* 1801 – Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman ( b. 1734 )

Through the Polish nobles whom Russia controlled and the Russian Minister to Warsaw, ambassador and Prince Nicholas Repnin, Empress Catherine the Great forced a constitution on the Commonwealth at the so-called Repnin Sejm of 1767, named after ambassador Repnin, who de facto dictated the terms of that Sejm ( and who ordered the capture and exile of some vocal opponents of his policies to Kaluga in Russian Empire., including bishop Józef Andrzej Załuski and others ).

The true power behind the Polish throne was the Russian ambassador Nicholas Repnin and the Russian army, with King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski being a former favourite of the Russian Empress Catherine II.

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* Nicholas Repnin ( 1792 – 1798 )

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Bucharest was twice occupied by Imperial Russian troops during the War of 1768-74 ( initially aided by Pârvu Cantacuzino's anti-Ottoman boyar rebellion, and then stormed by the troops of Nicholas Repnin ); the subsequent Peace of Kucuk Kaynarca was partly negotiated in the city.

After Russian general Nicholas Repnin took the fortress of Izmail in 1770, it was heavily refortified, so as never to be captured again.

The Wedding of Nicholas II and Grand duke | Grand Duchess Alexandra Fyodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) | Alexandra Feodorovna, by Ilya Repin | Ilya Yefimovich Repin, 1894 ( Russian Museum | Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg | St. Petersburg ).

This was because his great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, suggested the nickname of " Nicky ", however it got mixed up with the many Nickys of the Russian Imperial Family (" Nicky " was particularly used to refer to Nicholas II, the last Tsar ) so they changed it to Dickie.

The more severe program of Russification, called " the second period of oppression 1908 – 1917 " by the Finns, was halted on 15 March 1917 by the removal of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II.

By some accounts, in the St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, the title " Grandmaster " was formally conferred by Russian Tsar Nicholas II, who had partially funded the tournament.

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin ( ) ( – ) was a Russian Orthodox Christian and mystic who is perceived as having influenced the latter days of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their only son, Alexei.

" After the paper published an article strongly criticising the monarchy in Russia, the Russian Tsar Nicholas I, an ally of the Prussian monarchy, requested that the Rheinische Zeitung be banned.

Kornilov was critical of the Russian monarchy and, after the overthrow of Czar Nicholas II he was given command of the Petrograd Military District in March 1917.

* 1896 – Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1, 389 people.

* 1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.

Among her children was the last Russian monarch, Emperor Nicholas II, whom she outlived by ten years.

Princess Dagmar and her ill-fated fiance Tsarevich Nicholas. The marriage of Princess Dagmar of Denmark to Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovitch. The Anichkov Palace in 1862. The rise of Slavophile ideology in the Russian Empire led Alexander II of Russia to search for a bride for the heir apparent, Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia, in countries other than the German states that had traditionally provided consorts for the tsars.

Nevertheless, she did not get along well with her daughter-in-law, Alexandra Feodorovna ( the former Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt ), holding her responsible for many of the woes that beset her son Nicholas and the Russian Empire in general.

* The October Manifesto ( 1905 ) issued by Nicholas II, in an effort to cease the 1905 Russian Revolution

* 1874 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter ( d. 1947 )

The last Russian Emperor, Nicholas II ( 1894 – 1917 ), was unable to prevent the events of the Russian Revolution of 1905, triggered by the unsuccessful Russo-Japanese War and the demonstration incident known as Bloody Sunday.

The February Revolution forced Nicholas II to abdicate ; he and his family were imprisoned and later executed during the Russian Civil War.

During the Civil War the commander cadres were trained at the Nicholas General Staff Academy of the Russian Empire, which became the Frunze Military Academy in the 1920s.

World War I prompted a Russian outcry directed at Tsar Nicholas II.

Alexander II, son of Nicholas I, became the next Russian emperor.

After years of controversy, Nicholas II and his family were proclaimed passion-bearers by the Russian Orthodox church in 2000.

While serving as ambassador to Russia in February 1834, Ahmed Pasha presented Tsar Nicholas with a number of gifts, including a jewel-encrusted sword supposedly taken from Constantine XI's corpse.

In 1559, Nicholas Throckmorton, the English ambassador in Paris, alarmed at the Scots ' associations, warned Elizabeth that Elder was " as dangerous for the matters of England as any he knew.

The Conference on Everything gives students an opportunity to present their own research as well as featuring talks from distinguished speakers including Dr Salah Al-Shaikhly, the Iraqi ambassador to the United Kingdom ; Micheal Green, Lucasian Professor and pioneer of string theory ; Julian Huppert, scientist and MP for Cambridge ; David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, and Nicholas Bingham, Senior Investigator at Imperial College London and Visiting Professor of Mathematics at the London School of Economics.

The Duma President Mikhail Rodzyanko, Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna and British ambassador Buchanan joined calls for Alexandra to be removed from influence, but Nicholas still refused to take their advice.

Commentators ranging from Kerensky to French ambassador Maurice Paléologue considered Michael's action as noble and patriotic, but Nicholas was appalled that Michael had " kowtowed to the Constituent Assembly " and called the manifesto " rubbish ".

Throughout its history it was accustomed to the use of arms, a custom which was confirmed in 1292 by an ambassador of Pope Nicholas IV.

Platt was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada to American parents Sheila Maynard, a clinical social worker who worked in Islamabad, and Nicholas Platt, a career diplomat who served as U. S. ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia, and the Philippines.

It was also contended that the statement had been made by Sébastiani with the specific goal of persuading Russia that France did not condemn the intervention — reportedly, Emperor Nicholas normalized relations with France and received its ambassador, the Duke of Trévise, only after hearing news of Sébastiani's speech.

The emperor Nicholas found that his ambassador at Vienna, Baron Meyendorff, was not a sympathetic instrument for carrying out his schemes in the East.

Franz I served as the Austro-Hungarian ambassador at the Court of Tsar Nicholas II in St. Petersburg between 1894 and 1899.

Sir Nicholas Throckmorton ( or Throgmorton ) ( c. 1515 / 1516 – 12 February 1571 ) was an English diplomat and politician, who was an ambassador to France and played a key role in the relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots.

His father was a Russian diplomat, and his maternal grandfather, Arthur Paul Nicholas Cassini, Marquis de Capuzzuchi di Bologna, Count Cassini, was the Russian ambassador to the United States during the administrations of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.