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 | | Peter did not care for Paul either and took a mistress, Elizabeth Vorontsova who, though ugly and stupid, was warm-hearted and played soldiers with him. | | | However, while Peter admired Frederick the Great as a fellow-German and soldier, the Empress Elizabeth took great interest in the war as she wanted to punish Frederick the Great whose bawdy jokes about her and her lovers were repeated all over Europe. | | | At the age of thirteen his aunt, the Russian Empress Elizabeth, made him come to Russia and the pale and thin creature, with ugly grimaces and a lolling tongue but talking in a high voice of piercing intensity, was proclaimed heir of the Russian throne. |
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| | Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | His mother died at his birth, and Dmitri and his sister Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia were mostly raised by their uncle and aunt, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia and his wife, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, the elder sister of the tsarina. | | | Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, of the Imperial House of Romanov (Дмитри Павлович Романов) (September 18, 1891 – March 5, 1941) was a Russian imperial dynast, one of the few Romanovs to escape execution by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. | | | He was the son of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich and a grandson of Alexander II of Russia. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Pavlovitch_Romanov
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| | PRINCESS ELIZABETH |
| | While a Mecklenburg princess had attained to the regency of Russia, and while her son was hailed as emperor, the Princess Elizabeth lived alone and unnoticed in her small and modestly-furnished throne, and yet in St. Petersburg was living the only rightful heir to the empire, the daughter of Czar Peter the Great! | | | Princess Elizabeth had voluntarily kept aloof from all political intrigues and all revolutions. | | | "Ask my waiting-woman; she will tell you that the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the great Czar Peter, has not one single robe splendid enough to render her presentable, without mortification, at a court-ball of the regent." |
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http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Empress/00000019.htm
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| | Royalty.nu - The History of Imperial Russia - Russian Royalty |
| | Elizabeth, Grand Duchess of Russia by Hugo Mager. | | | A history of Russian diplomacy and the Russian court under the empress Elizabeth Petrova. | | | Princess in Exile by Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Russia. |
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http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Russia
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| | Alexander Palace Konstantin Konstantinovich bio |
| | As the revolution spread throughout Russia, Elizabeth and her children became targets of the blood-thirsty Bolsheviks. | | | Grand Duke Konstantin Nikholaievich was the second son of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, ne Princess Charlotte of Prussia, a daughter of King Friedrich-Wilhelm III of Prussia and Queen Luise, ne Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. | | | Elizabeth, accompanied by her widowed sister-in-law Queen Olga of Greece, remained at the Marble Palace during the provisional government and the Bolshevik coup. |
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| | QUEEN OF ENGLAND ELIZABETH - LoveToKnow Article on QUEEN OF ENGLAND ELIZABETH |
| | Ultimately, however, the minister, strong in the support of Elizabeth, prevailed, and his faultless diplomacy, backed by the despatch of an auxiliary Russian corps of 30,000 men to the Rhine, greatly accelerated the peace negotiations which led to the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (October 18, 1748). | | | Elizabeth rightly regarded the treaty of Westminster (January 16, 1756, whereby Great Britain and Prussia agreed to unite their forces to oppose the entry into, or the passage through, Germany of the troops of every foreign power) as utterly subversive of the previous conventions between Great Britain and Russia. | | | By sheer tenacity of purpose, Bestuzhev had extricated his country from the Swedish imbroglio; reconciled his imperial mistress with the courts of Vienna and London, her natural allies; enabled Russia to assert herself effectually in Poland, Turkey and Sweden, and isolated the restless king of Prussia by environing him with hostile alliances. |
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http://48.1911encyclopedia.org/E/EL/ELIZABETH_QUEEN_OF_ENGLAND.htm
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| | Father Demetrios Serfes - The Holy Royal Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth |
| | Also His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow and All-Russia would often visit the holy Convent and had spiritual respect for the Abbess Elizabeth and the holy Convent. | | | Before I present to you "An Introduction to the Life of the Holy Royal Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth", let me first humbly give you an account of Ryabov (the assassin) who actually preformed, and who was in charge of, the holy martyrdom of the Royal Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia, (and those with her). | | | She was the most august sister of Empress Aleaxandra Feodorovna of Russia. |
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http://www.serfes.org/lives/grandduchess/intro.htm
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| | History House: Catherine the Great's Ascent |
| | Peter immediately snuggled up to Frederick II of Prussia, who had been an adversary of Empress Elizabeth and an enemy on the battlefield for the past seven years [known as the Seven Year's War, 1756-1762. | | | Stripped of his military garb and his sword, and exiled to a summerhouse in Ropsha, bereft of his beloved, swarthy mistress Elizabeth Vorontzova and the pleasures of his starch armies, he lived the remainder of his life lonely and weeping. | | | Peter shrugged and ordered all sacred images except for Christ and the Virgin Mary removed, built a Lutheran chapel in the palace, ordered all Russian priests to shave their beards, and decreed that all of the Church's wealth was owned by the state. |
