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	Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov (Александр Данилович Меншиков) (1673 – 1729) was a Russian statesman, whose official titles included Generalissimo, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Izhora.
		Menshikov understood perfectly the principles on which Peter's reforms were conducted, and was the right hand of the tsar in all his gigantic undertakings.
		Menshikov was committed to the Petrine system, and he recognized that, if that system were to continue, Catherine was, at that particular time, the only possible candidate.
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		Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov (Александр Данилович Меншиков) (1673 – 1729) was a Russian prince.
		Menshikov was a perfect example of Peter the Great's policy of the "Table of Ranks" where people could gain and advance their position in the society based on their merits before the Emperor.
		Menshikov began his career as a cook and after years of service to the Emperor, and as a loyal friend, Menshikov became known as one of the most powerful nobles in all of Russia.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /a/al/aleksandr_danilovich_menshikov.html (179 words)

	Menshikov, Aleksandr Danilovich, Prince. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Despite his vices, Menshikov proved an able military commander and was created prince and later field marshal.
		Menshikov was successively governor of Schlüsselburg, St. Petersburg, and Estonia.
		Upon Peter’s death (1725), Menshikov helped her to accede to the throne, and he was the real ruler during her reign.
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	Encyclopedia: Prince Aleksandr Menshikov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov (Александр Данилович Меншиков) (1673 –; 1729) was a Russian statesman, whose official titles included Generalissimo, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Izhora.
		Highly appreciated associate and friend of Tsar Peter the Great, he was the most powerful man in Russia for two years following Peter's death.
		While his colleague Tolstoi would have raised Elizabeth Petrovna to the throne, Menshikov set up the youthful Peter II, son of the tsarevich Alexius, with himself as dictator during the prince's minority.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Prince-Aleksandr-Menshikov (865 words)

	AllRefer.com - Menshikov, Aleksandr Danilovich, Prince (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Menshikov, Aleksandr Danilovich, Prince[ulyiksAn´dur dunyE´luvich men´shikuf] Pronunciation Key, 1672?–1729, Russian field marshal and statesman.
		Of lowly origin, he became an intimate companion of Peter I (Peter the Great), and after the death of FranCois Lefort (1699) he was the czar's chief adviser.
		Menshikov was successively governor of SchlUsselburg, St. Petersburg, and Estonia.
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	Catherine I of Russia
		Russian forces captured the city, she was captured and forced to work in the laundry of the regiment which captured her.
		Later she was sent to, and became the mistress of, Prince Aleksandr Menshikov, the best friend of Peter the Great.
		In 1703, while visiting Menshikov at his home, Peter met Marfa, and shortly after he took her as his mistress.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Catherine_I_of_Russia (292 words)

	Battle of Lesnaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He and Menshikov moved quickly to intercept the Swedish force and prevented it from crossing the Sozh River to safety.
		Lewenhaupt was nonplussed; no top-notch Swedish army had yet been defeated by the Russians in eight years of war.
		Menshikov now ordered his cavalry to attack one more time, and routed the Swedes.
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		Menshikov, Aleksandr Danilovich, Prince (1673-1729), Russian soldier and government official.
		Menshikov was closely associated with Peter the Great...
		Alma, Battle of the, major battle of the Crimean War, fought on September 20, 1854.
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	Catherine I of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1703, while visiting Menshikov at his home, Peter met Marfa, and shortly after he took her as his own mistress.
		Peter died (28 January 1725 (Old Style) without naming a successor, which encouraged the guards regiments to proclaim Catherine as the ruler of Russia, giving her the title of Empress.
		The real power, however, lay with her former lover, Menshikov, and with the Supreme Privy Council.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catherine_I_of_Russia (311 words)

	Catherine I of Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Later she was sent to, and became the mistress of, Prince Aleksandr D. Menshikov, the best friend of Peter the Great.
		In 1703, while visiting Menshikov at his home, Peter met Martha, and shortly after he took her as his mistress.
		Peter died in 1725 without naming a successor, encouraging the guards regiments to proclaim her as the ruler of Russia, giving her the title of Empress.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /c/ca/catherine_i_of_russia.html (249 words)

	Menshikov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Knyaz -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Aleksandr Glazunov was one of the last major Russian composers to write orchestral music with a strong Russian flavor.
		Poet and dramatist Aleksandr Blok was the principal representative of Russian symbolism.
		A charismatic, outspoken retired paratroop general, Aleksandr Lebed gained international fame as the broker of a controversial peace in Chechnya and a candidate for the presidency in 1996.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9052045 (651 words)

	Love Mage : Famous Russian women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Prince Christian was not the closest relative to the throne, but his image was the least compromised by foreign entanglements.
		First, Alexandra of Denmark married Edward, Prince of Wales; secondly, William of Denmark was chosen as the new King of the Hellenes, he adopted the name George I; and lastly, King Frederick VII died and was succeeded by Prince Christian under the name Christian IX.
		Once Alexandra was safely married to the Prince of Wales, Louise directed her endless enthusiasm and perseverance, as well as her extended family connections, on attracting the attention of her Romanov cousins.
	www.lovemage.ru /book_09famousRussianwomen.html (13423 words)

	Buells and their Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Prince Carl of Sweden was born in 1861.
		A prince of the house of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, he was elected (1866) prince of Romania, then a Turkish principality.
		She was married to Jerome BONAPARTE King of Westphalia, Prince of Montf in 1807.
	www.familyorigins.com /users/b/u/e/Matthew-J-Buell/FAMO2-0001/d24.htm (1869 words)

