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 ...
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 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 project was created in memory of officers, officials, lower ranks of active service of the Russian Imperial Fleet.
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 ...
Порфировка — исчезнувшее упразднённое село в Спасском районе Республики Татарстан Российской Федерации. Ныне — урочище на территории Краснослободского сельского поселения До 1896 года - приходская деревня села Три-Озера , Трёх-Озёрская волость, Казанская губерния. Wikipedia
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 Governing Senate in Russia was approved in February 1711. According to the idea of its creator, Peter the Great, it was becoming the highest state body of the Russian Empire. The Senate included many prominent state, military and public figures who left a significant mark on the Russian Empire. Included are profiles of statesmen who attained the rank of senator between February 22, 1711 an...
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 Empir...
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
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...
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...
Tri-Ozera (Russian: Три Озера; Tatar: Өч күл) is a rural locality (a selo)
Members of the State Duma of the Russian Empire of the First Convocation Государственная дума Российской империи I созыва — первый в России избранный населением представительный законосовещательный орган. Стал результатом попытки преобразовать Россию из самодержавной в парламентскую монархию, вызванной стремлением стабилизировать политическую обстановку в условиях многочисленных волнений и рево...
Krasny Val (before 1930's - Molostvovka) human settlement in Republic of Tatarstan, Russia
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...
If in your family tree you have persons that were faculty or students of Saint Petersburg University, Russia, please add them to this project. It would be great if within the profile description "About" there would be brief biography. Within opened profile page use the 'Actions' button to "Add to project". Select this project (you must be on the list of collaborators in this project to see it o...
Terminology of archival records keeping in different languages: Lithuanian, Polish, Latin, Russian. This project is aimed to assist researchers in understanding 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 ...
The Constitutional Democratic Party (Russian: Конституцио́нно-демократи́ческая па́ртия, romanized: Konstitutsionno-demokraticheskaya partiya, K-D), also called Constitutional Democrats and formally the Party of People's Freedom (Russian: Па́ртия Наро́дной Свобо́ды), was a centrist, liberal political party in the Russian Empire that promoted Western constitutional monarchy — among other policies...
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...
The Women's Patriotic Institute (Russian: Патриотический институт) was a girls' school in Saint Petersburg in Russia between 1822 and 1918. It was a charity school, founded by the Patriotic Society. Originally a charity school with the purpose of educating the orphan daughters of officers who died during the French invasion of Russia, it gradually developed into a fashionable girl school. Sou...
Gorodskoy golova (ru: городской голова, literally "City's head") (City mayor) elected position in the Russian Empire, a trusted representative of citizens who represented their interests before government agencies, the head of city government. The position was established by Catherine II in 1766. Being in the position of City head is called “golovstvom”. The position was abolished after the Oc...
The Mensheviks (Russian: меньшевики́, romanized: mensheviki, from меньшинство, menshynstvo, 'minority') were a left-wing socialist faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) within the Russian socialist movement. The other significant faction were the Bolsheviks. The factions emerged in 1903 following a dispute within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) betwee...