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tsar
tsar an emperor of Russia before 1917. The Russian word tsar represents Latin Caesar; it is first recorded in English in the mid 16th century. In Russia itself it was partially used by the Grand Duke Ivan III (1462–1505) and his son, but was formally assumed by Ivan IV in 1547. The... Read more |
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Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Plehve
PLEHVE, VYACHESLAV KONSTANTINOVICH (1846–1904), leader of imperial police then minister in governments of Tsar Alexander III and Tsar Nicholas II. As a conservative statesman in late imperial Russia, Vyacheslav Plehve (von Plehwe) was a key figure in the tsarist regime's struggle against... Read more |
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Dmitry False Czar of Russia
DMITRY, FALSE (d. 1606), Tsar of Russia (1605–1606), also known as Pretender Dmitry. Dmitry of Uglich, Tsar Ivan IV's youngest son (born in 1582), supposedly died by accidentally cutting his own throat in 1591; however, many people believed that Boris Godunov had the boy murdered to clear a... Read more |
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Marina Mniszech
TIME OF TROUBLES In the decade and a half before the founding of the Romanov dynasty in 1613, Russia endured what has been known ever since as the Time of Troubles, a period of severe crisis that nearly destroyed the country. It followed the death of Tsar Fyodor I in 1598 and ended with the... Read more |
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Relations with Italy
ITALY, RELATIONS WITH From the time of Italy's unification in the mid-nineteenth century through the post-Soviet era, schizophrenic collaboration and competition in the Balkans and Danubian Europe has marked Italo-Russian relations, with national interests consistently trumping shifting ideologies... Read more |
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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
Bellingshausen, Fabian Gottlieb von (1778–1852), Russian naval officer, born in Oesel, an island in the Gulf of Riga. He first saw service with the Imperial Russian Navy aged 25 when, as a junior officer, he was part of a Russian expedition commanded by Admiral Adam Krusenstern... Read more |
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Yoshkar-Ola
Yoshkar‐Ola, Mari El Republic/Russia Tsarëvokokshaysk, Krasnokokshaysk Located on the River Kokshaga, the town was originally named for tsardom, the ‘Tsar's Town on the (River) Kokshaga’ in 1584–1919. Between 1919 and 1927 it was renamed for communism, the... Read more |
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Patriarchate
PATRIARCHATE In 1589 the metropolitan of Moscow, head of the Orthodox Church in Russia, received the new and higher title of patriarch. This title made him equal in rank to the four other patriarchs of the Eastern Church: those of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, and Constantinople. Patriarch... Read more |
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Ivanovo
Ivanovo, Russia Ivanovo‐Voznesensk A province and a city. The city was created in 1871 with the amalgamation of the villages of Ivanovo and Voznesensk; the latter name was dropped in 1932, probably because of Stalin's† crusade against religion. Vozneseniye means ‘The... Read more |
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Ivan the Terrible
Ivan the Terrible Ivan Vasilyevich, better known as Ivan the Terrible, was the first tsar of Russia. Crowned in 1547, he ruled Russia until his death in 1584. During his long reign, Ivan created a large empire, made various reforms of government and society, and consolidated power under a strong... Read more |
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I'm Tsar William; Could this British college Marina - and grandson lecturer...
...the 20th century - the murder of the last Tsar, his wife and children in 1918. Stories...ranking Russian officials in paying their last respects to the dead. Prince Michael...Paul Fortress, it seemed that at long last the mystery surrounding the fate of... |
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The last film tsar of all the Russias
...and the arts. It was unclear last night if Boris Yeltsin will take...himself plays a cameo part, as Tsar Alexander III. This is apt...this week. "People paid their last pennies to see films because...only previously matched in the last repressive years of ... |
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The Tsar student; (1) YELTSIN `PLANNING TO BRING IMPERIAL DYNASTY BACK TO...
...Russia was shrouded in confusion last night. President Boris Yeltsin...Romanov would be installed as Tsar, in a ceremonial role. Georgy...within presidential circles.' Last night, Moscow insiders were...the Ural mountains, where the last ... |
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Putin to lead Russias biggest party in specially created role.
...Vladimir Putin agreed yesterday to lead Russias biggestpolitical party, a move that will...house ofparliament) Mail Foreign Service last December, giving the party a two-thirdsmajority...that Russia has been accustomed since the tsars to a single,all-powerful leader, many... |
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Nicholas II: Emperor of All the Russias (book reviews)
...to believe in the legend that Tsar Alexander did not die in 1825...Indeed, Siberia was probably the last place on Earth to which the melancholy...Dominic Lieven's work about the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II...concerning the activities of the last ... |
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Nicholas II Emperor of All the Russias.
...concentrates on his work and role as Tsar. More than any other biography...final pages which deal with the Tsar's abdication and murder, are...interested not just in Russia's last Tsar but in the nature of government...that misunderstanding at long ... |
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TALKING VOLUMES; Witness for the execution; A Minneapolis novelist threads a...
...1918, Nicholas II, Tsar of All the Russias, richest man in the world...fraught new Russia. The tsar's undoing reminded Zimmerman...mother was dying of cancer last summer. Only then could...As ruler of all the Russias, Nicholas II was ... |
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LAST HOURS OF A DYNASTY; Gunned down: The Tsar and Tsaritsa with their five...
...his father, the former Tsar Of All The Russias, Nicholas Alexandrovich...that anniversary, their last wretched days have been...Purpose, they looked their last on the outside world...prison slammed shut, the Tsar was curtly told: 'Citizen... |
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The Last Tsar; For a quarter century, James Biedron made his Russian language...
...afternoon, and James Biedron -- the last tsar, autocrat of all the Russias and Room A-105 of Bethesda...immediately look guilty. The tsar -- Biedron imperiously prefers...Boss says dramatically. In the tsar's village, noblemen have this... |
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BY APPOINTMENT TO THE TSAR
...decade before he was brutally murdered, the last Tsar of Russia commanded his subject Sergei Mikhailovich...Tsarevich Alexis, the haemophiliac heir to Tsar Nicholas II, the last Emperor of all the Russias. It was a portrait that ... |
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