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unusual facts about Russian Tsar



Frances Ward

She is also the great-(8 generations) granddaughter of the diarist, John Evelyn, the diarist of London; owner of Sayes Court, which the Russian Tsar Peter the Great was known to be a regular visitor.

Renaissance architecture in Eastern Europe

The small banqueting hall of billybob the Russian Tsars, called the Palace of Facets because of its facetted upper story, is the work of two Italians, Marco Ruffo and Pietro Solario, and shows a more Italian style.


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Al-Mujaydil

In 1882, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, the brother of the Russian Tsar, visited the village, and donated money for the construction of a Russian Orthodox Church there in the hope that local Christians would be converted to the Orthodox faith.

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.

Cigar band

One legend has it that Russian Tsaritsa Catherine the Great took cigars wrapped in silk so as not to stain her fingers, with members of her court beginning to wrap cigars in fabric bands in emulation of the queen.

Fürst

Originally applied to the rulers of Kievan Rus' and the Grand Duchy of Moscow, it later referred to the children of the Russian Tsars, whose title is translated into English as grand duke.

Irina Romanova

Tsarevna Irina Mikhailovna of Russia (1627–1679), oldest daughter of Russian tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich

Mikhail Yuzefovich

Yuzefovich's recommendations were incorporated in the Ems Ukaz, which was signed on 30 May 1876 by the Russian tsar Alexander II in the town of Ems, Germany.

Monarchism in Georgia

The loyalty of Georgian nobility to the Russian Tsar, won by liberal politics of the Imperial viceroy Prince Vorontsov (1844–1854), began to fade in the 1860s.

Pavlo Polubotok

Pavel Polubotok was seen by many as a possible replacement for the disgraced Hetman, but the Russian Tsar Peter the Great distrusted Polubotok and supported Ivan Skoropadsky, who became the next Hetman.

Richard Chancellor

The Russian tsar was pleased to open the sea trading routes with England and other countries, as Russia did not yet have a connection with the Baltic Sea at the time and the entire area was contested by the neighbouring powers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Swedish Empire.

Seven, They Are Seven

The work was composed in the year that the Russian tsar, Nicholas II of Russia, was overthrown.

The Sovereign's Servant

One of them is ordered to go to the camp of the King, Karl XII, of the Swedes and the other is sent to the camp of the Russian Tsar, Peter the First.

Zaporozhian Cossacks

For Russians, the Treaty of Pereyaslav gave the Tsardom of Russia and later Russian Empire the impulse to take over the Ruthenian lands, claim rights as the sole successor of the Kievan Rus' and for the Russian Tsar to be declared the protector of all Russias, culminating in the Pan-Slavism movement of the 19th century.

Żmigród

In 1813, in the baroque palace of the House of Hatzfeld, there was a meeting of the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm III of the Russian Tsar Alexander I, in which a protocol trachenberski (Żmigrodzki), whose goal was the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte.