His study has revealed that the fortified city covers a whopping 360 hectares and sported more than 1,100 structures—including temples, ball courts and different neighborhoods for the commoners and the elite—and 2.5 miles of walls.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
And, a mob of commoners riled up by a man known as the Shepherd decide that enough is enough: Time to get rid of these dragons.
Part 2: fifteen years later, while fleeing Petrograd, Nabokov’s father is accosted on a bridge by a gray-bearded peasant, who asks for a light and proves to be Kuropatkin in disguise.
—
Elif Batuman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2025
By 1917 in Russia, housewives were marching in city streets to protest a lack of food, peasants were seizing land, and many Russians saw the czarist government as irrelevant, even treasonous.
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