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The Pan-Russian Manufacturing Exhibition of 1870 was held in St Petersburg, in the former warehouses of the Salt Market (Solyanoi Gorodok), which were built in the early nineteenth century on the ban...
The exhibition was organised by the Imperial Academy of Sciences to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Mikhail Lomonosov. Curated by Baron Nikolai Wrangel, it was held at the Imperial Academy ...
The most famous UFO sighting in Russian history occurred during the reign of Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich. On 15 August 1663, between 10 am and 12 noon, a great noise resounded over Lake Robozero (now in...
On 17 December 1837, a fire broke out at the Winter Palace due to a faulty chimney between the gallery and the wooden vault of the Hall of Peter the Great. The blaze raged for over thirty hours on th...
On 24 July 1714, Peter the Great joined the Russian naval forces anchored under the command of Admiral Fyodor Apraxin at the village of Tvärminne in the Finnish skerries, six miles east of Cape Hangö...
A day in the life of a Russian policeman responsible for keeping order in Admiralty District in St Petersburg – the most unenviable beat in the notorious “crime capital” of Russia. Lying slap bang in...
After the Decembrist Revolt, Tsar Nicholas I hoped to avoid future conspiracies by fostering a new generation of loyal and devoted citizens. Count Sergei Uvarov, a classical scholar and expert on Gre...
On 16 August 1823, Tsar Alexander I signed a secret manifesto, naming his younger brother Nicholas as the heir to the throne. Not even Nicholas himself knew of the existence of this document. The res...
On the night of 17/18 November 1830, a group of Polish cadets revolted and captured the city of Warsaw. On 13 January 1831, the Polish parliament passed an act deposing Nicholas I as king of Poland. ...
In 1821, the Greeks revolted and launched a war of independence against the Ottoman Empire, who responded by slaughtering the local population. Russia, France and Great Britain decided to intervene o...