The Russian Giant

The Russian Giant

The Russian Giant may be an appellation of the following people:

*Feodor Machnow
*Nikolai Valuev
*Ivan Loushkin "At Madame Tussaud's Exhibition, in Baker-street, there is a wax model of Loushkin, the Russian giant 'the talest man that has ever lived in the modern days, measuring 8 feet and 6 inches high, dressed in his military costume as drum-major of the Imperial Regiment of Guards, Preobrajenskey'" - Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1868) "Curiosities of Natural History", [http://books.google.com/books?id=K0gDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=%22the+russian+giant%22&source=web&ots=UCYPwj_Nvb&sig=DozgDDyFmSMkTJ1y_V5dj6aoejI p. 24]


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