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Igor Ivanov, a veteran of the Soviet embassy in Madrid, was appointed Ambassador of Russia to Spain [1] and served in Madrid until 1994. [24] In April 1994 president Boris Yeltsin became the first Russian head of state to pay a state visit to Spain. Juan Carlos visited Russia in 2002, [25] 2006, [26] 2008 and 2012. [27]
These are lists of monarchs in Spain. Monarchs of the current state. List of Spanish monarchs; Monarchs of former states. Kings of Alpuente, see Alpuente;
At his accession as the sole monarch of Russia in 1696, Peter held the same title as his father, Alexis: "Great Lord Tsar and Grand Prince, Autocrat of Great, Small and White Russia". [109] By 1710, he had styled himself as "Tsar and All-Russian Emperor", but it was not until 1721 that the imperial title became official. [109]
A brief history of Ipatiev House, the fortified mansion where the Romanovs were held captive and executed on that fateful morning in 1918.
This list includes defunct and extant monarchical dynasties of sovereign and non-sovereign statuses at the national and subnational levels. Monarchical polities each ruled by a single family—that is, a dynasty, although not explicitly styled as such, like the Golden Horde and the Qara Qoyunlu—are included.
Many noble houses (such as the Houses of York and Lancaster) have birthed dynasties and have historically been considered royal houses, but in a contemporary sense, these houses may lose this status when the dynasty ends and their familial relationship with the position of power is superseded. A royal house is a type of noble house, and they ...
On 1 October 1936, General Francisco Franco was proclaimed "Leader of Spain" (Spanish: Caudillo de España) in the parts of Spain controlled by the Nationalists (nacionales) after the Spanish Civil War broke out. At the end of the war, on 1 April 1939, Franco took control of the whole of Spain, ending the Second Republic.
Datos provisionales, Spain: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 2009 Keene, Judith (2001), "Snow boots in sunny Spain: White Russians in Nationalist Spain", Fighting for Franco: international volunteers in nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 , Leicester University Press, pp. 188– 214, ISBN 978-0-7185-0126-6