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Location of the main events in the last days of the Romanov family, who were held at Tobolsk, Siberia, before being transported to Yekaterinburg, where they were killed. Nicholas II, Tatiana and Anastasia Hendrikova working on a kitchen garden at Alexander Palace in May 1917. The family was allowed no such indulgences at the Ipatiev House.
Nicholas, unbreeched at two years old, with his mother, Maria Feodorovna, in 1870 Grand Duke Nicholas was born on 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868, in the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo south of Saint Petersburg, during the reign of his paternal grandfather, Emperor Alexander II.
Nicholas II's opening speech before the First Duma and State Council (1906). The Coup of June 1907, sometimes known as Stolypin's Coup (Russian: Третьеиюньский переворот, romanized: Tretyeiyunskiy perevorot "Coup of June 3rd"), is the name commonly given to the dissolution of the Second State Duma of the Russian Empire, the arrest of some its members and a fundamental ...
Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg, (later Sverdlovsk) in 1928 Yekaterinburg's "Church on the Blood", built on the spot where the last Tsar and his family were killed. Late on the night of 16 July, Nicholas, Alexandra, their five children and four servants were ordered to dress quickly and go down to the cellar of the house in which they were being held.
Nicholas II: last Tsar of Russia: 1918-07-17 Yekaterinburg: Cheka: Execution. [3] Francis Cromie: British naval attaché: 1918-08-31 Petrograd: Bolsheviks: Killed in combat. Alexander Dutov: Russian Cossacks: 1921-02-07 Suiding: China: Bolsheviks: Pyotr Wrangel: Russian White Army General 1928-04-25 Brussels Belgium: Soviet agent Poisoning ...
The Time of Troubles came to a close with the election of Michael Romanov as tsar in 1613. [95] Michael officially reigned as tsar, though his father, the patriarch Philaret (died 1633) initially held de facto power. However, Michael's descendants would rule Russia, first as tsars and later as emperors, until the Russian Revolution of 1917.
1992); Jay Zeamer Jr., American air force officer, commander of the 63rd Bombardment Squadron during World War II, recipient of the Medal of Honor, two-time recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, and Silver Star, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania (d.
Under Tsar Nicholas II (reigned 1894–1917), the Russian Empire slowly industrialized while repressing opposition from the center and the far-left.During the 1890s Russia's industrial development led to a large increase in the size of the urban middle class and of the working class, which gave rise to a more dynamic political atmosphere. [1]