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Photographer Jean Geiser, who worked in Algiers was at the end of the 19th century a minor celebrity. He was rewarded in all exhibitions in 1856, 1878, 1893, 1900, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam. Being the offical photographer of her Majesty the Empress of Russia Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928), he took many family pictures of the Imperial Family. THE PRESENT BOOK is unique. I have not located any other copy worldwide. It presents the entire IMPERIAL RUSSIAN FLEET present in the Mediterranean engaging in the naval blockade of Crete in the wake of the 1896 Cretan riots, the Hamidian massacres and the war with Ottoman empire There are 36 photogravures (of which 19 are signed in pencil by Geiser). LARGE FOLIO, 56 cm x 32 cm. Leather. With gilded letters. Possibly a privaly printed Presentation Album to the Russian Empress? Please note: This book will be listed only once ebay (and not relisted). Eu customers have to pay 6% upon the Final Price. Surface shipping free. AIR registered 50$ worldwide with insurance. Once it sold it will never appear on the market again, being an unique copy. I am not one of those guys who say this of every item (but that you can find in dozens of libraries); If you can locate other copies, please tell me, because I have searched everywhere. Yes there was this book at a French auction and that is this copy. Sissoi Veliky (Russian: Сисой Великий) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1890s. She was named after the Battle of Hogland which coincided with the day of St. Sisoes the Great of Egypt in the Orthodox calendar. The Navarin was launched on 20 October 1891. She was transferred to Kronstadt in 1893 for fitting out, but did not enter service until June 1896 at a cost of over nine million rubles. The cruiser Vestnik, His Imperial Russian Majesty's steam corvette Djigit, Anakria, Russian Torpedo boat, The Rurik, an armoured cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy in 1895. The Georgii Pobedonosets (Russian: Георгий Победоносец Saint George the Victorious) was a battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy, the fourth and final ship of the Ekaterina II class. Douze Apôtres (cuirassé) ... The Chesma (Russian: Чесма, sometimes transliterated as Tchesma) was the second ship of the Ekaterina II-class battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1880s. Dmitri Domskoi, a Russian cruiser that went down near Ulleungdo Island in 1905, Vladimir Monomakh (Russian: Владимир Мономах) was an armoured cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy during the 1880s, gunboar Rosboink Many more ships are depicted.

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Russian Spy editorial truth-or-fiction-plot-to-assassinate-russian-president-putin http://www.russianspy.org/2007/10/15/truth-or-fiction-plot-to-assassinate-russian-president-putin/ US Census Bureau 1st Ancestory reported, Iranian 386,140 +/-18,400 US Census Bureau State of California, Asian persons, percent, 2006 (a) 12.4% 4.4% Spotlight on the Iranian Foreign Born By Shirin Hakimzadeh and David Dixon http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?ID=404#2 According to the Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS), from 1970 to 2004, 356,642 Iranian-born immigrants were admitted to the United States. The largest number entered in 1990 (see Figure 1). About 13 percent (47,977) entered between 1970 and 1980, while 43 percent (154,857) entered between 1981 and1990, and 32 percent (112,597) entered between 1991 and 2000. Just 41,211 immigrant visas were issued to the Iranian foreign born from 2001 through 2004. Iranian Foreign-Born Population in the United States by County: 2000 http://www.migrationinformation.org/pdf/iranian_%20foreign_born.pdf Los Angeles--Riverside--Orange County 114,712, Percent 41.0 San Francisco--Oakland--San Jose 27,112, Percent 9.7 Nimitz Returns to San Diego Following Successful Deployment Story Number: NNS071002-14 Release Date: 10/2/2007 5:49:00 PM By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class (SW) Dustin Q. Diaz, USS Nimitz Public Affairs SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) returned to its homeport of San Diego Sept. 30, following a successful six-month deployment to promote peace, regional cooperation and stability in the Western Pacific and Middle East.