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22 hours ago · Peter was played by Jan Niklas and Maximilian Schell in the 1986 NBC miniseries Peter the Great. The 2007 film The Sovereign's Servant depicts the unsavoury brutal side of Peter during the campaign. A character based on Peter plays a major role in The Age of Unreason , a series of four alternate history novels written by American science ...
22 hours ago · Empress Catherine the Great, who reigned from 1762 to 1796, continued the empire's expansion and modernization. Considering herself an enlightened absolutist , she played a key role in the Russian Enlightenment (painted in the 1780s). 1764, Rouble Catherine II ММД - Krasny Mint The Storming of Izmail on December 22, 1790 , by Russian troops ...
22 hours ago · Top left: Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning female monarch, ruling as Queen of the United Kingdom for from 1952 to 2022, 70 years. Top right: Queen Victoria ruled the United Kingdom for 63 years, from 1837 to 1901; the longest at the time. Bottom left: Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands for 58 years from 1890 to 1948, is the longest ...
22 hours ago · Empress Elisabeth of Austria: 10 September 1898: Stabbed with a thin file by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni while strolling through Geneva with her lady-in-waiting Irma Sztáray. The wound pierced her pericardium and a lung. Her extremely tight corset held the wound closed, so she did not realize what had happened (believing a passerby had ...
