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Which Russian tsar ordered the wooden Kremlin to be moved along the river to capture an enemy city?

To prepare for the conquest of the Kazan Khanate, Ivan the Terrible carried out a unique military operation, moving the wooden Kremlin. The fortress was dismantled in the city of Myshkin near Uglich, each log was marked, floated down the Volga and fished near the mouth of the Sviyaga River, where Russian troops took up positions. In 24 days, 75 thousand people assembled from those logs a fortress comparable to the Moscow Kremlin. She received the name Sviyazhsk and became a springboard for the capture of Kazan.

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The name of all objects that we encounter has its own origin. Sometimes we are surprised to learn where this name came from. Take, for example, the word "gooseberry" in English, which can be literally translated as "gooseberry", although it has nothing to do with geese! In Saxon times, the first part of the word was consonant with the word rough, which explained that these berries grow on a prickly, rough bush.

The word "raspberry" also in English comes from the German verb "gather" or "gathered together", since the small particles are brought together in this delicious berry. The English name of the strawberry comes from its shoots, branching widely in different directions from the plant, which made up the first part of the word "running, striving."

Bilberry is named after its color in Russian, and in English its name comes from the similarity of the stalk and the berry hanging on it with a crane. The names of currants and cherries got their names from the names of the cities where they were first grown. Grapes have something in common with wine in Russian, but in English, Italian, Danish and French they have a different origin, meaning "collected in a brush." The English name for the Hungarian plum has two parts, the first is associated with Lord Gage, who brought it to England, the second with its greenish color when it is unripe. Apricot comes from a similar Latin name meaning "early ripening". "Tomatoes" are named in Western India.

The English name for the pineapple comes from its resemblance to a pine cone. The strange name "pomegranate" for a southern exotic fruit comes from the Greek word "pomegranate" - "having many seeds." And in English, it also has the first part, denoting that it is a fruit. "Chestnut" is consonant with the name of the city where it came from. The name of the walnut in Great Britain is of Saxon origin, denoting a foreign nut, because it originally appeared in Persia. The Arabic word for "Spanish vegetable garden" gave spinach its name.

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