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Monthly Archive: March 2015

Arina Rodionovna

March 29, 2015 News , ,

The serfs in Russia were actually slaves and servants, the name is not made always. There are three versions of the names of Arina Rodionovna: Yakovlev – this name is indicated in the references, Rodionova – derived from the father, Matveeva – on behalf of her husband. And about the name there is no complete certainty. With equal success it can be argued that the nanny's name was Alexander Sergeyevich and Irina, and Irina, well Arina – and home might be an option. Nicholas Languages – a famous poet and Pushkin's friend, came to his friend, and talked with his nurse, treated her with tenderness. But this did not prevent him mess with the middle name in a poem dedicated to her: "V., my light, my only weapon I forget thee In Trigorskoye, where the poet sent his creation, Arina knew well and some tweaked poem "Light Rodionovna, forget whether you Anton Delving, also with respect relating to the Nanny, Pushkin published these poems in his magazine "Northern Flowers". And very worried about Arina, the remaining one, after the departure of Michael Pushkin in 1826. Agree, is not often princes bow serf, but it is "my bow from the waist" asked the Pushkin pass Rodionovna Prince Peter Vyazemsky.

Died Arina 29 July 1828 at age 70 in St. Petersburg, where the older brother of a nurse took the sister of Alexander Sergeyevich – Olga, who married Nicholas . and takes her funeral. But Pushkin nor the funeral, nor the funeral has not arrived.

Entente African

March 12, 2015 News

But the brunt of war tests laid down on Africans. Of them formed an ordinary part of the army, and do not fall under the Belgians were forced to call men to manually deliver a cross-country military cargo and supplies to the eastern border of the colony, where before April 1916 were local fighting with the troops in Germany, which tried to combine their North African possessions with Cameroon. Only received reinforcements from the metropolis, the Belgian side took the offensive, captured in September 1916 the administrative center of German East Africa Tabor and came out in 1917 to the Indian Ocean. Ally of the Entente in World War I advocated, and Portugal, supported by England to intensify the exploitation of the population subservient to her colonies. However, its participation in combat operations was largely insignificant and reduces to open front against the Germans from Rhodesia and relatively short-lived clashes with the break in late 1917 in Mozambique, they are greatly depleted by German troops. Known efforts due to the long-standing antagonism between the Anglo-Boer cost the uk to bring to the war against the German Union of South Africa.

None less against the nationalist revelations Boers focus on London juas sent tens of thousands of soldiers, first in South-West Africa, summer 1915 – Egypt and Europe, and then in German East Africa. Here South African division, bringing heavy losses, fought until the end of World War ii. The longest were fighting in the vast expanses in the eastern part of the African continent.