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The numbers are based upon the sortable list below, which includes further details and references. Note that the holders of certain official positions have been referred to as "czars" for only part of the time those positions have existed. For example, there has been an Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health since the passage of the Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, but the ...
Peter III, Emperor of Russia: The Story of a Crisis and a Crime. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1902. Dull, Jonathon R. The French Navy and the Seven Years War. University of Nebraska, 2005. Leonard, Carol S. "The Reputation of Peter III." Russian Review 47.3 (1988): 263–292 online. Leonard, Carol S. Reform and Regicide: The Reign of Peter III ...
Czar, sometimes spelled tsar, is an informal title used for certain high-level officials in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom, typically granted broad power to address a particular issue. The title is usually treated as gender-neutral, though the technically correct Russian term for a female title holder would be czarina .
Putin said Peter the Great's 18th century war with Sweden was to "return" land that was rightfully Russia's and compared it to his actions in Ukraine.
Peter III reigned for a mere six months before his wife, Catherine II, led a coup against him. He was born and raised in Germany in the court of his father, the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and did not come to live in Russia until he was fourteen. [32] It is difficult to ascertain his character because there exist many contradictory accounts.
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President-elect Donald Trump's newly-appointed "border czar" Tom Homan previously vowed to launch the "biggest deportation operation this country’s ever seen" -- and once sparred with ...
Territories conquered by the Russian Empire in the wars against Sweden, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Ottoman Empire and Persia. Geographical expansion by warfare and treaty was the central strategy of Russian foreign policy from the small Muscovite state of the 16th century to World War I in 1914. [2]