1.   But he was not prepared for the devastating enemy that met him in Moscow -- the raw, bitter, bleak Russian winter.

2.   The Russian winter again came to the aid of the Soviet soldiers.

3.   The Russian winter brought the German offensive to a halt.

4.   Napoleon and Hitler both underestimated the severity of the Russian winter.

5.   And there is ample reason to believe that this Russian winter will be a season of uneasiness.

6.   But at the Jazz Kafe, the economy and the onset of a Russian winter are just conversational ice-breakers.

7.   Four months in a Russian winter, observing humanity at its most abject, is a situation many would find depressing.

8.   His subjects include Russian winter landscapes and interiors with fruit and animals as well as mythological figures and overblown beauties of a plumpness still much appreciated in his homeland.

9.   How does it feel to wear a hat designed to ward off Russian winter winds here in a scorching Brooklyn heat wave?

10.   However, there is a distinct new Russian winter chill in Catholic-Orthodox relations.