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  Ivan V of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ivan V was the 11th child of Tsar Alexis.
Upon the death of Feodor III of Russia in April 1682, their enemies insinuated that the Naryshkins had Ivan strangled, thus fomenting the Moscow Uprising of 1682, which was put to an end only after Ivan was demonstrated by his relatives to the furious crowd.
Ivan's purported debility didn't prevent him from producing robust offspring in the shape of five daughters, one of which — Anna Ivanovna — would assume the throne in 1730.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ivan_V_of_Russia   (387 words)

  
 Russia - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 1547, at the age of 17, Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible; reigned 1533-84) was crowned czar of all Russia.
Russia did, however, resist the idea of resorting to military intervention in Iraq in order to eliminate weapons of mass destruction, and as the United States pressed in 2003 for a Security Council resolution supporting the use of force, Russia joined France in vowing to veto such a resolution.
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.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-russia.html   (6942 words)

  
 RUSSIA
The Varangians/Russes got to Russia through their technology, the sailing ships that could actually take them to Greenland; but they came to rule the area through forms of large scale political organization that may have been rudimentary compared to Francia and Romania, but were beyond anything seen previously east of Moravia.
Russia would then always be hindered by autocratic government that alternatively smothered dissent and innovation and then, alarmed at the backwardness of the country, attempted to impose top-down reforms and development -- which then would be resisted by a national conservatism that the government in its phase of being threatened by change would have loved.
When Ivan III marries a granddaughter of one of the last of the Palaeologi Emperors, he is in a position to claim the Throne of Constantinople --the city just having fallen to the Ottomans.
www.friesian.com /russia.htm   (8993 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Ivan V (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Ivan V 1666–96, czar of Russia (1682–96), son of Czar Alexis by his first wife.
Ivan was mentally retarded, and on the death of his elder brother, Feodor III, his succession was opposed by the supporters of his half brother, Peter I (Peter the Great).
Ivan's elder daughter, Catherine, was the grandmother of Ivan VI; his younger daughter, Anna, became czarina of Russia in 1730.
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 NCSJ - Russia page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Russia identified strongly with the predominantly Orthodox Serbs, considering the territory of Yugoslavia within its sphere of influence and resented intervention by NATO and UN forces in the region.
Russia is concerned about the spread of Islamic guerilla and terrorist groups that actively seek to overthrow authoritarian governments in the region, especially in Uzbekistan.
Russia, France and Germany were opposed to U.S. pressure for a tougher UN Resolution on arms inspections in Iraq through late 2002 (UN Resolution 1441), and voiced strong opposition the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in early 2003.
www.ncsj.org /Russia.shtml   (10291 words)

  
 Tsar Ivan V
Ivan V, Tsar of Russia, was the son of Tsar Alexius Mikhailovich and his first consort Miloslavzkoya.
Physically and mentally deficient, Ivan was the mere tool of the party in Muscovy who would have kept the children of the Tsar Alexis, by his second consort Natalia Naruishkina, from the throne.
In 1689 the name of Ivan was used as a pretext by Sophia in her attempt to oust Peter from the throne altogether.
www.nndb.com /people/782/000097491   (210 words)

  
 The Terrible Ivan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ivan IV is a sinister and arresting figure in the history of the Russian Middle Ages.
Ivan gathered around him at the Alexandrov Monastery, which became his headquarters and residence, a picked bodyguard of three hundred oprichniks whom he clothed in monk's garb and whom he commanded as abbot.
The grand prince, become a tsar at the coronation of Ivan the Terrible, was customarily the oldest surviving son of the late ruler.
mars.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/russia/lectures/09ivanIV.html   (2584 words)

  
 Russia
Ivan III may be viewed as the first national ruler of Russia.
During the Mongol period, Russia was cut off from Western Europe and did not share in the cultural developments of the Italian Renaissance or the Reformation Period.
The modern history of Russia may be said to have begun with Ivan III, the Great.
faculty.ucc.edu /egh-damerow/russia.htm   (315 words)

  
 Russian Lacquer Box - Ivan V Alekseevich Romanov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ivan V (the fifth) Alekseevich (lived 1666-1696) was the older son of the second tsar of the dynasty of the Romanovs, the late Aleksej Mikhailovich, from his first marriage with Maria Miloslavskaya.
Ivan V had weak health, bad vision and at the age of 27 was paralyzed.
Tsar Ivan V was buried in Archangel Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin.
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 JRL #6558 - Barbie Dolls, Bush/ Russia, NATO, Ivan Denisovich, Pipes/ Solzhenitsyn, TV1 Review, Conant/ Fashion, ...
``Russia is not a threat, and therefore the military strategies of NATO need to be changed to recognize that new reality,'' Bush said, previewing his trip in a round-table interview with eastern European reporters.
The Chechen invasion of Russia is not even mentioned in Time magazine's Nov. 4 story on the Moscow hostage crisis or an accompanying timeline on recent history of the conflict.
The stumbling block, a willingness by Russia to waive civil liability for foreign contractors in the event of an accident during clean-up, was removed in principle by negotiators a few weeks ago.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6558.htm   (10914 words)

