folk hero who began the exploration and military conquest of Siberia.
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Including the character of Vronsky at the end of Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina.
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It has since been shown that the metal in fact came from antique Chinese guns (J. Glanfield, Bravest of the Brave: The Story of the Victoria Cross (London, 2005)).
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The Rumiantsev Library and Museum, opened in Moscow in 1862, was not a public collection in this sense. It was donated to the public by a single nobleman.
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Figes, Orlando.
The Crimean War : a history / Orlando Figes.—1st ed.
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1. Crimean War, 1853 – 1856. I. Title.
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