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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
A monopoly over commercial activities in Russian America, with a southern border of claimed along the 55th parallel north, and on the Kuril Islands was granted for a period of twenty years. [1] Russian fur traders were forbidden to operate in Russian America unless affiliated with the RAC, although foreign traders were still allowed access.
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. [3] During Catherine's reign, Russia was revitalized.
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.
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Tsar of Bulgaria Bulgaria: 1331–1373† Serbia Naples: Go-Daigo: Emperor of Japan: Japan: 1331–1333 Oki Province, Oki Islands: David II: King of Scots Scotland: 1333–1341 France: Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman: Sultan of Morocco: Morocco: 1348–1351† High Atlas: Muhammad V: Sultan of Granada: Granada: 1359–1362 Morocco: Leo V: King of ...
Paul I abolished Peter the Great's law that allowed each reigning emperor or empress to designate his or her successor and substituted a strict order of succession by proclaiming that the eldest son of the monarch would inherit the throne, followed by other dynasts according to primogeniture in the male line. [1] Paul thus implemented a semi ...