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All-Russian Congress of Soviets (1917–1938) 1: Lev Kamenev (1883–1936) 9 November 1917 21 November 1917 Communist Party: 2: Yakov Sverdlov (1885–1919) 21 November 1917 16 March 1919 Communist Party — Mikhail Vladimirsky (1874–1951) Acting: 16 March 1919 30 March 1919 Communist Party: 5: Mikhail Kalinin (1875–1946) 30 March 1919 15 ...
Chairmen of the Provisional Government (1917): Georgy Lvov (March 2 (15) — July 8 (21), 1917) Alexander Kerensky (July 8 (21) — October 25 (November 7), 1917)
The grand princes of Moscow, once they entrenched their status as the supreme prince with regard to other Russian princes, typically left a will in which they appointed their eldest son as heirs to the title of grand prince; [85] this did not fully conform to traditional succession practices, and in 1497, Ivan III went one step further by ...
(1894–1917) 2 Ivan Logginovich Goremykin (1839–1917) 1: 5 May 1906 21 July 1906 3 Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin (1862–1911) • 21 July 1906 18 September 1911 (Assassinated) 4 Count Vladimir Nikolayevich Kokovtsov (1853–1943) • 22 September 1911 12 February 1914 (2) Ivan Logginovich Goremykin (1839–1917) 2: 12 February 1914 2 February ...
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 .
The holder is the federation's head of state and has formal presidency over the State Council as well as being the commander in chief of the Russian Armed Forces. The office was introduced in 1918 after the February Revolution with the current office emerging after a referendum of 1991. [ 1 ]
Upon death, resignation, or removal from office of an incumbent president, the Vice President of the Soviet Union would assume the office, though the Soviet Union dissolved before this was actually tested. [9] After the failed coup in August 1991, the vice president was replaced by an elected member of the State Council of the Soviet Union. [10]
Under Tsar Nicholas II (reigned 1894–1917), the Russian Empire slowly industrialized while repressing opposition from the center and the far-left.During the 1890s Russia's industrial development led to a large increase in the size of the urban middle class and of the working class, which gave rise to a more dynamic political atmosphere. [1]