Naujamiestis was conceived by the Russian Empire to be the grand center of what was then the capital of its Vilnius Governorate and the main city in the Northwestern Krai (an administrative unit roughly comprising of modern-day Lithuania and Belarus). Naujamiestis lies entirely to the west of...
Lithuanians seeking industrial jobs migrated elsewhere: some to the major cities of the Russian Empire such as Riga or Saint Petersburg, others to the USA. In 1900 there were more Lithuanian speakers in Riga and Chicago than in any city in Lithuania (where the few cities that existed were do...
later get him expelled by the government), Kennan collected hundreds ofcartes de visites— picture postcards which displayed the vast diversity of the emperor's subjects, from urban bureaucrats to recently-emancipated serfs to religious leaders and soldiers on the periphery of the sprawling empire. ...
A new map of the Russian Empire [electronic resource]: divided into its governments, from the latest authoritiesJohn , ca. Cary
1913, Nicholas gave Alexandra a Faberge egg which contained miniature portraits of all Romanovs Tsars and Tsarinas framed in Russian double eagles. Also inside was a globe of blued steel with two maps of the Russian Empire inset in gold, one of the year 1613 and the other of 1913, ...
For a discussion of the circumstances and events leading up to the February 1917 revolution, see Rex A. Wade,The Russian Revolution, 1917, third ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 28–52; Mikhail Zygar,The Empire Must Die: Russia’s Revolutionary Collapse, 1900–1917(New Yor...
Local Nobility and Administrative Apparatus of the Russian Empire in the 19th-early 20th Century Using the example of the old Stremoukhov family, which belonged to the provincial aristocracy, the author tries to illustrate the peculiarities of the rela... S Bogdanov - 《Res Historica》 被引量:...
doi:10.1007/978-3-031-09570-2_14In this memoir, Euler describes and analyses, from the mathematical viewpoint, Delisle's geographical projection.Euler, Leonhard
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Russian Empire, historical empire founded on November 2, 1721, when the Russian Senate conferred the title of emperor of all the Russias upon Peter I. It ended with the abdication of Nicholas II on March 15, 1917. Learn more about the history and signifi