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ok, so what the hell is double piledriver?

to say this is fucked up is an understatement, proper FUBAR this is, with a no less

Russian text are sometimes strange in these, but for "барчонок" all is forgiven :)

@Doopington Great October Revolution in 1917, duh! (Svetlana wears a stereotypical young revolutionary female cloves: red kerchief on the head and leather coat; and armed with mauser c96 pistol which is also a stereotypical weapon of russian revolutionaries, despite the fact that nagan m1895...

@moozooh Mate, listen, I am russian, I was born russian, learned russian language as my first, I live inside russian culture with full awareness of russian history; as russian I am telling you, what in this case suffix (which is by the way not a -k- but -ka-) was derived from noun and not a...

@moozooh But it is. It might make no sense for english-speaking audience, but suffixes matter a lot in russian, dropping them like "it's no biggie" just proves how little people understand other culture. And this time it is not just a "word", it's a "name", in fact if you tell me "okrana came...

@Kathartes No, regular security will just guard the target, like cossacks, who were tsar's "okhrana", but "okhranka" (or how it was officially called in short form "Okhrannoye Otdeleniye", lit. translation "Guard Department") was secrete service. They enlist provocateurs from parties, tried to...

@Kathartes "Okhrana" really means guard, used for any generic security, guys who used it are a bit wrong (speaking as russian), also "Tsarskaya Okhranka" is the name of secret service (which was never really that secret). People usually just called it as "Okhranka" (which is diminutive form of...

Ok, so Alexander II was killed by the actions of Gribovitsky and Rysakov, who indeed tried to throw a bomb and failed. Bomb supposed to fell under carriage and, frankly I don't remember how things go awry, but bomb exploded behind the carriage, tsar was a-ok. Yet, probably in hubris, despite the...

Yeah, but "narodovolci", members of "narodnaya volya" (here translated as people's will), were quite naive and not in any way well organised, yet they acted in the time, when terrorist strikes were almost none existent (they pretty much were the first terrorists in modern sense of the word), and...

So I am started reading this manga and got to 100th chapter, all in all it's quite a good piece except it has usual misconception about situation in Russian Empire at that time. First thing is, there were zero to none revolutionary movements on far east, as it was scarcely populated and mainly...