Moldova says Russia helped pro-Moscow MP flee long jail sentence
Moldova on Monday accused Russia’s embassy of engineering the escape of a pro-Kremlin lawmaker to the breakaway region of ...
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A ROMANOV ALBUM
The Romanov family ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917 ... which continued through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 Ü 1894) began a web of railroads that ...
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Putin unveils monument to Russia’s Tsar Alexander III in Crimea
unveiling a monument to Russian Tsar Alexander III (1845-1894). Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Southern Federal District Vladimir Ustinov, Crimea’s head Sergei Aksyonov ...
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Putin agrees with emperor that Russia's only allies are Army and Navy
MOSCOW, April 16. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he quite agrees with a phrase once coined by Russian Emperor Alexander III to the effect "everybody is scared by Russia’s ...
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The fall of two empires
In 1883, Russian Emperor Alexander III placed an order for two cicada-shaped cufflinks with a certain Carl Fabergé – a young jeweler who had caught his eye during the Russian Industrial ...
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The Russian Campaign, 1812
In 1811, Tsar Alexander ... "I know Alexander," Napoleon said. "I once had influence over him; it will come back. If not, let destiny be accomplished and let Russia be crushed under my hatred ...