Brigham Young University
Byu: Wwi Document Archive: Peace Treaty of Brest Litovsk
Brigham Young University offers the full text of the Peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed March of 1918 that officially ended Russian participation in the war.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Forced Labor
A description of the role forced labor played in the Nazi treatment of Jews and Russian POWs during World War II.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Leon Trotsky
A detailed biography of the life of Leon Trotsky. Discusses his life before the Russian Revolution, his political accomplishments afterwards, his opposition to Stalinism, his exile and his assassination.
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Alexander Palace: Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna
This site offers information about the last Russian tsarina, Alexandra. The text includes biographical information as well as information about her ties with Rasputin.
Yale University
Avalon Project: Modern Customs and Ancient Laws of Russia
A lecture by Maxime Kovalevsky discusses the origin, growth, and abolition of serfdom in Russia. It describes the important facts of Russian serfdom, the history and growth of the institution, and the peasant-landlord relationship.
NASA
Nasa Star Child: Space Station Mir (Level 2)
The Russian space station Mir is illustrated and described. Features include vocabulary words linked to a glossary of terms.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is the complete text of the Russian novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
This is the complete text of the Russian novel The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is the full text of the novel The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This stunning psychological portrait tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Comp: Animal Farm by George Orwell
This is an introduction to a unit on the political allegory Animal Farm by George Orwell, in which he uses animals to symbolize political leaders in the Russian Revolution.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy
This is the full text of the Russian novel Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy, made into a 1978 movie. Prince Stepan Kasatsky, an officer, ardent, proud young man is a big admirer of the king. Kasatsky is about to get married, but at the last...
The History Cat
The History Cat: History Trekker: Ellis Island: An Immigrant Story
Read about the difficult life of Jews in Russia under Czar Alexander III, one where they faced discrimination and Jewish communities were attacked when pogroms took place. Follow along as a Russian Jew travels to America and is processed...
Other
Analysis: Russian Information and Communication Technologies Industry
A brief overview of Russia's information and communications technology which has been experiencing significant growth since 2002. Frost and Sullivan predict that Russia will be the third-largest outsourcing destination by 2010....
Curated OER
Unesco: Russian Federation: Ensemble of the Ferrapontov Monastery
The Ferapontov Monastery, in the Vologda region in northern Russia, is an exceptionally well-preserved and complete example of a Russian Orthodox monastic complex of the 15th-17th centuries, a period of great significance in the...
Curated OER
Etc: Russian Territorial Expansion , 1725 1795
A map of the European Russia showing the territorial expansion between the death of Peter the Great (1725) to prior to the end of the reign of Catherine II (Catherine the Great) in 1796. The map is color-coded to show the Russian...
Curated OER
Unesco: Russian Federation: Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
The Church of the Ascension was built in 1532 on the imperial estate of Kolomenskoye, near Moscow, to celebrate the birth of the prince who was to become Tsar Ivan IV ('the Terrible'). One of the earliest examples of a traditional wooden...
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Unesco: Russian Federation: Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings
Situated on the ancient trade route between Central Asia and northern Europe, Novgorod was Russia's first capital in the 9th century. Surrounded by churches and monasteries, it was a centre for Orthodox spirituality as well as Russian...
Curated OER
A View on Cities: New York: St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral (New York)
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A View on Cities: Vienna: Hochstrahlbrunnen and Russian Memorial
Hochstrahlbrunnen and Russian Memorial, Schwarzenbergplatz (Vienna)
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