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Anna Mikhailovna Larina (Russian: А́нна Миха́йловна Ла́рина; 27 January 1914 – 24 February 1996) was the third wife of the Bolshevik leader Nikolai Bukharin and spent many years trying to rehabilitate her husband after he was executed in 1938. She was the author of a memoir entitled This I Cannot Forget. [1]
Yekaterina Pavlovna Peshkova, née Volzhina (Russian: Екатери́на Па́вловна Пешко́ва, née Во́лжина; 26 July 1876 – 26 March 1965) was a Soviet human rights activist and humanitarian, first wife of Maxim Gorky.
The Russian privy council debated about whom to invite to the throne, and Elisabeth's mother, Catherine, was one of the candidates who was considered. However, she was passed over for several reasons, and the throne was offered to her younger sister, Anna Ivanovna, who became known to history as Empress Anna of Russia. Anna was a childless ...
Through her marriage to Ivan IV, Anastasia became the link between the two main ruling dynasties in Russian history, the Rurik dynasty and the Romanov dynasty. Anastasia's brother, Nikita Romanovich , was the father of Feodor Romanov , the first to take the surname Romanov, in honour of his grandfather, father of a tsaritsa. [ 8 ]
Catherine I Alekseyevna Mikhailova; [a] born Marta Samuilovna Skavronskaya; [b] 15 April [O.S. 5 April] 1684 – 17 May [O.S. 6 May] 1727) was the second wife and Empress consort of Peter the Great, whom she succeeded as Empress of Russia, ruling from 1725 until her death in 1727.
Ekaterina Davidovna Voroshilova (Russian: Екатерина Давидовна Ворошилова; 1887–1959), born Gitlya Gorbman, [1] later Golda Gorbman (Го́лда Горбман), was a spouse of Kliment Voroshilov, a Russian revolutionary and later Soviet party and state functionary.
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Marina Mniszech or Mnishek (Polish: Maryna Mniszech, IPA: [maˈrɨna ˈmɲiʂɛk]; Russian: Марина Мнишек, IPA: [mɐˈrʲinə ˈmnʲiʂɨk]; c. 1588 – 24 December 1614) was a Polish noblewoman who was the tsaritsa of all Russia in May 1606 during the Time of Troubles as the wife of False Dmitry I.