The Russian Empire (Russian: Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.. The third largest empire in world history, …
After the bloodshed of 1905, Czar Nicholas II promised the formation of a series of representative assemblies, or Dumas, to work toward reform. Russia entered into World War I in August 1914 in support of the Serbs and their French and British allies. Their involvement in the war would soon prove disastrous for the Russian Empire. Militarily, …
Leaders of Muscovy, Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union: Russia is a federal multiparty republic with a bicameral legislative body; its head of state is the president, and the head of government is the prime minister. What is now the territory of Russia has been inhabited from ancient times by various peoples, and as such the …
The Russian Empire (Pre-reform Russian: Pоссiйская Имперiя, Modern Russian: Российская империя, translit: Rossiyskaya Imperiya) was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917.It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia, and the predecessor of the Soviet Union.It was one of the largest empires the world had seen.
Prof. Rock Brynner – Vladivostok and the Russian Far East
Just to remind you if you didn’t see – there is a Prokudin-Gorsky photographer exist who made tens of photos of Russian Empire in color. They are not colorized later – they were actual color captured back then, 100 and more years ago.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
The Russian Empire fought the Great War and the ensuring Civil War with a lot of armoured cars of all origins. Some tanks were nevertheless tried.
1809 The Finnish War concludes, and Sweden cedes Finland to the Russian Empire.. 1812 Under the leadership of Napoleon, France invades Russia in June.After reaching Moscow, French forces are pushed back and defeated by the end of the year. 1829 The Russo-Turkish war of 1828-1829 concludes.Defeated Turkey cedes the Eastern Black …
The Byzantine Empire. The Roman-Byzantine Period. The Byzantine Empire was the predominantly Greek-speaking continuation of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.