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1 giorno fa · Anna Petrovna, aka Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia, was one of the fourteen children of Peter I of Russia. She was the oldest daughter, and out of 13 siblings, she was lucky to survive along with 2 of her siblings. The life of Russia's most fascinating woman has been the subject of books and
4 giorni fa · Nicholas II announces the birth of Russian royalty—a rare letter to the King of Greece. The last Tsar of Russia (born 1868) who reigned from 1894 until he was deposed in 1917. In the wake of the Russian Revolution, Nicholas, Empress Alexandra, and their children were imprisoned and finally executed on July 17, 1918.
2 giorni fa · Peter I (Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич, romanized: Pyotr I Alekseyevich, IPA: [ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ]; 9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, from 1721 until his death in 1725.
6 giorni fa · Paul I of Russia, also known as Tsar Paul, reigned as Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801. He succeeded his mother, Catherine the Great, and immediately began a mission to undo her legacy. Paul had deep animosity towards his mother and her actions as empress.
2 giorni fa · He was the eldest child of then-Tsesarevich Alexander Alexandrovich and his wife, Tsesarevna Maria Feodorovna (née Princess Dagmar of Denmark). Alexander Alexandrovich was heir apparent to the Russian throne as the second but eldest surviving son of Emperor Alexander II and Empress Maria Alexandrovna (née Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine).
3 giorni fa · Sergey Radchenko’s cold war history links Putin to Kremlin predecessors leading a Russia driven by empire, not ideology. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (left) with US President Richard Nixon at...
3 giorni fa · In 2015, thirty-four letters and cards that Mallory wrote to Lytton Strachey were auctioned at Bonhams. They were written over a period of twelve years, from 1909 - when Mallory was still an undergraduate at Cambridge - to 1921, while traveling to Tibet and his first encounter (reconnaissance) with Everest.
