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In the 1860s, the Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, spent a good deal of time in Germany, as many Russians did during that period. A compulsive gambler, he lost everything in the opulent spa ...

In the Bezhanov family village of Dzau district, it was given last tributes to Fyodor Bezhanov, a fighter from South Ossetia, ...

Maas, but instead a 150-year-old Russian novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Published in 1848, White Nights is set in St. Petersburg, Russia during the summer, when the evenings are known as “white ...

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Yet ten red, blue and white train cars marked with a red cross await. It’s Akademik Fyodor Uglov, the Russian train company’s rail hospital. The hospital on rails started as a way to provide ...