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http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/catherine_two
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| | The Alexander Palace Time Machine Bios - Catherine the Great |
| | Figchen's mother, Joanna, was the sister of Karl August, who had been engaged to Elizabeth I of Russia before she took the throne. | | | Catherine conceived and bore a son, Paul, who was accepted by Peter as his own. | | | Catherine planned to bypass Paul and leave her crown to his first son and her favorite grandson, Alexander. |
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http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/catherine.html
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| | boys clothing: European royalty--Russia Catherine the Great |
| | The Emperess Elizabeth personally chose Catherine to marry her nephew Peter of Holstein-Gottrop who was heir to the Russian throne. | | | Elizabeth personally chose Catherine to marry her nephew Peter of Holstein-Gottrop who was heir to the Russian throne. | | | Russia was still a virtually feudal society with large numbers of its people locked in serfdom. |
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| | Saint Elisabeth, Grand Princess |
| | The Tver diocese clergy are now collecting materials to appeal for his sanctification as a new martyr and confessor of Russia. | | | According to what Elizaveta herself said later, her life from the very young years was greatly influenced by the life and deeds of Elizabeth of Turing, one of her ancestors, after whom Elizaveta was named. | | | Princess Alice was 22 and Elizaveta Fyodorovna hoped that living in Russia, her sister would understand and appreciate the Russian people, master the Russian language and get ready to assume the high duty of becoming the Empress of Russia. |
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| | Saint Elizabeth of Russia |
| | Elizabeth married Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the fifth son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. | | | Elizabeth: Grand Duchess of Russia by Hugo Mager | | | Elizabeth was recognized as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, and then by the Moscow Patriarchate in 1992. |
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http://www.friedrichfroebel.com/saint.html
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| | Russia Heads |
| | 1425-30 Regent Dowager Grand Princess Sofia of Lithuania of Moscow and Vladimir (Russia) | | | The daughter of Pavel I Petrovich Romanov, Tsar of Russia and Sophie Marie Dorothea von Württemberg, known as Tsarina Maria Fyodorovna, she was mother of two sons by her first husband, and two daughters by her second, and lived (1788-1819). | | | She was Duchess of Courland when the Privy Council members chose her and imposed on her a constitution modeled after Sweden's which restored some of their previously lost privileges and freed them from compulsory service. |
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| | Elizabeth Petrovna (1709-62), empress of Russia (1741-62), born near Moscow, the youngest daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I. She became empress in 1741 by staging a palace revolution that deposed the infant emperor Ivan VI and his mother Anna Leopoldovna, who acted as regent. | | | Married (1745) Grand Duke Peter (later Peter III), nephew of Empress Elizabeth; soon became estranged from Peter, both being subjects of much court scandal; soon after Peter' s accession (1762), deposed him with help of her paramour Grigory Orlov and others; had herself proclaimed empress (1762). | | | Alexander I (1777-1825) Tsar of Russia from 1801. |
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| | The Miniature Crown Jewels Collection @ SHOPPINGBOT-UK.INFO |
| | The Imperial State Crown of Russia was commissioned for the Coronation of Catherine II in 1762. | | | The Crown was also used for the Coronation of Frederick William I and his son, Frederick II, better known as Frederick the Great. | | | The State Crown of Queen Mary of Modena, consort of James II was made for their Coronation in 1685. |
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http://shoppingbot-uk.info/Category-1-Hobbies_C_Crafts_Interests-Collecting-The_Miniature_Crown_Jewels_Collection.html
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| | Russia - Early Imperial Russia |
| | Fortunately for Prussia, Elizabeth died in 1762, and her successor, Peter III, allied Russia with Prussia because of his devotion to the Prussian emperor, Frederick the Great. | | | Peter changed the rules of succession to the throne after he killed his own son, Aleksey, who had opposed his father's reforms and served as a rallying figure for antireform groups. | | | As a child of the second marriage of Tsar Aleksey, Peter at first was relegated to the background of Russian politics as various court factions struggled to control the throne. |
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| | Royal Genealogies Part 3 |
| | He served in both the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters during World War II and married the then Princess Elizabeth in 1947, at which time he was named Duke of Edinburgh. | | | When Elizabeth II ascended the throne, Charles automatically became Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland, Knight of the Garter. | | | NOTES: HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Consort of Queen Elizabeth II. |
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| | IVANOVO BOWS TO MARTYRED GRAND DUCHESS' RELICS |
| | After Elizabeth gave her hand in wedding to Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, uncle of Nicholas II, she converted to Russian Orthodoxy to give up the Lutheran denomination in which she had been brought up. | | | Born in Germany, 1864, Elizabeth was daughter of Louis IV the Archduke of Hesse-Darmstadt. | | | MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti) - The relics of holy martyrs Grand Duchess Elizabeth and Sister Barbara have been brought to Ivanovo, provincial and textile industrial center 300 kilometers northeast of Moscow. |
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| | Grand Duchess Elisabeth |
