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The armed forces of the Russian Empire consisted of the Imperial Russian Army and the Imperial Russian Navy. The Emperor of Russia was the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and implemented out his military policies through the Ministry of War and the Ministry of the Navy, which were tasked with administering their respective branches ...
That month, Putin began referring to "Novorossiya" (New Russia), a former Russian imperial territory that covered much of southern Ukraine. Michael Kimmage writes that this "implied an imperial program on Russia's part". [115] The Russian separatists declared their captured territories to be the Donetsk and Luhansk "people's republics".
The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] ... 12% to administration, and 9% for the Imperial Court in St. Petersburg. The deficit ...
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.
This is a list of all reigning monarchs in the history of Russia. The list begins with the semi-legendary prince Rurik of Novgorod, sometime in the mid-9th century, and ends with Nicholas II, who abdicated in 1917, and was executed with his family in 1918. Two dynasties have ruled Russia: the Rurikids (862–1598) and Romanovs (from 1613). [1] [2]
Imperial Russia: a source book, 1700–1917 (Dryden Press, 1974) Gooch, G. P. Recent Revelations Of European Diplomacy (1940), pp 151–211 summarizes memoirs of major participants; Vernadsky, George, and Sergeĭ Germanovich Pushkarev, eds. A Source Book for Russian History from Early Times to 1917: Peter the Great to Nicholas I (Vol. 2. Yale ...
This is a timeline of Russian history, ... An imperial decree divided Russia into eight guberniyas (governorates). 1709: 28 June:
Civil ensign of Russia: the white-blue-red tricolor, that was adopted on 20 January 1705 by decree of Peter I. [56] Naval ensign of the Imperial Russian Navy: white field with a blue saltire, adopted in 1712. [58] Before that, the naval ensign of Russia was white-blue-red tricolor. [58]