Alexander I of Russia

Borodin was born on October 31, 1833, in St. Petersburg Russia. Borodin grew up in comfortable circumstances, as his father was a Georgian prince and his Mother a army doctor’s wife. He was a child prodigy who was able to play piano, flute, cello, and compose music. From 1850 to 1856 Borodin studied at Medico-Surgical Academy, specializing in chemistry. From 1859 to 1862 he studied in Western Europe before returning to Russia. In Russia he became a chemistry professor at Medico-Surgical…

sighed and said, “Alright, I’ll go.” This was the third time in three days that Dimitri volunteered to go shop-lifting. After Alexander Larson, the Swedish expert in burglary, got arrested in attempt to rob a extortionate restaurant, every Alley-Mugger turned down the offer to purloin a thing in his life. Except for Dimitri, of course. Dimitri Arshavin was born and raised in Russia, where he learned to get in and out of things as fast as one’s legs can carry one. But soon enough, tragedy struck.…

The French Revolution let the “genie out of the bottle.” I believe this statement means multiple things. One theory I have is that it might mean that the French Revolution really brought out many things that no one was expecting. For example, during the French Revolution one man stepped forward and took charge. He was a man of destiny, Napoleon Bonaparte. The people really were expecting someone so grave to step forward and bring along so many new ideas. Including a new banking system to help…

Peter III ruled Russia for six months in 1762 until he was sent to prison where he ended up dying. Throughout his rule, Peter III did not maintain his military or government and as a result, a group of his people formed a coup against him. Catherine the Great took the opportunity to exploit the movement against her husband for her own benefit. She gained the people’s support and began calling herself the sovereign ruler of Russia. She later arrested her husband and forced…

Russia was already irritated with the Continental System commercial restrictions and harbored its own ambitions for expansion into eastern Europe, stood as Napoleon’s biggest barrier to reaching his goals of rule. These conflicting ambitions of France and Russia caused their alliance to sour and In 1812, Napoleon and 600,000 troops of The Grand Army marched in and invaded Russia, causing Russian troops to retreat into the interior of the…

all the details; and in 1825 they got the perfect opportunity. When Alexander I died he had no heirs to the throne, so his brother Konstantin was the next in line. However, years before the death of Alexander, Konstantin resigned his claim to the empire. Yet in November 1825 the people of Russia took an oath to be loyal to Konstantin, thus making him the tsar. He was not willing to be the tsar, and a situation arose where Russia didn’t have a de facto leader. When some believed the situation…

different for the Russians. During World War I, in 1917 there was a major, serious food shortage. Along with that, because of the war, the economy was struggling immensely. The bourgeois were perturbed and in distress at all of the conflicts occurring in Russia. The bourgeois blamed the upper class for their problems and out of indignation initiated a revolution. From this revolution many pieces of literature were created, including the work of Alexander Blok. Blok incorporates a variety of…

Question 1: Many sultans initiated military reforms in the Ottoman Empire through military from the 18th century to the 20th century. As a result, some of them forced to leave the throne or were assassinated. Mahmud II learned from the mistakes of his predecessor, Selim II. For example, he developed an elite army to defeat the Janissary forces that have once been the dominant force in the Ottoman Empire. After getting rid of the Janissaries, Mahmud II began creating diplomatic divisions within…

History.com Staff. “Bloody Sunday Massacre in Russia.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2009, www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bloody-sunday-massacre-in-russia. Russia was under the control of Tsar Nicholas II and they were in a losing war against Japan. That caused violence in St. Petersburg in what became know as the Bloody Sunday. Nicholas fell under the influence of a man called the mad monk, Grigory Rasputin, which caused Nicholas to make many bad choices. The demands for reform…

Europe and have no wars or fights. The Congress was formed because there had been many wars in the past. The Congress of Vienna was made mostly of conservatives, but had some liberals as well. Some of the influential leaders were Czar Alexander I of Russia, King Frederick William III of Prussia, Lord Castlereagh who was the British foreign minister, and Prince Klemens von Metternich who was the Austrian foreign minister. The Congress of Vienna attained peace in Europe by doing a number of…