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5 days ago · The House of Oldenburg is an ancient dynasty of German origin whose members rule or have ruled in Denmark, Iceland, Greece, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Livonia, Schleswig, Holstein, and Oldenburg.
1 day ago · Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (3 October 1860 – 24 January 1919) he married Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark on 17 June 1889. They had two children. He remarried Olga Karnovich on 10 October 1902.
2 days ago · Khrushchev was born in 1894 in a village in western Russia. He was employed as a metal worker during his youth, and he was a political commissar during the Russian Civil War . Under the sponsorship of Lazar Kaganovich , Khrushchev worked his way up the Soviet hierarchy.
3 days ago · 1. He Was Incredibly Frail. From his first moments, Frederic Chopin had to fight for his life. Born a frail, sickly child in the Duchy of Warsaw (now Poland), Chopin's parents fretted over him...
4 days ago · The fame of the child prodigy of the so-called “little Chopin” opened the doors to the aristocracy and in particular to the Belwedersky Palace, where he became friends with the son of the Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (1779-1831). However, at the same time, his health was fragile and he was often under the care of doctors.
3 days ago · Nicholas I - Autocrat, Reforms, Crimean War: Alexander I’s unexpected death in southern Russia on December 1, 1825, led to a dynastic crisis. Because Alexander I had no direct male successor, Constantine was next in line for the throne.
4 days ago · In 1882, when she was sixteen, she met her second cousin, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia in Altenburg. His mother and her father were first cousins; in addition to that, they shared Emperor Pavel I as a common ancestor.
2 days ago · Upon his return to Poland in 1814, Tsar Alexander I made him a General in the new Polish army with the rank of a general officer, but a personal insult from Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich resulted in his retiring into private life.
6 days ago · His landmark decisions in foreign policy and domestic programs markedly changed the direction of the Soviet Union, bringing détente with the West and a relaxation of rigid controls within the country. Khrushchev, who rose under Stalin as an agricultural specialist, was a Russian who had grown up in Ukraine.
3 days ago · Also known as: Nikolay Pavlovich. Written by. Nicholas V. Riasanovsky. Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of European History, University of California, Berkeley. Author of The History of Russia and others. Nicholas V. Riasanovsky. Fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
