The Famous Battleship Potemkin Mutiny That Was Immortalized in Eisenstein’s Iconic Film
Immortalized in Sergei Eisenstein’s famous film, the mutiny aboard the Russian warship Potemkin was one of the most iconic moments of the 1905 Revolution.
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Rasputin: Fraud, Mystic, Womanizer, Prophet... Or All of the Above?
Antony Beevor on the Enigmatic Spiritualist Who Enchanted Russian High Society and Changed the Course of History
https://lithub.com/rasputin-fraud-mystic-womanizer-prophet-or-all-of-the-above/
"Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million #NorthCaucasianMuslims fled to the #OttomanEmpire. Some, like the #Circassians, ran from a Russian perpetrated genocide. Others, like #Chechens, #Dagestanis, and others the violence of #RussianColonization."
#EurasianKnot welcomes #VladimirHamedTroyansky to discuss his book #EmpireOfRefugees
https://www.euraknot.org/muslim-refugees-in-the-ottoman-empire/
#OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #colonialViolence #NorthCaucasus #CircassianGenocide #books @histodons @bookstodon @russia
#OnThisDay, 28 April 1730 OS*, Anna Ivanovna is crowned the Empress of the Russian Empire.
The Privy Council picked Anna as she was widowed and childless. They imposed a set of Conditions through which they would control her.
She literally tore them up, and continued her uncle Peter the Great’s modernisation.
Like many Russian rulers, she could be cruel, vindictive and abuse her power.
*Old Style date
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #RussianHistory
