Although critical of the Tsar, General Kornilov felt that Russia, as part of the Triple Entente, was committed to continue the war against the Central Powers, and he shared the widespread belief of some Russians that after the February Revolution the country was descending into anarchy and that military defeat would be disastrous for Russia.

In December, a small group of nobles assassinated Rasputin and in January 1917 the Tsar's uncle, Grand Duke Nicholas, was asked indirectly by Prince Lvov whether he would be prepared to take over the throne from his nephew, Tsar Nicholas II.

Adolf Hitler promised the Bulgarian Tsar Boris III that Bulgaria would receive all the territory she had lost in return for Bulgaria joining the Axis.

The Tsar sent 200 Cossacks under the command of Vasily Tyrkov and Gavriil Pisemsky to construct a fortress on the bank of the Tom River, overlooking what would become the city of Tomsk.

The account of the " Yurovsky Note " indicated that two of the bodies were removed from the main grave and cremated at an undisclosed area in order to further disguise the burials of the Tsar and his retinue, if the remains were discovered by the Whites, since the body count would not be correct.

However, Tsar Nicholas and his ministers were careful to avoid the more extreme demands advocated by Russian nationalists, such as a Russian military occupation of the Straits or annexation of the Danubian principalities, that would risk war with Great Britain and Austria.

However, soon afterwards, in Vienna, Kościuszko learned that the Kingdom of Poland created by the Tsar would be even smaller than the earlier Duchy of Warsaw.

The new Russian Tsar, Peter I, would drastically modernize Russia in the coming years, but the army with which he traveled in 1700 was still poorly drilled.

Works from this period include a piano fantasy based on themes from Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar, an attempt at a string quartet, three songs which would eventually be published in 1908 and the opening movement ( the only one completed ) of his First Piano Concerto.

Her son and Ivan's great-grandson, Ivan VI would be the last Russian emperor among the issue of Maria Miloslavskaya, the first wife of Tsar Alexis.

According to the Fabergé Family tradition, not even the Tsar knew what form they would take: the only stipulation was that each one should contain a surprise.

He supported the Tsar against Napoleon in French invasion of Russia ( 1812 ) arguing that the emancipation of the Jews would lead to laxity in observance.

The war would be decided on the continent, and the major land operations that sealed the swift French victory involved the Ulm Campaign, a large wheeling manoeuvre by the Grande Armée lasting from late August to mid-October that captured an entire Austrian army, and the decisive French victory over a combined Russo-Austrian force under Tsar Alexander I at the Battle of Austerlitz in early December.

After his anointing, the new Tsar would be escorted through the Holy Doors to a small table set near the Holy Table, and there he would be given Holy Communion by the Metropolitan of Moscow in the same manner as priests.

On the night of 21 / 22 July 1807 Canning received intelligence directly from Tilsit ( where Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I of Russia were negotiating a treaty ) which appeared " to rest on good authority " that Napoleon had proposed to the Tsar a great naval combination against Britain, of which Denmark and Portugal would be members.

News of Menshikov's defeat was met with disbelief by Tsar Nicholas I in St. Petersburg – it seemed it would only be a matter of time before Sevastopol fell.

In 1927, a private investigation funded by the Tsarina's brother, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, identified Anderson as Franziska Schanzkowska, a Polish that you would recoil in horror at the thought that this frightful creature could be a daughter of our Tsar.

Tsar Bomba, which produced 97 % of the 50 Mt yield from fusion, was a relatively very clean weapon, as its fusion tamper was made of lead instead of uranium-238, otherwise the yield would have been 100 Megatons, 51 Megatons from fission.

He toured Petrograd, Moscow ( where he was concerned at the food shortages ) and Riga, which he predicted the “ Boches ” would never capture ( they would do so in late 1917 ), and thought that even if Tsar and Tsarina were assassinated-the Tsar was toppled a few weeks after he left-Russia would not make a separate peace.

The Tsar liberally rewarded Chernyayev and his men with medals and bonuses, but regarded the impulsive general as a " loose cannon ", and soon replaced him with General Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman.

Just days after the railway reached Nice in 1864, Tsar Alexander II of Russia visited on a private train, followed soon afterwards by Napoleon III and then Leopold II, the King of the Belgians.

The Tsar told his family that he chose to marry Catherine soon after the death of the Empress because he feared that he would be assassinated and she would be left with nothing.

However, the general stubbornly refused to concede, even sending a telegram to Tsar Nicholas II in Saint Petersburg informing that victory was soon certain.

The Cossacks were much more assertive than the Nogais ( who quickly became vassals to the Tsar ), and they soon replaced the Nogais as the regional rival.

