By John Paxton
ISBN-10: 0203505328
ISBN-13: 9780203505328
ISBN-10: 1579581323
ISBN-13: 9781579581329
This reference paintings surveys the leaders of Russia and the Soviet Union- from Michael, the 1st Romanov tsar in 1613, in the course of the construction and dissolution of the Soviet Union, to the current day President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. Chronologically prepared, those biographies paint an intensive but succinct portrait of 30 leaders together with dialogue concerning the kin and schooling of every ruler, very important laws, occasions, and wars less than every one leader's rule; and every leader's achievements and impression on Russia or the Soviet Union.
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The Naval Academy of St. Petersburg was created in 1715 and the Academy of Sciences was founded in 1725. Education for the sons of the nobility was provided through the Corps of Pages, Cadets, and Midshipmen. Other controversial reforms included the beard tax. In Muscovy beards were “essential to personal salvation” but the shaving of beards was begun by Peter after his return from the Grand Embassy. Wishing to modernize Wishing to modernize Russia, Peter ordered that Russia, Peter ordered that beards be shaven and Western dress adopted.
Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg. CHRONOLOGY 1672 Peter I (the Great) born (May 30). 1682 After streltsy attack on the Kremlin Ivan V and Peter I are established as co-tsars at a double coronation. Beginning of the regency of Sophia with Prince Vasily Golitsyn as foreign minister. 1688 Peter I (the Great) marries Evdokia Lopukhina. 1689 Sophia’s regency overthrown, with Ivan’s consent. Natalia Naryshkina, Peter’s mother, becomes regent. 1694 24 Natalia Naryshkina, the regent, dies. qxd 5/21/04 5:28 PM Page 25 1696 Death of Ivan V.
In 1703 Peter founded St. Petersburg, having captured the Swedish fortress of Nöteborg, situated where the river Neva flows out of Lake Ladoga and enters the Gulf of Finland. ” He established a church dedicated to the Apostles Peter and Paul, situated on the island of Saiatschie; the Neva divides at this point into the main streams of the delta. The strategic delta had been contested by German and Swedish forces since the thirteenth century. Thousands of workers joined in the task of building, including prisoners of war and criminals released from prison.
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