Russia

(noun.) a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917.

(noun.) a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state.

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• All Russia now is a huge experiment in that dictatorship (August, 1920). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• From the window of Worcester's barrack-room I used to amuse myself reviewing our troops, but not after the fashion of Catharine of Russia. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• So they might hope to strike down France at one blow, and deal at their leisure with Russia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Men find themselves a part of Merry England or Holy Russia; they grow up into these devotions; they accept them as a part of their nature. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The photograph shows the hanging car of the Russia. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The Forty-Niners took revolvers to California, foreign governments sent orders for them, and armories were built in England and in Russia for their manufacture. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Russia and Mexico followed these in yield. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Russia, Holland, and Britain followed in the wake of America. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At the same time his aggressions in south Germany forced Austria and Russia steadily into a coalition with Britain against him. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• From the close of 1915 onwards Russia was a source of deepening anxiety to her Western allies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We anchored here at Yalta, Russia, two or three days ago. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Great cast bronze guns of about the same weight as the Hindoo guns were also produced at St. Petersburg, Russia, in the sixteenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The Orloff diamond, belonging to the Emperor of Russia, weighs 195 carats; the Pitt diamond, among the French crown jewels, 136-1/2. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It was in a city of Russia, a university--I will not name the place. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The swimming-bladders or sounds, besides being highly nutritious, supply, if rightly prepared, isinglass equal to the best of that which is brought from Russia. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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