	Poltava, Battle of
		As the Swedes attempted to bypass the redoubts,
		Menshikov's troops encircled them and inflicted heavy casualties.
		Fifty to seventy meters from Russian positions the Swedes met a hail of deadly
	www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/P/O/PoltavaBattleof.htm (637 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Hermitage News
		On 15 November, 2002 the ceremony of official opening of the bronze bust of the first St. Petersburg Governor Aleksandr D. Menshikov took place in front of the Menshikov Palace.
		The not-for-profit charity commemorating Aleksandr D. Menshikov was founded in May 1995 in the village of Berezovo, Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Area.
		The Foundation organizes and finances research and publications related to the life and activities of Aleksandr A. Menshikov and Russian history in general.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/11/b2003/hm11_2_85.html (309 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		Image:Asmenshikov.jpg right '''Prince Aleksandr Sergeyevich Menshikov''' (''Александр Сергеевич Меншиков'' in Russian language Russian) (August 26 1787 — May 1 1869, all n.s.
		He became close with Alexander I of Russia Alexander I and accompanied the emperor throughout his campaigns against Napoleon.
		He commanded the Russian army at the Battle of Alma Alma and Battle of Inkerman Inkerman and showed incompetence and lack of military talent.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Aleksandr_Sergeyevich_Menshikov.html (350 words)

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		Menshikov fought in the army of Tsar Alexander I during the...
		Hannibal, Abram Petrovich (1697-1781), Ethiopian prince, Russian general, and great-grandfather of Russian poet Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin.
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	Leningrad
		After Ingria (together with Novgorod) passed into the possession of the grand princes of Moscow in the 15th century, it was quickly lost to Sweden in 1617.
		Peter the Great and a newly constructed Russian fleet assaulted the Swedish fortresses (which were built with the purpose to defend Ingria from Russian invasion) along the Neva during the Second Northern War (1700-1721).
		A provisional government under the premiership of Aleksandr Kerensky was established.
	www.bu.edu /econ/faculty/kyn/newweb/economic_systems/NatIdentity/FSU/Russia/leningrad.htm (2218 words)

	Russia Engages the World - NYPL
		Aleksandr Menshikov (1673–1729), the son of a stable hand who once sold meat pies on the streets of Moscow, became one of Peter’s closest friends and aides, participating in the entire gamut of the tsar’s civil and military activities and rising to the title of prince.
		He had introduced Peter to his second and beloved wife, Catherine, and he engineered her succession to the throne, dominating her entire reign (1725–27).
		1727–30), was at first also under Menshikov’s control, but the prince overplayed his hand, and a competing faction exiled him to Siberia.
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		Menshikov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Prince (1787-1869), Russian military commander.
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		Ivan I Danilovich, called Kalita (“Moneybags”) (1304?-1341), grand prince of Muscovy (1328-1341).
		The grandson of Alexander Nevsky, he initiated the...
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	Poland and the Baltic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There was a complicated system known as the "Seniorate" in place, designed to select one among the local Princes as an overall leader; it proved almost entirely ineffective.
		Title of Duke devolves to the Grand Prince of Lithuania; government of Samogitia under the control of a Zhemaitija or "Elder", elected by Samogitian nobility and under Lithuanian suzereinty.
		The region became a partition Duchy during the era of fragmentation, but unlike other Polish districts, Silesia was absorbed into the Holy Roman Empire, and became a Germanized province up until the nearly the present day.
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	Crimean War, 1853-1856
		Prince Menshikov arrived in Constantinople with a Russian ultimatum
		Tsar Aleksandr saw his first opportunity when in 1870 France was incapacitated by its war with Prussia.
		Chancellor Bismarck suggested a diplomatic compromise, and in 1871 the signatories of the 1856 treaty lifted the restrictions and allowed Russia to fortify Sebastopol and rebuild its Black Sea Fleet.
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	Whether People or Dolls… - Welcome Moldova Magazine
		In 1716, he and his sixteen-year-old son Francesco (architect) arrived in Russia.
		He created the portrait of Peter the Great in armor that still exists, and was known to be the author of the wax busts of tsarina Praskovia Fedorovna (mother of Peter I), Natalia Petrovna (his sister), and Prince Aleksandr Menshikov.
		He also made the wax mask of the Tsar's hayduck Bourgeois famous for his giant height.
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	ARBUZOV
		Subsequently it was said that during the fighting on the Alma, artillery was indeed sent to this point, but supposedly it was turned back along the way by some officer of the general staff, which made it possible for General Bosquet to come around our left flank.
		At the orders of the commander-in-chief, Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov, every night during the whole time were that were standing in this position we lit numerous campfires in the rear of our very small army (about 20,000 men), in the direction of Sevastopol.
		This gave the appearance of a bivouac of our main forces, and these fires could be seen from the enemy steamships and thus mislead them in regard to the size of our force.
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	Battle of Alma
		This force was commanded jointly by Britain and France, with the British Commander being General Lord raglan and the French Commander Marshal Armand Saint-Arnaud.
		There advance was blocked by a Russian Force under the command of Prince Aleksandr Menshikov at the Alma River.
		The British and French Forces attacked the Russians on the Heights overlooking the Alma river, with the British baring most of the fighting.
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	Menshikov, Aleksandr Danilovich, Prince
		), had previously been Menshikov's mistress, and she continued to look out for his interests.
		Menshikov, Aleksandr Danilovich, Prince (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
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