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White Russia
White Russia, White Russian, or Russian White may refer to: White Russia *White Ruthenia, a historical reference for a territory in the eastern part of present-day Belarus * An archaic literal translation for Belarus/Byelorussia/Belorussia * Russian State, opposed to the Soviet ("Red") Russia, one of the sides in the Russian Civil War White Russian * A member of the White movement during the Russian Civil War * A White émigré from the Russian Civil War * "White Russian", a song by Marillion from their 1987 album ''Clutching at Straws'' * ''The White Russian'', a 2003 novel by Tom Bradby * The White Russians, an Australian band fronted by Pinky Beecroft * White Russian (cocktail) A white Russian is a cocktail made with vodka, coffee liqueur (e.g. Kahlúa or Tia Maria) and cream served with ice in an old fashioned glass. History The traditional cocktail known as a black Russian, which first appeared in 1949, becomes a ..., a cocktail made with vodka, coffee liqueur and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Ruthenia
White Ruthenia (; ; ; ; ) is one of the historical divisions of Kievan Rus' according to the color scheme, which also includes Black and Red Ruthenia. In the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern period, the name White Ruthenia was characterized by instability, designating a number of different regions on the territory of modern Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. It is recorded mainly in Western European sources, starting from the middle of the 13th century. History Vasily Tatishchev believed that for the first time the term "White Rus'" is found in the Rostov chronicles in the year 1135, where the lands of Rostov-Suzdal Principality were mentioned. Referring to the publications of the Pole Maciej Stryjkowski, Persian and other Eastern peoples who called the Russian princes "ak-padishah"(white tsar), and the state "Ak-Urus" (White Rus), the historian in his narrative extends this name to all Vladimir-Rostov princes, starting with Yuri Dolgorukiy, and Andrei Bogolyubsky. He also calls t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an area of with a population of . The country has a hemiboreal climate and is administratively divided into Regions of Belarus, six regions. Minsk is the capital and List of cities and largest towns in Belarus, largest city; it is administered separately as a city with special status. For most of the medieval period, the lands of modern-day Belarus was ruled by independent city-states such as the Principality of Polotsk. Around 1300 these lands came fully under the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and subsequently by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; this period lasted for 500 years until the Partitions of Poland, 1792-1795 partitions of Poland-Lithuania placed Belarus within the Belarusian history in the Russian Empire, Russian Empire for the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian State (1918–1920)
The Russian State () was a White Army anti-Bolshevik state proclaimed by the Act of the Ufa State Conference of September 23, 1918 (the Constitution of the Provisional All-Russian Government), “On the formation of the all-Russian supreme power” in the name of “restoring state unity and independence of Russia” affected by the Russian Revolution, revolutionary events of 1917, the October Revolution and the signing of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk with German Empire, Germany. Ufa State Conference act The delegations from Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly, the Provisional Siberian Government (Omsk), Provisional Siberian Government, the Provisional Regional Government of the Urals, Cossack Troops governments, governments of a number of national-state entities, several all-Russian political parties that were present at the meeting formed the Provisional All-Russian Government (the so-called “Ufa Directory”), which was headed by Nikolai Avksentiev. It was fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Movement
The White movement,. The old spelling was retained by the Whites to differentiate from the Reds. also known as the Whites, was one of the main factions of the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. It was led mainly by the Right-wing politics, right-leaning and Conservatism, conservative officers of the Russian Empire, while the Bolsheviks who led the October Revolution in Russia, also known as the ''Reds'', and their supporters, were regarded as the main enemies of the Whites. It operated as a loose system of governments and administrations and military formations collectively referred to as the White Army, or the White Guard. Although the White movement included a variety of political opinions in Russia opposed to the Bolsheviks, from the republican-minded liberals through monarchists to the ultra-nationalist Black Hundreds, and did not have a universally-accepted leader or doctrine, the main force behind the movement were the conservative officers, and the resulting movement shared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White émigré
White Russian émigrés were Russians who emigrated from the territory of the former Russian Empire in the wake of the Russian Revolution (1917) and Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and who were in opposition to the revolutionary Bolshevik communist Russian political climate. Many White Russian émigrés participated in the White movement or supported it. The term is often broadly applied to anyone who may have left the country due to the change in regimes. Some Russian émigrés, like Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, were opposed to the Bolsheviks but had not directly supported the White Russian movement; some were apolitical. The term is also applied to the descendants of those who left and who still retain a Russian Orthodox Christian identity while living abroad. The term " émigré" is most commonly used in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom. A term preferred by the émigrés themselves was first-wave émigré (, , ), "Russian émigrés" (, , ) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clutching At Straws
