In one of the most tragic and devastating accidents in Soviet military history, the Soviet Navy lost 16 admirals in a single event. This heartbreaking loss occurred on July 22, 1956, when a Tu-104 ...

Pushkin stayed clear of it despite some secret sympathies for the conspirators. But he has to cope with the roaming eye of the tsar, ever on the lookout for domestic enemies, particularly among the ...

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In practice, Pushkin had to clear every piece of writing with the tsar and endure the attentions of Count Alexander Benckendorff, the founder of Russia’s secret police.