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  AllRefer.com - Alexis, czar of Russia (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
The reforms of Patriarch Nikon resulted in a dangerous schism in the Russian Church, and Nikon's deposition (1666) was a prelude to the abolition of the Moscow patriarchate in 1721.
In 1654 the Cossacks of Ukraine, led in revolt against Poland by Bohdan Chmielnicki, voted for the union of Ukraine with Russia.
Alexis was succeeded by his son Feodor III.
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 Alexis I of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The successful issue of the Moscow riots was the occasion of disquieting disturbances all over the czardom culminating in dangerous rebellions at Pskov and Great Novgorod, with which the government was so unable to cope that they surrendered, practically granting the malcontents their own terms.
This truce was the achievement of Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin, the first Russian chancellor and diplomat in the modern sense, who after the disgrace of Nikon became the Tsar's first minister till 1670, when he was superseded by the equally able Artamon Matveyev, whose beneficent influence prevailed to the end of Alexei's reign.
Grigory Kotoshikhin's On Russia during the reign of Alexey Mikhailovich (1665) is a key source on domestic life of the tsar and his court.
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 The Damon and Taber Family Connections - Person Page 11264   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Alexis I Michaylovich (of Russia) was the son of Czar Mikhail (of Russia) and Evdokiya Lukyanovna Streshneva.
Alexis I Michaylovich (of Russia) was born on 20 March 1629 of Moskva, Moskva, Russia.
Alexis I Michaylovich (of Russia) married Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina, daughter of Kirill Polukhtovich Naryshkin and Anna Leontevna Leonteva, in 1671 in Moskva, Moskva, Russia.
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 Peter's Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Thus, Russia lay in the heartland of the Eurasian continent on a crossroads of north.south and east-west movements that prevented the country from belonging wholly to either the East or the west.
Alexis was more cultivated than most of his predecessors, but he was too weak and kindly to compel his subjects to adopt the ways of the West.
Russia had had its Reformation that ended in schism, but unlike that of the West, it had taken place in response to the demands of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, rather than demands from segments of the lower clergy and the people.
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 Royal & Imperial Russia
On 12 August 1904, the longed-for son and heir to the throne of Russia, the Tsarevich Alexis Nicholaievich, was born.
Alexis, the baby Tsarevich, was appointed honorary colonel of many regiments, and military decorations were showered upon his little head.
When he was a year old, Alexis started crawling about independently, but after the occasional tumble, his mother noticed large bumps and bruises on his arms and legs.
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 PEREKOP - LoveToKnow Article on PEREKOP
S.E. of Kherson, on the isthmus which connects the Crimea with the Continent, and commanding the once defensive ditch and dike which cross from the Black Sea to the Sivash (putrid) lagoon.
PEREYASLAVL, a town of Russia, in the government of Poltava, 26 m.
PEREYASLAVL (called Zalyeskiy, or " Beyond the Forest," to distinguish it from the older town in Poltava after which it was named), one of the oldest and most interesting cities in middle Russia, situated in the government of Vladimir, 45 m.
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 Alexis' Hemophilia: The Triangle Affair of Nicholas II, Alexandra, and Rasputin
Rasputin was able to help ease the ailing Alexis in his darkest hours, but Rasputin also had his own very different dark hours, which lead to the eventual downfall of the Imperial family in Russia and the city of St. Petersburg.
Alexis was conceived after Alexandra bathed in the holy waters at Sarov in 1903.
Alexis' illness was a very painful one and it took a toll on his loved ones.
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 STAR: Religion in Russia
There are roughly 17,500 religious groups in Russia where a highly controversial 1997 law requires that they be accepted and registered on the governmental list of authorized faiths by December 31, 2000.
Alexis feels certain that the Pope and his priests and bishops have one motive in mind; the systematic conversion of Russian Orthodox faithful to Catholicism.
For example, Alexis II is the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; i.e.
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 KRAFFT, ADAM - LoveToKnow Article on KRAFFT, ADAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Tsar Alexis of Russia plundered and burnt it in 1655.
KOVROV, a town of Russia, in the government of Vladimir, 40 m.
KOZLOV, a town of Russia, in the government of Tambov, on the Lyesnoi Voronezh River, 4 5 m.
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 [Russia 1: orthodoxy]
St Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow, an outstanding figure of the Russian Church and society, was born at the turn of the fourteenth century, around 1300.
