The earliest extant Petrine Baroque building in Moscow, Menshikov Tower was substantially altered in 1770s.

Church of Saint Theodore also provides the bells for ritual ringing: despite its height, Menshikov Tower does not have bells.

Picture of the Menshikov Tower taken in 1882.

* Menshikov Tower, Church of Archangel Gabriel ( Moscow )

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Architect remains unknown ; similarities with Menshikov Tower suggest the work of Ivan Zarudny.

Grabar's periodization of the Menshikov Tower, Moscow's tallest Petrine Baroque building, has been since contested and revised.

His attribution and periodization of Menshikov Tower is also challenged.

Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building are also part of the museum.

By venturing into the interior of the Crimea, Menshikov would not only keep open his communications with Russia, but would also be in touch with reinforcements from Odessa or Kertch ; moreover, he would be free to operate in the field and threaten the Allied flank.

The remainder of 4th Corps – 10 and 11 Divisions – were also heading towards the Crimea, but Menshikov, under pressure from Nicholas I to strike back at the Allies, decided not to wait for these troops before beginning the attack.

He was famous as a patron of the arts, and also played an important role in the Battle of Poltava where after learning of Peter I's intent to relieve him as acting Hetman of Ukraine and replace him with Alexander Menshikov, he deserted his army and sided with Charles of Sweden.

Using this intelligence, Menshikov launched his main attack on the same position one week later on 5 November in what came to be known as the Battle of Inkerman.

Whether the two of them were lovers is disputed, as Menshikov was already engaged to Darya Arsenyeva, his future wife.

It is clear that Menshikov and Marta formed a lifetime alliance, and it is possible that Menshikov, who was quite jealous of Peter's attentions and knew his tastes, wanted to procure a mistress on whom he could rely.

The station is named after the Rue de Lourmel, named after General Frédéric Henri Le Normand de Lourmel, who was killed at the Battle of Inkerman where the Franco-British armies defeated the Russian armies under Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov during the Crimean War.

Among his many film and TV appearances ( a quite memorable one being NBC's mini-series Peter the Great, portraying the formidable Tsar's lifelong friend and " right hand " Alexander Menshikov, alongside Maximilian Schell ), the Oscar-winning film Cabaret ( 1972 ), in which he played the rich " Baron Maximilian von Heune " is probably the best-known ; other internationally-known performances include his work in The Damned, The McKenzie Break, and Ludwig.

Stratford is accused of encouraging the Turks to reject the compromise agreement during the Menshikov mission.

* 1960 – Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor

* Aleksandr Menshikov, Russian statesman, generalissimo

) between a Russian army of 18, 000 men commanded by the Princes Repnin and Menshikov, and a Swedish force of about 13, 000 men, under the command of General Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, at the village of Lesnaya, located close to the border between the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia ( now the village of Lyasnaya, south-east of Mogilev in Belarus ).

The most important Russian commanders besides Peter were Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov and Boris Sheremetev.

The Russian line was longer than the Swedish line, and the Russian right flank, led by Menshikov, soon flanked the Swedish infantry.

Earlier in the day, Menshikov had left Kourgane Hill and proceeded to view the action on the far left of the Russian army where the French had seemed to be initially, causing a danger.

Before the siege began, the Russian commander Prince Menshikov had evacuated Sevastopol with his field army and left a garrison to defend the city.

During the Great Northern War Russian forces under Alexandr Danilovich Menshikov stood in Gomel.

" Menshikov worked out an agreement with Turkey and the Turks reversed themselves and agreed to the Russian agreement.

In 1981, the restored Menshikov Palace became a new branch of the Hermitage museum, displaying Russian culture of the early 18th century.

The engagement followed the earlier Allied victory in September at the Battle of the Alma, where the Russian General Menshikov had positioned his army in an attempt to stop the Allies progressing south towards their strategic goal.

The Governor-General between 1831 and 1855, Prince Menshikov, sojourned his entire term in St Petersburg, being simultaneously the Russian Minister of Navy.

In 2006, the Russian Channel One aired a new mini-series based on the novel starring Oleg Menshikov as Bender.

Аfter procuring the banishment of Menshikov he drew up a letter purporting to be the last will of the emperor, appointing Catherine Dolgorukova his successor, but shortly afterwards abandoned the nefarious scheme as impracticable, and was one of the first to support the election of Anne of Courland to the throne on condition that she first signed nine " articles of limitation ", which left the supreme power in the hands of the Russian council.

HSH Prince Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov () (, Moscow –, Berezov ) was a Russian statesman, whose official titles included Generalissimus, Prince of the Russian Empire and Duke of Izhora ( Duke of Ingria ), Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Duke of Cosel.

These " Six Supreme dignataries " constituting the initial Supreme Privy Council, namely Alexander Menshikov, Fyodor Apraksin, Gavrila Golovkin, Andrey Osterman, Peter Tolstoy, and Dmitry Galitzine brought about the recognition of Russian Empress Anna Ivanovna for the succession of unfortunate young Tsar-Boy Peter II deceased in 1730 aged 15 and 3 years only as a Tsar, apparently dead from small-pox provided Anna agreed about the Counselling Powers of this so called Supreme Privy Council.

In 1855 Gorchakov was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian forces in the Crimea in place of the disgraced Prince Menshikov.

The church was initially built in 1707 to order of Alexander Menshikov by Ivan Zarudny assisted by Domenico Trezzini, a team of Italian-Swiss craftsmen from Ticino and Freyburg cantons and Russian stonemasons from Kostroma and Yaroslavl.

A great-grandson of Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov, Duke of Ingria, and a cognatic descendant of the Princely House of Galitzine ( another of his great-grandfathers was Prince Michael Golitsyn, the military governor of Åbo during the Russian occupation in the Great Northern War ).

On 13 November 1708, Baturyn was sacked and razed by the Russian army of Alexander Menshikov, and all of its inhabitants were slaughtered.

With the Russian army and its commander Prince Menshikov gone, the defence of Sevastopol was led by Vice Admirals Vladimir Kornilov and Pavel Nakhimov, assisted by Menshikov's chief engineer, Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Totleben.

* The Pokrovsky Gate-starring Oleg Menshikov as a young student who comes to Moscow and finds himself involved in the misfortunes of his fellow apartment tenants.

" Soon, Menshikov was arrested ( 21 September 1727 ); but Peter only fell into the hands of the equally unscrupulous Prince Vasily Lukich Dolgorukov, who carried him away from Petersburg to Moscow.

Menshikov was born on in Moscow.

In 1710 Menshikov was appointed governor of Saint Petersburg and abandoned his Moscow projects, taking most of the craftsmen with him.

Peter and Paul in St. Petersburg and the Menshikov tower in Moscow.