Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Topographic map of the Russian Empire in 1912 Map of the Russian Empire in 1745. By the end of the 19th century the area of the empire was about 22,400,000 square kilometers (8,600,000 sq mi), or almost one-sixth of the Earth's landmass; its only rival in size at the time was the British Empire. The majority of the population lived in European ...
The Crimean Khanate was incorporated into the Russian Empire. 24 July: Threatened by the Persian and Ottoman Empires, the kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti signed the Treaty of Georgievsk under which it became a Russian protectorate. 1788: Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792): The Ottoman Empire declared war on Russia and imprisoned her ambassador. 27 June
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.
22nd Infantry Division (Russian Empire) Aleksandr Fyodorovich Rittikh or Alexander Rittich ( Russian : Александр Фёдорович Риттих ) (1831 — 1914?) was an Imperial Russian general, cartographer, ethnographer and journalist, adherent of the Panslavism .
The Russian Intelligentsia (Columbia University Press, 1961) Rawlinson, Henry, et al. Great Power Rivalry in Central Asia: 1842–1880. England and Russia in the East (Routledge, 2006) Riasanovsky, Nicholas, and Mark Steinberg. A History of Russia since 1855-Volume 2 (Oxford UP, 2010). Seton-Watson, Hugh. The Russian Empire, 1801–1917.
1870 in the Russian Empire (3 C, 6 P) 1871 in the Russian Empire (4 C, ... Pages in category "1870s in the Russian Empire" This category contains only the following page.
List of years in Russia; Events from the year 1870 in Russia. Incumbents ... Media related to 1870 in the Russian Empire at Wikimedia Commons
This effort continued until the 19th century under the Russian Empire, when the Imperial Russian Army succeeded in conquering all of Central Asia. The majority of this land became known as Russian Turkestan —the name " Turkestan " was used to refer to the area due to the fact that it was and is inhabited by Turkic peoples , excluding the ...