Russia's "Mother of Cities"

Usage examples of kiev.

Daniel of Kiev in himself is a very ordinary and rather mendacious traveller, a harmless, devout pilgrim, as careless in all matters of fact as Antonine the Martyr.

Kiev, when the bookkeeper was arrested and a host of other quite stupid and incomprehensible things took place --Margarita woke up at around noon in her bedroom with bay windows in the tower of the house.

Masonic Lodge in Kiev -a common means of entry into the Decembrist movement - where he also met the young Decembrist leader, Colonel Pavel Ivanovich Pestel.

The fifth day took them to Gomel, the sixth well past Chernigov, and they arrived in Kiev, not unduly fatigued, in time for luncheon on the seventh day, which Galina thought quite remarkable, and she consulted Igor about some extra payment to the jager for his efficiency, which appeared to cause Igor some amusement.

Kiev, and in the adjacent room three monks and a dog were eating: the two idiorrhythmic monks had already finished their dinner, and the painter Sevast Nikon was eating, as was his custom, later.

Soviet Union, German troops attacked our country, attacked our frontier in many places, and bombed from the air Shitomir, Kiev, Sevastopol, Kaunas, and other cities.

Polish triangle of which the apex was at Warsaw, the base ran from Kovno by Brest-Litovsk to the Galician frontier, the north-western side in front of the railway from Kovno to Warsaw, and the southern in front of that from Warsaw to Lublin, Cholm, Kovel, Rovno, and Kiev.

The Great Russians, or Russians properly so called, especially occupying the Governments round about Moscow, and from thence scattered in the north to Novgorod and Vologda, on the south to Kiev and to Voronezh, on the east to Penza, Simbirsk, and Viatka, and on the west to the Baltic provinces.

Union concentrated on developing its loose network of cells in Petersburg and Moscow, Kiev, Kishinev and other provincial garrison towns like Tulchin, the headquarters of the Second Army, where Volkonsky was an active member.

It was mainly made up of Liberal Party bellwethers, trying to test the shifting winds at an event they could attend without having to openly thumb their nose at New Kiev.

New Caledonia and New Delhi, from Dushanbe and Kuang-chou, from Kiev and Cairo.

Wranka in his day, or later on in Kiev, in the timberyards that are so labyrinthine and enormous you can easily lose your guardian angel in their mazes, he could somehow have slipped under a suddenly toppling pile of logs.

OLGA ROMANCHANKO KIEV END OF MESSAGE That afternoon Robert was on an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu 154 jet to Paris.

Kiev in the Ukraine had, like Carlisle, been decimated by a meteor shower.

But one of the Jews in the partisan band came back alive from a place called Babi Yar, outside Kiev.