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Its shape left a 450-kilometer stretch between the Belgorod Line and the Volga forts, and a 600km stretch from the eastern end of the Abatis Line to the Don Cossacks in the south. This area had a lot of open steppe and roughly corresponded to the 'Nogai Road,' the raiding trail from the lower Volga.
957 [1] or 962 [2] Olga's regency ended. 965: Sviatoslav conquered Khazaria. 968: Siege of Kiev (968): The Pechenegs besieged Kiev. A Rus' created the illusion of a much larger army, and frightened them away. 969: 8 July: Sviatoslav moved the capital from Kiev to Pereyaslavets in Bulgaria. 971: The Byzantine Empire captured Pereyaslavets. The ...
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.
The Romanovs 1613–1918 is a 2016 history book by Simon Sebag Montefiore. [2] The book is about the Romanov Dynasty which lasted from 1613 until the monarchy was abolished in 1917. See also
The House of Romanov [b] (also transliterated as Romanoff; Russian: Рома́новы, romanized: Romanovy, IPA: [rɐˈmanəvɨ]) was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917. They achieved prominence after Anastasia Romanovna married Ivan the Terrible , the first crowned tsar of all Russia .
This is a select bibliography of post-World War II English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the history of Russia and its empire from 1613 until 1917. It specifically excludes topics related to the Russian Revolution (see Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War for information on these subjects).
Nicholas II at the Red Square during the Tercentenary. The tercentenary was kicked off in the imperial capital Saint Petersburg on a rainy February morning. The event had been on everyone's lips for several weeks leading up the actual date, and dignitaries from the whole of the empire had gathered in the capital's grand hotels: princes from the Baltic and Poland, high-priests from Armenia and ...
The Petrograd Armed Workers Movement in the February Revolution (February–July, 1917): A Study in the Radicalization of the Petrograd Proletariat. Washington DC: University Press of America. [161] [162] Brinton, M. (1975). The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control, 1917-1921: The State and Counter-Revolution. Montreal, QC: Black Rose Books.