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In late 1825, a group of reform-minded Russian military officers believed the time was ripe to end the rule of the czars.
Spain paid a fortune for Russian warships that turned out to be nearly worthless. Two centuries later, only corroded cannons remain—silent witnesses to a royal blunder of epic proportions.
Archaeologists have made a discovery in Romanov Lane: a lead seal from the reign of Ivan III has been discovered.
A new exhibition spotlights Natalia Pavlovna Paley, the granddaughter of a czar. She built a new life for herself in France ...
According to him, the finds include the crown of the Polish king and Grand Duke of Lithuania Alexander, as well as the crown of the wife of the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland Kazimierz ...
This is a war of ideas, narratives and myths – one that can be traced to the mid-1500s, when Ivan the Terrible, Grand Duke of Muscovy declared himself the first “tsar” of all Russia.
Rebecca Bettarini married George, the only son of Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia, and a third great-grandson of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, at St Isaac’s ...
Nicholas & Cyril. Though the Grand Duke Alexander’s words of last week were significant and prompt to the minute, His Imperial Highness naturally did not attempt to sketch the full background of ...
The two diamond brooches had a note attached describing their relation to Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia who had gifted them to his descendent Lady Zia Countess de Torby. ...
The vessel is named for Czar Alexander III, who was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from March 1881 until his death in 1894.