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5 days ago · Ante Pavelić (Croatian pronunciation: [ǎːnte pǎʋelit͡ɕ] ⓘ; 14 July 1889 – 28 December 1959) was a Croatian politician who founded and headed the fascist ultranationalist organization known as the Ustaše in 1929 and was dictator of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a fascist puppet state built out of parts of occupied Yugoslavia by the auth...
4 days ago · Paul I of Russia, also known as Tsar Paul, reigned as Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801. He succeeded his mother, Catherine the Great, and immediately began a mission to undo her legacy. Paul had deep animosity towards his mother and her actions as empress.
3 days ago · Tsar Nichols I Pavlovich ruled Russian Empire from 1825 to his death in 1855. Three decades of his reign are mainly known due to Tsar's reactionary policies. Newly-crowned Tsar began his rule by smashing the demonstration of liberally military officers.
6 days ago · THE ARBITER OF EUROPE’S DESTINY. In June 1814, Alexander Pavlovich and his sister, Ekaterina Pavlovna, visited England, where he was adoring crowds who hailed him as “the Christian conqueror who...
4 days ago · Count Yuri Pavlovich Grabbe was born into a practicing Orthodox aristocratic family in Saint Petersburg in 1902. The Russian Slavophile, philosopher, and lay theologian Aleksei Khomiakov (1804–1860), was his maternal great-grandfather.
3 days ago · Nicholas I (born July 6 [June 25, Old Style], 1796, Tsarskoye Selo [now Pushkin], near St. Petersburg, Russia—died February 18 [March 2, New Style], 1855, St. Petersburg) was a Russian emperor (1825–55), often considered the personification of classic autocracy.
6 days ago · THE DOUKHOBORS. In May 1818, during Andrei Mikhailovich’s last stay in St. Petersburg, Alexander Pavlovich visited Novorossiysk. While touring Odessa, the Tsar was convinced of the...
