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Battle of Jutland (1916)

On 31 May/1 June 1916, the Battle of Jutland was fought between the world’s two largest navies – the German High Seas Fleet and the British Grand Fleet. The main naval encounter of the First World Wa...

Tsarevna

This imperial steam yacht was built in Great Britain and launched in 1874. It served as part of the Guard Equipage. In November 1917, the Tsarevna was interred in port and later broken up for scrap m...

Livadia Palace

Tsar Alexander II commissioned Swiss architect Ippolito Monighetti to build Livadia Palace from 1862 to 1866 as a present for his wife, Empress Maria Alexandrovna. Tsar Alexander III and Empress Mari...

Polar Star

The Polar Star was built in St Petersburg in 1888 and launched in 1891. The imperial yacht served as part of the Guard Equipage. In June 1917, the ship was taken over by the Baltic Fleet. In 1936, af...

Our Lady of Balaam

Our Lady of Balaam was painted in 1878 by an hieromonk called Alypius at the Balaam Monastery of the Transfiguration. Mary stands at full length, on a cloud, holding the Christ Child out in front of ...

Convent of the Intercession in Suzdal

The founding of the Convent of the Intercession in the middle of the fourteenth century was the direct result of a promise made by Prince Andrei Konstantinovich of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod. Sailing...

St Euthymius Monastery of the Saviour in Suzdal

The St Euthymius Monastery of the Saviour was founded in Suzdal in the middle of the fourteenth century, when cenobitic traditions were being restored in Rus. The pious deeds and profound faith of su...

Snetogorsky Monastery in Pskov

While Prince Vsyevolod was the patron and defender of Pskov in the twelfth century, Prince Daumantas won the recognition of contemporaries and descendents in the late thirteenth century. Daumantas wa...

Mirozhsky Monastery in Pskov

In 1136, the Novgorodians dismissed Prince Vsyevolod, son of Mstislav, who fled to the town of Pskov. This gave Pskov the status of a capital city, while Vsyevolod became its patron saint – even thou...

St Anthony Monastery in Novgorod

The history of Russian cenobitic monasticism begins with the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, which developed out of the eremitic activities of St Anthony of Kiev. But the Monastery of the Caves was then...

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