Russian Serf Theatre refers to theatrical productions performed by serfs for their owners. Russian serf theaters dates back from the early to mid eighteenth...
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Catherine the Great (redirect from Russian roots of Catherine the Great)
the Russian Empire. Historians consider her efforts to be a success. According to a census taken from 1754 to 1762, Catherine owned 500,000 serfs. A further...
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Miloš Biković (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
Биковић, Russian: Милош Бикович; born January 13, 1988) is a Serbian and Russian actor and producer. His best known films are box office hits Serf, Serf 2,...
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efforts of Russian explorers, developing into the Russian Empire, which remains the third-largest empire in history. However, with the Russian Revolution...
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novel by Alexander Herzen about a production of the French play in a Russian serf theatre Thieving Magpie (film), 1958 Soviet drama film, based on Herzens's...
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of the serfs who worked on the estates. Style, that varied by rank: The High Born (Russian: ваше высокородие), The High and Well Born (Russian: ваше высокоблагородие)...
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Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova (category Russian serfs)
Kovalyova-Zhemchugova (Russian: Прасковья Ивановна Ковалёва-Жемчугова; July 20, 1768 – February 23, 1803) was a Russian serf actress and soprano opera...
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most notably the 1861 emancipation of all 23 million serfs. From 1721 until 1762, the Russian Empire was ruled by the House of Romanov; its matrilineal...
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Nikolai Sheremetev (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
started to reconstruct his father's theatre: he engaged in special education of serf children, "certain to theatre" (Russian letters, foreign languages, music...
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The Cherry Orchard (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
The Cherry Orchard (Russian: Вишнёвый сад, romanized: Vishnyovyi sad) is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first...
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White movement (redirect from White Russian (Russian Civil War))
Russian Civil War (1917–1923) and that to a lesser extent continued operating as militarized associations of rebels both outside and within Russian borders...
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Dead Souls (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
Souls". In the Russian Empire, before the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, landowners had the right to own serfs to farm their land. Serfs were for most...
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Maria Mironova (category Articles with Russian-language sources (ru))
Mironova (Russian: Мари́я Андре́евна Миро́нова; born 28 May 1973) is a Soviet and Russian actress. She was named People's Artist of Russia in 2020. Was...
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Barbara (singer) (redirect from Monique Andrée Serf)
Monique Andrée Serf (9 June 1930 – 24 November 1997), known as Barbara, was a French singer. She took her stage name from her grandmother, Varvara Brodsky...
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Retrieved 11 September 2012. Serfes, Father Nektarios. "Martyrdom Of Sister Barbara, The New Martyr Of Russia". www.serfes.org. Retrieved 11 September...
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Izhevsk (redirect from Izhevsk, Russia)
Izhevsk (Russian: Иже́вск, IPA: [ɪˈʐɛfsk] ; Udmurt: Ижкар, romanized: Ižkar, or Иж, Iž) is the capital city of Udmurtia, Russia. It is situated along the...
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among heirs. Starting in 1731 landlords were made responsible for their serfs' taxes, which had the effect of tightening their economic bondage further...
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Maly Theatre (Малый театр, literally Small Theatre as opposed to nearby Bolshoi, or Grand, opera theatre) is a theatre in Moscow. Russia, principally...
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The Russian Ground Forces, also known as the Russian Army in English, are the land forces of the Russian Armed Forces. The primary responsibilities of...
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Fortress Theatre was a historic theatre in Moscow in Russia, active from the 1760s to at least 1797. It was the Moscow stage of the famous serf theatre of Pyotr...
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Mikhail Shchepkin (category Russian serfs)
born in the village of Krasnoe, in the Kursk Governorate of the Russian Empire, to a serf family-owned by Count G. S. Volkenshtein. Shchepkin's freedom...
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Olga Briscorn (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
Kursk Saltychikha, was a wealthy Russian landowner and socialite, as well as torturer and serial killer of her own serfs, who operated in the Kursk, Yekaterinoslav...
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"Hollywood". It began in the Russian Empire, widely developed in the Soviet Union and in the years following its dissolution. The Russian film industry would remain...
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The Serf Actress (Russian: Крепостная актриса, romanized: Krepostnaya aktrisa) is a 1963 Soviet musical film directed by Roman Tikhomirov. The film tells...
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Sheremetev (category Articles needing translation from Russian Wikipedia)
of Russian theater Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova, a serf woman belonging to the Sheremetev family, who became an actress in the Sheremetev Serf Theatre...
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Yevgeny Kamzolkin (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
Yevgeny Ivanovich Kamzolkin (Russian: Евгений Иванович Камзолкин; 19 February 1885 – 18 March 1957) was a Russian and Soviet artist-decorator, photographer...
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had a profound impact on Russian culture. During this time, the first Russian university was founded, a library, a theatre, a public museum, as well...
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Alexander Herzen (category Articles containing Russian-language text)
attempted to influence the situation in Russia, contributing to a political climate that led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. He published the important...
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Taras Shevchenko (category Serfs)
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth who became serf peasants, working the land owned by Vasily Engelhardt [uk], a nephew of the Russian statesman Grigory Potemkin. In...
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"Confronting Serfdom in the Age of Revolution: Projects for Serf Reform in the Time of Alexander I". Russian Review. 64 (1): 1–21. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9434.2005...
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