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unusual facts about Nicholas II, Duke of Troppau



Alexander Krivoshein

He was one of several ministers to be dismissed for opposing Nicholas II's decision to take command of the Russian Army.

Cantacuzino family

Prince Mikhail Cantacuzène, Count Spiransky: Russian Representative to the U.S. 1892-1895; Russian representative to Rome 1895-1899; aide-de-camp to Nicholas II, last Tsar of Russia 1900-1917

Church of the Savior on Blood

It should not to be confused with the Church on Blood in Honour of All Saints Resplendent in the Russian Land, located in the city of Yekaterinburg where the former Emperor Nicholas II (1868–1918) and several members of his family and household were executed following the Bolshevik Revolution.

Edvard Radzinsky

The books translated to English include his biographies of Tsars Nicholas II and Alexander II, Rasputin, and Joseph Stalin.

Ethnic communities in Kolkata

The most famous Greek to hail from Kolkata possibly was the gifted violinist Marie Nicachi who embarked on a European tour in 1910 and played at the courts of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

Giorgi Mazniashvili

Wounded in the Russo-Japanese war (1904–1905), he was visited at a hospital by the Tsar Nicholas II, who awarded him St George’s Cross and invited the general to the palace.

Helsinki Senate Square

During the Russification of Finland from 1899 onwards, the statue became a symbol of quiet resistance, with people of Helsinki protesting to the decrees of Nicholas II leaving flowers at the foot of the statue of his grandfather, then known in Finland as "the good czar".

Jan Rządkowski

Rządkowski was a skilled commander, but also had to become a politician in order to convince Nicholas II to extend the Polish formations fighting alongside the Russian Army.

Joseph A. Conry

Conry was decorated by Czar Nicholas II, and was made a member of the Knights of St. Anne.

Konrad I of Oleśnica

# Hedwig (b. ca. 25 March 1338 – d. ca. 1351), married by 11 August 1345 to Duke Nikolaus II of Opawa (Troppau).

Nicholas II, Duke of Opava

He was a supporter of King John of Luxembourg of Bohemia, who gave him Opava as a fief in 1318 and at the same time raised it to an independent duchy.

November 1916

The novel picks up on the brink of the Russian Revolution, depicting characters from all walks of life — from soldiers and peasants to Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, and Lenin.

Pyotr Vannovskiy

He served in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878; held commands of a St. Petersburg Cadet Corps and an Army Corps based in Kiev; served as Minster of War from 1882 until 1898 under the Tsars Alexander III (1881–1894) and Nicholas II (1894–1917) respectively.

Raymonde de Laroche

During the show in St. Petersburg, she was personally congratulated by Tsar Nicholas II.

Saint Petersburg Mosque

The permission to purchase the site was given by Emperor Nicholas II in Peterhof on 3 July 1907.

St George's Hall and Apollo Room of the Winter Palace

Most historically, it was the setting of the opening of the First State Duma by Nicholas II, in 1906.

Tazza

It was presented by Czar Nicholas II to August Heckscher in 1910 and given to the Linda Hall Library in 1972 by Mrs. Helen Spencer.

Vladimir Winkler

In 1928, he left the Soviet Russia and went to Harbin, China, where many White Russians lived at that time, and again lived through wars and different political regimes, first creating works dedicated to Nicholas II, then to Stalin and Mao Zedong.


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