The Last Days of the Romanovs | National Geographic
For 300 years the Romanovs ruled Russia as tsars. But as World War I brought Russia to revolution, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were overthrown. During his World Cup tour of Russia, National Geographic reporter Sergey Gordeev visits the Church on the Blood in Yekaterinburg that memorializes the location of their demise.
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Russia's giant cemetery: Severnoye Kladbishche in Rostov-on-Don
Extravagantly detailed murals and full-body sculptures of rumoured former gangsters can be found at a sprawling graveyard the size of 400 football fields. Read the full story:
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Sri Lanka,ශ්රී ලංකා,Ceylon,Nicholas II of Russia,Royal Botanical Gardens,Николай II
Nicholas while he was still a Prince (first in row for the succession to his fathers throne) went on a world tour by ship and by land to see more of the world and the different cultures abroad Russia and Europe. Visiting India and Ceylon, both places being in those days part of the British Empire with Queen Victoria as head of it. Nicholas was one of Queen Victorias grandchildren so it was also a kind of family visit. During his visit to Kandy in 1891 the Crown Prince Nicholas planted this tree and reminds us today the nice trip through Ceylon of this often rather unlucky man. Later during the same journey in Japan, Nicholas has been attacked by a Samurai who hit him on the head with a sword.
Nicholas II (Russian: Николай II, Николай Александрович Романов, tr. Nikolay II, Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov (18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 -- 17 July 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and titular King of Poland.[2] His official short title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias.[3] Like other Russian Emperors he is commonly known by the monarchical title Tsar (though Russia formally ended the Tsardom in 1721). He is known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church and has been referred to as Saint Nicholas the Martyr.
Nicholas II ruled from 1 November 1894 until his enforced abdication on 2 March 1917.[4] His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. Enemies nicknamed him Bloody Nicholas because of the Khodynka Tragedy, the anti-Semitic pogroms, Bloody Sunday, the violent suppression of 1905 Revolution and the subsequent executions of political opponents,.[5]
Under his rule, Russia was humiliatingly defeated in the Russo-Japanese War, which saw the almost total annihilation of the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima. The Anglo-Russian Entente, designed to counter German attempts to gain influence in the Middle East, ended the Great Game between Russia and the United Kingdom. As head of state, Nicholas approved the Russian mobilization of August 1914, which marked the beginning of Russia's involvement in World War I, a war in which 3.3 million Russians were killed.[6] The Imperial Army's severe losses and the High Command's incompetent handling of the war, along with other policies directed by Nicholas during his reign, are often cited as the leading causes of the fall of the Romanov dynasty.[citation needed]
Nicholas II abdicated following the February Revolution of 1917 during which he and his family were imprisoned first in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, then later in the Governor's Mansion in Tobolsk, and finally at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg. In the spring of 1918, Nicholas was handed over to the local Ural soviet by commissar Vasili Yakovlev who was then presented with a written receipt as Nicholas was formally handed over like a parcel.[7] Nicholas II; his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna; his son, Alexei Nikolaevich; his four daughters (Olga Nikolaevna, Tatiana Nikolaevna, Maria Nikolaevna and Anastasia Nikolaevna); the family's medical doctor, Evgeny Botkin; the Emperor's footman, Alexei Trupp; the Empress' maidservant, Anna Demidova; and the family's cook, Ivan Kharitonov were executed in the same room by the Bolsheviks on the night of 16/17 July 1918. This led to the canonization of Nicholas II, his wife the Empress Alexandra and their children as passion bearers, a category used to identify believers who, in imitation of Christ, endured suffering and death at the hands of political enemies, on 15 August 2000[8] by the Russian Orthodox Church within Russia and, in 1981, as martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, located in New York City.[9]
At the time of his death, his net worth was $900 million, which is the inflation adjusted equivalent to $300 billion in 2012 dollars, thus making him one of the richest monarchs in human history.(Wikipedia)
