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Letter from Maria Fyodorovna to Nicholas II from Kiev on 16 July 1916

My dear Nicky ! You will probably be extremely surprised to receive this letter with this woman, Mrs Howe, who sent us her books in the winter. She deliberately came here from England, in order to se...

Letter from Nicholas II to Maria Fyodorovna from Stavka in Mohilev on 25 May 1916

Ts Stavka, 25 May 1916 My darling, dear Mama, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your lovely letter with Sandro. I was so glad and did not at all expect to see you in Kiev, when we were trav...

Letter from Maria Fyodorovna to Nicholas II from Kiev on 22 May 1916

Kiev, 22 May 1916 My darling dear Nicky ! I am taking advantage of the departure of Sandro to write a few lines with him. I am sitting in the garden with Olga and are writing. Marvellous weather, fin...

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...

Nobility

The nobility was the most privileged class in pre-revolutionary Russia. Noblemen were people who worked for the state. They were paid a salary and sometimes awarded land and serfs. Their property cou...

Peasantry

In Russia, the word peasant was used to describe all the people who lived and worked off the land. Peasants constituted the largest social class in pre-revolutionary Russia. Before 1861, most peasant...

Exhibition of Russian and Finnish Artists (1898)

Sergei Diaghilev opened the Exhibition of Russian and Finnish Artists at the Baron Stieglitz Museum in St Petersburg in January 1898. This was the first joint action of the World of Art. Besides cont...

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