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Marinka the Witch
Marina Mniszech

Marinka the Witch – Tsaritsa of all Russia

Wednesday, 19 October 2016, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Marina Mniszech was born around 1588 as the daughter of Jadwiga Tarło and Jerzy Mniszech. All we know from her early youth is that she was taught to read and write, as well as singing, dance and embroidery. Around 1604 she met False Dmitriy I, a man who pretended to be the son of Ivan [read more]
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Empresses of All Russia – Catherine II

Monday, 17 October 2016, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
The future Empress Catherine II of Russia was born as Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg as the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst and Princess Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp on 2 May 1729. She arrived in Russia in 1744 as the prospective bride of the future Peter III of Russia. At the time Russia [read more]
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Anna of Russia

Empresses of All Russia – Anna

Monday, 3 October 2016, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
The future empress Anna was born in Moscow as the daughter of Tsar Ivan V and Praskovia Saltykova. Her father was the elder half-brother of Peter the Great, who was his co-ruler as he was considered mentally disabled. She had four other sisters, of which only two others survived to adulthood. Anna was the second [read more]
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Catherine I of Russia

Empresses of All Russia – Catherine I

Monday, 26 September 2016, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 2
The origins of the future Catherine I of Russia are rather obscure. She was probably born as Marta Helena Skowrońska on 15 April 1684. Her parents died of the plague when she was still quite young and she was raised by a pastor, in whose household she was probably a servant. She received little education and could not [read more]
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Maria Grigorievna Skuratova-Belskaya

The Rape of Tsarevna Xenia Borisovna of Russia

Friday, 19 August 2016, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 1
Tsarevna Xenia Borisovna was born in 1582 as the daughter of Tsar Boris Godunov and Maria Grigorievna Skuratova-Belskaya. Her younger brother became Tsar Feodor II of Russia upon the death of their father in 1605. She had several suitors for her hand. Prince Gustav of Sweden arrived in Moscow in 1600, but the engagement was reportedly [read more]
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Replica of the Imperial Crown of Russia arrives in Amsterdam ahead of exhibition

Tuesday, 14 June 2016, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0
Yesterday the replica of the Russian Imperial Crown arrived in Amsterdam on a special transport. It is one of the main pieces of the new Catherine The Great exhibition, which opens to the public this Saturday. This particular model was made in 2012 to celebrate the coronation of Catherine The Great 250 years before. It [read more]

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