Tsarina Katerina Alekseevna

Mikhail Ivanovich Semevsky (1837–1892) was an outstanding Russian historian, journalist, and writer whose works were widely popular in pre-revolutionary Russia. His contribution to the preservation of historical memory is difficult to overestimate. In 1870, Semevsky founded and began publishing the magazine Russkaya Starina, which became an important source of materials on the history of Russia.He...