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Hace 5 días · The Tsarskoye Selo State Museum has created a large 3-dimensional scale model of the Alexander Palace. Visitors can see the model, which is on display in the palace’s vestibule. The 1:140 model of Giacomo Quarenghi’s 18th-century architectural masterpiece was painstakingly created by specialists of the Studio 22 Model Workshop in St ...
Hace 2 días · Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; [d] 18 May [ O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917.
Hace 1 día · Early life Grand prince Alexander Nikolaevich, 1830 Born in Moscow, Alexander Nikolayevich was the eldest son of Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia (eldest daughter of Frederick William III of Prussia and of Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz). His early life gave little indication of his ultimate potential; until the time of his accession in 1855, aged 37, few imagined that posterity ...
Hace 3 días · House of Oldenburg. The House of Oldenburg is an ancient dynasty of German origin whose members rule or have ruled in Denmark, Iceland, Greece, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Livonia, Schleswig, Holstein, and Oldenburg. The current King of the United Kingdom and King of Norway are agnatic members of this house, meanwhile the King ...
Hace 1 día · A motorized tricycle of the kind owned by Grand Duke George. It could travel comfortably at speeds approaching 25 mph. Driving up the road behind the palace of the Grand Dukes George and Alexander Mikhailovich,the Heir encountered a cart traveling from Abastuman towards the estate of Count Olsufiev.
Hace 1 día · Its history as a government center began in 1156, when Prince Yury Vladimirovich Dolgoruky founded the city of Moscow. He had a force of workers build the Kremlin’s first walls, of wood. After they were burned down by the Tatar (Mongol) army during its invasion of Russia in 1236–40, Ivan I had sturdier walls, of oak and stucco ...
Hace 4 días · Ukrainian military intelligence was directly involved in a deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow in which more than 140 people were killed, the head of Russia’s Federal Security Service...
