Peter I was succeeded by his second wife ( Catherine I, 1725 – 1728 ) who was merely a figure-head for a powerful group of high officials, then by his minor grandson ( Peter II, 1728 – 1730 ), then by his niece, Anna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V. In 1741 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, seized the throne, assisted by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

On 10 July 1929, Radek alongside other oppositionists Ivar Smilga and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, signed a document capitulating to Stalin., with Radek being held in particular disdain by oppositionist circles for his betrayal of Yakov Blumkin, who had been carrying a secret letter from Trotsky, in exile in Turkey, to Radek.

In 1900, 200 years after the battle of Narva, the Preobrazhensky and Semyonovsky regiments initiated the construction of a memorial to the Russian soldiers who had fallen in the battle of Narva.

The real life prototype for Professor Preobrazhensky was possibly Russo-French surgeon Serge Voronoff who was famous for his experiments on implanting humans with animal's testicles and thyroid glands

The relationship between Grand Duke Sergei and his nephew, who had served under his command in the Preobrazhensky Life Guard Regiment, was close and became stronger with Nicholas II ’ s marriage to Princess Alix of Hesse, the youngest sister of Sergei ’ s wife.

He later served in the Preobrazhensky Life Guards, according to his father ’ s and uncles ’ wishes, but military life was not to his liking, and he soon resigned his commission, having reached only the lowly rank of praporshchik ( often translated as “ ensign ”).

Preobrazhensky ( pictured ) was a leading figure of the Central Committee in the 1920s, but was killed during the Purge

At the age of fourteen, Vorontsov was appointed a kammerjunker at the court of the tsesarevna Yelizaveta Petrovna, whom he materially assisted during the famous coup d ' etat of December 6, 1741, when she mounted the Russian throne on the shoulders of the Preobrazhensky Grenadiers.

Yevgeni Alekseyevich Preobrazhensky () ( 3 February 188613 July 1937 ) was an Old Bolshevik, an economist and a member of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik faction and, its successor, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

In 1906 he was transferred to the Preobrazhensky Regiment, an elite guards regiment.

The story was filmed in Italian in 1976 as " Cuore di cane " and starred Max von Sydow as Preobrazhensky.

He had left written instructions that he was to be buried in the Preobrazhensky Lifeguard regiment uniform, but as his body was so badly mutilated this proved impossible.

Apart from Stalin, the most influential theorist of the law of value in the 20th century was Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, even although he was in the end put to death by Stalin, in 1937.

Another historical account claims that Ukraintsev was also forced to make mantles and 1400 hats for the Preobrazhensky and Semyonovsky regiments.

The Preobrazhensky Regiment (), was one of the oldest and elite regiments of the Russian army.

This colour was given to the Regiment in order to celebrate its action at Kulm, where the outnumbered Preobrazhensky regiment withstood the charge of French troops.

However, its basic theses can be found in such popular outlines of Communist theory as The ABC's of Communism, which sought to explain the program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, by Yevgeni Preobrazhensky and Nikolai Bukharin ( 1888 – 1938 ).

In March 1774 he became Lieutenant-Colonel in the Preobrazhensky Guards, a post previously held by Alexei Orlov.

There are also religious buildings on the monastery's grounds ( the principal ones are interconnected with roofed and arched passages ), surrounded by multiple household buildings and living quarters, including a refectory ( a 500 m² chamber ) with the Uspensky Cathedral ( built in 1552-1557 ), Preobrazhensky Cathedral ( 1556 – 1564 ), Church of Annunciation ( 1596 – 1601 ), stone chambers ( 1615 ), watermill ( early 17th century ), bell tower ( 1777 ), and Church of Nicholas ( 1834 ).

On January 15, 1882, his brother Alexander III appointed him Commander of the 1st Battalion Preobrazhensky Life Guard Regiment, the elite regiment, founded by Peter the Great, with the rank of Colonel.

This recalled an idea by Nikolai Bukharin and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky in The ABC of Communism ( 1920 ):

For instance, Bukharin, Zinoviev, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky and Georgy Pyatakov were all rehabilitated.

He authored Imperialism and World Economy ( 1918 ), The ABC of Communism ( 1919. co-authored with Yevgeni Preobrazhensky ), and Historical Materialism ( 1921 ) among others.

