A biritch (also birich or biryuch; Russian: бирич, бирюч) in Kievan Rus' was a herald, an announcer of the will of a knyaz, sometimes his deputy in police...
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dated 28 May 1906, document the origin of Biritch as being the Russian community in Constantinople. The word biritch is thought to be a transliteration of...
68 KB (9,572 words) - 19:11, 12 July 2024
trick-taking games such as whist. Bridge departed from whist with the creation of Biritch (or "Russian Whist") in the 19th century, and evolved through the late...
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May 28, 1906, document the origin of Biritch as being the Russian community in Constantinople. The word biritch is thought to be a transliteration of...
10 KB (1,417 words) - 19:27, 5 February 2024
earliest known set of rules for it, printed in 1886, refers to the game as Biritch, or Russian Whist. History of contract bridge THE LAWS OF BRIDGE (1904)...
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and comes from English. Bridge (game) (from the Old East Slavic: бирич biritch). Cosmonaut Russian: космона́вт (IPA [kəsmɐˈnaft]), a Russian or Soviet...
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gentleman". Bridge game the word came into English from the Russian word, biritch, which in turn originates from a Turkic word for "bugler" (in modern Turkish:...
70 KB (5,755 words) - 16:49, 20 March 2024
Bridge-Whist has emerged with John Collinson's four page pamphlet entitled Biritch, or Russian Whist. (Earlier, in 1869, Christian Vanderheid, an Austrian...
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Byzantium Architecture of Kievan Rus Baptism of Kievan Rus' Belozero Duchy Biritch Boris and Gleb Boris stones Church of the Tithes Coloman of Lodomeria Culture...
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