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3 days ago · Nik Storonsky cofounded and runs U.K.-based financial services firm Revolut, which was valued by private investors at $33 billion in July 2021. In January 2023, Forbes estimated Revolut...
5 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.
3 days ago · Yohan Rossel and Nikolay Gryazin will join forces in 2024 to field a pair of factory-entered Citroën C3 Rally2 cars in WRC2, as confirmed today (Monday).
2 days ago · Nicolaus Copernicus [b] (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
4 days ago · About Vasily Anisimov. Vasily Anisimov's development company Coalco has 37,000 acres of land near Moscow. Some of the land is in a high end village called Akulinino where friends of President...
1 day ago · Thus, Russia’s cultural Europeanization in the early 18th century produced works of literature in a new manner, using foreign styles and techniques, such as the treatises and sermons of Feofan Prokopovich, Peter’s main assistant in church matters, and the satires and translations of Prince Antiokh Kantemir, the first modern Russian poet.
4 days ago · Feofan Prokopovich (1681-1736) was an Orthodox Bishop who became Peter the Great's main spiritual spokesperson. This manifesto was commissioned to justify Peter the Great's decision in 1722 to appoint his own heir rather than follow the tradition of primogeniture.
