History

Catherine’s Palace (Russian: Екатерининский дворец), also known as the Great Palace of Tsarskoye Selo, was the summer residence of the Tsars of Russia, built in the Rococo style and part of the architectural complex of Tsarskoye Selo, in the city of Pushkin about 25 km, or rather 24 versts southeast of St. Petersburg.

THE DISCOVERY OF ANTARCTICA WAS MADE BY THE RUSSIAN ADMIRAL -FABIAN GOTTLIEB VON BELLINGSHAUSEN- IN 1819-20.

Napoleon, in fact, conquered the island of Malta in 1798, during his expedition to Egypt. The Knights of Malta fled into exile in Europe, especially in Russia, where they found the benevolent protection of Tsar Paul I. From a historical-legal point of view, it can be said that, with the flight from Malta, the Order split, having the right of continuity, both the existing Priories (in which there was a Bishop delegated by the Pope, or a Lieutenant authorized to investiture knights by the Grand Master), and those who were previously qualified for investitures (as in the Americas). After the killing of Tsar Paul I, the heir Alexander I, worried for his safety, fomented the creation of a secret branch of the order of the Knights of Malta, composed of military, tough men, who called themselves the Ice Knights, commanded by the lieutenant of the Knights and Admiral of the imperial fleet Fabian Gottlieb. After the revolutionary conspiracy and the attempt to kidnap the Tsar on the occasion of the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle by the officers of the Imperial Guard in 1818, smothered in blood by the Ice Knights, as a reward for services rendered, Tsar Alexander I, appointed Fabian Gottlieb, Grand Master of the Ice Knights, asking him and his men for a vote of secrecy. Admiral Gottlieb was also equipped with two ships and 200 Knights for an expedition to the South Seas, in search of Terra Australis. The Tsar would also have renounced his possessions in favor of the Order of the Knights who saved his life. On the return of the expedition, in fact, at the behest of the Tsar, not much emphasis was given to the discovery of the new lands, (the Antarctic), which occurred by chance during the search for Terra Australis, Incognita, a hypothetical continent illustrated on maps dating back to the period, between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Fabian Gottlieb, with foresight, transformed the Order of the Ice Knights into a Sovereign Order, to protect the new possessions granted by the Tsar. Through influences, and it is not known in what other way, the Sovereign Order managed to maintain, in total secrecy, the dominion of a portion of the Continent during the last two centuries and to influence the world powers in such a way as not to occupy or claim the territory that today goes from the South Pole to 60° S latitude, There is no other explanation for the fact that this portion of the territory of the Antarctic continent, equivalent a little less to the area of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Switzerland combined, has never been claimed by the powers and countries that have made formal claims to the Antarctic, both in the past and in the present. Given the new world context, the anachronism of a secret society, and the need to defend the Sovereignty of the territory that remained under the control of the Order, the Knights were dissolved by the vote of secrecy, the order updated the name to the Sovereign Order of the Ice Knights, the territory was officially claimed as a dynastic succession property as a Nation with the name of Antarcticland by the 42nd Grand Master of the Sovereign Order, G. C. Gottlieb in the anno domini 2007. Through an act of request for recognition and official claim of its territory, notified to the United Nationsthrough the Supreme Court of New York. The notification was also made on the basis of the law jus gentium and the right of self-determination of peoples, recognized by the United Nations Magna Carta and other regional and international instruments, including the Declaration of the Principles of International Law on Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1970; in Helsinki Final Act adopted by the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in 1975; the African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights of 1981; the CSCE Charter of Paris for the new Europe adopted in 1990; The Vienna Declaration Programme of Action of 1993 is reaffirmed in the International Court of Justice of Namibia, a case of Western Sahara and East Timor in which erga omnes the right was recognized. Historical link of the territories of the Principality of West Antarctic - Antarcticland Long before the Antarctic lands were discovered, maps of the medieval world showed a huge continent, "the land Australis" that occupied more than half of the southern hemisphere. In July 1819 a Russian naval expedition commanded by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshousen discovered the Antarctic, and drew a map of southern Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, flanked the ice sheet to the east, crossing the Antarctic Circle twice, until it reached the coast of the ice continent. In the following year it returned to the south, continuing eastward and pushing through the ice pack very close to the interior of the continent. The history of Antarctica has two key dates: 1821 when Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (also known by the Russian name of: Фаддей Фаддеевич Беллинсгаузен) founded the State of Antarcticland to defend the Antarctic Continent he discovered, and 2007, when H.H. Sir G- C. Gottlieb, was appointed by his predecessor H.H. Sir Hans Gottlieb, 42nd Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of the Ice Knights and Regent of the Territory. His Highness, Sir G. C. Gottlieb, aware of the possible disappearance of the Order, and the probable occupation of the National Territory by other states, has relieved the Knights of the obligation of secrecy, has changed the name of the Knights to the Knights of Antarcticland which literally means Land of the Antarctic and through an act of request for recognition has officially claimed his territory with the name of Antarcticland, notifying the United Nations through the Supreme Court of New York on the basis of the law jus gentium and the right of self-determination of peoples, recognized by the UN Magna Carta and other regional and international instruments including the Declaration of Principles of International Law on Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1970; the Helsinki Final Act adopted by the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) of 1975; the African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights of 1981; the CSCE Charter of Paris for the new Europe adopted in 1990; the Vienna Declaration Programme of Action of 1993 and reaffirmed in the International Court of Justice of Namibia, case of Western Sahara and East Timor in which erga omnes the right was recognized. Anyone can become a citizen of a Principality of the "United States of Antarctica" - USA. The United States Antarctic Council swears in the constitution and promises to respect it and honor the ideals and programs aimed at human rights and environmental protection. More and more people from all over the world are applying for citizenship of the Principality, especially in protest against their governments, by which they do not feel represented..