  
 Wild Russia-a photo gallery of russian nature reserves and protected areas
Andrey Nechaev was born in 1954 in Russia.
Ivan worked as a scientist at the Darvinsky Zapovednik and now is a businessman in Kostroma.
Laura Williams, Wild Russia's contributing editor, is a free-lance writer and photographer on nature in Russia.
www.wild-russia.org /html/photo.htm   (1371 words)

  
 Russia
The Russian Jewish Congress suggested that the increase in antisemitism in Russia was a result of the increasing number of antisemitic remarks and slogans in the political arena, the indifference of Russian citizens and the reluctance of the authorities to bring antisemites to trial.
The Dvizheniya v podderzhky armii (DPA, Movement in Support of the Army), led by Viktor Ilyukhin and Albert Makashov (who remain KPRF members), is sometimes viewed as the KPRF's extreme wing.
At a convention in February 1999 former prime minister and leader of the liberal Democratic Choice of Russia party, Yegor Gaidar, condemned recent displays of antisemitism by KPRF leaders; the convention was disrupted by neo-Nazi youths who had to be forcibly removed from the hall.
www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive4/russia/russia.htm   (12669 words)

  
 CNN.com - Russia political mystery deepens - Feb. 9, 2004
Ivan Rybkin -- former speaker of Parliament and strong critic of President Vladimir Putin -- went missing on Thursday.
"We have no reasons to believe Ivan Rybkin was abducted or killed at the moment," Russian news agencies quoted a prosecutor's office official as saying.
Rybkin is co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/02/09/russia.rybkin/index.html   (560 words)

  
 Russia
Russia's minorities, including the Jewish population, now face few, if any, obstacles to full participation either in Russian public life or in minority religious and cultural activities.
In his speech Kondratenko is said to have spoken of Russia's history of combatting Jewish domination in media and government, and to have blamed Jews for the war in Chechnya, the downfall of the Communist system and homosexuality in Russia.
On 25 August 1998 concern about rising religious extremism in Russia, as well as manifestations of Nazism and political extremism, was voiced at an interdepartmental conference on combatting fascism and political extremism which was held in the office of the Russian procurator-general.
www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive2/russia/russia.htm   (7320 words)

  
 Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
George III was a member of the Regency Council at the beginning of the reign of Ivan the Terrible, but he was deposed and executed at the behest of Yelena Glinskaya (Ivan's mother), who feared his rights to the throne of Muscovy.
Modern center of Kursk oblast of Russia, roughly 225 miles south of Moscow and an equal distance east of Kiev.
Note well; although the state may fairly be thought to have emerged in 1547 with the coronation of John as Tsar (Caesar) of All the Russias, the Russian Empire per se does not technically commence until the assumption of the titles of Imperator and Autocrat by Peter the Great in 1721.
www.hostkingdom.net /russia.html   (2046 words)

  
 World Wide Web Virtual Library - Russian History Index - Chronological
Tmutarakan', an outlying land: A book of Sergei V. Rjabchikov, an independent expert, on the decipherment of the graffiti of the ancient town Tmutarakan' (Tmutorokan') and on this basis the author offers the interpretation of different aspects of the history and culture of the Old Russia.
Letters from Russia - 1856: Excerpts and illustrations from the book of the same title, which features a series of detailed letters from a British eyewitness to the coronation of Tsar Alexander II of Russia at the Kremlin in Moscow.
Russia in the Age of Enlightenment: Discussion on the developments in Russian history during this era.
vlib.iue.it /hist-russia/chronological.html   (1328 words)

  
 Russia Offers Plan for European Missile Defense
Russian President Vladimir V. Putin presented a plan for a European missile defense program to NATO Secretary-General George Robertson on Tuesday, warning that chances of a renewed Cold War and a new arms race are growing.
     Ivan Safranchuk, an arms control expert at the Center for Policy Studies, a Moscow think tank, said the Russian proposal is more diplomatic than technological.
Russia has antiaircraft systems that can also be used to target incoming missiles, but those systems would not be enough to build a comprehensive missile shield, Safranchuk said.
www.nci.org /bmd/bmd-russia-lat22101.htm   (666 words)

