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Total 92 word senses

• Arakcheyevism (Noun) [English] A policy of zealous militaristic repression.
• Cossack (Noun) [English] A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, formed in part of runaways from neighbouring countries, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian tsarist Empire and constituted a military caste, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.
• Great Patriotic War (Proper name) [English] the German-Soviet war (a portion of World War II fought between the USSR and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945)
• Great Purge (Proper name) [English] A campaign of extensive political purge and repression from 1936 to 1938, led by Joseph Stalin and executed by the NKVD to purge his political opponents.
• Great Terror (Proper name) [English] Synonym of Great Purge
• Ikalawang Digmaang Pandaigdig (Proper name) [Tagalog] World War II; Second World War
• Ivan the Terrible (Proper name) [English] Ivan IV Vasilyevich, who was the Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533, and Tsar of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584.
• Kievan Rus (Proper name) [English] A medieval principality in Eastern Europe centred around Kiev; considered an early predecessor of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
• Kozak (Noun) [Polish] Cossack (member of a population)
• Kyivan Rus (Proper name) [English] Alternative form of Kievan Rus
• New Russian (Noun) [English] A Russian person of a newly rich business class who acquired their wealth in the 1990s in post-Soviet Russia.
• Novgorod Republic (Proper name) [English] Synonym of Novgorod (“A medieval state in what is now Russia”)
• Novorossiya (Proper name) [English] An area north of the Black Sea which was conquered by the Russian Empire at the end of the 18th century, located in present-day Ukraine.
• Novorossiya (Proper name) [English] A proposed confederation of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, breakaway states involved in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war.
• Old Novgorodian (Proper name) [English] A dialect used in Old East Slavic birch-bark writings found around Novgorod, having some archaic features that were lost in other Slavic dialects.
• Peter the Great (Proper name) [English] Peter I, the Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725.
• Romanoff (Proper name) [English] An aristocratic house that formed a ruling dynasty of Russia
• Rurikid (Noun) [English] A member of the Rurik dynasty, founded by the Varangian prince Rurik.
• Rus (Proper name) [English] Kievan Rus', the medieval East Slavic state established by these same warrior merchants in the 9th century, whose capital was in Kiev.
• Rus (Proper name) [English] The nation of Russia, especially in a transcendent or romantic sense referring to the history and culture of the country.
• Russian Empire (Proper name) [English] The Russian state from 1721 to 1917.
• Time of Troubles (Proper name) [English] A period of political crisis in the Tsardom of Russia from 1598 to 1613.
• Unang Digmaang Pandaigdig (Proper name) [Tagalog] World War I; First World War
• White (Proper name) [English] A locale in the United States:; A minor city in Bartow County, Georgia; named for its first postmaster.
• World War I (Proper name) [English] The war from 1914 to 1918 between the Entente Powers of the British Empire, Russian Empire, France, Italy, the United States and other allied nations, against the Central Powers represented by the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.
• World War II (Proper name) [English] The war from 1939 to 1945 of the Allied forces, including the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, the United States, France, and China, against the Axis Powers, including Germany, Italy, and Japan.
• Yezhovshchina (Noun) [English] A period of intense political repression and mass purges in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s, particularly from 1937 to 1938.
• bieżeństwo (Noun) [Polish] forced migration of the mainly Orthodox population from the Russian Empire's western territories into the country during World War I
• bojar (Noun) [Polish] boyar (member of a rank of aristocracy in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, and Romania)
• boyar (Noun) [English] A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.
• carewna (Noun) [Polish] Synonym of carówna
• carówna (Noun) [Polish] tsarevna (daughter of a tsar)
• ententa (Proper name) [Polish] Triple Entente (informal understanding between the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, built upon the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894)
• imażynizm (Noun) [Polish] imaginism (Russian avant-garde poetic movement, founded in 1918, whose members created poetry based on sequences of arresting and uncommon images)
• jednoróg (Noun) [Polish] horned guan (Oreophasis derbianus)
• knez (Noun) [English] A leader of the Vlach (or Romanian) communities in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.
• kniahini (Noun) [Polish] wife of a Russian or Lithuanian prince
• kniaź (Noun) [Polish] knez, Russian, Ruthenian or Lithuanian prince
• knyaz (Noun) [English] Alternative form of knez (“duke or prince in medieval Slavic countries”)
• oprichnik (Noun) [English] A member of the bodyguard corps established by Tsar Ivan the Terrible to govern a division of Russia from 1565 to 1572.
• ośmina (Noun) [Polish] osmina (old Russian dry measure, approximately 105 litres; half of a tchetvert)
• posadnik (Noun) [English] a mayor in some East Slavic cities, towns, and oblasts.
• serfdom (Noun) [English] The feudal system that includes serfs.
