Published January 31, 2021, 10:00 PM
Exactly 203 years ago this month, Rurik, the first Russian ship to ever visited and repaired in the Philippines, sailed away from Manila Bay to continue her expedition and circumnavigation of the world.
The Rurik was then on a voyage of discovery into the Bering Straits to explore the northeast passage at the expense of the Grand Chancellor of the Russian Empire, Count Romanzof.
But in December 1817, the badly-damaged Russian brig commanded by Otto von Kotzebue, a Lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, entered the Manila Bay and needed repair.
According to research conducted by former Oxford University scholar Geronimo Suliguin, this was the first opportunity that such a Russian vessel was seen in Manila.
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Literary Gazette under the title “Certificate concerning social eugenics”, one of them read: Type: Zamiatin. Genus: Evgeny. Class: bourgeois. In the village: a kulak. The product of degeneration. Footnote: an enemy. With its threatening references to degeneration and eugenics, this ditty would not have been out of place in
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