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.
Chagall welcomed the Russian revolution, but found himself a clay jug among iron pots.
Between 1905 and 1915 intellectuals led efforts at democratization starting with the failed attempt at a Russian Revolution.
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.
It declared independence following the Russian Revolution, but was defeated by the Red Army and incorporated into the USSR in 1921.
His grandparents had money but lost everything when they fled the Russian revolution in 1917 and moved to Harbin in northern China.
The Russian revolution shaped the 20th century, just as an al-Qaeda revolution in Saudi Arabia, Egypt or Pakistan could shape the 21st.
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 test, which covered the Russian revolution, was supposed to include an image of the painting Storming the Winter palace on 25th October 1917 by Nikolai Kochergin.
In 1933, the new Democratic president, Franklin Roosevelt, said even a godless country could provide America with much-needed trade, and 16 years after the Russian revolution recognition was granted.
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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Taken together, these represent the first securities issued by the Soviet government since the 1917 Russian Revolution at which time the Soviets defaulted on debts incurred by Czarist regimes.
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.
Ralph Lauren, one of the heavy hitters with Marc Jacobs and Calvin Klein by Francisco Costa to close out Fashion Week, had a strong woman in mind with a mix of military looks and regal gowns, all with a hint of the Russian Revolution.
These two poles of experience roughly speaking, Russian acclimatisation and Germanic colonisation anchor Joseph Horowitz's masterful study of how the Russian revolution, the rise of European fascism and the second world war all transformed the American performing arts by sending an unprecedented wave of immigrants and refugees from Eastern Europe.
Chavez sees himself as a revolutionary and internationalist like any other previous revolution be it the French, the Russian or the Islamic revolution.
There was an undeniable message: before the revolution, Russian life was normal.
America calls openly for the ousting of Alexander Lukashenka, the pro-Russian dictator of Belarus, implying another revolution there.
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The East has always had very close ties with the Russian Empire and joined the Soviet Union shortly after the Great October Revolution in 1917.
It was the election of Viktor Yanukovich as Ukraine's president in February that was seen in Moscow as paving the way for the return to the Russian fold of a prodigal son who went astray after the Orange revolution in 2004.
The first was her background as a Russian Jew she was born Alisa Rosenbaum who witnessed the revolution and its aftermath at first hand.
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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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