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July 3, 2019. ( 2019-07-03) The Last Czars is a six-part English-language docudrama that premiered on Netflix on July 3, 2019. The series follows the reign of Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia's Romanov Dynasty, from his accession to the throne in 1894 to his execution along with the Romanov family in 1918. [ 1][ 2]
Pierre le Grand catches a Spanish captain off guard in his cabin. Engraving by Howard Pyle. Pierre le Grand ( French: Peter the Great) was a French buccaneer supposedly active during the 17th century. He is known to history from only one source, Alexandre Exquemelin 's Buccaneers of America, and thus his historical existence has been questioned.
The Widow of Saint-Pierre. The Widow of Saint-Pierre ( French: La veuve de Saint-Pierre) is a 2000 film by Patrice Leconte with Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil and Emir Kusturica. Loosely inspired by an actual case, it tells the story of a disillusioned army officer whose love for his wife in her efforts to save a convicted murderer leads him ...
Maria Vladimirovna. Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen. This is a list of all reigning monarchs in the history of Russia. The list begins with the semi-legendary prince Rurik of Novgorod, sometime in the mid-9th century, and ends with Nicholas II, who abdicated in 1917, and was executed with his family in 1918. Two dynasties have ruled Russia: the ...
Pierre le Grand. Portrait of Peter I by Godfrey Kneller, 1698. Pierre le Grand ( Peter the Great) is an opéra comique by André Grétry. The libretto, by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, is based on the early life of the Russian tsar Peter the Great. It was first performed in Paris on January 13, 1790, with Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre, known as Madame ...
The Billion Dollar Code is a 2021 German television miniseries starring Björn Freiberg, Seumas F. Sargent and Leonard Scheicher. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Based on true events, the series was developed for Netflix, where it was first aired in October 2021 along with an additional feature story episode.
The Haute Autorité pour la transparence de la vie publique (HATVP, lit. High Authority for the transparency of public life) is an independent French administrative authority created by the law on transparency of public life on 11 October 2013. It replaced the Commission pour la transparence financière de la vie politique (lit.
La Vie de Marianne ( The life of Marianne: or, the adventures of the Countess of ***) is an unfinished novel by Pierre de Marivaux and illustrated by Jakob van der Schley . The novel was written in sections, eleven of which appeared between 1731 and 1745. A Continuation was produced by Madame Riccoboni, but this too is incomplete.