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...
St. Petersburg School of the Order of St. Catherine - St. Petersburg Institute for Noble Maidens, opened in St. Petersburg on the initiative of Empress Maria Feodorovna in 1798. It occupied the building constructed to house it by G. Quarenghi on Fontanka Embankment, 36. School of the Order of St. Catherine in St. Petersburg (or Catherine Institute , as the school was commonly abbreviated)...
If in your family tree you have persons that were faculty or pupils of Electrotechnical University in St. Petersburg, 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 pr...
Служилый город Козлов (с 1932 г. - Мичуринск) был основан в 1635 г. Острог был поставлен рязанским дворянином Иваном Васильевичем Биркиным (сыном сооснователя г. Воронежа, головы донских казаков, рязанского дворянина Василия Григорьевича Биркина) и его зятем Михаилом Ивановичем Спешневым. Находился острог в самом центре современного Мичуринска, в районе площади им. Мичурина. Мичуринск находитс...
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...
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...
This project is dedicated to highlighting persons who received the medal "For work on the excellent implementation of the general mobilization of 1914" during the rule of the Russian Empire. Please include recipients of the medal. This medal is considered to be the last award of tsarist Russia and the first award in the world, introduced in connection with the mobilization of the army If in yo...
Piryatinsky Uyezd (Пирятинский уезд) was one of the subdivisions of the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northwestern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Piryatin (Pyriatyn). Demographics At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Piryatinsky Uyezd had a population of 163,505. Of these, 95.2% spoke Ukrainian, 3.8% Yiddish and 0.9% Russi...
If in your family tree you have persons who were students or teachers of the Kyiv Institute for Noble Maidens, please add them to this project. It would be great if within profile description "About" there would be a 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...
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 ...
Union of Autonomists is an organization of peoples in the Russian Empire that arose during the revolution of 1905 and sought the decentralization of the Russian Empire on the basis of national autonomy and federalism.
Pavlovsky Institute for Women (Pavlovsky Institute for Noble Maidens) , was a Women's educational institution in Sain-Petersburg (Russia). It originates from the Imperial military orphanage for the upbringing of children of both sexes, established by Emperor Paul I. Since November 1798, the institution was located in the former house of gr. A.R. Vorontsov on the emb. Fontanka river, 112.On Febr...
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...
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...
Проект Белоруссия Области Брестская | Витебская | Гомельская | Гродненская | Минская | Могилёвская | Horki | | и город Минск не входящий ни в одну область.
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. ЦГИА. Фонд 2294. Опись 1. Дело 210. Метрические книги (о родившихся) церкви [%D1%81%D0%B2. Троицы] эстонского прихода Тешково-Губаницы, с.Тешково 1898-1907 ЦГИА. Фонд 2294....
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...
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