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Blockade of Venezuela in 1902, the Hague arbitration and revision of the Monroe Doctrine
During the civil wars in Venezuela in the late nineteenth century, European merchants in the country suffered heavy losses, chiefly German, French, Spanish and Belgian capital. The ambassadors of these countries demanded compensation. The dictator of the day, Cipriano Castro, refused to pay reparations or service the foreign debts. The
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The word azъ in official documents of Ancient Rus and in the Laurentian Chronicle
The treaties of Princes Oleg and Igor began with the formula "We of the Rus' kin", that is, on behalf of the whole Russian land and the entire population of the country. The business instruments and official documents of Ancient Rus', by contrast, opened with the
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Population of the Russian Empire in the 1897 Census in Rubakin's Book of 1912
A statistical survey of the composition of the population of the Russian Empire on the basis of the 1897 census, with a hand-drawn diagram of national composition from the book "Russia in Figures. The Country. The People. The Estates. The Classes" by Nikolai Alexandrovich Rubakin, published in
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A Finnish anti-Soviet propaganda postcard of 1939-1940
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Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov inspects the ruins of an astronomical observatory in 1946
Sergey Ivanovich, the younger brother of the geneticist Nikolai Ivanovich, was a physicist and the founder of a school of physical optics. In 1945 he became President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and held the post until 1951. Nikolai Vavilov was arrested in 1940 on charges of
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Nicholas II in his diary on the famous ball at the Winter Palace
Group photograph of the guests at the court masked ball held in the Hermitage on 13 February 1903 to mark the 290th anniversary of the House of Romanov, at which the whole nobility of the Russian Empire appeared in costumes of the pre-Petrine era. The hall, filled with ancient
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let not the ship of his great dominion founder in the waves of falsehood
The Book of Degrees of the Royal Genealogy (Stepennaya kniga), written around 1563. A passage on the reign of Vasily III. wherefore ever, his royal heart and mind keeping watch and pondering wisely, steering all with care in lawfulness, and with might driving off the torrents of lawlessness, let not
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Notice of the Moscow Military Governor-General on the Administering of the Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty the Sovereign Emperor Nicholas Pavlovich, of 18 December 1825
The administering of the oath will continue from the 20th day of December, to persons of the male sex of every rank and station, other than state peasants and the serf peasants and servants of landowners, for which purpose all churches will be open after the Liturgy From the collection
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Prince Edward, the future Duke of Kent, and Princess Alexandra play with inflatable toys on the grass under the supervision of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, at their residence, Coppins, in Buckinghamshire, in October 1940
Prince Edward, the future Duke of Kent, and Princess Alexandra play with inflatable toys on the grass under the supervision of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, at their residence, Coppins, in Buckinghamshire, in October 1940. I have never before seen inflatable figures used for play away from the water
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I learned that I have a huge family: the path and the little wood, and in the field every single ear of corn!
Я узнал, что у меня Есть огромная семья: И тропинка, и лесок, В поле – каждый колосок! Речка, небо голубое – Это все мое, родное. Это Родина моя! Всех люблю на свете я! Literal translation I learned that I have A huge family: The path and the little wood, And in the
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Silhouettes of the Nyryshkin Family at an Exhibition on the Decembrists
Silhouettes of the Nyryshkin family at an exhibition on the Decembrists. Moscow, 1850. Most remarkable of all, every sitter is identified by name: Anastasia Yakovlevna, Evdokia Mikhailovna, the Abbess Maria, Varvara Alexandrovna, Rachel; in the middle row, Nikolai Alexandrovich, Yakov Alexandrovich, Annette, Kirill Alexandrovich, Mikhail Alexandrovich; in the bottom row,