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| | Peter I of Russia: biography and encyclopedia article |
 | | Peter's primary objective became the capture of the Ottoman fortress of Azov (Azov: azov is a town in the rostov oblast of the russian federation, situated on the don... | | | Thereafter, inheritance of the Throne was generally chaotic—the next two monarchs were descendants of Peter I's half brother Ivan V, but the Throne was restored to Peter's own descendants through a coup d'état (coup d'état: a coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually... | | | His only outlet at the time was the White Sea (White Sea: A large inlet of the Barents Sea in the northwestern part of European Russia). |
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| | Catherine II of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Six months after her ascension to the throne, on July 17, 1762, Peter III was killed by Alexei Orlov (younger brother to Gregory Orlov, then court favorite and aid to the coup) in what was supposed to have been an accidental killing, the result of Alexei's overindulgence in vodka. | | | From 1788 to 1790 Russia was engaged in a war with Sweden, led by Catherine's cousin, the Swedish King Gustav III. | | | Long-running tensions between Alexei Orlov and Catherine II were generally insufficient to dissuade speculation concerning her potential involvement, though much of this would come after her reign. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_II_of_Russia
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| | boys clothing: Russian royalty--Alexander III (1881-94) |
| | Alexander III died on October 20, 1894, in Livadia, Crimea, and was buried in the Cathedral of the St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg. | | | After the assasination of Tsar Alexander II, the Tsarist persecution of Russia's Jews was resumed with a vengences. | | | Tsar Alexander III viewed the Prince Alexander of Bulgaria differently than his father had. |
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| | RUSSIAN IMPERIAL SUCCESSION, by BRIEN HORAN |
| | Paul's father, Emperor Peter III of Russia, was by birth Prince Peter of Holstein-Gottorp, the son of a German sovereign, the reigning Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. | | | In 1889, Grand Duke Peter Nikolayevich of Russia married Princess Militza of Montenegro,[65] a daughter of an Orthodox sovereign, Prince Nicholas I of Montenegro. | | | Emperor Paul I of Russia, although the Russian sovereign, was almost entirely German by blood. |
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| | The Alexander Palace Time Machine Bios - Catherine the Great |
| | The potential match of the young German princess and the heir to the Russian throne was actively promoted by her mother and the Prussian King, Frederick, who saw the alliance as a way to further Prussian interests at the court of St. Petersburg. | | | On the death of Elizabeth on December 25, 1761, Peter ascended the throne as Peter III. | | | Peter ordered the proud Imperial guard regiments to dispose of their uniforms from the days of Peter the Great in exchange for tight-fitting uniforms in the Prussian style. |
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| | Cronin claims that such a move was welcomed by the Russian people, others, such as Riasanovsky, claim it was his downfall, for, as Russia lost heavily in terms of men, the peace gave Russia nothing, and many in the nobility accused Peter of being in league with Frederick. | | | For if Russia was a "despotism" under Nicholas I as he claims (it was not), then it would be in the interest of the cults to lie about their intentions. | | | As always, since at least Basil III, the perennial worry was the oligarchs and members of the aristocratic far reaches where the revolution was being hatched, not among the workers or peasants. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Alexander-II-of-Russia |
| | He was born the eldest son of Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia, daughter of Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. | | | Ukase (Russian: &;, ukaz) in Imperial Russia was a proclamation of the tsar government, or a religions leader patriarch that had the force of law. | | | Fortunately for Russia the autocratic power was now in the hands of a man who was impressionable enough to be deeply influenced by the spirit of the time, and who had sufficient prudence and practicality to prevent his being carried away by the prevailing excitement into the dangerous region of utopian dreaming. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Alexander_II_of_Russia
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| | Russian Cinema |
| | Cinema and Soviet Society : From the Revolution to the Death of Stalin (KINO - The Russian Cinema) * The story of Soviet film in the period covered by Peter Kenez is central to the history of world cinema. | | | This erasure of his adult self, and the inclusion of newsreel footage of key historical moments during the protagonist's life, aim at creating a generalized biography for all of Russia. | | | Russia On Reels : The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema * This is the first book to deal exclusively with Russian cinema of the 1990s. |