St Alexis was born into a noble boyar family of the Kolychevs from the town of Chernigov.
St Alexis vowed to build a church in the name of the saint whose name day would fall on the date of their safe return.
russia-hc.ru /eng/religion/legend/AlexMetr.cfm   (1875 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Alexis I of Russia
She was brought up in the house of Artamon Matveyev and was a ward of his wife, the Scottish-descended Mary Hamilton.
Sophia Alekseyevna (Софья Алексеевна in Russian) (September 17(27), 1657 — July 3(14), 1704), regent of Russia in 1682-1689, daughter of tsar Aleksey I of Russia and Maria Miloslavskaya.
Feodor III of Russia (In Russian: Фёдор III Алексеевич) (June 9, 1661 - May 7, 1682) was the Tsar of all Russia, during whose short reign (1678-82) the Polish influence in the Kremlin was paramount.
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 AllRefer.com - Russia (CIS And Baltic Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
The country is bounded by Norway and Finland in the northwest; by Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, and Ukraine in the west; by Georgia and Azerbaijan in the southwest; and by Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China along the southern land border.
In its political meaning, the term Russia applies to the Russian Empire until 1917, to the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR) from 1917 to 1991, and to the Russian Federation since 1991.
The name also is often used informally to mean the whole of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); the Russia Federation was established in 1991 when the USSR disintegrated and the former RSFSR became an independent nation.
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Alexis II emphasised that Orthodox and Catholic parishes, dioceses and monasteries had developed friendly relations, and they were stepping up their cooperation.
Alexis II reported on the Russian Orthodox Church representation that had opened in the Italian city of Bari.
However, Alexis II recalled that he and Cardinal Casper, in charge of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, had reached an agreement to set up a joint working group to deal with problems facing the two Churches' relations.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/8223-5.cfm   (502 words)

  
 Alexis I of Russia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
On the 1st of October 1653 a national assembly met at Moscow to sanction the war and find the means of carrying it out, and in April 1654 the army was blessed by Nikon (now patriarch).
The campaign of 1654 was an uninterrupted triumph, and scores of towns, including the important fortress of (A city in western Russia on the Dnieper River; scene of severe fighting in World War II) Smolensk, fell into the hands of the Russians.
Fortunately for Poland, the Tsar and the king of (A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula) Sweden now quarrelled over the apportionment of the spoils, and at the end of May 1656 Aleksey, stimulated by the emperor and the other enemies of Sweden, declared war against her.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alexis_i_of_russia.htm   (805 words)

  
 Russian Ballet
Before the reign of Peter the Great, dance in Russia existed only among the common people, the peasants and lower classes living outside the city.
In 1698, Peter the Great returned to Russia after an extended tour in the West and decided to modernize his country.
Charles-Louis Didelot was often called the father of the Russian ballet, was invited to St, Petersburg by Paul I., where he created ballets that were different from the traditions of the Baroque style.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 10195
Petr III Romanov, Tsar of Russia was the son of Karl Friedrich von Holstein-Gottorp, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and Anna Petrovna Romanov, Grand Duchess of Russia.
Alexis Petrovich Romanov, Tsarevich of Russia was the son of Petr I 'the Great' Alexeiovich Romanov, Tsar of Russia and Yevdokiya Theodorovna Lopukhina.
Petr II Alexeiovich Romanov, Tsar of Russia was the son of Alexis Petrovich Romanov, Tsarevich of Russia and Charlotte Christine Prinzessin von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel.
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 Feodor III of Russia - Biocrawler definition:Feodor III of Russia - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Feodor III of Russia - Biocrawler definition:Feodor III of Russia - Biocrawler
Feodor (Theodore) III of Russia (In Russian: Фёдор III Алексеевич) (June 9, 1661 - May 7, 1682) was the Tsar of all Russia, during whose short reign (1678-82) the Polish cultural influence in the Kremlin was paramount.
Feodor was the eldest surviving son of Tsar Alexius and Maria Miloslavskaya.
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 Pravda.RU Patriarch Of All Russia Alexis II Winds Up Visit To Belarus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Russia is going to give Ukraine a credit of 200 million dollars for the purchase of fuel and completion of the Rovno and Khmelnitski nuclear power plants, Russia's Vice-Premier Viktor Khristenko said Wednesday following talks with Ukrainian Vice-Premier Oleg Dubina.
