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Russia remained vulnerable to attacks from the Turks and Tatars in the south.
Russia seized the rich agricultural lands of the Ukraine from Poland, constructed the port of Archangelsk to trade by sea with Europe, and began expansion east of the Urals.
Russia also wanted a port on the Baltic, but was it was not until the reign of the ruthless, energetic Peter the Great, that this aim was achieved.
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 Russia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In 1547, at the age of 17, Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible; reigned 1533–84) was crowned czar of all Russia.
Russia thus reached the frontiers of Afghanistan and China and the shores of the Pacific Ocean.
Russia’s reputation suffered internationally, however, in late 2004 when it threw its support behind government candidates in Ukraine and the Georgian region of Abkhazia; in both elections, the candidates Moscow opposed ultimately succeeded despite strong resistance on the part of the existing governments to change.
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 Russia
Anna of Russia Anna Ivanovna (In Russia from 1730 to 1740.
Feodor II of Russia Born in 1605, a group of boyars seized control of Moscow and arrested the tsar.
Lomonosov, Russia Lomonosov (formerly Oranienbaum) is a Oranienbaum).
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 Feodor II of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1605, Moscow) was a tsar of Russia (1605).
Physically robust and passionately beloved by his father, he received the best available education for those days, and from childhood was initiated into all the minutiae of government, besides sitting regularly in the council and receiving the foreign envoys.
He seems also to have been remarkably and precociously intelligent, and the first map of Russia by a native, still preserved, is by his hand.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Russia
The boundaries of Russia are: on the north, the Arctic Ocean; on the west, Sweden, Norway, the Baltic Sea, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Rumania; on the south, the Black Sea, Turkey, Persia, the Caspian Sea; Afghanistan, and China; on the east, the Pacific Ocean.
The greatest increase in the population is given by the region of New Russia, that of the Baltic, and the Province of Moscow.
This marriage was concluded by Paul II and Cardinal Bessarion, and served as the pretext for the tsars to declare themselves heirs of the Byzantine basileis, to take as their arms the two-headed eagle, and to assume the rôle of defenders and champions of the Orthodox Church.
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 Russia -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1547, at the age of 17, Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible; reigned 1533-84) was crowned czar of all Russia.
Alexander was followed by Nicholas II (reigned 1894-1917), the last Russian emperor, a generally incompetent ruler surrounded by a reactionary entourage.
The invasion of Dagestan by Islamic militants from Chechnya in 1999 and a series of terrorist bombings in Russia during Aug.-Sept., 1999, however, led to Russian air raids on Chechnya in Sept., 1999, and a subsequent full-scale ground invasion of the breakaway republic that again devastated its capital and resulted in ongoing guerrilla warfare.
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 Feodor II of Russia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
1605, Moscow) was a (A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)) tsar of (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia (1605).
Physically robust and passionately beloved by his father, he received the best available education for those days, and from childhood was initiated into all the minutiae of government, besides sitting regularly in the (A body serving in an administrative capacity) council and receiving the foreign (A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry) envoys.
He seems also to have been remarkably and precociously intelligent, and the first (A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)) map of Russia by a native, still preserved, is by his hand.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fe/feodor_ii_of_russia1.htm   (368 words)

  
 Destination Russia - The Worlds Gateway to Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Russia's 'cultural capital' tempts the visitor with a unique grandeur beneath its luminous northern sky: broad, tree-lined boulevards, huge public squares, ornate palaces, sparkling cathedral domes, grand facades reflected in the many waterways, graceful bridges.
However, when a century later the Swedish king Magnus II's assault on Novgorod was repulsed, the treaty of Dorpat (1351) forced Novgorod to cede the territory of the Neva to Sweden.
Russia's internal weakness had enabled Sweden to occupy not only the Baltic provinces of Livonia and Estonia, but also eastern Karelia and Ingria (or Ingermanland).
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 Feodor II of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in Moscow in 1589, Tsar Feodor II was the son and sixteen-year-old successor to Boris Godunov.
In June 1605, a group of boyars seized control of Moscow and arrested the tsar.
Feodor and his mother were murdered shortly afterwards.
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 Timeline Russia to 1910
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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 Candid Russia : Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Russia, is certainly still in flux, but some fear that flux may be ingnited in a way which may mimick the Ukraine...
Russia is knows for its hospitality to travellers, and you will encounter traces of it even in Moscow.
Russia is quite a tough country and Russians usually do not hesitate to say what they think in a way that doesn't leave room for any misunderstandings.
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 Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Free Online Library
Dostoyevsky (Dostoevsky), Fyodor (Feodor) Mikhailovich, Russian author, born in Moscow, on the 3oth of October 1821, was the second son of a retired military surgeon of a decayed noble family.
The book electrified the reading public in Russia upon its appearance in 1866, and its fame was confirmed when it appeared in Paris in 1867.
Prince Myshkin returns to Russia and becomes involved in the scheming of the upper classes.
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 Chronology of Russia  
Brother of Yuri III "Grand prince of Vladimir and All Russia".
