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General Map of the Russian Empire in Latin. Date: 1745: Source: Русский: Атлас Российский (1745) English: Geographic atlas of the Russian Empire ...
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 ...
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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.
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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 ...