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Topic: Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia


  
  Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dmitri Pavlovich's mother, Alexandra Georgievna of Greece was a daughter of George I of Greece and his Queen consort Olga Konstantinovna of Russia.
Dmitri married an American heiress, Audrey Emery, in 1927, procuring for her the insubstantial title of Princess Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya and the style of Serenity from his cousin Cyril for her as the marriage officially was regarded as unequal.
After the War, Dmitri was reburied in the palace chapel on the island of Mainau in Lake Constance in southern Germany as a favour to his sister Marie, as her son Count Lennart Bernadotte owned the property there.
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 Audrey Emery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grand Duke Kiril Vladimirovich of Russia, Dmitri's cousin and the titular Emperor in exile, elevated Audrey to Russian knyaz (princely) rank (rank of nobility, not dynastical) with the usual name Romanovsky and granted her the additional princely name Ilyinsky from Dmitri's one former property in Russia.
Dmitri's position was not such that he was able to deny his wife's wishes.
Due to the lack of ebenbuertigkeit restrictions on otherwise valid marriages, she is regarded as having become a duchess of Schleswig and Holstein-Gottorp through her marriage to a bridegroom who as a younger male member of that house was entitled also to the said titles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Audrey_Emery   (348 words)

  
 JewishEncyclopedia.com - RUSSIA.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
For ethical reasons the leading Jews of Russia were pleased to see their coreligionists eliminated from the retail liquor-trade; yet it was felt that in the execution of the law a more equitable treatment should have been accorded to the Jewish tavern-keepers.
On an average, in the twenty-five governments of Western Russia one-tenth to one-fifth of the Jews are engaged in handicrafts.
In the Interior of Russia: Statistics concerning the Jewish artisans in the governments of the interior of Russia, outside the Pale, are derived from reports of the artisan gilds to the Ministry of the Interior in 1893.
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 Alexander Palace Time Machine - Nicholas I
Russia bungled her way into an unecessary war on her own territory, in the Crimea.
The giant, European superpower image of Russia Nicholas had so carefully crafted could not be supported by the country's lack of basic infrastructure such as roads and railways.
As long as serfdom and autocracy survived these two millstones around Russia's neck would hold the country back from prosperity she deserved and hence deprive the nation of botgh internal and external security.
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 Alexander Palace Time Machine - Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich
Dmitri Pavlovich was one of the few Romanov Grand Dukes to survive the Revolution.
Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia, was born in 1891, the only son of Princess Alexandra of Greece and Grand Duke Paul (or Pavl) Alexandrovich.
Dmitri's father, the kindly Grand Duke Paul, was often absent during his son's childhood, due to the afore mentioned matrimonial difficulties.
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 Timeline Russia to 1910   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Russia in 1997 had 49 regions of ethnic Russians, 6 frontier territories, 11 autonomous districts, the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg and 20 republics populated by ethnically distinct minorities.
The alliance of Russia, Austria and Prussia was formed after the downfall of Napoleon and later all European rulers signed the agreement except the prince regent of Great Britain, the pope and the sultan of Turkey.
1828 Russia conquered the Armenian provinces of Persia, and this brought within her frontier the Monastery of Etchmiadzin, in the Khanate of Erivan, which was the seat of the Katholikos of All the Armenians.
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 SparkNotes: The Brothers Karamazov: Author’s Note & Book I: A Nice Little Family, Chapters 1–5
Dmitri is then passed around among a number of his mother’s relatives, including her cousin Pyotr Alexandrovich Miusov.
Dmitri, stunned, quickly concludes that his father is attempting to cheat him, and he remains in the town to fight what he believes is his father’s unwillingness to hand over the fortune that is rightfully Dmitri’s.
Dmitri has become embroiled with their father in a conflict over the inheritance, and it is finally arranged that the two parties will have a discussion in Zosima’s cell, where the presence of the influential monk might help them resolve their differences.
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 My Family
Alexander III Alexandrovich ROMANOV (Tsar of Russia) was born in 1845.
Dmitri Pavlovich ROMANOV Grand Duke was born in 1891.
Nicholas I ROMANOV (Tsar of Russia) was born in 1796.
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 thePeerage.com - Dimitrii Pavlovich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia and others
     Dimitrii Pavlovich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia was born on 18 September 1891 [6 Sep 1891] in Ilyinskoye, Russia.
She was the daughter of Aleksandr Mikhailovich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia and Kseniya Aleksandrovna Romanov, Grand Duchess of Russia.
She married Andrei Aleksandrovich Romanov, Prince of Russia, son of Aleksandr Mikhailovich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia and Kseniya Aleksandrovna Romanov, Grand Duchess of Russia, on 12 June 1918 in Yalta, Crimea, Russia.
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 Paul Ilyinsky descended from Russia's Romanovs
Paul Romanov Ilyinsky, great-grandson of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and a cousin of the last ruling tsar, Nicholas II, died in his sleep Monday at his home in Palm Beach, Fla. The former Cincinnati resident was 75.
Ilyinsky was the son of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov and Cincinnati heiress Audrey Emery.
Pavlovich was banished by his cousin, the tsar, to an Army unit in Persia after helping plan the assassination of Grigory Rasputin in 1916.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/02/13/loc_o.ilyinsky.html   (449 words)

