Menshikov hit Washington with a TV announcer's grin and a hearty handclasp.

He later clashed with the mighty Prince Menshikov, was stripped him of his titles and exiled him to the Solovki.

So long as Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov remained in power, Elizabeth was treated with liberality and distinction by the government of her adolescent half-nephew Peter II.

Bodrov got an award for best actor jointly with Menshikov at the Kinotavr cinema festival in Sochi.

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

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

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.

Whilst Menshikov moved east, the Anglo-French-Turkish army, with the British in the vanguard, continued its march towards the southern coast of the peninsula.

At one point, on 25 September near MacKenzie's Farm, Raglan and his staff in front of the British column stumbled across the rear of the retreating Russians ; with the rest of his army strung out behind in hopeless disorder, Menshikov missed a chance to inflict a major reverse on the British.

This division, consisting of the Azovsky, Dnieper, Ukraine and Odessa regiments, along with four batteries of artillery, had arrived from Bessarabia ; by the time the division had reached the Crimea, Menshikov had decided to use them to attack the Allied rear from Chorgun, and march on Balaclava.

Peter the Great raised Ingria to the status of duchy with Prince Menshikov as its first ( and last ) duke.

By 1717, Petrovskaya Sloboda had grown into the largest settlement in Karelia, with about 3, 500 inhabitants, a timber fort, a covered market, and miniature palaces of the Tsar and Menshikov.

While his colleague Peter Tolstoi would have raised Elizabeth Petrovna to the throne, Menshikov set up the youthful Peter II, son of the tsarevich Alexei, with himself as dictator during the prince's minority.

In Beryozovo Menshikov ( with his own hands!

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.

Menshikov commissioned the architects Giovanni Maria Fontana and Gottfried Schädel, who built his residence, the Grand Menshikov Palace from 1710 to 1727 ( not to be confused with Menshikov Palace in Saint Petersburg, built by the same architects around the same time ).

He later studied under and worked together with several Buddhist and non-Buddhist teachers and scholars including Nikolai Konrad, Alexander Piatigorsky, Oktiabrina Volkova, Youri Parfionovich, Lev Menshikov and Lama Bidia Dandaron.

Menshikov tower was Moscow's first building richly adorned with figurative sculpture, but most of it was lost in the 18th century.

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

On his release, in 1714, he returned to Russia, was created a senator, and closely associated himself with the omnipotent favorite, Aleksandr Menshikov.

on 7 May 1853, the Russians sent Prince Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, one their premier statesmen to negotiate a settlement of the issue.

Prince Menshikov called the attention of the Turks to the fact that during the Russo-Turkish War ( 1768 – 1774 ), the Russians had occupied the Turkish controlled provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia on the north bank of the Danube River, but he reminded them that pursuant to the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, however, the Russians had returned these " Danubian provinces " to Ottoman control in exchange for the right to protect the Christian sites in the Holy Land.

But Allied hesitation, first from the French commander-in-chief, Saint-Arnaud, then by Lord Raglan, allowed the dispirited Russians to escape the battlefield in relative order, allowing Menshikov and his army to reach Sevastopol, reorganise and rebuild their morale.

Near the Alma river the allied British, French, and Ottoman armies defeated the Russians under Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov 20 September 1854, see Battle of Alma.

When Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov took it over in 1957 from Georgi Zaroubin, he made a determined effort to change this idea.

Where his predecessors had glowered, Menshikov smiled.

Where they had affected the bleak social style of embalmers' assistants, Menshikov went abroad gorgeous in white tie and tails.

And that Menshikov replied: `` Just call me Mike ''.

* 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.

Afterwards she became part of the household of Prince Alexander Menshikov, who was the best friend of Peter the Great of Russia.

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.

In any case, in 1703, while visiting Menshikov at his home, Peter met Marta, and shortly after that he took her as his own mistress.

She and Darya Menshikova accompanied Peter and Menshikov on their military excursions.

The Dolgorukovs, an ancient boyar family, deeply resented Menshikov.

Menshikov was arrested, stripped of all his honours and properties and exiled to northern Siberia, where he later died in November 1729.

Menshikov moved quickly to intercept Lewenhaupt's force and prevented it from crossing the Sozh River to safety.

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

His partner was Oleg Menshikov, who played contract soldier Alexey Ryapolov.

The matter was arranged between Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov and Count Andrei Osterman ; and on 18 May 1727 Peter II, according to the terms of the forged last will of Catherine I, was proclaimed emperor.

Menshikov, who took possession of Peter II and lodged him in his own palace on the Vasilievsky Island, had intended to marry Peter to his daughter Maria.