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unusual facts about Imperial Russia



Aleksander Jabłoński

Professor Aleksander Jabłoński (born 26 February 1898 in Woskresenówka, in Imperial Russia, died 9 September 1980 in Skierniewice, Poland) was a Polish physicist and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Alexander Nedoshivin

Aleksandr Mixaylovich Nedoshivin (March 14, 1868, Kazan - ?) was 27 years a tax specialist at the Ministry of Finance in Imperial Russia, later a lawyer for 10 years.

Antsiranana

The Second Pacific Squadron of Imperial Russia anchored and was resupplied at Diego-Suarez on its way to the Battle of Tsushima in 1905.

Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei

After Wallachia was occupied by Imperial Russia following the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829, general Pavel Kiseleff promoted him to the central government, where he served as president of the Wallachian commission charged with drafting the Organic Regulation, the first form of constitutional law ever implemented in Wallachia.

Benjamin M. Golder

Golder was the younger brother of historian Frank A. Golder (1877-1929), an academic expert on the history of Imperial Russia.

David Chavchavadze

Chavchavadze was born in London to Prince Paul Chavchavadze (1899–1971) and Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia (1901–1974), a descendant of a prominent Georgian noble family and the Imperial Russian dynasty.

David Ossipovitch Widhopff

David Ossipovitch Widhopff (Russian - Давид Осипович Видгоф) (1867, Odessa - 1933, Saint-Clair-sur-Epte) was a Russian and French painter, caricaturist and poster artist.

Dimitri Amilakhvari

The house of Zedguinidze-Amilakhvari had formerly served as hereditary Master of the Horse to the Georgian Crown (Amilakhvari) and retained their princely dignity during the Imperial Russian rule of Georgia.

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej

Moreover, the final years of the regime saw the publishing of Karl Marx texts which had previously been kept secret, dealing with Russia's imperial policy in previously Romanian regions that were still part of the Soviet Union.

Grigoriy Kirdetsov

Fall 1917, he evacuated his nephew, the Count Constantin Pavlovich Borodin (Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia October 20 1907- Brussels, Belgium, March 28 2007) from Saint Petersburg.

Hail, Pennsylvania!

"Hail, Pennsylvania!" is a song written by Edgar M. Dilley (Class of 1897) as a submission to a University of Pennsylvania alumni committee-sponsored contest to write a song to the tune of "God Save the Tsar!", the national anthem of Imperial Russia, by Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov.

Ion I. C. Brătianu

While Moldavia remained the only region under Romanian administration and the country increased its reliance on Imperial Russia - and then on the Russian Provisional Government, the Romanian Army was able to block further Central Powers' offensives in the battles of Mărăşeşti, Mărăşti, and Oituz.

Islam during the Qing Dynasty

The failure of the revolt led to the flight of many Dungan people into Imperial Russia.

John Casimir Ehrnrooth

In 1856, he graduated from the Imperial Military Academy in Saint Petersburg and enlisted in the Imperial Russian Army.

Kärstna

It thus was the property of both Russian general Joseph Carl von Anrep and his father, Reinhold von Arnep, also a general.

Konstantine Gamsakhurdia

Born into a petite noble family in Abasha in western Georgian province of Mingrelia, then under the Imperial Russian rule, Gamsakhurdia received early education at the Kutaisi gymnasium and then studied in St. Petersburg, where he quarreled with Nicholas Marr.

Osovets Offensive

The defenders were somewhat aided by fortifications from previous eras, including a major Imperial Russian-era fortress complex at Osowiec on the Biebrza River that was a scene of a siege in 1915 (February to August) during the First World War, and which was partly demolished by Wehrmacht troops in 1939 before its surrender to the Red Army.

Teodor Filipović

After graduation, he was appointed professor of law history at the University of Harkov in Imperial Russia in 1803.

Vladimir Sollogub

He graduated from the University of Dorpat in 1834 and was attached to the Ministry of Internal Affairs the following year in Vienna.


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1946 in Afghanistan

An agreement is signed in Moscow by Vyacheslav Molotov and Sultan Ahmad Khan, Afghan ambassador, reestablishing the frontier which had existed between Afghanistan and imperial Russia; the new treaty concerns the frontier line along the Penj and Oxus rivers and provides for the incorporation in the U.S.S.R. of the Kashka district, ceded to Afghanistan in 1921.

Aurora Karamzina

She was made a dame of the Order of Saint Catherine, the highest honor for ladies in Imperial Russia.

Cesarewitch Handicap

"Cesarewitch" is an anglicised version of Tsesarevich, the title of the heir to the throne in Imperial Russia.

Coastal Monastery of St. Sergius

Some of the noblest and richest families of Imperial Russia, including the Galitzines, the Stroganovs and the Yusupovs, patronised the monastery and had their burial vaults on the grounds.

Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia

Once a Grand Duke (Farrar & Rinehart 1933) is a source of dynastical and court life in Imperial Russia's last half-century.

KVO

Kiev Military District, a military district of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union

My postillion has been struck by lightning

In James Thurber's 1937 New Yorker article "There's No Place Like Home", a phrasebook from "the era of Imperial Russia" contains the "magnificent" line: "Oh, dear, our postillion has been struck by lightning!".

Third department

Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery, a secret investigatory department in Imperial Russia