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Prince Philip's aunt and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's niece, Queen Louise of Sweden (1889-1965), née Battenberg, often visited London, and once a bus very nearly ran her down

Prince Philip's aunt and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's niece, Queen Louise of Sweden (1889-1965), née Battenberg, often visited London, and once a bus very nearly ran her down. After this unpleasantness, Queen Louise, when walking the streets of London, always carried with her a small card

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"Jewish communities everywhere have offered up their prayers for His late Majesty, and now they will offer up their sincere prayers for Her Majesty the Queen, as she takes upon herself the heavy burden of ruling the countries of the British Commonwealth"

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Bulgakov's play "The Cabal of Hypocrites", written in 1929 and devoted to the hardships of Molière's life under the yoke of Louis XIV, was permitted to be staged only after the vigorous intervention of Gorky, after a conversation between the author and St

Rehearsals at the Moscow Art Theatre dragged on, however, and the play reached the stage only in February 1936, to colossal success! But first in "Sovetskoye iskusstvo" and then, barely a week later, in "Pravda", there appeared devastating reviews. I give the text of the "

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The other day we recalled the papal portable throne, the Sedia Gestatoria

The other day we recalled the papal portable throne, the Sedia Gestatoria. It was the very one used at the coronations of popes. On 31 June 1963 took place the first coronation of a Pope since 970 held not inside St Peter's Basilica but in the open air,

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Queen Elizabeth so resembles her younger sister, Princess Margaret, that a newspaper, under a joint photograph of the two on their way to the dying Mary of Teck, found it necessary to specify that the queen is in the middle

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Peter I in the 1670s

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In April 1719 Peter I's second son, Tsarevich Peter Petrovich, dies at the age of three and a half

The French historian Adrien Richer, in his History of … the Russians, published in 1770, suggests that Peter “felt that the priests and adherents of the old faith would not fail to regard this unhappy accident as a just punishment for the death of Tsarevich Alexei.” Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich had died

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Since they write that the Northern War was recalled at today's negotiations, I too shall turn to the events that preceded the conclusion of the Peace of Nystad

So. The embassy to Sweden in September 1720, ostensibly to congratulate Frederick I on his recent coronation, was headed neither by a courtier of consequence nor by a diplomat, but by Adjutant General Alexander Ivanovich Rumyantsev, who carried out special commissions for Peter, and particularly weighty ones at that, such

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Does the bust of Peter the First in Brussels stand on the spot where the Tsar was sick after a drinking bout in April 1717?

The bust is said to have been accompanied by a Latin inscription: "On 16 April 1717, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Grand Duke Peter Alekseyevich, Tsar of Muscovy, sat down on the edge of this fountain and sprinkled its waters with the wine he had drunk.

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A legal dispute of almost a century over ownership of the property of the Hohenzollern royal dynasty has come to an end: the German federal government, together with the states of Berlin and Brandenburg, has reached an agreement with the descendants of th

The dispute began in 1926, when a treaty on the division of property after the fall of the monarchy in 1918 was signed between representatives of the House and the former state of Prussia. However, since the Hohenzollern property had been confiscated before the agreement was concluded, the legal questions

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In the instruction issued by His Imperial Majesty to Alexander Rumyantsev by the College of Foreign Affairs before his departure for the Swedish embassy, there is an important clause on the conclusion of an armistice, that is, peace with Sweden

In the seventh clause Peter orders Rumyantsev to tell Frederick plainly of the reports known to him that the Swedish side wants a peace agreement, and to ask whether this is truly so, informing him that Peter has no need of a peace agreement, but that if Sweden wants one,

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The Swedes were so frightened of the Russian fleet that even a single Russian post galley threw their coastal forces into confusion

Adjutant General Alexander Ivanovich Rumyantsev describes in a private letter to Peter I an amusing incident that befell him in Sweden in August 1720, when Peter sent him at the head of an embassy to the new Swedish king, Frederick I. When the galley bearing Rumyantsev appeared near the Swedish