Imagine you are a time-traveller. You visited different parts of Russia and other counties in different periods of time. What was happening at that time when you were there? Match the two parts of the sentences. Pay attention to the use of the past continuous.

• Объекты 1
  • When I was in Moscow on the 4th of April 1147,
  • When I was on Lake Peipus \(Chudskoye Lake\) on the 5th of April 1242,
  • When I was near the Don River on the Kulikovo field on the 8th of September in 1380,
  • When I was in the woods near Kostroma in February 1613,
  • When I was on the north bank of the Neva River on the 27th of May in 1703,
  • When I was in the Crimea in the summer of 1787,
  • When I was in the village of Fili, west of Moscow on the 13th of September 1812,
  • When I was in St Petersburg on the 14th of December in 1825,
  • When I was in Yalta in February 1945,
  • When I was in Berlin on the 1st of May in 1945,
  • When I was in Baikonur on the 12th of April in 1961,
  • When I was in Moscow in August 1980,
• Объекты 2
  • Prince Yuri Dolgorukiy was having a feast with his ally Prince Sviatoslav of Novgorod-Seversk.
  • the Novgorodians under a young Prince Alexander Nevsky were fighting the invading Teutonic Knights on the frozen surface of the lake.
  • the Russian forces were fighting against the Tatars of the Mongol Golden Horde.
  • Ivan Susanin was leading the Polish invaders deep into the forest so that they could not find a way out.
  • the Emperor Peter the Great was laying the foundation stone of the Peter and Paul Fortress – the very first building in a new city.
  • the empress Catherine the Great and her court were visiting the newly acquired lands gained as a result of the victorious wars against the Ottoman Empire.
  • the Commander-in-Chief Mikhail Kutuzov was holding a military council in order to make a decision either to give another battle near Moscow or to leave the city without a fight.
  • three thousand soldiers were standing at the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg. They were declaring their loyalty to Constantine and to the idea of a Russian constitution.
  • the three leaders of the Allies Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin were holding a conference to discuss a post-war peace and the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.
  • the Soviet scout soldiers were hoisting the Banner of Victory on the roof of the Reichstag.
  • the spacecraft Vostok 1 was taking off from the launching site with Yuri Gagarin on board.
  • a lot of athletes from different countries were taking part in different sports competitions at the Summer Olympics.