  
 Drew Spencer Family Tree - aqwg133
Maria Pavlovna Romanov was born 1890 and died 1958.
Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov Grand Duke was born 1891 and died 1941.
Helen Vladimirovna Of Russia Romanov Grand Duchess [Parents] was born 1882.
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 ASP: World Beat : Astronomy on the Banks of the Baikal
Located near famous Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia, Russia, Irkutsk is a city of about 600,000 people and a large cultural and scientific center with several universities and research institutes.
Although Russia is an open country now, we cannot afford ordering the materials from overseas since our education programs are inadequately financed.
Despite these difficulties, Russia is one of the few countries where astronomy is learned as a subject like physics or chemistry or history.
www.astrosociety.org /pubs/mercury/9901/siberia.html   (1328 words)

  
 NovelGuide: The Brothers Karamazov: Novel Summary: Author Note and Part I Book I - A Nice Little Family (Chapters 1-5)
When their son, Dmitri, is three, she runs away with a penniless seminarian, leaving Dmitri with his father.
Fyodor Pavlovich’s request to elope with him — mainly because she is desperate to escape the cranky guardian.
But Fyodor Pavlovich has forgotten where his second wife was buried, and refers to her only as the “shrieker.” It is left to Grigory, who set up a marker on Sofia Ivanovna’s grave at his own expense, to show Alyosha where she lies buried.
www.novelguide.com /TheBrothersKaramazov/novelsummary.html   (2204 words)

  
 Bolshevik Encyclopedia Articles @ 216.92.11.26 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seized power in Russia in 1917 in an event known as the October Revolution.
Although the Bolsheviks were not completely monolithic, they were characterized by a rigid adherence to the leadership of the central committee, based on the notion of democratic centralism.
Lenin opposed this line in his April Theses and the Bolsheviks became opponents of the government with propaganda slogans of "All Power to Soviets" and "Bread, Peace and Land" which attempted to appeal to the urban working class, soldiers, and to Russia's huge, primarily uneducated peasant population.
216.92.11.26 /encyclopedia/Bolshevik   (2424 words)

  
 Alexander Palace Time Machine - Alexander I
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.
The longer he used this method of ruling Russia, the more difficult he bagan for him to return to the principals of good government and the role of the monarch he had learned in his youth.
He was troubled by the loss of life and the war itself, which he saw as a not only a battle between nations, but also a spiritual battle between the forces of good and evil.
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 Russia Subjects
The Russia List says that the leaders of Chita region and Aga Buryat autonomous province have initiated the merger process, that it is progressing quickly, and the merger may be complete by the end of 2006.
Russia is the largest country in the world in area.
Russia is divided into one avtonomnaya oblast' (autonomous region); nine avtonomnyy okrug (autonomous province); two gorod ([federal] cities); seven kray (territory); 48 oblast' (region); and 21 respublika (republic).
www.statoids.com /uru.html   (4337 words)

  
 Russia.htm
Northern part of Russia was using silver and gold coins of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
Ivan II 1353-59 CE Russia experienced a coin less period between 12th to 14th century by reverting to barter system and using silver ingots (Kievan grivnas).
Ivan IV introduced a unified coinage for all of the Russia in 1534 CE based on the kopek (1 ruble = 100 kopek).
www.worldcoincatalog.com /C5/Russia/Russia.htm   (829 words)

  
 [ information-center.be | Grand_Duke_Paul_Alexandrovich_of_Russia Resources ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (Павел Александрович) (October 3, 1860 N.S.–January 24, 1919 N.S.) was the eighth child of Tsar Alexander II of Russia by his first wife Maria Alexandrovna of Hesse.
In 1893, the young widower became close to a commoner, Olga Valerianovna Karnovich, and years later requested Nicholas II's permission to marry her, but it was refused, and the couple settled in Paris.
Paul was dismissed of his military commissions, all his properties were seized, and his brother Grand Duke Sergei was appointed guardian of Maria and Dmitri.
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 Korolev
In Russia, GIRD was launching the Soviet Union’s first liquid-propelled rockets, the GIRD-9 and GIRD-10.
Russia's succession of Sputnik and Luna launches, combined with the bellicose claims of Khrushchev, created the public impression that Russia was far ahead of the United States in the fielding of unstoppable ICBM's and space weapons.
Work had begun on this already in Germany but the initial challenge in Russia was that the technical documentation was somehow still 'in transit' from the Zentralwerke.
www.astronautix.com /astros/korolev.htm   (20459 words)

