RussianPrussia refers to two periods in the history of Prussia. Since 1991 RussianPrussia has been a synonym for Kaliningrad Oblast. During the Seven...
entry into World War I, East Prussia became a theatre of war when the Russian Empire invaded the country. The Imperial Russian Army encountered at first...
Prussia (/ˈprʌʃə/, German: Preußen, German: [ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain...
The Kingdom of Prussia (German: Königreich Preußen, pronounced [ˈkøːnɪkʁaɪç ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918....
Napoleon and Russian Emperor Alexander I, when they met on a raft in the middle of the Neman river. The second was signed with Prussia on 9 July. The...
Headship of the Imperial Family of Russia. He is the only child of Maria and her former husband, Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia. George's mother attributes...
The monarchs of Prussia were members of the House of Hohenzollern who were the hereditary rulers of the former German state of Prussia from its founding...
(German: Friedrich Wilhelm III.; 3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector...
the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing...
Commonwealth, in the presence of the Russian forces, agreed to Russian territorial demands. In the Second Partition, Russia and Prussia helped themselves to enough...
1829 to 1878. Prussia was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1829 from the provinces of East Prussia and West Prussia, and was dissolved...
[citation needed] With the Russian army following up victory over Napoleon in 1812, the Sixth Coalition was formed with Russia, Prussia, Great Britain, Sweden...
major powers in international diplomacy. The Kingdom of Prussia, and the Austrian and Russian Empires, formed the Holy Alliance on 26 September 1815,...
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, grandson of the last German Emperor Wilhelm II. Grand Duchess Kira Kirilovna of Russia was born on 9 May 1909, at...
The evacuation of East Prussia was the movement of German civilian population and military personnel from East Prussia between 20 January and March 1945...
Russian: Священный союз, Svjaščennyj sojuz), also called the Grand Alliance, was a coalition linking the monarchist great powers of Austria, Prussia,...
Province of New East Prussia was ceded according to the 1807 Treaties of Tilsit: The area around Białystok was ceded to the Russian Empire, becoming the...
from Prussia, undoing hard-earned gains. He was deposed by troops loyal to his wife, Catherine, who, despite her own German origins, was a Russian nationalist...
East Prussia (German: Ostpreußen) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany encompassing the province of East Prussia in the Free State of Prussia from...
The abolition of Prussia took place on 25 February 1947 through a decree of the Allied Control Council, the governing body of post-World War II occupied...
and Ludendorff pushed Russia back at the battle of Tannenberg, thereby liberating East Prussia from Russian troops. Yet Russian troops remained in the...
of Prussia and Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia. Princess Kira was born in Cadienen, East Prussia (today Kadyny, Poland). She married Thomas Frank...
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