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Czarist Russia, a Time of Extravagance and Lavish Brutality in Russian HistoryBeginning with Ivan IV the Terrible in the 1500s, Russian history has seen a cultural struggle between the influences of Asia and Europe. Peter the Great and succeeding Romanov rulers devoted themselves to Europeanizing Russia. Russian music and literature rank among the greatest in the world. The same cannot be said about human rights under the Romanov dynasty or their Communist Party successors.
Even the Communist revolutionaries under Lenin and Stalin escalated industrial revolution in Russia. Their efforts were only partially successful. The Russian Figures are currently in the collections of the Museum of Ventura County, Naples Museum of Art and the artist. The digital photography of the Russian Figures was underwritten by a generous grant from the Smith-Hobson Foundation.
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Patriarch Nikon | Serfs(3) | Stenka Razin | Natalia Narishkina | Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich | Ivan V |
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Tsarevna Sophia Alekseyevna | Peter I 1698 | Eudoxia Lopukhina | Tsarevich Alexis Petrovich | Peter I 1724 | Empress Catherine I |
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Prince Potemkin | Empress Catherine II 1790 | Paul I | Alexander I Pavlovich | Baroness Krudener | Tzar Nicholas I |
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Empress Marie Feodorovna | Alexander II Nikolaevitch | Alexander III | Empress Alexandra Fedorovna | Gregory Rasputin | Tzar Nicholas II |
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