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unusual facts about Tsarist Russia



Garibaldi Legion

That day the unit's first battle in Poland occurred at Podłęże where it defeated a Russian force.


see also

Dual Alliance

The Franco-Russian Alliance or Dual Alliance of 1894, between France and Tsarist Russia

László Dombrovszky

Born as Stanisław Dombrowski in the family of the Polish forest exploitation engineer in Bessarabia (Eastern Moldova), then in the tsarist Russia, László Dombrovszky was a Hungarian painter influenced by the French School of Paris.

Moriz von Lyncker

Like Falkenhayn, he wanted a compromise peace with tsarist Russia and a substantial victory over Britain and France.

Populist

Narodnik, a trend of agrarian socialism in late Tsarist Russia

Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet

He argued that Tsarist Russia would attack and absorb Khokand, Bokhara and Khiva (which they did) and would invade Persia (present-day Iran) and Afghanistan as springboards to British India (Meyer 154).

He argued that Tsarist Russia would attack and absorb Khokand, Bokhara and Khiva (which they did) and warned they would invade Persia (present-day Iran) and Afghanistan as springboards to British India.

Stanislaw Szymanski

As a young man, he went to college in Germany, but he finished his studies in tsarist Russia at Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology with an engineering degree.

Vekhi

Samuel Kassow, Students, Professors, and the State in Tsarist Russia (1989. Berkeley: University of California Press)