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This time Russia obtained most of Belarus and Ukraine west of the Dnieper river. The 1793 partition led to the Kościuszko Uprising in Poland, which ended with the third partition in 1795. As a result, Poland disappeared from the international political map. Russia acquired territories in Lithuania and Courland in the third partition.
The Decembrist Revolt (Russian: Восстание декабристов, romanized: Vosstaniye dekabristov, lit. 'Uprising of the Decembrists') was a failed coup d'état led by liberal military and political dissidents against the Russian Empire.
'Uprising of the Decembrists') took place in Imperial Russia on 26 December [O.S. 14 December] 1825. Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a rejection of Emperor Nicholas I's assumption of the throne hours before, as Nicholas's elder brother Constantine had removed himself (non-publicly) from the line of succession.
Before the liberation of the serfs in 1861, Russia's economy mainly depended on agriculture. [139] By the census of 1897, 95% of the Russian population lived in the countryside. [140] Nicholas I attempted to modernise his country, and have it not been so dependent on a single economic sector. [141] During the reign of Alexander III, many ...
Yaroslav I, another of Sviatopolk's brothers, led an army against him and defeated him, forcing him to flee to Poland. 1017: Yaroslav issued the first Russian code of law, the Russkaya Pravda. 1018: Polish Expedition to Kiev: Sviatopolk led the Polish army into Rus'. Red Ruthenia returned to Polish possession. 14 August
The Russian military faltered, as did the political and economic system. Russians lost faith in the failed Emperor Nicholas II. There resulted two revolutions in 1917 which destroyed the Russian Empire and led to independence for the Baltic states, Finland, Poland and (briefly) Ukraine and a host of smaller nation-states such as Georgia.
Russia has also established effective political domination over Belarus, through the Union State. [97] Marcel Van Herpen has described the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union and Eurasian Customs Union as further empire-building projects. [105] In the political language of Russia, the post-Soviet republics are referred to as the "near abroad ...
News of the Declaration of Independence's penning and signing finally reached Imperial Russia on August 13, 1776. [10] In imperial correspondence, Vasilii Grigor'evich Lizakevich, a Russian ambassador in London, wrote to Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin, a Russian statesman, and praised the leadership, bravery, and virtue of colonial leaders as shown through the declaration.