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  2. 1915 in Russia - Wikipedia

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    Events from the year 1915 in Russia. World War I: Russia entered World War I in 1914, and 1915 saw continued military involvement, including the 1915 campaign in Galicia and the Brusilov Offensive. (Sources: Borzenko, M. (2015). Russian military strategy in the First World War. Routledge. & Figes, O. (1996).

  3. Timeline of Russian history - Wikipedia

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    Russian Revolution of 1905: A strike began at the Putilov Works in St. Petersburg. 9 January: Bloody Sunday (1905): Peaceful demonstrators arrived at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg to present a petition to the emperor, leading was a priest named Georgi Gapon. The Imperial Guard fired on the crowd, killing around 200 and wounding 800. 27 ...

  4. Russia in the First World War - Wikipedia

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    Workers' dormitory in St Petersburg, 1913. Workers' strikes, which had been significant from 1912 to July 1914, had become rare in the first months of the war: they resumed with vigor in August–September 1915. [97] From 10,000 between August and December 1914, the number of strikers rose to 540,000 in 1915 and 880,000 in 1916. [98]

  5. Timeline of Saint Petersburg - Wikipedia

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    1728 – State capital moves to Moscow from St. Petersburg. 1731 – Cadet Corps founded. 1732 – State capital moves back to St. Petersburg from Moscow, after only 4 years, and will remain there for nearly two centuries. 1733 – Peter and Paul Cathedral built. 1736 – Fire. 1738 – Imperial Ballet School established. 1740 Peter and Paul ...

  6. Battle of Petrograd - Wikipedia

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    The White cause had begun to disintegrate across Russia however. Though the Northwestern Army was soon allowed to send pockets of units into Estonia, the new government of the Russian State collapsed; simultaneously the army disbanded, ending any chance of Petrograd, the historic capital of Russia, being taken from the Bolsheviks.

  7. 1914 in Russia - Wikipedia

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    29 June - world's first high-speed long-range flight of a heavy aircraft Ilya Muromets started, on the route Saint Petersburg - Orsha - Kopys - Kiev - Saint Petersburg; 8 July - Government suppression of striking oil workers in Baku triggers a short but intensive wave of strikes in St Petersburg, lasting almost a week.

  8. History of Saint Petersburg - Wikipedia

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    After the death of Peter the Great, Menshikov was arrested and exiled to Siberia. In 1728 Peter II of Russia moved the capital back to Moscow, but four years later, in 1732, St. Petersburg again became the capital of Russia and remained the seat of the government for about two centuries.

  9. Revolutionary activity of Vladimir Lenin - Wikipedia

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    When the February Revolution of 1917 led to the abdication of the Tsar and the development of the Russian Provisional Government, Lenin returned to St. Petersburg, now called Petrograd. There, he urged the Bolsheviks to oppose the new government, and support proletariat revolution.