• sloboda (Noun) [English] A kind of settlement, village, or suburb in the history of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
• sztof (Noun) [Polish] old Russian liquid measure, equal to 1.23 litres
• szynel (Noun) [Polish] greatcoat (male figure-fitting coat worn by Russian military officers, as well as by some officials and students, in the Russian Empire in the 19th and early 20th centuries)
• telega (Noun) [Polish] telega (simple four-wheeled Russian cart without springs)
• ułan (Noun) [Polish] uhlan (lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit of the Polish, Prussian/German, Austrian, and Russian armies)
• veche (Noun) [English] a popular assembly in medieval Slavic countries.
• Великая Отечественная война (Proper name) [Russian] Great Patriotic War (1941–1945)
• Великая Русь (Proper name) [Russian] "Great Russia", Muscovy (the predecessor of the Russian Empire as a successor state of Kyivan Rus)
• Великая Русь (Proper name) [Russian] Russia
• Желтороссия (Proper name) [Russian] "Zheltorossiya" or "Yellow Russia", a historical plan in the Russian Empire to colonise northern China.
• Залесье (Proper name) [Russian] A historical region of Russia located near Moscow.
• Киевская Русь (Proper name) [Russian] Kievan Rus (medieval principality)
• Київська Русь (Proper name) [Ukrainian] Kievan Rus (medieval principality)
• Лжедмитрий (Proper name) [Russian] False Dmitry (the name refers to various impostors who passed themselves off as Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich)
• Новороссия (Proper name) [Russian] Novorossiya, a proposed confederation of ethnic Russians in southern Ukraine.
• Российская империя (Proper name) [Russian] Russian Empire (a former empire in Eastern Europe and Asia)
• Русская земля (Proper name) [Russian] Rus (region in Eastern Europe, land of the Rus, East Slavic lands)
• Руська земля (Proper name) [Ukrainian] Rus (region in Eastern Europe, land of the Rus, East Slavic lands)
• Святая Русь (Proper name) [Russian] Holy Rus (religious concept which depicts Russia as a land chosen by God)
• Семибоярщина (Noun) [Russian] a group of Russian nobles who deposed Tsar Vasily Shuisky on 17 July 1610
• Хотет (Proper name) [Russian] A nickname borne by Ива́н Мстисла́вич, князь Кара́чевский (Iván Mstislávič, knjazʹ Karáčevskij, “Ivan Mstislavich, prince Karachevsky”, c. 1370–1417), whence the princes Khotetovsky took their name.
• Хотетовское Княжество (Proper name) [Russian] A historical polity in Eastern Europe, one of the Upper Oka Principalities, existing p. 1383–p. 1490 (no English name for the state is attested).
• белогвардеец (Noun) [Russian] A member of the White Army, a white guardsman
• боярин (Noun) [Russian] boyar
• боярин (Noun) [Ukrainian] boyar
• буквица (Noun) [Russian] drop cap, versal
• великий князь (Noun) [Russian] grand prince, grand duke
• великий князь (Noun) [Ukrainian] grand prince, grand duke (the ruler of a grand duchy - a sovereign state or a great autonomous principality)
• великий князь (Noun) [Ukrainian] grand prince, grand duke (a title bestowed by the csar in the Russian Empire)
• вече (Noun) [Russian] veche (a popular assembly in medieval Slavic countries).
• віче (Noun) [Ukrainian] veche (a popular assembly in medieval Slavic countries).
• древненовгородский (Adjective) [Russian] Old Novgorodian
• древненовгородский (Noun) [Russian] Old Novgorodian (dialect)
• заумь (Noun) [Russian] zaum (linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation of Russian Cubo-Futurist poets such as Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh)
• казак (Noun) [Russian] Cossack, cossack
• князь (Noun) [Russian] prince; duke
• князь (Noun) [Ukrainian] the monarch of a state or a principality: prince, king, duke
• козак (Noun) [Ukrainian] Cossack
• корзно (Noun) [Russian] coat with fur trimming
• опричник (Noun) [Russian] oprichnik (a bodyguard of Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible)
• посадник (Noun) [Russian] a mayor in some East Slavic cities, towns, and oblasts.
• раскольник (Noun) [Russian] Raskolnik
• святорусский (Adjective) [Russian] Holy Russian (often relating to the Russian Empire, with respect to the Russian Orthodox Church)
• семибанкирщина (Noun) [Russian] a group of seven powerful Russian business oligarchs who played an important role in the political and economical life of Russia between 1996 and 2000
• слобода (Noun) [Russian] sloboda (a large village, settlement, or suburb, usually populated by non-serf (free) peasants, and initially granted freedom from taxes and forced labor duties)
• слобода (Noun) [Ukrainian] sloboda (in medieval Russia and Ukraine, settlements whose inhabitants were exempt from feudal duties and taxes)
• троектория (Noun) [Russian] a short-living socialist city government in Irkutsk from end of 1919 to January 1920 during the Russian Civil War.
• чёрно-жёлто-белый (Adjective) [Russian] black, gold, and white (the flag of the Russian Empire from 1858 to 1896)
• ярижка (Noun) [Ukrainian] Yaryzhka, an orthography for the Ukrainian language based on the pre-reform Russian orthography.

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