Pertaining to Black Russia. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Black, Russian.

(zoology) A domestic cat of a breed with dense silver to grey fur.

The official name for modern-day Russia under the Communist Party from 1936 to 1991 (from 1918 to 1937, according to the Constitution of the RSFSR, called the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic). Part of the USSR from 1922 to 1991.

(obsolete) Rose gold.

A cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk. / (history) A White Guardist, a Russian who supported the tsar in the 1917 Revolution and the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and afterward.

Of or relating to Russians with tsarist sympathies in the period directly following the 1917 Revolution. / (obsolete) Of or relating to Belarus, literally "White Russia," or its language.

One of a set of hollow nesting dolls, usually wooden and decorated. / (figuratively) An issue or situation which repeatedly reveals more levels of complexity.

(historical) The Russian state from 1721 to 1917.

The quality or characteristic of being Russian.

(idiomatic, games) A deadly game in which a person loads a single bullet in the cylinder of a revolver, spins the cylinder so that the bullet's location is unknown, points the muzzle at his/her head, and pulls the trigger. In its most lethal form, played by multiple participants each of whom takes a turn until the weapon discharges.