In 1613, Russia was mired in turmoil. Having witnessed a succession of wannabe Tsars attempting to take the throne, the country was plagued …
The Russian revolution of 1917 toppled the tsar and soon installed a bloodthirsty communist regime.
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, …
In 1721 Tsar Peter I discarded the title of tsar for that of “emperor of all Russia” as part of his effort to secularize and modernize his regime and assert the state’s primacy over the church. “Emperor” remained the official title for subsequent Russian rulers, but they continued to be known as “tsars” in popular usage until the imperial regime was overthrown by the Russian
Tsar (/ z ɑː r, t s ɑː r /; Old Bulgarian / Old Church Slavonic: ц︢рь [usually written thus with a title] or цар, цaрь), also spelled csar, or czar, is a title used to designate East and South Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers of Eastern Europe.As a system of government in the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, it is known as Tsarist autocracy, …
Flag of Russia: horizontally striped white-blue-red national flag. Its width-to-length ratio is 2 to 3.Tsar Peter I the Great had ambitious plans to transform Russia into a modern state. Building a Russian navy was part of that program, and he visited the Netherlands to learn about the most advanced shipbuilding
A page for describing UsefulNotes: Tsarist Russia. AKA the Russian Empire and before that, Czarist Russia. (“Czar” or “Tsar” being a Slavic form of “Caesar …
This article first appeared on the Daily Signal. Whoever wins the race to the White House is going to have to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin from day one. Hopefully, the next U.S. president will learn from the mistakes of the past. One of the biggest foreign policy follies of the Obama
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.
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