even though at the time was known as The Empress’s Favorite Bouquet, referring to Tzarina Aleksandra, unfortunate Nicolas II’s wife. In 1918, Brocard’s factory was nationalized and given a typically Soviet no-frills name, Soap and Perfumery Factory No.5. Molotov’s wife, Polina Zhemchuzh...
“Well, this subject had not been too much written on before. Rumor and street culture—jokes, postcards, sayings, bawdy plays performed in saloons—changed the image of the czar and the czarina, desacralized them, before and during the war. Empress Alexandra’s dependence on Rasputin, the ...
While in Constantinople, Saint Melania the Younger encouraged her new friend Empress Eudocia to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. After Melania persuaded Theodosius to allow her to go, they agreed to meet in Sidon, where the Canaanite woman was said to have lived. This must have been a...
Empress Helena(+ 329 A.D.) The pious Christian mother of Constantine the Great, Empress Helena is best remembered in the Orthodox Church for finding the Holy Cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. On the site of the finding she erected theChurch of...
Peter's daughter Elizabeth joined the Empress Maria Theresa in an alliance against Frederick the Great of Prussia. This was the Seven Years War, and it was Maria Theresa's attempt to retrieve Silesia, which Frederick had seized at the beginning of the War of the Austrian Succession. Elizabeth...
And this is given the fact that the Czar and the Empress are direct relatives of Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, and his son.The irony is that this tragic event, being marked in the town where the Royal Family was killed, Ekaterinburg, will be one of the host cities of...
Novikovconvertedhis journals and his ambitious publishing enterprise into vehicles of freethinking and even criticized EmpressCatherine IIthe Great. She suspended publication of his journals and had him arrested in 1792. He was released by Emperor Paul in 1796 but was forbidden to resume his journalis...
1, pp. 370–71) in anticipation of the bicentennial of the first Russian poem composed in rhymed iambic tetrameter, Mikhailo Lomonosov’s Ode Dedicated to the Blessed memory of the Sovereign Empress Anna Ioannovna on the Occasion of Victory over Tatars and Turks and the Capture of the City...