| | Elizabeth, Grand Duchess of Russia by Hugo Mager | | | "After her martyrdom by the Bolsheviks, Elizabeth's partially incorrupt relics were taken out of Russia, where they now rest in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem." | | | "Born on October 20, 1864, granddaughter of Empress Maria Alexandrovna, consort of Tsar Alexander II, and Queen Victoria of England, Elizabeth married the Grand Duke Serge of Russia. |
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| | Russia's Reforming Tsar: Peter the Great |
| | In November 1741 Peter and Catherines daughter Elizabeth Petrovna staged a Palace coup supported by the Preobrazhensky regiment, and became Empress and autocrat of all Russia. | | | Peters half brother Ivan denounced all claims to the throne and Sophia was sent off to a nunnery for the rest of her life. | | | Peter had made many enemies among the nobility with his reforms, and some of these dissidents began to look to Alexis as their leader against Peter and the new Russia he was building. |
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| | thePeerage.com - Person Page 10070 |
| | Elizabeth II Alexandra Mary Windsor, Queen of the United Kingdom is the daughter of George VI Albert Frederick Arthur Windsor, King of the United Kingdom and Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon. | | | Margaret Rose Windsor, Princess of the United Kingdom was the daughter of George VI Albert Frederick Arthur Windsor, King of the United Kingdom and Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon. | | | Aleksandr II Nikolaievich Romanov, Tsar of Russia was the son of Nikolai I Pavlovich Romanov, Tsar of Russia and Friederike Luise Charlotte Wilhelmine Prinzessin von Preußen. |
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| | The Alexander Palace Time Machine Bios - Alexander I |
| | As a wedding present, Catherine gave Alexander the Alexander Palace, showing her preference for his grandson over her son, Paul, by granting Alexander a larger court than his father's. | | | The Empress had no fear of having a future Tsar's education in the hands of a republican, for she knew the strength of the autocracy and the underdeveloped political awareness of Russia at the time. | | | Alexander was 17 in 1793 when he married the lovely Elizabeth of Baden, a pretty princess who was only fourteen years old. |
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| | RoyaltyDigest |
| | Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Oldenburg-Obituary-Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Oldenburg widow of the last reigning Grand Duke of Oldenburg-Russia-12-279-141 | | | Extract from My Empress: Twenty-three Years of Intimate Life with the Empress of All The Russias from her Marriage to the day of Her Exile. | | | Extract from My Empress: Twenty-three Years of Intimate Life with the Empress of All The Russias from her Marriage to the day of Her Exile-Russia-2-276-21 |
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| | Alexander II of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | He was born the eldest son of Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia, daughter of Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. | | | Married Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt, who was murdered by the Bolsheviks in Alapaevsk in 1918. | | | Fortunately for Russia the autocratic power was now in the hands of a man who was impressionable enough to be deeply influenced by the spirit of the time, and who had sufficient prudence and practicality to prevent his being carried away by the prevailing excitement into the dangerous region of utopian dreaming. |
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| | Westminster Abbey - Abbey Tour - 20th Centry Martyrs - Grand Duchess Elizabeth |
| | In 1884 Elizabeth married Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the fifth son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. | | | Westminster Abbey - Abbey Tour - 20th Centry Martyrs - Grand Duchess Elizabeth | | | Elizabeth found Orthodoxy increasingly absorbing, and in 1891 she adopted the faith. |
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| | THE ROYAL MARTYRS |
| | This circumstance could have saved his life; however, when he was requested by the Bolshevik regime to deny his beloved father, Grand Duke Paul of Russia, he remained loyal to the ties of affection and honor, and chose captivity and death instead. | | | This was the way Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, daughter of Grand Duke Paul of Russia and his first wife, Alexandra of Greece, spoke of her younger brother in her autobiography Education of a princess, and she was quite right: Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley was indeed an extraordinarily gifted character and a most remarkable poet. | | | He was the son of the Grand Duke Paul, youngest son of Emperor Alexander II, and of Olga Valerianovna Karnovich, the daughter of a chamberlain in the Imperial Court. |
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| | The Alexander Palace Time Machine Bios - Catherine the Great |
| | Figchen's mother, Joanna, was the sister of Karl August, who had been engaged to Elizabeth I of Russia before she took the throne. | | | Catherine conceived and bore a son, Paul, who was accepted by Peter as his own. | | | Catherine ascended the throne as the most pious and Orthodox Empress, Catherine II, crowned on September 22, 1762 with tremendous pomp and ceremony at the heart of Russian culture and Orthodoxy in the ancient Moscow Kremlin. |
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| | Story - Sisi |
| | The Austrian Court is their first stop and Elizabeth is interested in meeting the young Empress of Russia who is said to be the most beautiful young women in Europe. | | | The Event: The Empress Elizabeth is honoring the young sovereigns of Russia by receiving them at her "sacra-sanctum" Castle Lainz with a small, elite opera party. | | | Elizabeth is breaking her strict rule of only wearing black as a tribute to the young Empress Alexandra of Russia. |
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| | Peter III -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | Grandson of Peter I, the young duke was brought to Russia by his aunt Elizabeth when she became empress (1741). | | | She expanded the territory of Russia and was known for her brilliant court, to which the greatest minds of Europe were drawn. | | | Proclaimed the heir to the Russian throne, he was unpopular at court for his pro-Prussian attitude. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9375006
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