Szymon Konarski was a 19th-century Polish radical politician who believed in a revolution of all peoples of the Russian Empire that was to bring freedom and democracy to all?
after Peter the Great's reform of the Russian military, serf recruits, and their children born after the recruitment, were liberated, with the boys being sent to specially created garrison schools?
French protests caused the Russians to award the contract for the Gangut-classbattleship to a Russian firm rather than the German winner of the 1908 international design contest?