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3 days ago · Children of Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia Portrait Name Birth Death Family Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia r. 1894–1917: May 18, 1868: July 17, 1918: Married 1894, Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine (1872 –1918) and had 5 children: Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895–1918)
1 day ago · The following is a list of Jews born in the territory of the former Russian Empire. It is geographically defined, so it also includes people born after the dissolution of the Russian Empire in 1922 and its successor the Soviet Union in 1991. A few years before the Holocaust, the Jewish population of the Soviet Union (excluding Western Ukraine ...
Jun 26, 2024 · Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (22 January 1872 – 8 February 1938), of the Glücksburg branch of the House of Oldenburg, was the fourth child and third son of George I, King of the Hellenes, and of Queen Olga.
1 day ago · Kievan Rus'. Orthodox Christianity (official since 10th cent.) Kievan Rus', [a] [b] also known as Kyivan Rus ', [c] [7] [8] was the first East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities [9] in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century. [10] [11] Encompassing a variety of polities and peoples, including East Slavic, Norse ...
1 day ago · Who is Vladimir Putin? Was Vladimir Putin in the KGB? Why is Vladimir Putin still in power? How has Vladimir Putin changed Russia? What’s the background to Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine in 2022? Recent News. July 4, 2024, 8:51 PM ET (AP)
- Vladimir Putin is a former Russian intelligence officer and a politician who has served as president of Russia from 1999 to 2008 and from 2012 to t...
- Vladimir Putin served for 15 years as a foreign intelligence officer in the KGB, the foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Sovie...
- When Vladimir Putin was named president in 1999, Russia’s constitution limited the president to two consecutive terms. That’s why, after his second...
- In the two decades of Vladimir Putin’s reign, he has consolidated his rule and projected to the Russian people an image of Russia as a global power...
- In the decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine moved toward closer integration with Europe. When pro-Russian Ukrainian...
3 days ago · When Princess Anastasia's 19-year-old son, William B. Leeds, Jr., married her husband's 18-year-old niece, Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia, in 1921, she is said to have objected because of the couple's youth.
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4 days ago · The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in 862, ruled by Varangians.
