Included in the website is the Directory of US Newspapers in American Libraries , a searchable index to newspapers published in the United States since , which helps researchers identify what titles exist for a specific place and time, and how to access them. February 7, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. His son, Nicholas II, becomes the emperor of Russia.
May 26, The coronation of Nicholas II. January 23, Bloody Sunday; the Russian people lose faith in their Czar. Czar Nicholas is forced to create a constitution and the Duma. March 15, Nicholas II forced to abdicate throne. Senate narrowly fails to convict President Andrew Johnson of the impeachment charges levied against him by the House of Representatives three months earlier. The senators voted 35 guilty and 19 not guilty on the second article of As the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay spread further into Connecticut, they More than any other vehicle, the relatively affordable and efficient Model T was responsible for accelerating The first copies of the classic vampire novel Dracula, by Irish writer Bram Stoker, appear in London bookshops on May 26, A childhood invalid, Stoker grew up to become a football soccer star at Trinity College, Dublin.
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The charges were obviously an attempt by the United States Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, surrenders on May 26, , one of the last Confederate generals to capitulate.
She was reserved and awkward in public. More importantly, she was a German princess and some were suspicious as to where here loyalties lay in the war. Alexandra gained increasing influence over the appointment of ministers to the government.
She was determined that no member of the imperial government should ever be in a sufficiently strong position to challenge the authority of her beloved husband. She appointed less threatening, sometimes incompetent, ministers to replace those who knew how to govern.
As a result, members of the government tended to be increasingly weak and ineffective men. They owed their positions to winning favour with the Tsarina, rather than their ability and effectiveness. This would have been bad enough with Russia at peace, but in wartime, it led inevitably to disaster for the monarchy and for Russia. The imperial family was brought into disrepute as the Tsarina fell under the influence of Grigori Rasputin.
Rasputin was a monk from Siberia. He was rumoured to be a Khlyst, member of an extreme underground sect that had split from the Orthodox Church. He was infamous for his drunkenness and for womanising. However he also gained a reputation as a healer, able to perform amazing feats and miracles. Rasputin came to the attention of the royal family.
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