To make its premiere in the spring of 1919, in Prague, the choir walked more than 600 miles as the Russian army advanced into Ukraine. The centerpiece of the project to distinguish Ukraine as a ...
Despite losing more than 800,000 troops killed and wounded in the first three years of its wider war on Ukraine, the Russian military has still managed to sustain a front-line force of no fewer ...
The Russian imperial army and navy disintegrated after the outbreak of the Revolution of 1917, so the Council of the People's Commissars created the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army on a voluntary ...