Resultado de búsqueda
Hace 2 días · 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 .
- 21%
- Russian ruble
- 5.8%
- Saint Petersburg
18 de abr. de 2024 · Our project documents, interrogates, visualizes, and interprets the history of Imperial Russia. In other words, we are building a spatial history of the Russian Empire. In other phases of the project we create databases and make maps.
Hace 2 días · Extending nearly halfway around the Northern Hemisphere and covering much of eastern and northeastern Europe and all of northern Asia, Russia has a maximum east-west extent of some 5,600 miles (9,000 km) and a north-south width of 1,500 to 2,500 miles (2,500 to 4,000 km).
The treaty changed the Russian-Swedish border set by the Treaty of Stolbovo of 1617. Sweden recognized the transfer of Livonia, Estonia, Ingria, part of Karelia and other territories to Russia. In ...
Hace 6 días · Russian Revolution, two revolutions in 1917, the first of which, in February (March, New Style), overthrew the imperial government and the second of which, in October (November), placed the Bolsheviks in power, leading to the creation of the Soviet Union.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- What caused the Russian Revolution of 1917?Corruption and inefficiency were widespread in the imperial government, and ethnic minorities were eager to escape Russian domination. Peasants, wo...
- Why is it called the October Revolution if it took place in November?By the 18th century, most countries in Europe had adopted the Gregorian calendar. In countries like Russia, where Eastern Orthodoxy was the dominan...
- How did the revolution lead to the Russian Civil War?The October Revolution saw Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks seize power at the expense of more moderate social democrats (Mensheviks) and conservative “...
- What happened to the tsar and his family?On March 15, 1917, Nicholas II abdicated the throne. Nicholas, his family, and their loyal retainers were detained by the provisional government an...
Hace 1 día · RU. Internet TLD. .ru. .рф. Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country.
4 de abr. de 2024 · Published in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1890-1907). Lithograph by I.D Sytin. , “Ethnographic Map of the Russian Empire,” Mapping Cultural Space Across Eurasia, accessed April 4, 2024, https://eurasia.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/items/show/1011.
