The Inspired Intermedia digital book collection
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1812: Napoleon attempts—and fails—to invade Russia 1904: Russia loses Russo-Japanese War 1905: Bloody Sunday occurs; Russian Revolution begins 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated; WWI begins 1917: Bolshevik Revolution begins; Vladimir Lenin storms the Winter Palace; Tzar Nicolas abdicates; Russia's capital is moved om St. Petersburg to Moscow 1918: Tzar Nicolas and his family are secretly executed by the Bolsheviks; Red Terror begins 1921: The New Economic Policy is instated; widespread famine begins in Russia 1922: USSR established 1924: Lenin dies; Stalin assumes power 1929: Russian agriculture is collectivized, famine returns 1937: Stalin's Great Purge begins 1941: Nazis invade Russia; WWII begins 1945: WWII ends 1948: Israel established 1953: Iosif Stalin dies 1956: USSR now composed of 15 countries 1957: Sputnik satellite launches the Space Race 1861: Tzar Aleksander II abolishes serfdom 1881: Aleksander II assassinated, his son becomes Tzar Aleksander III 1882: May Laws come into effect, expelling Russian Jews om rural areas and severely restricting their access to education 1894: Nicolas II becomes tzar 1811: Mendel Brandes born 1812: Raisel Brandes born 1813: Iosif Volsun born 1814: Ita Volsun born 1832: Mendel & Raisel Brandes marry 1836: Mendel Brandes made chief of rabbis in Gorodok; Israel Brandes born 1838: Shmuel Volsun born 1846: Inda Rycya born 1847: Mariam Brandes born 1867: Israel & Mariam Brandes marry 1877: Iosif Volsun dies 1878: Shlomo Volsun born 1883: Raisel Brandes dies 1889: Ita Volsun dies 1891: Hava Brandes born 1896: Shlomo Volsun graduates; Shmuel Volsun killed in a pogrom 1905: Mendel & Mariam Brandes die; Israel Brandes dies 1917: Shlomo Volsun & Hava Brandes marry 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1800 1820 1840 1920: Ida Volsun born 1921: Rosa Volsun born 1924: Iosif Israel Volsun born 1925: Shlomo Volsun considers leaving for America 1926: Inda Rycya Volsun dies; Shmuel Volsun born 1928: Inna Volsun born 1930: Shmuel Volsun dies 1930: Shlomo Volsun arrested for the first time 1931: Manya Volsun born 1933: Shlomo Volsun hears of imminent third arrest, leaves for Moscow 1934: Hava Volsun alone with children in Gorodok 1935: Shlomo Volsun returns to Gorodok, takes family with him to Moscow 1937: Iosif Volsun's bar mitzvah 1941: Iosif Volsun graduates high school; Volsun family evacuates to Tashkent 1942: Volsun family arrives in Tashkent; Iosif Volsun draed into the military 1943: Iosif Volsun graduates om aircra maintenance school 1944: Iosif and Rosa Volsun in active war duty; Iosif visits Gorodok 1947: Hava Volsun dies 1958: Shlomo Volsun dies