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1 day ago · Early life Grand prince Alexander Nikolaevich, 1830 Born in Moscow, Alexander Nikolayevich was the eldest son of Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia (eldest daughter of Frederick William III of Prussia and of Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz). His early life gave little indication of his ultimate potential; until the time of his accession in 1855, aged 37, few imagined that posterity ...
2 days ago · The Russian High Command was moreover greatly weakened by the mutual contempt between Vladimir Sukhomlinov, the Minister of War, and the incompetent Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich who commanded the armies in the field. In spite of all of this, an immediate attack was ordered against the German province of East Prussia. The Germans mobilised ...
5 days ago · The House of Oldenburg is an ancient dynasty of German origin whose members rule or have ruled in Denmark, Iceland, Greece, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Livonia, Schleswig, Holstein, and Oldenburg.
3 days ago · Fyodor Vasilyevich, Count Rostopchin (born March 12 [March 23, New Style], 1763, Livny, Russia—died Jan. 18 [Jan. 30], 1826, Moscow) was a military officer and statesman who was a close associate and adviser to Emperor Paul I of Russia (reigned 1796–1801) and served as military governor of Moscow during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia (1812).
4 days ago · Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia (27 November [O.S. 15 November] 1892 - 12 October [O.S. 27 September] 1914), was a son of Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich. He died of wounds suffered in battle against the Germans during World War I. Early life.
16 hours ago · To the upper classes in central Europe, Nicholas I was the stern defender of monarchical legitimacy; to democrats all over the world, he was “the gendarme of Europe” and the chief enemy of liberty. But the Crimean War (1853–56) showed that this giant had feet of clay.
1 day ago · There were many other arguments made in autocracy's favour: Nikolai Novikov (1744–1818) and to some extent Nikolai Karamzin (1766–1826) emphasised that what mattered were not political institutions but enlightenment and virtue in the citizenry; Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) and Konstantin Pobedonostsev (1827–1907) likewise stressed that ...
