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  • (The Russian word sobor is generally translated as "cathedral," but it does not mean

    Russia Blog 2009

  • (The Russian word sobor is generally translated as "cathedral," but it does not mean

    Russia Blog 2009

  • Mar. 31st, 2010 05: 26 am (UTC) they look delicious, but it's no sobor de soledad.

    For You Wild Cards Fans... grrm 2010

  • Certainly a moment worthy of serious and sobor reflection and not simply a post hastily thrown together during a fleeting break from book editing.

    September 11th - The Wooden Anniversary 2006

  • Gathering (or gatherings), considered by some historians to be an important zemskii sobor (Assembly of the Land), comprising representative boyars, clergy, merchants, and others.

    1667 2001

  • This was followed in 1549 with the convocation of the first national assembly, or zemski sobor, including merchants and lesser nobles and meant to broaden the support of the crown.

    i. Russia 2001

  • A national assembly (zemski sobor) elected to the throne MICHAEL ROMANOV (1613–45), grand-nephew of Ivan IV and son of the patriotic leader Philaret.

    1582 2001

  • But her joy was gentle, for even when she was merriest, it was in a sobor, _douce_, and maidenly fashion, testifying that she had already walked with Sorrow, and was not afraid of her.

    Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

  • Besides the jail does get busy during this time, anyone arrested gets to see the new jail and sobor up.

    The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register 2009

  • The Poet Rajko Žinzifov / Xenophon Zinzisi (1839-1878), a Bulgarized Vlach from Veles summed the conflict for symbolical preeminence in verses from his poem "Guslar vo sobor (1862)":

    SofiaEcho RSS feed 2009

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