What Killed Russian Tsars?

There is a book, called “Medicine and Imperial Power in Russia”, which shows Russian history from the medical point of view. Some subjects are deserved to be real discoveries…

It considered that:

1. Emperor Nikolas I ended up by committing a suicide. In fact he had a bacterial pneumonia, which was worsened by depression because of Russian loss in Crimean War.

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First Russian Mall

This is a photo series of a first Russian mall in Moscow. It’s more than 120 years old and these photos are not newer.

There are three stages one can see on the photos. At first the old mall buildings were renovated and new stores were built, then a few photos of a crowd having good time on the party dedicated to the grand opening and then go photos of the new mall opened to public.

This was long before the communist took power in Russia, it was a capitalistic, Tsar ruled old Russia..

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