Posts Tagged ‘Genghis Khan’

Descendant of Genghis Khan vs korean fighter

Descendant of Genghis Khan Descendant of Genghis Khan! [ It | Ru ]

Saint Petersburg!

June, 1 in Russia. Read the rest of this entry »

Hell’s devils: How Russia’s steppe warriors took on Napoleon’s armies

Hell’s devils: How Russia’s steppe warriors took on Napoleon’s armies

July 28, 2014 Alexander Vershinin, Special to RBTH

Direct descendants of the fearsome Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan, in the early 19th century Kalmyk cavalrymen were to play a significant role in driving Napoleon’s Grande Armée out of Russia and all the way back to Paris, with their ancient battle skills sowing confusion and terror in the French ranks. Read the rest of this entry »

Genghis Khan – Rider of the Apocalypse

Genghis Khan – Rider of the Apocalypse’ [ Fr ]

September, 21 at 21.40 TV ‘Arte’ will show movie ‘Genghis Khan – Rider of the Apocalypse’.

About 850 years ago a man was born to change history in a way like nobody else before or after him. He was the most successful and feared commander of all times, he created Read the rest of this entry »

Sword of Genghis Khan

Sword of Genghis Khan [ En | Ru ]


Sword of Genghis Khan

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Tsagan Sar

National kalmyk holiday Tsagan Sar Kalmykian folk festival Tsagan Sar [ Ru ]
Holiday of Spring – Suslik Day!
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King of Kalmykia

King of Kalmykia

Tom Parfitt
The Guardian, Thursday 21 September 2006

King of Kalmykia Life is not all plain sailing for Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the flamboyant leader of the Russian republic of Kalmykia. For a start, his Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit II needs constant repairs thanks to the rutted roads of his impoverished fiefdom. And then there is the danger of alien abduction. He has already been pressganged into one trip on a UFO – in Read the rest of this entry »

Fedor Konyukhov and unique finds in Kalmykia

Fedor Konyukhov Fedor Konyukhov expedition across the steppes of Kalmykia. In the group of 10 scientists: soil scientists, archaeologists, sociologists, botanists, ecologists, ornithologists and lawyers from France, Netherlands, Russia (Moscow) and the Kalmykia, reports Department of Foreign Relations of KalmykiaNews.

Fedor Konyukhov took care of the preservation of unique finds Read the rest of this entry »