The guards repaid her kindness when on the night of 25 November 1741, Elizabeth seized power with the help of the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

Sitting: Leonid Serebryakov, Karl Radek, Leon Trotsky, Mikhail Boguslavsky, and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky.

Young Mussorgsky as a cadet in the Preobrazhensky Regiment of the Imperial Guard.

Following family tradition he received a commission with the Preobrazhensky Regiment, the foremost regiment of the Russian Imperial Guard.

The Preobrazhensky and Izmailovsky regiments of Imperial Guards replaced the strel ' tsy as the tsar's bodyguards.

The Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky regiments of Imperial Guards replaced the streltsy as the tsar's bodyguards.

In such a situation, in May 1922, Tikhon commissioned Archbishop Agathangel ( Preobrazhensky ) of Yaroslavl to carry out patriarchal duties.

Equestrian portrait of Catherine in the Preobrazhensky Regiment's uniform.

* Yevgeni Preobrazhensky ( 1886 – 1937 ), the economic theoretician of the Left Opposition, the author of The New Economics.

Preobrazhensky (), Preobrazhenskaya ( feminine ), or Preobrazhenskoye ( neuter ), lit.

During this time period, the regent disregarded the young tsar, letting him train his Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky Guards in Preobrazhenskoe.

Both his father and grandfather had served in the Russian military as officers in the elite Preobrazhensky Lifeguard regiment.

Marxists he admired – apart from Marx himself – were Rosa Luxemburg and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky.

Born in St. Petersburg to the family of a sergeant in the Preobrazhensky Guards regiment, Martynov graduated from the St Petersburg Academy of Art in 1788.

A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.

For example, there are persons who are in physical science, in the field of mineralogy, trained in crystallography, who use only X-rays, applying only the powder technique of X-ray diffraction, to clay minerals only, and who have spent the last fifteen years concentrating on the montmorillonites ; ;

His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork.

He spent concentrated weeks putting his two figures together: a Mary who would be young and sensitive, yet strong enough to hold her son on her lap ; ;

Too much damage is done by `` experts '' who have spent even less time, if any at all, in the U.S.S.R..

Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, 60, who has spent 25 years in the Dwight reformatory for women for the murder in 1935 of her son-in-law, Ervin Lang, then 28, appealed for a parole at a hearing yesterday before two Illinois pardon and parole board members, John M. Bookwalter and Joseph Carpentier.

Some of the New York Philharmonic musicians who live in the suburbs spent yesterday morning digging themselves free from snow.

Today, he looked like an Astronaut who had left his vitamin pills on the bureau and spent six months in space: hollow eyes, hollow cheeks, hollow stomach.

He was raised for a career in the Church and spent some time at the court of Hermann IV of Hesse, Elector of Cologne, who appointed him canon of the Cologne Cathedral.

He was the son of Satyrus and Stratocleia, and was a native of Pleuron in Aetolia, although he spent the greater part of his life at Alexandria, where he was reckoned one of the seven tragic poets who constituted the Tragic Pleiad.

Then to gain entrance to both the outer and inner sanctuary of the church the women pretended to the gatekeepers that they were pilgrims from Cappadocia who had spent all their funds and wanted to worship before starting their return trip.

He spent his early childhood like other Arab children of the time among the Bedouins who called themselves Ahl-i-Ba ' eer-the people of the camel, and developed a particular fondness for camels.

Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.

Antonio Salieri ( 18 August 17507 May 1825 ) was a classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy.

In some Roman Catholic countries such as Italy there have been religious influences, especially from missionaries who have spent a long time in the Third World ( the most famous being Alex Zanotelli ).

From the end of 1888, the Amir spent eighteen months in his northern provinces bordering upon the Oxus, where he was engaged in pacifying the country that had been disturbed by revolts, and in punishing with a heavy hand all who were known or suspected to have taken any part in rebellion.

After escaping from the hands of Kunz von Kaufungen, who had abducted him together with his brother Ernest, he spent some time at the court of the emperor Frederick III in Vienna.

That such people have spent so much of their time thinking about who?

Watterson, who drew his first cartoon at age eight, spent much time in childhood alone, drawing and cartooning.

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

The chosen name, " Ravens ," alludes to the famous poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore, and is also buried there .< ref >

' He spent a good deal of time with Akhmatova -- who in those years was given a very wide berth by most of the people who knew her.