  
 Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace peee.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace is a Neo-Baroque palace at the intersection of the Fontanka River and Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Tourists are told that Kochubey wished her palace to rival the Rastrelli esque Stroganov Palace across the street and engaged Andreas Stackensneider and David Jensen to produce a replica of it.
Upon Sergei's assassination in 1905, his widow Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna took the veil and presented the palace to her nephew, Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia.
www.peee.org /en/Congres+national+des+Canadiens-Francais   (299 words)

  
 "Vyso Normalno"—in Russia by Jonathan Brent
None were more realistic and sober than those of my Virgil through the labyrinth of the formerly secret Soviet archives, Vladimir Pavlovich Naumov, a historian and leading researcher for the Presidential Commission on the rehabilitation of all those wrongfully arrested, shot, tortured, or otherwise condemned during Stalin’s rule.
He points out that the only way for Russia to get beyond its past is to acknowledge it, face it openly, and grieve for all the wreckage Communism wrought.
She pointed under a tall spruce at a bright, lithium red mushroom; beside it, like a twin, was another that glowed orange like a harvest moon.
www.newcriterion.com /archive/17/nov98/brent.htm   (5261 words)

  
 The Ultimate Grand Duke Cyril of Russia Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch of Russia, Kirill Vladimirovitch Romanov (Кири́лл Влади́мирович Рома́нов;) (October 12 (N.S. —October 12, 1938) was the Head of the Imperial Family of Russia and Titular Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias from 1924 until his death.
His Imperial Highness The Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch of Russia was born in 1876, the son of HIH Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovitch of Russia (22 April, 1847 - 17 February, 1909) and HIH Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna née HH Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
His first cousins included (among others) Alexander Romanov, Nicholas II of Russia, Xenia, Grand Duchess of Russia, Grand Duke Michael of Russia, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, Princess Marie of Edinburgh, Princess Victoria of Edinburgh, Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh, Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov.
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 Dmitri Mendeleev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk, Siberia, to Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev and Maria Dmitrievna Mendeleeva (nee Kornilieva).
A prominent Mendeleev biographer has concluded that he was the 13th surviving child of 17 total, but the exact number differs among sources.
Mendeleev crater on the Moon, as well as element number 101, the radioactive mendelevium, are named after him.
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 Olga Konstantinovna of Russia
Olga Konstantinovna of Russia (in Russian Великая Княжна Ольга Константиновна) (3 September 1851 - 18 June 1926), born Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, was the queen consort of King George I of Greece and in 1920, Regent of Greece.
A granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and cousin of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and Tsar Nicholas II, Olga was the daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia and Alexandra Iosifovna, a Princess of Saxe-Altenberg.
Alexandra (1870-1891), married Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (son of Alexander II of Russia).
mlahanas.de /Greece/History/Portraits/OlgaKonstantinovnaOfRussia.html   (274 words)

  
 TPQ OnLine - The Vulture and the Mother
Dmitri felt that Tatiana might fill a maternal void that could be present in Zina's life since her own mother died when she was only six years old.
Dmitri caught it, untied the cord used to hold the letters together, and looked at the six pieces of mail.
Dmitri realized that much more time had to be allotted for the project in lieu of this priceless information.
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 The Fate of the Romanovs: The Survivors
She was permitted to leave Russia with her lady-in-waiting and maid through the intervention of the Danish government in December 1918.
The Grand Duchess Marie, known as the "grandest of the grand duchesses" had refused to leave Russia on any ship that was going to dock in Constantinople for fear that she would be subjected to the indignity of delousing.
With the departure of the Grand Duchess Marie and her son in February 1920, the Romanov family which had ruled Russia since 1613 was decisively removed from a position of world influence and importance.
www.angelfire.com /pa/ImperialRussian/royalty/russia/survivor.html   (3978 words)

  
 TASK FORCE RUSSIA -- BIWEEKLY REPORT 18-31 JULY 1992 2ND REPORT
This second report by Task Force Russia to the US-Russian Joint Commission on POW/MIAs consists of a detailed examination of the activities of the Task Force's Moscow Office from May, 1992 to July, 1992.
On 1 Jul 92, at the suggestion of Pugantsev, Vladimir BAGEYEV, a timber worker from near Elista, Kalmykia, Russia, was interviewed in his home in Kalmykia by Al Graham and Gary Tabach in the presence of Valentin PARKHOMENKO, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and COL Viktor Vasilyevich BORISENKO, MVD Chief for Elista.
She said that the records are still in the Kremlin, that the fond is controlled by the President of Russia, and that General Volkoganov knows the status of the fond.
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