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  2. Russian Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Russian Empire [e] [f] was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about 22,800,000 km 2 (8,800,000 sq mi), roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the third ...

  3. Territorial evolution of Russia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of largest empires - Wikipedia

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    The British Empire (red) and Mongol Empire (blue) were the largest and second-largest empires in history, respectively. The precise extent of either empire at its greatest territorial expansion is a matter of debate among scholars.

  5. Expansion of Russia (1500–1800) - Wikipedia

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    In its early years, the state paid the Khazars tribute but by tenth century, the Kievan prince Sviatoslav overthrew their rule and ended their empire. [2] He also caused the fall of the Bulgarian empire and conquered numerous East Slavic tribes, the Alans, and the Volga Bulgars. [3] Around 1240, the whole area was conquered by the Mongols. Much ...

  6. Tsardom of Russia - Wikipedia

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    The period includes the upheavals of the transition from the Rurik to the Romanov dynasties, wars with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian conquest of Siberia, to the reign of Peter the Great, who took power in 1689 and transformed the tsardom into an empire.

  7. History of Russia - Wikipedia

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    The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod (unveiled on 8 September 1862) Medieval Russian states around 1470, including Novgorod, Tver, Pskov, Ryazan, Rostov and Moscow Expansion and territorial evolution of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire between the 14th and 20th centuries Location of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union in 1956–1991

  8. A Russian empire 'from Dublin to Vladivostok'? The roots of ...

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    Long an "imperial people," Russians can lead a "world empire," according to writings of one of the most prominent proponents of Eurasianism, Alexander Dugin, 60, whom some refer to as Putin's ...

  9. Great Russia - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Russian Empire from The Universal Atlas (1894). Great Russia marked in yellow. Great Russia, sometimes Great Rus' (Russian: Великая Русь, Velikaya Rus'; Великая Россия, Velikaya Rossiya; Великороссия, Velikorossiya), is a name formerly applied to the territories of "Russia proper", the land that formed the core of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and ...