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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Black Russia

Central and Southern Russia is so called from its black soil

“The winter crops in the whole of European Russia are very good, especially in the black-earth regions. In the government of Northern Russia the condition is less favourable.” —Newspaper paragraph, December, 1893.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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