The ‘Troitskaya’ ('emerald') Moscow Metro subway line now has four stations - ‘Novatovskaya’, 'Universitet Druzhby Narodov' (‘People's Friendship University’), ‘Generala Tyuleneva’ and ‘Tyutchevskaya’.

In 1816, a decree banned ‘Koporsky’ tea was issued in Russia and a little later, in 1839, the Rural Police Charter for state peasants also banned the collection of the fireweed herb, from which the drink was prepared. Why did the authorities dislike the plant? Because its leaves were being used to make counterfeit Chinese tea!

It is well known that the clergy suffered from the Bolsheviks and their terror. However, there were also those who, if they did not outright make a deal with the new power, at least did not openly oppose it.

According to the plan of the Russian command, every single soldier of Napoleon's ‘Great Army’ was supposed to remain on the Berezina River. And the emperor himself was destined to be an honorary prisoner.

You can see the Caucasus Mountains, Nizhny Novgorod forests, the Black Sea and Moscow’s skyscrapers from these cable car cabins.