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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 Order of Saint Anna (Russian: Орден Святой Анны; also "Order of Saint Ann" or "Order of Saint Anne") was established as a Holstein ducal and then Russian imperial order of chivalry established by Karl Friedrich, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, on 14 February 1735, in honor of his wife Anna Petrovna, daughter of Peter the Great of Russia. The motto of the Order is "Amantibus Justitiam, Pietatem, F...
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 ...
Проект Белоруссия Области Брестская | Витебская | Гомельская | Гродненская | Минская | Могилёвская | Horki | | и город Минск не входящий ни в одну область.
This project is dedicated to highlighting persons who received the Order of St. George the Victorious during the rule of the Russian Empire (this order was used from 1769 to 1921). Please include recipients of all four classes of this order. If in your family tree you have persons that received the Order of St. George the Victorious, please add them to this project. It would be great if within...
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 of a...
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 project is dedicated to tracing Russian nobility ancestors and providing information on historical content in relation to genealogy. If you have Russian nobility ancestors, or if you study ancestral lines deriving from the Russian Empire, please follow and participate in this project. Do not add profiles to this project. This project is under construction. Information and reliable sourc...
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...
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 ...
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) Tree of VerstovskyGeorgy Sviridov (1915-1998)Vasily Sergey...
Terminology of archival records keeping in different languages: Lithuanian, Polish, Latin, Russian. This project is aimed to assist researchers to understand the terminology used in archival documents of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russian Empire. If you are working with archival records of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian Empire, please join and participate in ...
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
This project is dedicated to highlighting persons who received the Cross of St. George during the rule of the Russian Empire (this order was used from 1807 to 1913). Please include recipients of all four classes of this order. If in your family tree you have persons that received the Cross of St. George, please add them to this project. It would be great if within the profile description "Abou...
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...
Порфировка — исчезнувшее упразднённое село в Спасском районе Республики Татарстан Российской Федерации. Ныне — урочище на территории Краснослободского сельского поселения Wikipedia
Лейб-гвардии Измайловский полк на сайте Офицеры РИА Краткая история, командиры, списки офицеров 1909-1916гг, фотографии. Зноско-Боровский Н.А. Исторiя лейбъ-гвардiи Измайловскаго полка . Издательство: Тип. П.Е. Лобанова . Место издания: СПб. Год издания: 1882
In a private collection In St. Petersburg, there are a few thousands of vintage postcards addressed to Russian Nobility, High Officials, and Generals. Some of them managed to survive due to emigration. Some still have relatives in Russia, which is unbelievable. Below there is a list. We add some every month. In case of questions please write to poscardhistory&mail.ru ЕЕ Превосходительство ...
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 users...
This Jewish shtetl project attempts to build a virtual intergenerational Jewish community of persons who were born and/or lived in the small town Vishtinets near the Eastprussian border. During the years 1795-1807, Vishtinets was under Prussian Rule and during 1807-1815 part of the „Duchy of Warsaw”. From 1815, Vishtinets and the entire region were part of Czarist Empire. During World War I the...
A project for communication and exchange of genealogical information of those whose ancestors come from one of the most remarkable cities of Ukraine - Chernihiv.Chernihiv is the center of the Chernihiv region, bordering Russia and Belarus. The city is located in the northern part of Ukraine on the right (high) bank of the Desna River at the confluence of the Strizhen River. The first mention da...
Novgorod-Seversky (Ukr. Novgorod-Siversky) is an ancient Russian city founded under the name Novgorodok in 1044 on the Desna River, on the site of an ancient settlement of the Northerners. Currently, Novgorod-Seversky is a city in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine, the administrative center of the Novgorod-Seversky district. The city is located on the right bank of the Desna River, 270 km northea...
Palekh is an urban—type settlement of the Palekhsky district of the Ivanovo Region of the Russian Federation. The ancient center of Russian folk craft — Palekh lacquer miniatures and icon painting. The administrative center of the Palekh urban settlement in the Palekh district. The project was created to exchange information as part of the study of the history of families whose ancestors came...
Ufa province, Ufa district, Bogorodsk volost, village Maksimovka Found in the Central State Archive of Ancient Acts in Moscow, "The Book of Ufa" reports that the land under the present village was designated as arable land for one of the boyars "in the summer of 7119 (1611), and the border of that arable land from the newly baptized Maxim's estate is near a large lake."
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...
Timashevo (Ufa) Тимашево