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| | Coins & Medals of Imperial Russia: Catherine II |
| | Catherine was the wife of Czar Peter III, who was forced to hand over the throne to her. | | | Catherine, a German princess from the small principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, was one of Russia’s greatest rulers. | | | Catherine reorganized Russian local government and issued a charter of rights to the nobility. |
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http://www.library.yale.edu/slavic/coins/html/catherine2.html
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| | V was joint tsar of Russia with Peter I...with Peter I. | | | IV of Russia (August 25, 1530 -...language as | | | III Vasilevich (January 22, 1440-...) also known as |
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| | Ivan VI of Russia |
| | On the accession of Peter III (1762) the condition of the unfortunate seemed about to improve for the kind-hearted visited and sympathised with him; but Peter lost power a few weeks later. | | | Ivan VI of Russia (1740 - 1764) reigned as Emperor Russia 1740 - 1741 was the son Prince Antony Ulrich of Brunswick-Lüneburg and of the princess Anna Leopoldovna of Mecklenburg. | | | His great-aunt the empress Anna I Russia adopted the eight-week-old boy and declared her successor on 5 October 1740. |
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| | 1682 LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER |
| | May 7 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (b. | | | In Russia, half-brothers Ivan V and Peter I named tsar - Peter's half-sister Sofia becomes regent | | | Halley's comet makes an appearance, and is observed by Edmond Halley himself |
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| | Russia |
| | (in rebellion [from 1774 claimed to be Peter III]) | | | Party abbreviations: KPRF = Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Rossiiskoi Federatsii (Communist Party of the Russian Federation, communist); NDR = Nash dom Rossiya (Our Home is Russia, centerist, reformist, 1995-); OVR = Otecestvo - Vsja Rossija (Fatherland - All Russia, centrist, est. | | | Nicholas II abdicated for himself and the Tsarevich, Alexis 15 Mar 1917, in favor of his brother Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov (b. |
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| | Russia |
| | 7b) ELISABETH, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias 7 Dec 1741 (Kolomenskoe 29 Dec 1709- St.Petersburg 5 Jan 1762); she is alleged by some to have m.ca 1742 Ct Alexei Razumovsky (Lemeshi, Ukraine 17 Mar 1709-St.Petersburg 17 Jul 1771) | | | Lastly, though few members of the Romanov family ever seem to care about this, they all appear to be dynasts of the old duchy of Holstein-Gottorp, through their ancestor Emperor Peter III, and thus entitled to call themselves Princes of Holstein-Gottorp. | | | ALEXEI, Tsar and Autocrat of all the Russias 23 Jul 1645 (Moscow 20 Mar 1629-Moscow 30 Jan 1678); m.1st Moscow 26 Jan 1648 Maria Ilyinichna Miloslavskya (1625-Moscow 3 Mar 1699); m.2d Moscow 1 Feb 1671 Natalia Kirilovna Naryshkina (1 Sep 1651-Moscow 4 Feb 1694) |
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| | Narva on Encyclopedia.com |
| | In 1492, Ivan III of Russia built the fortress Ivangorod on the right bank of the Narva, facing the Hermann fortress of the knights. | | | Peter, however, captured the city in 1704, and it remained part of Russia until 1919, when it was incorporated into newly independent Estonia. | | | After the dissolution (1561) of the Livonian Order, the city was first seized by the Russians, then taken (1581) by the Swedes; it continued to be contested by the two nations. |
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| | BURKHARD CHRISTOPH, COUNT MUNNICH - LoveToKnow Article on BURKHARD CHRISTOPH, COUNT MUNNICH |
| | Brought out for execution, and withdrawn from the scaffold, he was later sent to Siberia, where he remained for several years, until the accession of Peter III. | | | Catherine II., who soon displaced Peter, employed the old field-marshal as director-general of the Baltic ports. | | | Russian soldier and statesman, was horn at Neuenhuntorf, in Oldenburg, in 1683, and at an early age entered the French service. |
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| | Volksdeutsche Information |
| | In the Sixteenth Century Vasili III of RussiaVasili III invited small numbers of German craftsmen, traders and professionals to settle in Russia so that the empire could exploit their skills. | | | In his youth, Peter the Great spent much time in the German quarter and when he became Tsar he brought more German experts (and other foreigners) into Russia and particularly into government service in his attempts to westernize the empire. | | | Over the last thousand years tens of thousands of Germans emigrated from traditional German lands in Central Europe and settled further east in Russia, present day Romania and other countries. |
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| | Ivan V of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | He was joint tsar of Russia with his younger half-brother Peter I and co-reigned during 1682-1696. | | | He was born in Moscow the youngest son of Alexis I of Russia and Maria Miloslavskaya. |
