Early history. Old Russian literature consists of several masterpieces written in the Old Russian language (i.e. the language of Rus’, not to be confused with the contemporaneous Church Slavonic nor with modern Russian).
Russia (Russian: Россия, Rossija) is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area, spanning Eastern Europe and northern Asia.
The dashing hero Eugene and Tatyana became models for many later Russian literary figures. It also follows the lives of Lensky and Tatyana’s teen Olga, while Pushkin famously digresses into myriad topics of autobiographical and philosophical vein.
The true orthodox way of thought has always been historical, has always included the past, but has never been enslaved by it. . . [for] the strength of the Church is not in the past, present, or future, but in Christ.
Tajikistan borders China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west and Afghanistan on its southern frontier. With a 2001 estimated population of 6,579,000 growing at a 2.1 percent annual rate, 65 percent of its people are ethnic Tajik, about 25 percent are Uzbek, 3.5 percent are Russian, and other groups make up the rest.
Universal Dependencies. Universal Dependencies (UD) is a framework for cross-linguistically consistent grammatical annotation and an open community effort with over 200 contributors producing more than 100 treebanks in over 60 languages.
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
ANNE ABAD is a graduate of Ateneo de Manila University. Her work has appeared in the Philippines Free Press, Damazine, Expanded Horizons, the Philippines Graphic magazine and Singapore’s Quarterly Literary Review.
The Slavs under name of the Antes and the Sclaveni make their first appearance in Byzantine records in the early 6th century. Byzantine historiographers under Justinian I (527–565), such as Procopius of Caesarea, Jordanes and Theophylact Simocatta describe tribes of these names emerging from the area of the Carpathian Mountains, …