Resident in Moscow 1341-1353 Simeon (the Proud) 1353-1359 Ivan II (the Meek), brother of Simeon 1359-1389 Dmitrii Ivanovich 1389-1425 Vasily I 1425-1461 Vasiliy II (the Dark) 1462-1505 Ivan III (the Great) 1505-1533 Vasiliy III 1533-1538 Helena Blinski, widow of Vasiliy II.
Emperor, 1721 1725-1727 Catherine I. Widow of Peter I 1727-1730 Peter II (Alexeevich) 1730-1740 Anna (lvanovna) 1740-1741 Anna Leopoldovna.
www.ac.wwu.edu /~stephan/Rulers/chron.russia.html   (201 words)

  
 Russia: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible; reigned 1533–84) was crowned czar of all Russia.
Nicholas II (reigned 1894–1917), the last Russian emperor, a generally incompetent ruler surrounded by a reactionary entourage.
by Islamic militants from Chechnya in 1999 and a series of terrorist bombings in Russia during Aug.–Sept., 1999, however, led to Russian air raids on Chechnya in Sept., 1999, and a subsequent full-scale ground invasion of the breakaway republic that again devastated its capital and resulted in ongoing guerrilla warfare.
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 Exeter International - Level II Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the 14th century, Russia built a circle of six monasteries around the city of Moscow, the first of which was named Danilov.
The mansion was built by Feodor Shehtel in 1910 for the Ryabushinsky family and features a unique "jelly fish" staircase, inlaid parquet floors and a secret Old Believer’s Chapel built into the top floor.
This former school for Russia’s noble children (as well as the best and brightest from other classes), is best known for its most famous student, Alexander Pushkin.
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 Articles - Vasili IV of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Vasili IV of Russia (1552 – September 12, 1612) was the last Rurikid tsar of Russia between 1606 and 1610.
Born knyaz Vasily Vasilievich Shuisky and descended from sovereign princes of Nizhny Novgorod, he was one of the leading boyars of Muscovy during the reigns of Feodor I and Boris Godunov.
It was he who, in obedience to the secret orders of Tsar Boris, went to Uglich to inquire into the cause of the death of Dmitry Ivanovich, the infant son of Ivan the Terrible, who had been murdered there, perchance by the agents of Boris.
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 Russia
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Nicholas II and Alexandra; Anastasia Romanov and Anna Anderson
Russia / Exploring Siberia / The Trans-Siberian Railway
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 Feodor II
Feodor II Feodor II, 1589–1605, czar of Russia (1605).
Boris Godunov - Godunov, Boris, c.1551–1605, czar of Russia (1598–1605).
Soviet takeovers: the role of advisers in Mongolia in the 1920s and in Eastern Europe after World War II.
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 AllRefer.com - Feodor II (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Feodor II (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Feodor II, Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biographies
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 Children of Aleksandr Mikhailovich, Grand Duke of Russia (1866-1933)
Aleksandr III Aleksandrovich, Emperor of All the Russias (1845-1804)
Nikolai I Pavlovich, Emperor of All the Russias (1796-1855)
Petr III Feodorovich, Emperor of All the Russias (1728-1762)
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 1605 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
April 13 - Tsar Boris Godunow dies - Feodor II accedes to the throne
June 1 - Russian troops in Moscow imprison Feodor II and his mother.
July 30 - Pretender Dmitri is crowned tsar Dmitri II
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 SYLLABUS
Geoffrey Hosking, Russia and the Russians, (Harvard Univ Press).
Moscovite Russia under Ivan IV and Time of Troubles
Nicholas I and Alexander II: Crimean War and Reforms
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 Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The members of this family bear the title Grand Duke/Grand Duchess of Russia (Imperial Highness) if children or grandchildren of an emperor, and Prince[ss] of Russia (Highness) if great-grandchildren (or senior agnate of a great-grandson) of an emperor, and Prince[ss] of Russia (Serene Highness) if more distantly descended from an emperor.
Lastly, though few members of the Romanov family ever seem to care about this, they all appear to be dynasts of the old duchy of Holstein-Gottorp, through their ancestor Emperor Peter III, and thus entitled to call themselves Princes of Holstein-Gottorp.
ALEXEI, Tsar and Autocrat of all the Russias 23 Jul 1645 (Moscow 20 Mar 1629-Moscow 30 Jan 1678); m.1st Moscow 26 Jan 1648 Maria Ilyinichna Miloslavskya (1625-Moscow 3 Mar 1699); m.2d Moscow 1 Feb 1671 Natalia Kirilovna Naryshkina (1 Sep 1651-Moscow 4 Feb 1694)
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 Behind the Name: Grand Dukes and Tsars of Russia Chronologically
Behind the Name: Grand Dukes and Tsars of Russia Chronologically
Feodor II Dimitri II Vasili IV Ladislaus IV Michael I
Nicholas II Michael II Home : Namesakes : Grand Dukes and Tsars of Russia
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 Feodor Ii
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