The Russian machinery of state bureaucratic administration
A Russian national parliament.
A type of sturgeon, Acipenser stellatus.
a Russian villa, or summer house, in the countryside
A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.
A Slavic emperor (not necessarily a Russian emperor)
A woman’s headscarf, tied under the chin.
A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.
An official of the Communist Party, often attached to a military unit, who was responsible for political education.
A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.