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1885: The Panjdeh Incident: Russian Empire and Britain Brought to Brink of War

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1885: The Panjdeh Incident: Russian Empire and Britain Brought to Brink of War

On this day in 1885 there was an incident in the area of contact of two great empires – the Russian Empir ...

On this day in 1885 there was an incident in the area of contact of two great empires – the Russian Empire and the British colonial empire. This so-called Panjdeh Incident occurred at a place where th ...

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1867: The Alaska Purchase was Arranged by an Austrian?

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1867: The Alaska Purchase was Arranged by an Austrian?

On this day in 1867, the sale of Russian America (the name for Alaska at that time) to the USA took place ...

On this day in 1867, the sale of Russian America (the name for Alaska at that time) to the USA took place. The so-called Alaska Purchase was actually initiated by the Russians, who wanted to get rid o ...

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1566: German-Slovenian Baron Herberstein – An Early Explorer of Russia

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1566: German-Slovenian Baron Herberstein – An Early Explorer of Russia

Baron Sigismund von Herberstein, one of the earliest and most important Western writers on the situation ...

Baron Sigismund von Herberstein, one of the earliest and most important Western writers on the situation in Russia. He originated from the powerful Austrian Herberstein family, which owned a series of ...

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1801: Russian Emperor Paul I Assassinated in his Bedroom

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1801: Russian Emperor Paul I Assassinated in his Bedroom

Emperor Paul I was the son of the famous empress Catherine the Great and he succeeded her when she died i ...

Emperor Paul I was the son of the famous empress Catherine the Great and he succeeded her when she died in 1796. Russian emperor Paul I was assassinated in St. Petersburg on this day in 1801. More pre ...

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2001: Space Station Mir Deorbited after 5,519 Days around the Earth

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2001: Space Station Mir Deorbited after 5,519 Days around the Earth

On this day in 2001 the Russian space station Mir was taken out of the Earth’s orbit deliberately and in ...

On this day in 2001 the Russian space station Mir was taken out of the Earth’s orbit deliberately and in a controlled manner. Interestingly, the Mir station is the largest man-made celestial body take ...

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1994: Plane Crashes Because of a 16-year-old Boy

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1994: Plane Crashes Because of a 16-year-old Boy

Listening to the flight data recorders from the black box revealed that two unauthorized passengers were ...

Listening to the flight data recorders from the black box revealed that two unauthorized passengers were present in the cockpit – the pilot’s 12-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son. On this day 75 p ...

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1917: Russian Emperor Nicholas II Abdicates in his own Name and in the Name of his Son

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1917: Russian Emperor Nicholas II Abdicates in his own Name and in the Name of his Son

In the document where he declared his abdication, Emperor Nicholas II stressed that he “doesn't want to l ...

In the document where he declared his abdication, Emperor Nicholas II stressed that he “doesn't want to leave his beloved son” (the tsesarevich Alexis, who was only 12 years old at the time and suffer ...

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Did you know Peter the Great allegedly made his wife keep her lover’s severed head in her bedroom?

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Did you know Peter the Great allegedly made his wife keep her lover’s severed head in her bedroom?

The Mons family was one of the many immigrant families who lived in St. Petersburg’s German Quarter durin ...

The Mons family was one of the many immigrant families who lived in St. Petersburg’s German Quarter during the time of Peter the Great. Although they weren’t nobility, the family became involved in th ...

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