Patriarch Alexis II of Moscow and All Russia who is currently touring Belarus, on Tuesday consecrated the church in the corrective labour colony in the town of Mozyr.
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II has travelled to Brest, a fortress on the Belarussian-Polish border, to honour the memory of those who perished while defending it against fascist troops on June 22, 1941.
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 Pravda.RU Patriarch Alexis II completes divine liturgy in honor of St Seraphim
Patriarch Alexis II of Moscow and All Russia served on Friday the Divine Liturgy in the St Seraphim-Diveyevo monastery outside Nizhny Novgorod.
Alexis II, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, consecrated, Wednesday, the rebuilt monastic church of St Seraphim at the town of Sarov near Nizhny Novgorod, Volga area.
Russia, the first volume of the Large Russian Encyclopaedia, will be on sale from March 1, 2004.
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 21ST GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Marie of HESSE-DARMSTADT was born in 1824 in Hesse-Darmstadt - dtr of Duke Louis II.
He was married to Tsarina Ekaterina (Catherine) DOLGORUKOVA Princess Catherine of Russia in 1880 in Russia.
Tsarina Ekaterina (Catherine) DOLGORUKOVA Princess Catherine of Russia was born in 1858.
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 boys clothing: European royalty--Russia Tsarevich Alexis's early years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Alexis because he most commonly wore sailor suits and caps, he had a lot of them.
Alexis' sailor caps were ordered from M.I. Skosyrev.
Russia acquired a charter for the Boy Scouts of America.
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 23RD GENERATION
Tsar Nicholas II of RUSSIA was born on 6 May 1868 in Russia - son of Tsar Alexander III.
He was married to Alexandra of HESSE-DARMSTADT Tsarina of Russia (daughter of Louis IV of HESSE and Alice Maud Mary of ENGLAND Duchess of Saxony) on 26 Nov 1894.
Alexandra of HESSE-DARMSTADT Tsarina of Russia was born on 6 Jun 1872 in Hesse - dtr of Louis IV - aka Alix or Alicky.
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 PDS Russia Religion News April 2000
Alexis II: It is not by chance that Holy Pascha is the chief feast of the Orthodox church.
Alexis II: There is no doubt that the government put an end to the evil design that threatened the integrity of Russia and the peaceful life of its citizens.
Alexis II: The church regrets the victims both among the military and law enforcement personnel and among the Chechens, especially the innocent victims.
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 Pravda.RU Russia counts on becoming observer in OIC: President Putin
He said Russia's participation in the summit was "the right thing to do," as it "created a channel between Russian Moslems and the world's largest international Moslem organization." Putin then proceeded to thank the patriarch for the Russian Orthodox Church's support of the efforts to deepen relations with the OIC.
Russia's 20 million Moslems "have the right to feel they are part of the Moslem world," the president concluded.
Revenues to Russia's consolidated budget from excise taxes on tobacco grew by 11 percent to 13.038bn rubles ($430m) in Russia in the period from January to September 2003 compared to the corresponding period of last year.
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 Alexis, czar of Russia
vich], 1629–76, czar of Russia (1645–76), son and successor of Michael.
Andrusov, Treaty of - Andrusov, Treaty of, 1667, signed by Poland and Russia at the village of Andrusov, Russia...
The last Czar Nicholas II: the heir of Russia's once powerful Romanov dynasty fell victim to bad decisions, bad luck, and the tide of history.(World History) (Junior Scholastic)
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 400 YEARS OF RUSSIAN COINS
Catherine, who ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796, was noted for her great expansion of Russian territory, the great modernization of Russian society and her great exploits with men.
Russia faced a servere coin shortage in 1915 due to the massive hoarding of silver coins.
Russia issued this set of seven circulating commemorative 2 Ruble and a bi-metallic 10 Ruble coin in 2000 to commemorate the 55th anniversary of World War II, or as it is known in Russia: "The Great Patriotic War".
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 Pravda.RU Patriarch of Moscow on Possible Outbreak of Tension in Iraqi Society
Russia is resolved to maintain close co-operation with the European Union and Balkan countries to ensure security on the peninsula.
Russia, according to the UN, is now ranked third in the world for a migration inflow, Russia's State Statistics Committee (Goskomstat) chairman Vladimir Sokolin told reporters.
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II has warned against a grave danger of exploiting believers' feelings for political purposes in the Middle East, for radicalising public forces in the region.
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