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Aristocratic styles [1] Style Transliteration Translation Addressee Ваше Императорское Величество: Vashe Imperatorskoye Velichestvo: Your Imperial Majesty: the Emperor, Empress and Dowager Empress of Russia Ваше Императорское Высочество: Vashe Imperatorskoye Vysochestvo: Your Imperial Highness
1794 portrait of Catherine the Great by Dmitry Levitzky. Born in 1754, [1] Paul was the son of Emperor Peter III and Catherine the Great. [2] Six months after Peter's accession, Catherine participated in a successful coup d'état against her husband; Peter was deposed and killed in prison.
Czar, sometimes spelled tsar, is an informal title used for certain high-level officials in the United States and United Kingdom, typically granted broad power to address a particular issue. The title is usually treated as gender-neutral although the technically correct Russian term for a female title holder would be czarina .
The Pereiaslav Agreement or Pereyaslav Agreement [1] (Ukrainian: Переяславська рада, romanized: Pereiaslavska Rada, lit. 'Pereiaslav Council', Russian: Переяславская рада) was an official meeting that convened for a ceremonial pledge of allegiance by Cossacks to the Russian tsar, then Alexis (r.
Pope Paul I (700–767) Paul I Šubić of Bribir (c. 1245–1312), Ban of Croatia and Lord of Bosnia; Paul I, Serbian Patriarch, Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch (c. 1530–1541) Paul I of Russia (1754–1801), Emperor of Russia; Paul Peter Massad (1806–1890), Maronite Patriarch of Antioch; Paul of Greece (1901–1964), King of Greece
The Emperor's daughters were henceforth referred to as "tsesarevna" (Peter had no living son by this time). In 1762, upon succeeding to the imperial throne, Peter III accorded his only son Paul Petrovich (by the future Catherine the Great ) the novel title of tsesarevich , he being the first of nine Romanov heirs who would bear it. [ 2 ]
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The State Council was established by Alexander I of Russia in 1810 as part of Speransky's reforms. Although envisaged by Speransky as the upper chamber of the Russian parliament , it was actually an advisory legislative body composed of people whom the tsar could trust.