Following Bloody Sunday, Gapon anathematized the Tsar and called upon the workers to take action against the regime, but soon after escaped abroad, where he had close ties with the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.

But soon after, Russian Tsar Alexander I asked Montenegrins to relinquish control of Boka to Austria.

The Tsar could not stand her conservative relatives and soon abandoned her for a German beauty, Anna Mons.

The marriage of tsarevich Alexei Petrovich in Torgau, Poland, without the permission of his father, Tsar Peter I, was thought, apparently an unwilling father in law to the Saxon Princess, to be a trahison to Russia, soon to be punished by death on his son.

Because he had once been elected Tsar of Russia and could realistically lay claim to the Russian throne, King Władysław wanted to continue the war or, because the Polish-Swedish Treaty of Altmark would soon be expiring, ally with the Russians to strike against Sweden.

' Just think how rich they are, how many Pasternaks they have -- as many as there were Pushkins in the Russia of Tsar Nicholas ... Not much has changed.

The army leadership felt they did not have the means to suppress the revolution and Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, abdicated.

Despite contrasting natures and size, the pair got on famously, was the first time a Tsar didn't have a mistress, and produced six children.

This may have been the reason Tsar Alexander III personally crossed off Boris Godunov from the list of proposed pieces for the Imperial Opera in 1888.

Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston (; March 23, 1887, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – September 27, 1967, Paris, France ), was best known for participating in the murder of Grigori Rasputin, the faith healer who was said to have influenced decisions of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna.

The brutal shooting of workers marching to the Tsar with a petition for reform on 9 January 1905 ( known as the " Bloody Sunday "), which set in motion the Revolution of 1905, seems to have pushed Gorky more decisively toward radical solutions.

General Aleksei Brusilov, Michael's commander on the south-eastern front, begged him to tell the Tsar of " the need for immediate and drastic reforms ", but Michael warned him, " I have no influence ... My brother has time and time again had warnings and entreaties of this kind from every quarter.

* Anna Anderson, who may have really believed she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

The initial 100-megaton design plans for the Soviet Tsar Bomba ( the device actually tested was a 50 % scaled-down version ) included the possibility of a salted variant which, if detonated, could have rendered the Northern Hemisphere nearly uninhabitable.

Tsar Alexander III refused to curtail repressive practices and reportedly noted: " But we must never forget that the Jews have crucified our Master and have shed his precious blood.

The Mrnjavčević family may have later supported Serbian Tsar Dušan in his preparations to invade Bosnia, as did other Zachlumian nobles, and fearing punishment, emigrated to the Serbian Empire before the war started.

For decades chess writers have reported that Tsar Nicholas II of Russia conferred the title of " Grandmaster of Chess " upon each of the five finalists at St Petersburg 1914 ( Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Tarrasch and Marshall ), but chess historian Edward Winter has questioned this, stating that the earliest known sources supporting this story were published in 1940 and 1942.

Neumes were developed for musical notation, and as a result several examples of medieval sacred music have survived to this day, among them two stichera composed by Tsar Ivan IV in the 16th century.

Although his initial fondness for her was said to have inspired the trio in the first act of opera A Life for the Tsar ( 1836 ), his naturally sweet disposition coarsened under the constant nagging of his wife and her mother.

The Alliance is conventionally taken to have become defunct along with the Holy Alliance of the three original Continental members with the death of Tsar Alexander I of Russia in 1825.

Alexander's brother-in-law Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, who was there during the assassination attempt, bitterly resented that the Tsar had forgotten his dying wife, Prince Alexander's sister, was also in the Palace and might have been injured in the assassination attempt.

He was alleged to have been a descendant ( through an illegitimate step ) of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia.

Kennan was vehemently against the October Revolution, because he felt the Soviet government lacked the " knowledge, experience, or education to deal successfully with the tremendous problems that have come up for solutions since the overthrow of the Tsar.

Furthermore, Tsar Alexander II's insistence that his daughter be styled " Her Imperial Highness " and have precedence over the then Princess of Wales infuriated Queen Victoria.

The impact energy from the strike is believed to have been some 2 million times that of the largest man-made explosion, that of the Tsar Bomba, a 50 megaton hydrogen device set off by Russia in 1961.

I swear to be true to the Lord, Grand Prince, and his realm, to the young Grand Princes, and to the Grand Princess, and not to maintain silence about any evil that I may know or have heard or may hear which is being contemplated against the Tsar, his realms, the young princes or the Tsaritsa.

Had < sup > 238 </ sup > U been used instead, the yield of the " Tsar Bomba " could have been well-above 100 megatons, and it would have produced nuclear fallout equivalent to one third of the global total that had been produced up to that time.