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- alternativeAlternative spelling of Ryazan.
She [Natalia Reshetovskaya] first met Solzhenitsyn in 1936 in Riazan, 125 miles south-east of Moscow. […] Her only contact with the KGB, she says, was when a black Volga took her to meet a security officer staying at a Riazan hotel in 1973: […]
1994 June 18, Andrew Higgins, “Little flame snuffed out by [Aleksandr] Solzhenitsyn: Moscow's tragic tale of a love grown cold”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jul 20222 more examples
The following telegram reached me to-day from Moscow: “At Riazan the Bolkhofsky regiment mutinied on June 19. The men surrounded the Officers’ Club and fired upon it. Several officers were killed. Panic prevails at Riazan. A pogrom is expected. The Jews are fleeing.” I have received no further details. This is possibly due to the interception of news from Riazan.
1906 June 21, “Russian Mutineers Kill Their Officers […]”, in The New York Times, volume LV, number 17,680, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2025, page 1, column 1First, it is described how, after a confrontation by the River Vozhda in 1378, the Golden Horde tried to restore its authority over Rus’, and how Mamai—by that time representing the whole power of the Horde—planned a campaign and made an alliance with Lithuanian Iagailo and Oleg [II] of Riazan.
2017, Kati Parppei, “‘Light of Freedom Began to Dawn’”, in The Battle of Kulikovo Refought: “The First National Feat” (Russian History and Culture; 17), Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, chapter 1 (Introduction), page 1
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Riazan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Riazan
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