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Queen Victoria - Wikipedia  Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until ... Both the Duke of Kent and King George III died in 1820, and Victoria was .... Victoria shared a bedroom with her mother every night, studied with private .... On 3 July, two days after Francis's death sentence was commuted to...
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George III of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia  George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two ... Full name. George William Frederick ... Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the .... against him by spreading the calumny that he was having an affair with the King's mother, and...
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Catherine the Great - Wikipedia  Catherine II of Russia also known as Catherine the Great was the most renowned and the ... 3.6.1 Islam; 3.6.2 Judaism; 3.6.3 Russian Orthodoxy .... Her mother, being opposed to this practice, fell into the Empress' disfavour. ... Boswell reports that Shuvalov shared private information regarding the monarch's intimate affairs.
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J! Archive - Show #3583, aired 2000-03-15  Show #3583 - Wednesday, March 15, 2000. Robin Carroll game 3. ... Name shared by the mother of 3 kings of France & a "Great" Russian empress...
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Wikipedia:Naming conventions (royalty and nobility) - Wikipedia  It is generally advisable to use the most common form of the name used in reliable ... since in these civilizations the same given names are often shared between ... their articles are titled Henry IV of England, Henry IV of France, and so on. ... Article titles are not normally prefixed with "King", "Queen", "Emperor" or equivalent.
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1858280621_St_Petersburg_6E - Scribd  C O N T E N T S |  The Griboedov Canal  The Winter Palace The Soviet heritage ..... It's not possible to see everything that St Petersburg has to ofer on a short trip ...... Baroque to n-de-sicle Style Moderne (Russia's own version of Art ..... day of her coup against her husband Peter III, while later rulers revelled in showy
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Anna Karenina - World History International  The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a .... He had even supposed that she, a worn-out woman no ...... 'Vronsky is one of the sons of Count Kirill Ivanovitch. Vronsky ...... feather-head, who's only amusing himself.' 'Oh, well ...... great interesthorses; he was passionately fond of horses.
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Marie Antoinette & The French Revolution - The Story of a Legend  France was an enemy to Austria but to cement the alliance between those two countries ... Known at court as Madame Antoine, a French variation of her name, she was the ... be in the Empress' bedchamber, watching when she gave birth; the Empress ... Maria Theresa to co-rule with her son and heir, the Emperor Joseph II.
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Catherine the Great - Britannica.com  Sep 28, 2016 ... Empress of Russia (176296) who led her country into full participation in ... Velikaya, also called Catherine II, Russian in full Yekaterina Alekseyevna, .... Since the reign of Peter the Great, the Ottoman Empire had been the traditional ... She imposed serfdom on the Ukrainians who had until then been free.
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Catherine the Great - Wikipedia  Catherine II of Russia also known as Catherine the Great was the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning from 1762 until her death in 1796 at the age of 67. ... Died, 17 November 1796(1796-11-17) (aged 67) .... The imperial couple moved into the new Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg.
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Josephine | empress of France | Britannica.com  Consort of Napoleon Bonaparte and empress of the French. ... de Beauharnais (guillotined during the Reign of Terror), the mother of two children, and a woman...
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The Death of Grigory Rasputin  Damn Interesting  Jan 29, 2006 ... Whatever you may think about him: powerful mystic or drunken fruitcake, ... He prayed with the family, referred to the Tsar and Tsarina as Papa and Mama. ... On the night of December 17th, 1916, the Great Duke Dmitri .... I believe he was introduced to the Romanov family through a friend of Alexandra's,...
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The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise by Imbert De Saint ...  of Austria. This Queen, Marie Caroline, the daughter of the great. Empress, Maria Theresa, and ... make Marie Louise forget that she was Napoleon's wife and to separate ..... her advocate at the Congress of Vienna, her prime minister in the Duchy ... having given two obscure successors to the most famous man of modern
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Catherine the Great - Wikipedia  Catherine II of Russia also known as Catherine the Great was the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning from 1762 until her death in 1796 at the age of 67. ... Full name. Sophie Friederike Auguste .... As she recalls in her memoirs, as soon as she arrived in Russia, she fell ill with a pleuritis...
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House of Romanov - Wikipedia  The House of Romanov was the second dynasty, after the .... 16th century.png ... In 1742, Empress Elizabeth of Russia brought Anna's ... who had taken the Russian name Catherine upon ... She reigned as Catherine the Great. ... Later, Alexander I, responding to the 1820...
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Catherine II of Russia - Wikiquote  Catherine II of Russia or Catherine the Great ( II  [Yekaterna II Aleksyevna] (21 ... Your wit makes others witty. Letter to Voltaire, as quoted in Short Sayings of Great Men : With Historical and Explanatory Notes (1882) by ... Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.
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jeopardy/2138_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Number: 17. WOMEN RULE! | Peter III had been Russia's czar for about 6 months when this "Great" woman, his wife, grabbed the throne | Catherine the Great.
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catherine the great - Search-ID.com  ... this person was on the throne of Russia; Betrothed as a teen to her creepy cousin in 1744, she later became a "Great" empress of Russia; In Russian she is...
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Louis XIV of France - Wikipedia  Mother, Anne of Austria. Religion, Roman Catholicism. Signature. Louis XIV (5 September 1638  1 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi-Soleil), ... An adherent of the concept of the divine right of kings, which advocates the divine origin of monarchical rule, Louis continued his...
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Catherine the Great - Wikipedia  Catherine II of Russia also known as Catherine the Great was the most renowned and the ... An admirer of Peter the Great, Catherine continued to modernise Russia .... She became friends with Princess Ekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, the sister ... to the throne as Emperor Peter III, and Catherine became empress consort.
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Tsar Elizabeth of Russia  May 14, 2007 ... In 1730, Elizabeth's cousin Anne of Courland became Empress and ... New York: Garden City Publishing Company. ... founding of Moscow University, formation of the first Russian theater, .... His work details the lives and reigns of three of the Great Russian Tsarinas of the 18th century, Catherine I, Anne,...