''Clutching at Straws'' is the fourth studio album by the British neo-prog band Marillion, released on June 22, 1987. It was the last album with lead singer Fish, who left the band in 1988, and is a concept album. Although ''Clutching at Straws'' did not achieve the sales of its predecessor, the number one album '' Misplaced Childhood'', spending 15 weeks on the UK album chart (the shortest chart residency of any of Marillion's first four studio albums), it was still an immediate commercial success, becoming the second highest charting Marillion album by entering the chart at number two. It produced three UK Top 40 singles: " Incommunicado", "Sugar Mice" and " Warm Wet Circles". The album has received critical acclaim, being listed in '' Q'' magazine's "50 Best Recordings of the Year", it has been described by AllMusic as an "unheralded masterpiece", and ''Rolling Stone'' placed it at number 37 in its countdown of the "50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time". ''Prog Magazine' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Bradby
Thomas Matthew Bradby (born 13 January 1967) is a British journalist and novelist who has presented in the '' ITV News at Ten'' since 2015. He was previously a political editor for ITV News from 2005 to 2015, and presented '' The Agenda with Tom Bradby'', a political discussion series, from 2012 to 2016. Early life and education Bradby's father served in the Royal Navy and Tom was born in Malta in 1967. He is an only child, and both parents have been described by him as exemplary. After a short spell in Northern Ireland, growing up in Newry, County Down and Bangor, County Down, he moved to Great Britain where he was raised in Bracknell, Berkshire. He was privately educated at Westbourne House School and Sherborne School, before studying history at the University of Edinburgh. Career Bradby has worked for ITN, producer of ITV News, since 1990 when he joined the organisation as an editorial trainee. He subsequently became producer for ITV's political editor Michael Brunson i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinky Beecroft
Matt Ford, former stage name Pinky Beecroft, is an Australian screenwriter, singer-songwriter, and performer. From 1997 to 2005 he was the lead singer and keyboardist for alternative rockers Machine Gun Fellatio. His group Pinky Beecroft and the White Russians released an album, ''Somethin' Somewhere Better'', in August 2008. As a songwriter he co-wrote " No Aphrodisiac" with bandmate Chit Chat Von Loopin Stab and The Whitlams' Tim Freedman. He has written scripts for a number of television series, most recently '' Underbelly: Vanishing Act'' (2022) and ''Warnie'' (2023), and has also worked as a producer. Music He was the lead singer and songwriter of Australian band Machine Gun Fellatio. He quit the band in 2005, at which point the group split up. He became the lead singer of Pinky Beecroft and The White Russians and released a self-titled EP and a full-length album entitled ''Somethin' Somewhere better'' and ''Pretty Black''. He made a number of appearances on the ABC te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Russian (cocktail)
A white Russian is a cocktail made with vodka, coffee liqueur (e.g. Kahlúa or Tia Maria) and cream served with ice in an old fashioned glass. History The traditional cocktail known as a black Russian, which first appeared in 1949, becomes a white Russian with the addition of cream. Neither drink has any known Russian origin, but both are so-named due to vodka being the primary ingredient. It is unclear which drink preceded the other. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' refers to the first mention of ''white Russian'' in the sense of a cocktail as appearing in California's ''Oakland Tribune'' on November 21, 1965. It was placed in the newspaper as an insert: "White Russian. 1 oz. each Southern, vodka, cream", with "Southern" referring to Coffee Southern, a short-lived brand of coffee liqueur by Southern Comfort. The white Russian saw a surge in popularity after the 1998 release of the film '' The Big Lebowski''. Throughout the movie, it appears as the beverage of choice for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian White, Black, And Tabby
The Russian White, Russian Black, and Russian Tabby are breeds of cat created in 1971, derived from the Russian Blue. History In the UK, Frances McLeod of Arctic began breeding Russian Whites and Russian Blacks in the 1960s. In Australia, The Russian White program started on the 4 May 1971 by Dick and Mavis Jones of Myemgay Cattery. Below is an excerpt from an article by Mavis Jones. Full register status was given by Royal Agricultural Society (RAS) Cat Club of New South Wales in November 1975. Breeding program The white "Siberian cat" – which may have been of Siberian breed or simply and unpedigreed cat from Siberia – was mated to Myemgay Yuri, a blue male. She produced two white kittens, the best was kept and named White Rose (female) and this cat was the foundation female for the Russian White. White Rose was mated back to Myemgay Yuri producing two first generation White Russian kittens. The only line of whites from this mating that we are aware of is Myemga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian White Goat
The Russian White Dairy or Russian White is a Russian breed of dairy goat. It derives from cross-breeding of the indigenous North Russian with imported Swiss Saanen Saanen (; Highest Alemannic: ''Saanä'') is a municipality in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is the capital of the Obersimmental-Saanen administrative district. History The village was first mentioned in 1228 as ''Gissinay''. In 1340 it ... goats; this began in about 1905. The Gorki derives from it, but is always horned, while the Russian White may be horned or polled. It has become a rare breed, numbering only a few thousand head. References Dairy goat breeds Goat breeds originating in Russia Animal breeds originating in the Soviet Union Goat breeds {{goat-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
