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1667 - Truce of Andrusovo leads to Kyiv temporarily becoming part of the Tsardom of Russia. 1686 - Eternal Peace Treaty of 1686 makes the transfer to Russia permanent. 1693 - Cathedral of the Epiphany built. [4] 1696 - St. Nicholas Cathedral consecrated. [4] 1701 - Imperial Theological Academy formed. [4] 1708 - Kiev Governorate founded.
After 57 years as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of independent Ukraine in 1991. The city was the site of mass protests over the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election by supporters of opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko beginning on 22 November 2004 at Independence Square.
World War I: Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. 30 July: World War I: Russia mobilized its army to defend Serbia. 1 August: World War I: Germany declared war on Russia in defense of Austria-Hungary. 1915: 2 May: Gorlice–Tarnów offensive: The German army launched an offensive across the length of the Eastern Front. 4 August
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The formal end to Tatar rule over Russia was the defeat of the Tatars at the Great Stand on the Ugra River in 1480. Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and Vasili III (r. 1505–1533) had consolidated the centralized Russian state following the annexations of the Novgorod Republic in 1478, Tver in 1485, the Pskov Republic in 1510, Volokolamsk in 1513, Ryazan in 1521, and Novgorod-Seversk in 1522.
The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War is a memorial complex commemorating the Eastern Front of World War II in the hills on the right-bank of the Dnieper in Pechersk. Kyiv Fortress is the 19th-century fortification buildings situated in Ukrainian capital Kyiv, that once belonged to western Russian fortresses ...
The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod (unveiled on 8 September 1862). The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in the year 862, ruled by Varangians.
Kiev Governorate [a] was an administrative-territorial unit of the Russian Empire (1796–1917), Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–18; 1918–1921), Ukrainian State (1918), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–1925; part of the Soviet Union since 1922).