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2 days ago · Ivan III married Sophia Palaiologina, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI, and made the Byzantine double-headed eagle his own, and eventually Russia's, coat-of-arms. Vasili III united all of Russia by annexing the last few independent Russian states in the early 16th century.
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5 days ago · The forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland seized the Muscovite camp and all 300 cannons. Upset at word of the massive defeat, Grand Prince Vasili III allegedly remarked that "the prisoners [were] as useful as the dead". Aftermath Polish Hussars during the Battle of Orsha (1514)
4 days ago · Signature. Alexander II (Russian: Алекса́ндр II Никола́евич, tr. Aleksándr II Nikoláyevich, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ftɐˈroj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ]; 29 April 1818 – 13 March 1881) [a] was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 2 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881. [1]
- 2 March 1855 – 13 March 1881
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3 days ago · Watch on. Watch this entertaining silent movie, 'Terrorists in Russia', made in France in 1907. The short film tells a story that would have been familiar to those who had followed events in Russia. Compare it to the terrorist attack on Colonel Trepov, the governor of St Petersburg (in 1878), and to the assassination of Alexander II (in 1881).
4 days ago · Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2000, ISBN: 9780719048371; 232pp. This is the third book on Russian women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century collectively authored by Jane McDermid and Anna Hillyar of Southampton University. The two earlier volumes are respectively, Women and Work in Russia 1880-1930; A Study in ...
4 days ago · Voenno-vozdušnye sily Rossijskoj Federacii. L' Aeronautica militare russa o VVS RF (in russo: Военно-воздушные силы Российской Федерации, traslitterato: Voyenno Vozdushnye Sily Rossiiskoj Federacii) è la forza aerea della Federazione Russa divenuta, a partire dal 1º agosto 2015 ed assieme alle Forze di ...