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
Alexei Nikolaevich of the House of Romanov, was the Tsesarevich and heir apparent to the throne of the Russian Empire. He was the youngest child and only son of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. He was born with hemophilia; his mother's reliance on the starets Grigori Rasputin to treat the disease helped bring about the end of the Romanov dynasty. After the February Revolution of 1917, he and his family were sent into internal exile in Tobolsk, Siberia. He was murdered alongside his parents, four sisters, and three retainers during the Russian Civil War by order of the Bolshevik government, though rumors that he had survived persisted until the 2007 discovery of his and one of his sisters' remains. The family was formally interred on 17 July 1998—the eightieth anniversary of the murder—and were canonized as passion bearers by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
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Russia has launched air defence exercises involving units across the country, including those stationed along the Ukrainian border. The drills involve some 12,000 soldiers and hundreds aircraft and anti-aircraft missile systems, the defence ministry said. The maneuvers are scheduled to run until Thursday. Government officials say the military exercises focus on developing a command system in field conditions and setting up military systems in new areas. Some Russian military units were brought to full-combat readiness as part of the test, based on the personal orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Layout torpedo boat 'Komsomolets' (Project 123-bis). Pyshma, Ekaterinburg, Russia. 4K
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We've got a look at another new upcoming Russian boat. This time, a torpedo boat, and it's scoring a post war history. Armed with four 25mm cannons, two torpedo tubes, and eight depth charges. It's also going to be very fast. It'll be interested in seeing it in action as apposed to a video. Other than that, I also rant about Gaijin calling these things ships.
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Russian politician Zhirinovsky funny interview (English subs)
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This video is an interview of Zhirinovsky at newspaper and radio station ''Komsomolskaya pravda''.
This is one of the funniest Zhirinovsky's interview. Mainly because of the fragment of this interview where he spoke about various topical subjects. He actually speaks his mind here, and even uses some inappropriate language. I think, he don't actually care, but it's funny.
2 main subjects of this interview are situation in Syria, and elections for Moscow mayor. He gives his evaluation about them, of course. He also speaks about immigrants problem, and some other subjects.
So have fun, and have a few laughs.
This interview was made on: 31/08/2013.
Abbreviations:
FO - Foreign Office
FSS - Federal Security Service
SECC - State of Emergency Central Committee
CPSU - Communist Party of Soviet Union
UIS -- Union of Independent States
Remarks:
1. In Russia we have an expression, ''these was only flowers, berries will come later''. That means it's like you didn't see anything yet, this was not a big deal, the main events, the real thing will come later.
2. He mentions some unknown politicians, so I addjusted their names so you can easily find it in Google and see their faces or read about them (not that anyone would want to, but just in case).
3. In Russian word ''apple'' is ''yа́bloko''. The party's name is suppose to be YaBL, and if you switch some letters places, it would be ''blyа́'', which doesn't exactly mean ''fuck'', but it's the closest.
4. Alе́shka is diminutive for Alexei. Usually kids are called like this.
5. If you are curious this is the song (1996):
Олег Газманов / Oleg Gazmanov - Москва / Moskau
This is its Youtube name.
6. Poetry:
Eng: Alexander Sergeievich Pushkin - Moscow... what surge that sound can start In every Russian's inmost heart!
Rus: Александр Сергеевич Пушкин - Москва! Как много в этом звуке...
(1823 - 1831)
7. Desemberers are called the people who organized, initiated and participated in revolution in, at that time, Russian Empire on Desember 1905.
8. In Russian, the words ''strange'' and ''shitty'' are very similar. They sound like this: strange - strа́nniy, shitty - srа́niy.
9. Also, the word ''old'' souds kinda similar to ''shitty'' as well - stа́riy.
10. ''Dad'' or ''daddy'' is how people calling Lukashenko in Russian speaking countries. I guess because he is strict like a father can be sometimes.
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FOR TROLLS: Go to hell.
