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Prussia? Where’s THAT?

Throughout history many countries have disappeared from the map forever. One of them is Prussia—a state of great significance in the modern history of Europe, still remembered today, but sometimes causing a little confusion. One reads about “East Prussia,” “West...

What’s in a Russian Patronym?

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevski is a masterpiece of world literature, appreciated all around the globe. Notwithstanding its universality, the novel is Russian to its core. Like many other nineteenth-century Russian novels, it is strongly connected to a...