Nowhere is the Volga River more hallowed than in the city named after it: Volgograd, better known to history as Stalingrad. During World War II, perhaps the bloodiest battle in history took place ...
FARGO -- "Always to wanderis the refugee's terrible fate,and who will be left as the wars' winnerwhen all become homeless?" - Olga Hoffman G?rtner, "Homesickness" (translated from German)... Russian ...
In Russian folklore, the Volga River is mother and mistress, comrade and beloved companion and subject of tall tales. For today's Russia, it remains all of the above and an important source of water, ...
A million dead men heaped the battlefields of southern Russia. Millions more were maimed, captured or missing. Verdun had gulped 738,000 Frenchmen and Germans in 299 days, but Verdun was a lesser ...