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The Order of Saint Stanislaus (Polish: Order św. Stanisława Biskupa Męczennika, Russian: Орден Святого Станислава), also spelled Stanislas, was a Polish order of knighthood founded in 1765 by King Stanisław August Poniatowski of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It remained under the Kingdom of Poland between 1765 and 1831, and was incorporated under the Russian Empire from 1831 to 1917, unti...
The Lithuanian press ban (Lithuanian: spaudos draudimas) was a ban on all Lithuanian language publications printed in the Latin alphabet in force from 1865 to 1904 within the Russian Empire, which controlled Lithuania at the time. Lithuanian-language publications that used Cyrillic were allowed and even encouraged. The concept arose after the failed January Uprising of 1863, taking the form o...
The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Tsar Peter I formed a modern regular army built on the German model, but with a new aspect: officers were not necessarily from nobility , talented commoners were given promotions that eventually included a noble title at the attainment of an officer's rank (such...
During 1808-1917, in a time spanning a little more than 100 years, after the Finnish War and until the Independence of Finland in 1917, Finland was an autonomous Grand Duchy of Russia . During this era, according to The National Biography of Finland , some 500 Finns who rose to the ranks of General or Admiral in the Imperial Russian Army are listed. This project is dedicated to those 50...
Terminology of archival records keeping in different languages: Lithuanian Polish Latin Russian This project is aimed to assist researchers to understand terminology used in archival documents of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russian Empire. If you are working with archival records of Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth and Russian Empire, please join and participate in this project. Pl...
The Crimean War (October 1853 – February 1856) Image Right - Russo-French skirmish during the Crimean War By Anonymous plate - Public Domain, Wiki Commons The object of this project is to assemble Geni Profiles of people who were involved in the Crimean wars and share stories about them. The Crimean War was a conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire...
The University of Tartu (UT; Estonian: Tartu Ülikool, Latin: Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia and the only classical university in the country, and also the biggest and most prestigious university in Estonia. It was founded under the name of Academia Gustaviana in 1632 by Baron Johan Skytte , the Governor- General ...
This is a project for Jewish families from the town of Radomyshl (Yiddish: ראַדאָמישל, Russian: Радомышль, Ukrainian: Радомишль) in what is now the Zhytomyr Oblast of Ukraine. Before the establishment of the modern state of Ukraine, the town was part of the Kiev Governate of the Russian Empire, and later the Zhytomyr Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR. Radomyshl is situated on the left bank of Teteriv...
The history of the Jews in Moscow goes back from the 17th century, although Moscow did not become an important Jewish center until the late 19th century when more Jews were legally allowed to settle. Prior to the 19th century, Jews had arrived in the city as prisoners of the Russo-Polish war or after 1790, as merchants allowed one month stays. In the late 1800s, the Jewish population boomed, an...
Industrialization in the Russian Empire began only in 1830-1860 which continued in the future (especially intensively - in the 1890s), and from that time until 1917 Imperial Russia was in the role of catching up with an industrial development of advanced countries of the West. For more information please read here: RUSSIAN INDUSTRIALISATION By joining and participating in this project GENI ...
The Mogilev Region is a province (voblast) of Belarus with its administrative center being Mogilyov (Mahilyow). Important cities within the voblast' include: Mogilyov, Asipovichy, and Babruysk. Belarus SIG JewishGen The uyezds (districts) of Mogilev Gubernia Shtetls of the Mogilev gubernia with Name Variants
Liadov, Anatoly K. (1855-1914) Balakirev Mily Alexeyevich (1836-1910) Glier Reingold (1875-1956) Cesar Antonovich Cui (1835-1918) Myaskovsky Nikolai Yakovlevich (1881-1950) Bortniansky Dmitry Stepanovich (1751-1825) Paul G. Chesnokov (1877-1944) Gurilev Aleksandar (1803-1858) Varlamov Aleksandr Egorovich (1801-1848) Verstovsky Alexey (1799-1862) Family Tree of Verstovsky ...
В конце XIX века в приходе Купаница (Губаницы) появилось большое количество эстонских переселенцев, к 1894 году их стало около 2000 человек, и в 1902 году они основали свою церковь в деревне Тешково . Метрические книги. METRIC BOOKS OF TESHKOVO-GUBANTSY (HOLY TRINITY) CHURCH ESTONIAN CONGREGATION IN TESHKOVO VILLAGE (BIRTHS) 1898-1907