This book provides a historical account showing how the League ideal developed from the Amphictyonic League in ancient Greece, through the conceptions of William Penn
, the Abbé St Pierre
, Immanuel Kant
, and Tsar Nicholas II
.
Travel
Violet Trefusis
At the end of a trip through Scandinavia, Leningrad, and Moscow in summer 1936, VT
visited the Empress Alexandra
's boudoir, and read her letters to the Emperor
written in 1914-1916. She criticised...
Timeline
22 January 1905: About 150,000 workers in St Petersburg marched...
National or international item
22 January 1905
About 150,000 workers in St Petersburg marched to the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II
, begging him to ameliorate their intolerable living conditions. Soldiers fired on the crowd, killing hundreds.
15 March 1917: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated the...
National or international item
15 March 1917
Tsar Nicholas II
of Russia abdicated the throne, ending 1,000 years of imperial rule.
“Nicholas II, Czar of Russia”. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online: The Columbia Encyclopedia.
