12 interesting facts about the short Tsarist Russia

Time destroys memory - the farther we are from the pre-revolutionary Russian Empire, the harder it is to us to understand what it was. This site contains an interesting collection of disparate facts about Tsarist Russia. < 1.
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Great-nephew of the Swedish King Karl XII's paternal initially brought up as a possible heir to the throne of Sweden. There is historical evidence that in 1751, after learning that the Swedish king was his uncle, the future emperor murmured, "rid me damn Russia, where I feel like a prisoner of the state! Now, if I was left at liberty, the right to be civilized I'm lyudom ».

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Denominations in Imperial Russia: Orthodox - 69.5%, Muslims - 11.1%, Catholics - 9.1%, Jews - 4.2%.

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