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Mount Nemrut in south-eastern Turkey is famous for the tomb of Antiochus I, who lived from 69 to 34 BC and ruled Commagene, an ancient Armenian kingdom of the Hellenistic period in Asia Minor

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Mount Nemrut in south-eastern Turkey is famous for the tomb of Antiochus I, who lived from 69 to 34 BC and ruled Commagene, an ancient Armenian kingdom of the Hellenistic period in Asia Minor

Mount Nemrut in south-eastern Turkey is famous for the tomb of Antiochus I, who lived from 69 to 34 BC and ruled Commagene, an ancient Armenian kingdom of the Hellenistic period in Asia Minor. The history of the Commagenian kingdom unfolded at the meeting point of Persian and Greek

By Alexandr Radayev
Inspired by Rousseau's idyllic descriptions of country life, in 1782 Marie Antoinette asked for a little hamlet to be laid out for her right within the grounds of Versailles

Architecture · Monarchies · Observations · Mores · Paris

Inspired by Rousseau's idyllic descriptions of country life, in 1782 Marie Antoinette asked for a little hamlet to be laid out for her right within the grounds of Versailles

Inspired by Rousseau's idyllic descriptions of country life, in 1782 Marie Antoinette asked for a little hamlet to be laid out for her right within the grounds of Versailles. In the course of a single winter an entire village of peasant cottages and farms was raised for the

By Alexandr Radayev
Even as a child, reading this book, I was struck that after the Battle of the Alma the Duke of Cambridge says: "Another such victory, and England will have no army", and on the very next page the death of Nicholas I is reported

Books · Monarchies · Observations · Humour

Even as a child, reading this book, I was struck that after the Battle of the Alma the Duke of Cambridge says: "Another such victory, and England will have no army", and on the very next page the death of Nicholas I is reported

Even as a child, reading this book, I was struck that after the Battle of the Alma the Duke of Cambridge says: "Another such victory, and England will have no army", and on the very next page the death of Nicholas I is reported. True, five and a

By Alexandr Radayev
"We shall see time change our misfortunes." "That time is far off, for a perverse world will seek the means to oppose, unceasingly, the happiness of our days."

Books · Monarchies · People

"We shall see time change our misfortunes." "That time is far off, for a perverse world will seek the means to oppose, unceasingly, the happiness of our days."

Without hope, without illusions, and with prophetic accuracy, Anna Leopoldovna, condemned to confinement for the rest of her days, answers her imprisoned husband. She is the mother of the forgotten Russian Emperor Ivan VI, who was shut up in a dungeon at the age of one. From the tragedy "

By Alexandr Radayev
Handwritten charter of the Council of Constantinople on the founding of the Moscow Patriarchate, on parchment with the lead seal of Jeremias II, Patriarch of Constantinople, May 1590

Archive · Faith · The East · Monarchies · Moscow

Handwritten charter of the Council of Constantinople on the founding of the Moscow Patriarchate, on parchment with the lead seal of Jeremias II, Patriarch of Constantinople, May 1590

The text is as follows: "Jeremias, by the mercy of God Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch. Whereas the pious and peaceable Autocrat, Tsar of all the land of Russia, … and lord of other Orthodox Christians, Feodor Ivanovich, … has sought a dignity from us by the election

By Alexandr Radayev
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