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3 unusual facts about White Russia


George de Relwyskow

Born in Kensington in 1887, the son of White Russian immigrants, de Relwyskow took up wrestling as a means of keeping fit while a student in London training as an artist and designer.

White Russia

There is also a region historically known as Black Ruthenia (Black Russia, Чорная Русь / Chornaya Rus’), it covers northwestern lands of modern-day Belarus: Hrodna, Slonim, Navahrudak, Vaukavysk and partly Minsk region.

However, even the German Chancellor Angela Merkel used the term Weißrussland in her speech to the European Council Summit in March 2007.


Aleksandr Vladimirovich Razvozov

He was arrested by the Cheka in September 1919 on suspicion of conspiracy with the White Russian forces of General Yudenich.


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