  
 Russia: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty because of the invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet troops on Dec. 27, 1979.
Russia maintained that a political solution was impossible until Islamic militants in Chechnya had been vanquished.
Russia was initially alarmed in 2001 when the U.S. announced its rejection of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, which for 30 years had been viewed as a crucial force in keeping the nuclear arms race under control.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107909.html   (3185 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Ivan VI (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Ivan VI, Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biographies
Ivan VI 1740–64, czar of Russia (1740–41), great-grandson of Ivan V. He was the son of Prince Anthony Ulric of Brunswick-WolfenbUttel and of Anna Leopoldovna.
An infant, he succeeded his great-aunt, Czarina Anna, on the Russian throne under the unpopular regency of his mother.
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 Amazon.com: A History of Russia: Books: Nicholas V. Riasanovsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Reigns of Ivan the Terrible, 1533-84, and of Theodore, 1584-98 16.
So many colorful and unforgettable characters advanced across Russia's historical stage, that any other country would be hard put to come up with such a cast or a saga.
The book also addresses many lesser known topics about Russia's history; such as the diversity of Russia's population, and the affects of Viking invaders from the West and North, and Mongol invaders from the South and East.
www.amazon.com /History-Russia-Nicholas-V-Riasanovsky/dp/0195121791   (2380 words)

  
 Russia Engages the World - NYPL
Peter I, Tsar and Emperor of Russia (1672–1725), and Ivan V, Tsar of Russia (1666–1696) Royal property charter granted for service in the war with the Turkish Sultan and the Crimean Khan Printed and manuscript document, with Safavid Persian silk textile cover
It was issued under the names of Ivan V and the future Peter the Great, half brothers who ruled as co-tsars from 1682 to Ivan’s death in 1696.
From 1682 to 1689, Sofiia (1657–1704), their sister and half sister, respectively, held control of the government and ruled with the aid of her paramour, Prince Vasilii Golitsyn (1643–1714), himself an unsuccessful campaigner against the Crimean Khans.
russia.nypl.org /history3/ref11.html   (179 words)

  
 Rybak-Akimova Research Group - Members - Ivan V. Korendovych
Aida M. Herrera, Ganna V. Kalayda, Jeremy S. Disch, Jeffrey P. Wikstrom, Ivan V. Korendovych, Richard J. Staples, Charles F. Campana, Alexander Y. Nazarenko, Terry E. Haas and Elena V.
Kryatova, Olga P.; Korendovych, Ivan V.; Rybak-Akimova, Elena V. Proton-induced supramolecular dimerization of aminomethylbenzo-15-crown-5 accompanied by a covalent dimerization of cyanoborohydride anion.
Trachevskii, V. V.; Brusilovets, A. I.; Korendovich, I. V.; Bdzhola, V. Ryabokon, I. Reactions of molybdenum(V) oxychloride with diimidophosphenic acid N,N,N',N''-tetrakis(trimethylsily)amide and thiophosphenic acid N,N-bis(trimethylsilyl)amide and N'-tert-butylimide.
ase.tufts.edu /chemistry/rybak/ivan-pub.htm   (609 words)

  
 National Presentation - Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
We invite all the Congress participants to meet us and to share their vision on the future of math education and the role of Russia in it.
The basement of mathematical education were laid down more then 300 years ago and further developed in the context of rich European tradition, Euler, Lobachevsky, and Kolmogorov were among most active figures of this process.
Russia publishes hundreds of first-rank mathematical titles a year.
www.icme-organisers.dk /npRussia   (828 words)

  
 Lamson Library
Reinterpreting Russia : An Annotated Bibliography Of Books On Russia, The Soviet Union, And The Russian Federation, 1991-1996
Elizabeth And Catherine: Empresses Of All The Russias.
Nation And State In Late Imperial Russia : Nationalism And Russification On The Western Frontier, 1863-1914
www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/subjkey/russia   (83 words)

  
 Russia Engages the World - NYPL
Although Russia's encounters with the Muslim world were primarily diplomatic or military, items in this section also reflect commercial and cultural interactions and Russians' continuing romantic fascination with the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and India.
Peter I, Tsar and Emperor of Russia (1672—1725), and Ivan V, Tsar of Russia (1666—1696)
Rossiiskoe posol’stvo v Konstantinopol’, 1776 goda [The Russian Embassy to Constantinople (i.e., Istanbul) in 1776]
russia.nypl.org /checklist8.html   (412 words)

  
 Ivan V Alekseevich
Chronicle of the Russian Tsars: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Russia
This page is intended to give information on specific individuals and descendants of the Romanov Family of Russia, regardless of overlapping in other Royal European houses.
I have tried where possible to provide complete genealogical information as well as interesting links to web sites and books about the individual.
www.geocities.com /siteforromanov/08271666.html   (92 words)

  
 Russia
Governor of the South of Russia and Commander-in-Chief of
In Mar 1919, the 8th communist party congress reinstated the Politburo (Political Bureau) that briefly existed on the eve of the 1917 Bolshevik coup, to provide effective leadership during the revolution.
10 Sep 1721 Formally ceded to Russia by Sweden in Treaty of Nystad.
www.worldstatesmen.org /Russia.htm   (4378 words)

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