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The Russian famine of 1891–1892, also called the Tsar Famine, Tsar's Famine or Black Earth Famine, began along the Volga River and spread as far as the Urals and Black Sea. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] During the famine, an epidemic also raged, in total 375,000-400,000 died from hunger and disease, mainly from diseases.
An American charity postcard showing the scale of the deadly Russian famine of 1921–1922. Throughout Russian history famines, droughts and crop failures occurred on the territory of Russia, the Russian Empire and the USSR on more or less regular basis. From the beginning of the 11th to the end of the 16th century, on the territory of Russia ...
April 25 – Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, son of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Alexandra Feodorovna (b. 1831) May 8 – Alexander von Keyserling, Baltic German geologist and paleontologist from the Keyserlingk family of Baltic German nobility (b. 1815) May 20 – Olga Ulyanova, a Russian noblewoman, polyglot, and the sister of Vladimir ...
1891–1892: Russian famine of 1891–1892. Beginning along the Volga River and spreading to the Urals and the Black Sea. Russia: 375,000 – 500,000 [103] [104] 1895–1898: Famine during the Cuban War of Independence: Cuba: 200,000 – 300,000: 1896–1902: Indian famine of 1896–1897 and Indian famine of 1899–1900 due to drought and ...
1891: Severe famine affects almost half of Russia's provinces 1892: Witte's Great Spurt increases industrial growth; women banned from mines and children under 12 banned from working in factories 1894: 1 November: Alexander III dies. His son Nicholas II succeeds him as emperor. 1898: 1 March
Russian famine of 1891–1892; Russian famine of 1921–1922; S. 1922 seizure of church valuables in Russia; Soviet famine of 1930–1933; Soviet famine of 1946 ...
At the height of the famine, 28,000 people were dying daily, even as food and grain continued to flow to Russia. “Parents take whatever they find to their children, but they die themselves,” a ...
Russian famine of 1891–1892 This page was last edited on 6 March 2023, at 22:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...