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Battle of Jutland (1916)

On 31 May/1 June 1916, the Battle of Jutland was fought between the world’s two largest navies – the German High Seas Fleet and the British Grand Fleet. The main naval encounter of the First World Wa...

Tsarevna

This imperial steam yacht was built in Great Britain and launched in 1874. It served as part of the Guard Equipage. In November 1917, the Tsarevna was interred in port and later broken up for scrap m...

Livadia Palace

Tsar Alexander II commissioned Swiss architect Ippolito Monighetti to build Livadia Palace from 1862 to 1866 as a present for his wife, Empress Maria Alexandrovna. Tsar Alexander III and Empress Mari...

Polar Star

The Polar Star was built in St Petersburg in 1888 and launched in 1891. The imperial yacht served as part of the Guard Equipage. In June 1917, the ship was taken over by the Baltic Fleet. In 1936, af...

Nobility

The nobility was the most privileged class in pre-revolutionary Russia. Noblemen were people who worked for the state. They were paid a salary and sometimes awarded land and serfs. Their property cou...

Peasantry

In Russia, the word peasant was used to describe all the people who lived and worked off the land. Peasants constituted the largest social class in pre-revolutionary Russia. Before 1861, most peasant...

Old Russian Culture

Old Russia is the term used to describe the period in Russian history between the adoption of Christianity in the late tenth century and the reforms of Peter the Great in the late seventeenth century...

ANT-20 Maxim Gorky

The ANT-20 Maxim Gorky was a Soviet propaganda plane constructed in 1934. The largest plane in the world, the Maxim Gorky was designed and named after the famous Russian Realist writer by Soviet airc...

USSR in Construction

ATTENTION! FOR SALE Collection of eight issues of USSR in Construction, English language, good condition 1934 #1, 2, 4, 6, 7/8, 9 – 1936 #3 – 1949 #12 (Stalin special) Please contact us for further i...

Exhibition of Russian and Finnish Artists (1898)

Sergei Diaghilev opened the Exhibition of Russian and Finnish Artists at the Baron Stieglitz Museum in St Petersburg in January 1898. This was the first joint action of the World of Art. Besides cont...

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