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Elizabeth II Would Have Turned One Hundred This Year
Photograph by Cecil Beaton, 1955
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The hive of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, photographed in 1896 for the album of the experimental apiary of the Imperial Russian Society for the Acclimatisation of Animals and Plants at Izmailovo
The hive is now kept in the museum of the Research Institute of Beekeeping in Rybnoye, in the Ryazan Region
Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies · Observations · Society
It is striking how closely what is happening in the country today resembles the general mood in the upper reaches of power in the 1870s
The Russian publicist Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshchersky, a Kammerherr (chamberlain) of Emperor Alexander II, wrote in 1870 to Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich and Maria Feodorovna: All those who are not at court, all who work honestly for the good of the government and of Russia, who are selflessly devoted to
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Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna on holiday in Darmstadt with family and retinue, 1899
In the front row, left to right: Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna (Victoria Melita of Great Britain), Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. In the second row: first on the right, our handsome, dearly beloved Emperor Nicholas II; second on the left, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich; on the
Archive · Monarchies · Society · Saint Petersburg
No, this is not a Russian tsar, not a tsar of the land, such as the people imagined him, from whom they awaited justice; this is simply a Petersburg emperor, born of German parents, sent for from across the sea to inherit the throne
From the newspaper Obshchee veche [The General Assembly], published by Ogarev and Kelsiyev. On Nicholas I, as you will have guessed. 1862
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Anglican Bishop Cairion Hugh Dewar Publishes an Open Letter to King Charles III, Urging Him to Play More Actively His Traditional Role as Defender of the Christian Faith and to Pay Particular Attention to Preserving Britain's Christian Heritage
In the bishop's view, Christianity in the country is gradually losing its influence in public life, while its symbols and values are ever more often criticised or pushed out of the public sphere. He voiced concern that the country may lose its historical religious foundation and turn into
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Pharaoh Nectanebo I, founder of the dynasty of the last rulers of Ancient Egypt, offers a loaf of bread, in a depiction from Alexandria, 370 BC
Our Daily Bread
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Salvador Dalí and Velázquez's portrait of Philip IV at prayer in the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial in 1964
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King Charles III Opens a Path Bearing His Own Name at the Seven Sisters National Nature Reserve in Seaford, East Sussex
The King Charles III Trail is a new walking route of 2,700 miles running along the entire coast of England. From Newhaven the trail skirts Seaford Bay, passes through Tide Mills to the Seaford seafront, then heads out to the chalk cliffs of Seaford Head, the Seven Sisters and
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Decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna of 14 December 1742 on the withdrawal from circulation of coins bearing the image of the deposed Ivan Antonovich: part of the systematic obliteration of the memory of the overthrown infant emperor, whom Elizabeth remov
Whereas by the most gracious decree of Her Imperial Majesty, published among the people on 31 December of the past year 1741, it was ordered that coins bearing the portrait of Prince Ivan, in whosoever's hands they may be, be brought for exchange to the mints until the
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In 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers launched the first hot-air balloon, France succumbed to collective madness
In 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers launched the first hot-air balloon, France succumbed to collective madness. The question arose at once: might one put people in it? People were, at first, thought too great a risk, and a duck, a cockerel and a sheep were placed in the basket
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