Dr. Fahey, in his authenticated work, The Rulers Of Russia quotes an American missionary stationed in St Petersburg from 1907 to 1918: “In October 1918, out of 388 members of the revolutionary government only 16 happened to be real Russians. All the rest were Jews with the exception of on...
The Russian Empire, commonly referred to as Imperial Russia, was a historical empire that extended across Eurasia from 1721, succeeding the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad that ended the Great Northern War. The rise of the Russian Empire coincided with the decline of neighboring ...
Can you imagine a world without rulers or heads of government to make necessary decisions on behalf of their nations? A country’s prosperity depends on the effectiveness of its ruler and those rulers who have gone before. By the turn of the 19th century, most rulers had been male, but th...
The court reform of 1864 stands out as an exceptional event, a moment when the government accepted a judicial system that embodied the very principles that the rulers and officials of the Russian state had long repudiated as alien and pernicious. When I embarked on my research for The ...
is a title used to designate East and South Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers of Eastern Europe, originally the Bulgarian monarchs from 10th century onwards, much later a title for two rulers of the Serbian Empire, and from 1547 the supreme ruler of the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empi...
1.ruler,leader,emperor,sovereign,tyrant,despot,overlord,autocratPrincess Anne is related to the Tsar of Russia. 2.(Informal)head,chief,boss,big cheese(informal),baas(S. African),head honcho(informal)He was appointed 'drugs tsar' by Bill Clinton. ...
Without any of them, Russia could have been a totally different country. 1. Peter the Great (1689-1725) Portrait of Peter I of Russia, Maria Giovanna Clementi, 18th century. Christie's / Public Domain Peter the Great assumed the throne in 1689 and immediately proceeded to transform every sp...
established a significant geographical and political formation known as Kievan Rus’, the first incarnation of modern Russia. The Rurik rulers continued to rule Russia into the 16th century and the mythology surrounding the man Rurik is often referred to as the official beginning of Russian history....
While for the Russian elite, Western European civilization is associated with the good life, in the minds of poor disenfranchised Russians who regard themselves as brazenly deceived by the rulers of the post-Soviet era, the West has quite a different meaning. It is often associated with their ...
Russia - The Petrine state: Formally, Peter changed the tsardom of Muscovy into the Empire of All Russias, and he himself received the title of emperor from the Senate at the conclusion of the peace with Sweden. Not only did the title aim at identifying