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Born April 29, 1686 • Pskov • Russia
Died July 26, 1759 (aged 73) • near Moscow • Russia
Founder Yekaterinburg
Subjects Of Study Russia
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Second False Dmitry
Russian pretender
Pavel Milyukov
Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov
Russian historian and statesman
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Mikhayl Mikhaylovich Shcherbatov
Russian historian
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky
Soviet historian
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Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky
Russian historian
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Sergey Mikhaylovich Solovyov
Russian historian
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Aleksandr Afanasev
Russian historian and scholar
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Claude-Carloman de Rulhière
French historian
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First False Dmitry
Russian pretender
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Vladimir A. Kryuchkov
Soviet politician
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Anatoly Chubais
Russian economist and politician
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Third False Dmitry
Russian pretender
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
prime minister of Soviet Union
President Vladimir Putin speaks at a podium with the Russian coat of arms, with uniformed military personnel standing in formation behind him.
Vladimir Putin
president of Russia
Oil painting of Peter the Great, emperor of Russia, shown from the waist up wearing armor and a sash, with one hand resting on a cane, against a dark background.
Peter I
emperor of Russia
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Nicholas I
tsar of Russia
Alexander I
Alexander I
emperor of Russia
Portrait of Catherine the Great of Russia by Richard Brompton, showing her in regal attire with a jeweled crown and fur-trimmed robe, set in an ornate oval frame.
Catherine the Great
empress of Russia
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary
Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny
Russian lawyer and anti-corruption activist

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