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A silver casket with a scroll is kept in the Archive of Ancient Acts
A silver casket with a scroll is kept in the Archive of Ancient Acts. The casket was made in 1767, and a scroll 309 metres long, with 959 glued joins, was placed in it. The scroll contains the Law Code (Sobornoye Ulozheniye) of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich of 1649, bearing the
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Speaking of disputed abdications in history, one of the most famous is surely that of Nicholas II, signed in plain pencil
As you can see, the document bears in its lower right corner the autograph signature of Emperor Nicholas II in plain pencil: “Nikolai”; in the lower left corner, a certifying inscription has been added in black ink in the hand of Frederiks: “Minister of the Imperial Court, Adjutant General Count
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It is very difficult to write about Russia, because at a certain time individual recollections were concealed; through a whimsical policy, the old rulers of that country forbade their subjects to write so much as the slightest word about their native land
In 1689 a Russian nobleman printed the journal of Golitsyn's Crimean campaign: the publication was burned in public, although it contained nothing against the government or the Grand Duke. This custom still held in the time of Peter the Great, and it is hardly surprising that he himself
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The Bathroom of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna in the Winter Palace
The bathroom of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna in the Winter Palace. Eduard Petrovich Hau, 1850s
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I see excellent potential for a dynastic union in this photograph, an alliance of the English and Spanish crowns against France, say, if Prince George were to marry the Infanta Sofía
There is just one small "but": Spain is tied to France through Bourbon-Anjou, and King Felipe VI is a member of the House of Bourbon, whose formal head is considered to be Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, one of the pretenders to the French throne, should it
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The cellar of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, where the Tsar's family was shot on the night of 16–17 July 1918
The cellar of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, where the Tsar's family was shot on the night of 16–17 July 1918. The house was demolished on 16 and 17 September 1977
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Emperor Marcus Opellius Macrinus?
Emperor Marcus Opellius Macrinus? I hardly recognise you under the make-up Surprises of Ridley Scott's "Gladiator II"
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A reminder of what Cleopatra looked like, the last ruler of Ancient Egypt, a member of the Greco-Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty
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On 3 July 1895 at Peterhof was born Irina, Princess of the Imperial Blood, daughter of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia
On 3 July 1895 at Peterhof was born Irina, Princess of the Imperial Blood, daughter of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia. Princess Irina's father was a grandson of Nicholas I through the latter's youngest son, her mother a sister of Nicholas II. In
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King Charles, Queen Camilla, William, Prince of Wales, styled Duke of Rothesay when visiting Scotland, and Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, after the service of the Order of the Thistle at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh
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BBC and CBS Studios Are Working on a Drama Series About William the Conqueror
Starring: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as William the Conqueror, founder of the Anglo-Norman kingdom, and James Norton as King Harold Godwinson, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England. Roll on 1066