Ilmen
Britishnoun
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The Germans, who for weeks had observed, reported and presumably countered the Russians' preparations, said that fighting was in progress from Kalinin, north of Moscow, to Lake Ilmen below Leningrad.
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His most recent training in modern warfare was in Russia, where he commanded the Spanish Blues, who fought as the 250th Wehrmacht Division on the Lake Ilmen sector.*
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Thence he went to the shores of Lake Ilmen, sang sorrowfully until there appeared Volkhova, Princess of the Sea.
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In the middle ages a proud port of trade was the free city of Novgorod, situated on Lake Ilmen in what is now Northern Russia, some 100 miles from Leningrad.
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The Ilmen answered:— “Give my compliments to the brook Chorny, and say to him about the mill: there used not to be one, and so there shall not be one!”
From Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by Ralston, William Ralston Shedden
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