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A l'été 2013, sept inconscients ont relevé le défi du plus long brevet jamais homologué par les Randonneurs Mondiaux : 10500 km, la traversée de la Russie d'Est en Ouest, en vélo et en moins de 46 jours !
Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present) | Wikipedia audio article
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Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present)
00:02:41 1 Background
00:07:06 1.1 Euromaidan and Anti-Maidan
00:09:29 1.2 Russian political actions
00:11:55 2 Crimea
00:12:04 2.1 2014 annexation
00:15:08 2.2 Renewed conflict in 2016
00:16:36 2.3 2018 Kerch Strait incident
00:17:32 3 Donbass
00:19:17 3.1 March–July 2014
00:23:59 3.1.1 Weapons supply
00:28:23 3.2 2014 cross-border artillery shelling
00:29:44 3.3 August 2014 military invasion
00:34:11 3.3.1 Luhansk region
00:36:34 3.3.2 Donetsk region
00:38:24 3.3.3 Mariupol incursion
00:39:33 3.3.4 Result
00:40:25 3.3.5 Reaction
00:48:18 3.4 November 2014 escalation
00:55:55 3.5 2015
01:11:12 3.6 2016
01:11:59 3.7 Details of Russian involvement
01:26:09 3.7.1 Russian medal count
01:28:33 3.7.2 Training facility
01:31:29 3.7.3 Governance
01:32:06 4 Reactions to the Russian invasion in Crimea
01:32:17 4.1 Ukrainian response
01:34:06 4.2 US and NATO military response
01:36:31 4.2.1 Baltic states
01:38:27 4.2.2 Black and Mediterranean Seas
01:39:53 4.2.3 Poland and Romania
01:42:02 4.2.4 Relations with Russia
01:43:14 4.3 Military actions in other countries
01:43:24 4.3.1 Belarus
01:43:46 4.3.2 Turkey
01:44:24 4.4 International diplomatic and economic responses
01:48:47 4.5 Financial markets
01:49:49 5 Reactions to the Russian intervention in Donbass
01:53:03 5.1 Russian protests
01:54:13 5.2 Ukrainian public opinion
01:55:08 5.3 International reaction
01:56:27 6 See also
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In February 2014, Russia made several military incursions into Ukrainian territory. After Euromaidan protests and the fall of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, Russian soldiers without insignias took control of strategic positions and infrastructure within the Ukrainian territory of Crimea. Russia then annexed Crimea after a referendum in which Crimeans voted to join the Russian Federation, according to official results. In April, demonstrations by pro-Russian groups in the Donbass area of Ukraine escalated into an armed conflict between the Ukrainian government and the Russia-backed separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. In August, Russian military vehicles crossed the border in several locations of Donetsk Oblast. The incursion by the Russian military was seen as responsible for the defeat of Ukrainian forces in early September.In November 2014, the Ukrainian military reported intensive movement of troops and equipment from Russia into the separatist-controlled parts of eastern Ukraine. The Associated Press reported 80 unmarked military vehicles on the move in rebel-controlled areas. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission observed convoys of heavy weapons and tanks in DPR-controlled territory without insignia. OSCE monitors further stated they observed vehicles transporting ammunition and soldiers' dead bodies crossing the Russian-Ukrainian border under the guise of humanitarian aid convoys. As of early August 2015, OSCE observed over 21 such vehicles marked with the Russian military code for soldiers killed in action. According to The Moscow Times, Russia has tried to intimidate and silence human rights workers discussing Russian soldiers' deaths in the conflict. OSCE repeatedly reported that its observers were denied access to the areas controlled by combined Russian-separatist forces.The majority of members of the international community and organizations such as Amnesty International have condemned Russia for its actions in post-revolutionary Ukraine, accusing it of breaking international law and violating Ukrainian sovereignty. Many countries implemented economic sanctions against Russia, Russian individuals or companies – to which Russia responded in kind.In October 2015, The Washington Post reported that Russia has redeployed some of its elite units from Ukraine to Syria to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In December 2015, Russia ...