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The Teutonic Order that determined the fate of the Baltics

Duration: 0:35:01

Many people know about the Teutonic Order only from the information from the Soviet school textbook about the battle on the ice . The knights came to these lands in order to convert the pagans to the Christian faith and achieved their goal, sometimes with fire and sword . But was it really so? What did the Baltic tribes gain and what did they lose under the dominion of the bishops and


Gogol and emptiness

Duration: 0:28:52

The editors of Polkka are sorting it out 210 years since the birth of the great author . Gogol's works have been perceived over the past 150 years in completely different ways.