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Her Polish father arrived in St. Petersburg on 30 January 1853, one of five Warsaw mazurka dancers invited by the tsar, where he performed in the Mariinsky Theatre. In 1880, at the age of eight, Mathilde entered into the Imperial Theatre School , where she studied under Yekaterina Vazem , and was inspired by Virginia Zucchi .
President Lincoln appointed Clay to the post of Minister to the Russian court at St. Petersburg on March 28, 1861. The Civil War started before he departed and, as there were no federal troops in Washington at the time, Clay organized a group of 300 volunteers to protect the White House and U.S. Naval Yard from a possible Confederate attack.
Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732–1798), Last elected King of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, lover of Catherine the Great, after the Third and final Partition of Poland prisoner in St Petersburg (1795–98) of her son and successor, Paul I. [24]
Nicholas II at the Red Square during the Tercentenary. The tercentenary was kicked off in the imperial capital Saint Petersburg on a rainy February morning. The event had been on everyone's lips for several weeks leading up the actual date, and dignitaries from the whole of the empire had gathered in the capital's grand hotels: princes from the Baltic and Poland, high-priests from Armenia and ...
Peter Demens (May 13 [O.S. May 1] 1850 – January 21, 1919), [1] born Pyotr Alexeyevitch Dementyev (Russian: Пётр Алексеевич Дементьев), was a Russian nobleman who migrated in 1881 to the United States and became a railway owner and one of the founders of St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.
Cassandra Peterson is still a total goth queen, even when she's dressed supremely casually.. The Elvira actress was spotted in Southern California, arriving at Los Angeles International Airport ...
A 5-year-old child had to be disarmed by police after answering the front door holding a loaded handgun in Michigan. The child opened the front door carrying the armed weapon to a cadet who came ...
Trevor Burgess became the first openly gay CEO of a bank on the New York Stock Exchange when C1 Financial, which is based in St Petersburg, Florida, made a $44.7 million public offering in August 2014.