@Ydkdkd762746@TheEpicStats We are drifting too far from the point. The fact remains that the name shown on this map — “Muscovite Rus’” — was never the name of an actual state. There was the Grand Principality of Moscow, and from 1547 the Tsardom of Russia, which lasted until 1721.
@Ydkdkd762746@TheEpicStats At the height of Rus’, the state was known as Rus’, with Kyiv as its political center; Moscow is first mentioned only in 1147. Ivan III adopted the title “Sovereign of all Rus’” only after annexing Novgorod in 1478, an old center of Rus’ long independent of Moscow
In the aftermath of 9/11, Steve Buscemi returned to his old fire station, where he had served as a firefighter in the early 1980s.
Donning his old uniform, he worked 12 hour shifts for days on end, searching for survivors in the rubble of the World Trade Center.
He did so without media attention, a quiet act of courage that later became a powerful symbol of solidarity.
💩 Tourists came to St. Petersburg for a Crime and Punishment tour — and got the immersive version instead
Right in the middle of the street, a man decided to relieve himself as the tour group walked by.
Dostoevsky might have appreciated the realism.
Russia’s cultural capital — you just have to understand it.
@DmitriyGrinich1@drunk_cachallot Вибори 2014 року були проведені з де-факто іноземним вторгненням та анексією Криму. Ця ситуація тоді навпаки на мою думку згуртувала людей і змусила подумати про свій вибір.
@MarinaChikitita В Польщі більше мільйона українських біженців, яких можливо хочуть повернути до дому в такий спосіб (принаймні у цьому є якийсь сенс).