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| | peter the great czar of russia |
| | … III, 1728–62, czar of Russia (1762), son of Charles Frederick, dispossessed duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and of Anna Petrovna, daughter of Peter the Great. | | | Peter the Great or Peter I (1672-1725), czar of Russia (1682-1725), whose military campaigns and modernization efforts transformed Russia into an empire to be … | | | Topic: Peter the Great: czar of Russia Submitted by OB on November 03rd, 2001 Annotated Bibliography. |
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| | Gatchina - |
| | After Paul's death the grand palace stood deserted until Alexander III of Russia made it his chief residence. | | | Nicholas II, the last Russian tsar, spent his youth there. | | | In the 17th century it passed to Livonia, then to Sweden, was returned to Russia in 1721 and given by Peter the Great to his sister Natalia. |
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| | 1730 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | January 29 - Peter II of Russia (b. | | | Anna Ivanova (Anna I of Russia) became czarina | | | September 17 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed III (1703-1730) to Mahmud I (1730-1754) |
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| | 1715 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | October 23 - Emperor Peter II of Russia (d. | | | "King James III", son of the deposed Stuart King James II, briefly arrived from France, but left as it became clear that there was no support for him in England; he took Mar with him, but left most of his supporters behind. | | | Lead by the Earl of Mar who raised the Old Pretender's standard and marched on Edinburgh. |
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| | The 17th Century |
| | Peter the Great, tsar of Russia and the first Russian emperor, was an unusually powerful and prepossessing ruler and laid the foundation of the modern Russian state. | | | Sir Isaac Newton made fundamental contributions to every major area of scientific and mathematical concern to his generation. | | | Louis XIV, France's Sun King, had the longest reign in European history (72 years). |
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| | READINGS: Catherine the Great |
| | All these facts were well known and Peter III didn't enjoy authority over Russian society. | | | Peter III as Catherine was called to Russia in 1742 by his aunt Elizaveta Petrovna who proclaimed him the heir to the throne. | | | In 1744 she went to Russia at the invitation of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna (the daughter of Peter I) as the bride of the heir to the throne, Peter Feodorovich. |
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| | Catherine II of Russia |
| | In 1762, after moving into the new Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Peter succeeded to the throne as Peter III of Russia, but his eccentricities and policies, including an obsession with neighboring and enemy country Prussia, alienated the same groups that Catherine had cultivated. | | | Grigori Orlov, Catherine's lover at the time, headed a conspiracy in which Catherine led a group of troops to the palace in which Peter was residing. | | | Catherine subscribed to the Enlightenment and considered herself a "philosopher on the throne." She was very aware of her image abroad, and ever desired to be percieved by Europe as a civilized and enlightened monarch, even though in Russia she often played the part of the tyrant. |
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| | St. Petersburg: history. XVIII |
| | Elizabeth arranged the Russian succession by bringing her nephew, Prince of Holstein, later Emperor Peter III, to Russia and arranging his marriage (1744) to the German princess Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst (later Catherine II - Catherine the Great). | | | Peter III was buried in the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery but in December 1796, by order of his "son" Paul I, his remains were reburied with full honors in the Cathedral of the St. Peter and St. Paul fortress in St. Petersburg. | | | Peter gained effective control of the government in 1689 in a plot engineered by his mother, Natalya Naryskin. |
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| | Romanov: Encyclopedia topic |
| | The Holstein-Gottorps of Russia, however, kept the surname Romanov and sought to emphasise their female-line descent from Peter the Great (Peter the Great: Czar of Russia who introduced ideas from western Europe to reform the government; he extended his territories in the Baltic and founded St. Petersburg (1682-1725)). | | | Upon his death, there was a period of dynastic struggles between his children by the first wife (Fyodor III (Fyodor III: feodor iii of russia (in russian: iii)... | | | Bolshevik (Bolshevik: A Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party) authorities killed the last Romanov monarch, Nikolai II (Nikolai II: more facts about this subject), and his immediate family in the cellar of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg (Yekaterinburg: yekaterinburg (also... |
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