In 1917, when Natalie was 16, the Russian revolution was ignited in nearby St Petersburg.
Mr Varshalomidze talks wistfully of times before the Russian revolution, when Batumi had 18 foreign consulates.
In a work of deep scholarship, Orlando Figes ranges widely and probes deeply into the causes of the Russian Revolution.
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His models seemed as if they stepped out of the pages of a gripping novel set during the Russian Revolution.
His grandparents had money but lost everything when they fled the Russian revolution in 1917 and moved to Harbin in northern China.
Back in the 1920s, the Petrossian brothers, refugees from the Russian Revolution, had two problems in trying to introduce Caspian Sea caviar to skeptical Parisians.
Pupils are far more likely to study the Weimar Republic, the Russian Revolution, or the politics (but not social history) of the Tudors.
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The Russian Revolution changed everything for Peter Carl who was forced to flee to Switzerland, his workshop seized by the Bosheviks, and by 1918 the house was no more.
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This small Jewish circle was affected in the early 1900s by a second wave of immigration that brought Russian Jews fleeing the pogroms (campaigns of repression) and, later, the Russian Revolution.
The file contained a detailed series of interviews conducted shortly after the Russian Revolution with many of the protagonists in Rasputin's circle, but the resulting book is not a definitive biography of the man.
Following the ceremony, the Director-General was guided through the old and the renovated premises of the University, which contains the world's largest collection of children's books in different languages, dating back to before the Russian Revolution in 1918.
The one devoted to the Russian revolution, short enough to whet the appetite for more, is amongst the strongest, both in its choice of extracts, and in the effectiveness and immediacy of its poetry by the likes of Alexander Blok and Anna Akhmatova.
Chavez sees himself as a revolutionary and internationalist like any other previous revolution be it the French, the Russian or the Islamic revolution.
Just one movement, that of the Russian avant-garde, after it was cut off from Europe by war and revolution, achieved something like collective genius.
The problems between the billionaire and his candidate may help sway the election to Serhiy Tihipko (or Russian spelling, Sergiy Tigipko), ahead of both Yanukovych and one-time Orange Revolution darling and Forbes Power Woman Yulia Tymoshenko, who is also a candidate.
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