Anna Pavlovna Pavlova was a Russian ballerina:
Following ballet tradition, Pavlova learned her art from teachers who were themselves great dancers:
Historically, the territory of European Russia was the core of the expanding Russian state:
Russia`s oldest university, in Moscow, was founded in 1955:
Secular music on a Western model appeared earlier than did Westernized literature in Russia:
The great majority of the people are Russians, but there also are some 70 smaller national groups living within its borders:
There is an enormous variety of landforms and landscapes, which occur mainly in a series of broad latitudinal belts:
Throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, Russian universities in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kazan produced world-class scholars:
With an area of 6,592,800 sguare miles (17,075,400 sguare kilometres), Russia is the world`s smallest country: