Catherine I of Russia

the Bolsheviks. In 1914, Nicholas put Russia into World War I. This was a very expensive war and Russia was not in a good state to take on a great defeat. So much went wrong during Nicholas’ time of reign. The people were not happy. Food became scarce, soldiers became exhausted of war. With so many defeats, it was evident that Russia was under danger of destruction with Nicholas as king.…

Lehane Giovanni Quinn (-- removed HTML --) Daughter of Alexander Giovanni and Michaela Quinn, born in Seattle, Washington but raised in a small town just outside of Los Angeles, California by her father. Alexander won custody of Lehane when she was just a baby after Michaela tried to give her up for adoption. Michaela won custody of their 3-year-old son (Grant Gustin). (-- removed HTML --) Alexander filed for divorce shortly after and moved Lehane, and himself to Little Rock, California.…

Ivan the Terrible ruled with extreme violence, whereas Peter the Great had more of a purpose for Russia with his violence. Granted, both Ivan and Peter killed many of their own people, but this is only one of the few similarities between the two. Both Russian rulers were raised under severe conditions. They were abused as children but as adults they gained absolute power. Ivan the Terrible killed people in horrible ways, often because of his anger issues. After his wife’s death in 1560, Ivan’s…

early eighteenth century Russia was a highly controversial leader. On the one hand, he achieved his ultimate goal of making Russia a great European power, however on the other hand he took a path of violence and oppression to get there (“Czap”). Peter the Great was truly a great leader because he modernized by building up the military, integrated Russia into the global economy, and formed a unique Russian identity. His important reforms restructured and strengthened Russia, enabling it to become…

weaken a nation more than strengthen because absolute power corrupted absolutely and wars wage by the monarch puts a heavy burden on the peasant. such example can be seen during the reign of Louis XIV in France ( 1643 - 1715 ) and peter the Great in Russia ( 1682 - 1725 ) when louis xiv taken the throne in 1643 he began to established a solid foothold and prevent anyone being a threat to his throne, he excluded the noble from his council to reduce their power and influence. In return he gave…

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, born in St. Petersburg, Russia on 22 April 1899, was a Russian-American novelist who was also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin. Nabokov originally began writing in Russian and wrote his first nine novels in Russian. However, Nabokov achieved international prominence after he started writing in English. Vladimir's finest novel Lolita is also considered his most controversial work because of the criticism it received due to its deep and warped erotic theme.…

world in Russia and Great Britain from the late 1800's to the early 1900's. In Russia, Fyodor Dostoyevsky used his main character in the novel Crime and Punishment (1866) to explore the psychology of the tsar Nicholas I. The novel Crime and Punishment reflects Dostoyevsky's life experiences of the events happening in Russia. The main character in the book, Raskolnikov, experiences psychological guilt, due to his identity as a murderer, in the way that I think Dostoyevsky imagines Nicholas I…

Russia was not known as a world power through out the duration of the Great War until the battle of Poltava came. The battle of Poltava was the decisive point when Russia became known as a military force. With a little luck and tactical exploitation, Peter the Great was able to overpower and outman the Swedish Army in Poltava. This was important for Russia so they could end a streak of battle losses to prove their military superiority to the rest of Europe. To understand why Peter the Great was…

Alexander II’s reforms changed Russia more than any other events from 1855-1905. The most significant of these reforms The Emancipation of the Serf’s freed the people from the land. Serfdom had long been seen as the symbol of the superannuated Russian system holding Russia back from real progress. The emancipation had some significant advantages for Russia: it created a movable industrial workforce, a better military it changed the structure of Society and it abolished it without Civil War or…

“It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself,” from Peter the Great, shows the sophistication he possessed, and also reflects the attention that he gave to Russia in order to reform it into a better society. Obviously, since he was called Peter “the Great,” he must have influenced history. This is shown through the fact that he was mainly successful in completely overhauling Russia and its economy, government, and society and…