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unusual facts about Nicholas I, Count of Tecklenburg



Alexander Ostrovsky

Tsar Nicholas I came to see the performance and appeared to be impressed, mostly by the "edifying" finale.

Bernhard Heine

Heine declined an offer of the Russian Tsar Nicholas I to take over the position of an orthopaedic senior consultant at the imperial school in Kronstadt and returned to Würzburg.

Constantine ruble

The Constantine ruble is a rare silver coin of the Russian Empire bearing the profile of Constantine, the brother of emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I.

Count Nikolay Adlerberg

His father, Vladimir Fyodorovich Adlerberg was a close friend of Nicholas I; in 1852-1870 he was President of the Russian Imperial Post Department, who introduced the first Russian post stamps.

Dmitry Tatishchev

Tatishchev was a connoisseur of and collector of art, and held in his collection 200 paintings and 160 rare gems, which were bequeathed to Tsar Nicholas I.

Edward Maynard

Practicing in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. his clientele included the country's political elite, including Congressmen and Presidents, and it is reported that he was offered but declined the position of Imperial Dentist to Tsar Nicholas I.

George Dawe

In 1826 Nicholas I invited him to his coronation ceremony and in 1828 he was officially appointed First Portrait Painter of the Imperial Court.

History of Metz

The Republic of Metz often had to fight for its freedom: in 1324, against the Dukes of Luxembourg and Lorraine, as well as against the Archbishop of Trier; in 1363 and 1365, against the English brigands under the command of Arnaud de Cervole; in 1444, against Duke René of Anjou and King Charles VII of France; and in 1473, against Duke Nicholas I of Lorraine.

History of rail transport in Russia

The first initiative in developing railways came following a meeting called by Tsar Nicholas I held on 13 January, 1842 where he announced that the state would build the St Petersburg-Moscow railway.

Intelligentsia

Nicholas I kept the number of university students at 3,000 per year, fearing a large intellectual proletariat.

Isaac Mayer Dick

Dick sought to educate and enhance the socioeconomic status of all Russian Jews and corresponded on that subject with Count Uvarov, minister of education under Nicholas I.

Louis Marie Baptiste Atthalin

The King sent Atthalin to Russia, to officially inform the Emperor Nicholas I of his new reign.

Nicholas I, Count of Tecklenburg

In 1328, he succeeded his uncle, Count Otto V of Tekclenburg, as count of Tecklenburg-Ibbendüren and count of Lingen and Cloppenburg.

Nicholas I, Duke of Troppau

King Henry's successor John of Luxembourg however redeemed the pawn and in 1318 re-installed Nicholas's son Nicholas II as duke.

Nicholas retained the Duchy of Opava after the last Přemyslid ruler of Bohemia, King Wenceslaus III was killed in 1306.

Nicholas I, Lord of Mecklenburg

Nicholas I, Lord of Mecklenburg (also known as Niklot I; before 1164 – 25 May 1200, near Waschow, now part of Wittendörp), was the ruling Lord of Mecklenburg from 1178 until his death.

Okhrana

Along with this repression and the end of the Revolution of 1905 came a shift in the political police’s mentality; gone were the days of Nicholas I’s white-gloved moral police: post-1905 the political police feared that the Russian people were as eager to destroy them as to depose the Tsar.

Panas Myrny

In it Myrny depicts social oppression, internal struggle between various social groups, the tsarist legal system, the stern life of a soldier during the time of Tsar Nicholas I, police violence, and spontaneous protests against lies and injustice.

Prince Kirill Romanovsky-Iskander

He was a grandson of Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich, the disgraced grandson of Tsar Nicholas I; thus, Kirill was a patrilineal great-great-grandson of Nicholas I.

Slavyanka, Azerbaijan

Along with a number of other villages in northwestern Azerbaijan, Slavyanka was settled in 1844 by the Doukhobors, members of a Pacifist dissenter Christian group resettled to Transcaucasia by Nicholas I from the Molochna River settlements in today's Zaporizhia Oblast of the Ukraine.

Upper Silesia

About 1269 the Duchy of Opava was established on adjacent Moravian territory, ruled by the Přemyslid duke Nicholas I, whose descendants inherited the Duchy of Racibórz in 1336.

William, Duke of Opava

George purchased the 1/3 share of Opava after Bolko's death from the latter's brother Nicholas I and in 1464, he purchased the other 2/3 in Opole in 1464 from John II, thereby considerable increasing his political and economic influence in Silesia.


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