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Western Oblast. Smolensk Governorate ( Russian: Смоленская губерния, romanized : Smolenskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit ( guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR. It existed, with interruptions, between 1708 and 1929. Smolensk Governorate, together with seven other ...
Grigory Potemkin. Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski [c] (October 11 [ O.S. September 30] 1739 [nb 1] – October 16 [ O.S. October 5] 1791) was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman, and favourite of Catherine the Great. He died during negotiations over the Treaty of Jassy, which ended a war with the Ottoman Empire ...
This is a list of governorates of the Russian Empire ( Russian: губерния, pre-1918: губернія, romanized: guberniya) established between the administrative reform of 1708 and the establishment of the Kholm Governorate in 1912 (inclusive). Some of these governorates persisted into the Soviet era (renamed oblasts during the 1920s ...
The first recorded mention in chronicles of the future “shield of Russia”, as Smolensk is often called, goes back to 863. The city, which served as the center of the tribal union of Krivichs ...
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The strategic importance of Smolensk was reaffirmed by Tsar Boris Godunov (1551-1605), who saw it as a bulwark against Poland and undertook a fundamental rebuilding of the city walls between 1595 ...
Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski ( October 11 [ O.S. September 30] 1739 – October 16 [ O.S. October 5] 1791) was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman, and favourite of Catherine the Great. He died during negotiations over the Treaty of Jassy, which ended a war with the Ottoman Empire that he had overseen.
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The Battle of Smolensk was the first major battle of the French invasion of Russia. It took place on 16–18 August 1812 and involved about 45,000 men of the Grande Armée under Emperor Napoleon I against about 30,000 Russian troops under General Barclay de Tolly. Napoleon occupied Smolensk by driving out Prince Pyotr Bagration 's Second Army.
