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according to legend, a tunnel leads from the
Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle
(pictured)
to the
Khotyn Fortress
which is 20 kilometres (12 mi) away?
Khotyn Fortress
(pictured)
, site of the
Battle of Khotyn
between the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
and the
Ottoman Empire
in 1621, is one of the
Seven Wonders
of
Ukraine
?
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Kiev
Hetman
Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny
enrolled his entire
Cossack army
as
students
to prevent a
Kievan
school's conversion to a
Jesuit Collegium
?
Kiev
's
Museum of Western and Oriental Art
houses the largest collection of foreign art in
Ukraine
?
Agatha
, mother of
Saint Margaret of Scotland
, could have been either a daughter of
Yaroslav the Wise
of
Kiev
or a daughter of the
Bulgarian
Tsar
?
Bykivnia
, a former village, now part of the
Ukrainian
capital
Kiev
, was the burial site of thousands of
enemies of the Soviet power
?
Kyiv Arsenal
is one of the oldest and most famous industrial companies of the
Ukrainian
capital
Kiev
?
Lysa Hora hill
in the
Ukrainian
capital
Kiev
is both a historical
fortress
and a
mystical
"bold mountain"
where
witches
are believed to gather for their
sabbaths
?
Obolon CJSC
, the largest
Ukrainian
brewer
based in
Kiev
, was the first
private company
of the independent Ukraine?
St. Cyril's Monastery
in
Kiev
,
Ukraine
was closed by the
Tsarist Government
and its living quarters were converted into a
hospital
and later an
insane asylum
, which lasted until the mid-late
20th century
?
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery
in
Kiev
may have been the first Russian and Ukrainian church to have a golden dome?
among many historic landmarks at the
Andrew's Descent
in
Kiev
, there is a
medieval Gothic
style castle that locals call the "Castle of
Richard the Lion Heart
" due to the legend the
12th century
King of England
had visited the building?
Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle
according to legend, a tunnel leads from the
Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle
(pictured)
to the
Khotyn Fortress
which is 20 kilometres (12 mi) away?
Bukovina
in order to register themselves as a political association according to
Austro-Hungarian
regulations, the
Jewish
socialist
Bund
of
Bukovina
had to limit its membership to male Austrian citizens?
the platform of
Austro–Hungarian
Jewish politician
Benno Straucher
, who represented his
Bukovina
constituency in the
Reichsrat
, has been called "a sort of half-hearted
Zionism
"?
Moldavia
Moldavia
's
Prince
Grigore Alexandru Ghica
(pictured)
ordered the
abolition
of
slavery
after being shocked by the suicide of a
Roma
cook?
a
Romantic
poem by
Alexandru Hrisoverghi
is credited with having inspired
historic preservation
in
Moldavia
?
in 2007, three specimens of the
Caspian whipsnake
were found in
Galaţi County
, the first in
Moldavia
(eastern
Romania
) since 1937?
local
boyars
protested against the
Russian annexation of Bessarabia
after the
Russo-Turkish War
in 1812, arguing that the
Ottoman Empire
had no right to cede a
Moldavian
territory?
the
Moldavian
intellectual
Gheorghe Asachi
(
pictured
) opposed his country's union with
Wallachia
and endorsed the pro-
separatist
electoral fraud
of June 1857?
the
practice of slavery
in
Wallachia
and
Moldavia
lasted until the 1850s, and is what forced many
local Roma people
into
sedentism
?
the
Chronicle of Huru
, a 19th century forgery advancing
Moldavia
's independence, claimed that a Moldavian
federal republic
emerged from the
Roman province
of
Dacia
in 274?
Russia
17th century
Russian diplomat
Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin
(pictured)
is reputed to have insisted on lying in bed during an audience with the
King of Denmark
, who was himself confined to his bed, to demonstrate equality between
Russia
and
Denmark
?
Abkhaz
writer
Fazil Iskander
publishes articles for the
Russian
newspaper
Kultura
?
aluminium alloys
developed by
Russian
metallurgist
Igor Gorynin
are claimed to have the highest
specific strength
of all known
weldable
metallic materials?
Armenian
composer and musician
Ara Gevorgyan
composed the music for
Russian
prima ballerina
Anastasia Volochkova
's "Golden cage" ballet dedicated to the
Bolshoi Theater
?
aviation
historian
Randy Acord
was awarded the
Alaska
–
Siberian
Lend Lease
Award for his role in improving
Russian
–
North American
relations during
World War II
?
Chechen
military commander
Said-Magomed Kakiev
has been declared a
Hero of the Russian Federation
four times, making him one of the most decorated
Russian
citizens?
Chinese immigration
to the
Russian Far East
has led to fears of
Chinese
irredentism
in
Russia
, even though there are less than 35,000
Chinese in all of Russia
?
Count Orlov
's
Marble Palace
, decorated with 32 shades of
Russian
marbles
, currently houses the largest exhibition of
Pop Art
in
Saint Petersburg
?
Emperor Paul
of
Russia
ordered the name of his mistress
Anna Lopukhina
to be given to warships and to be inscribed on the standards of his
Leib Guard
?
England
brokered the
1617
Treaty of Stolbova
between
Sweden
and
Russia
?
Romania
"the light arises in the East", an apparently pro-
Soviet
slogan coined by
Romanian
writer
Mihail Sadoveanu
in 1945, is seen by some as a coded warning to his fellow
Freemasons
about
communization
?
45,000
Romanians
living along the border with
Yugoslavia
were
forcibly deported
on
June 18
,
1951
due to deteriorating relations between the two countries?
Caryl Churchill
's play
Mad Forest
, developed partly in
Bucharest
in collaboration with
Romanian
and
English
drama students, was in production less than six months after the
Romanian Revolution of 1989
?
exploitation film
director/producer
S. S. Millard
was able to pass himself off as
Romanian
nobility when a former Romanian queen visited
California
?
fairy tale
collector
Nicolae Constantin Batzaria
was an
Aromanian
representative among the
Young Turks
, an
Ottoman
government minister, and one of
Romania
's best-known creators of
comic strips
?
Romania
's
Daewoo Mangalia
shipyard
has built over 127 new ships and repaired another 300 since its founding in 1997?
Romania
's
Piteşti prison
housed the largest and most intensive form of
brainwashing
through torture ever carried out in the
Eastern bloc
?
Romania
's ruling
Social Democratic
–
Democratic Liberal
coalition was divided over
Education Minister
Ecaterina Andronescu
'
s intervention in the appointment of school directors?
Romanian
avant-garde
writer and classical
violinist
Grigore Cugler
publicly criticized
Communist Party
politician
Ana Pauker
and resigned his diplomatic post, living the rest of his life in
Peru
?
Romanian
communist
poet
Alexandru Toma
adapted several works of his
Classicist
predecessor
Mihai Eminescu
, removing their
pessimistic
tone and adding
Socialist Realist
rhetoric?
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