9. RomanovsRomanovs
Slide 9-10: The name for
king in Russia was czar, in
1917 the royal family was
killed and Russia became a
communist country known
as the Soviet Union or
USSR
10. RasputinRasputin
A Russian nobleman and several
select conspirators held a last
supper for Rasputin in which they
plied him with cakes and wine laced
with cyanide. When Rasputin
refused to die, they nervously
overplayed their hand and shot him
with a revolver, then knifed him,
kicked him, clubbed him and,
finally, stuffed him through a hole in
the ice of the frozen River Neva.
Rasputin still refused to die!
Aronson writes, "But, incredibly,
Rasputin was not yet dead. When
his corpse was brought up three
days later, it was discovered that he
had still had enough strength to free
one of his roped hands and that he
had actually died from drowning
(221)."
12. Cold WarCold War
Slide 12: The USSR and US were on the verge of war from
1945-1990. This period is known as the Cold War, because
there was no direct fighting.
Lake Baikal contains over 20% of all the surface freshwater on Earth. It is the deepest lake in the world, at 5,300ft deep. The nerpa, or Lake Baikal seal—the world's only freshwater seal
The Motherland Calls stands 279 feet tall and is located in Volgagrad. It was built in 1967 and commemorates the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II. The statue is currently leaning due to groundwater level changes causing movement of the foundations; the leaning is rapidly getting worse. [1] The statue is not fixed to its foundations and is held in place only by its weight. It has moved by 20 centimetres and is not expected to be able to move much farther without collapsing. While local authorities deny that the statue is in danger, conservation and restoration works started in 2010
