Russian Empire
Pre-Soviet Russian state
The Russian Empire was a state spanning Eastern Europe and northern Asia from 1721 until the 1917 revolution.
At its height, it was one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Poland to Alaska.
The term appears in historical discussions of tsarist rule, imperial expansion, and the events leading to the Soviet Union: The Russian Empire abolished serfdom in 1861.
- RomanovImperial Russian ruling family
- imperialRelating to supreme rule
- autocracyRule by one
- tsaristOf Russian emperors
- serfdomFeudal bound labor
Romanov dynasty · monarchy · secret police · Peter the Great · Catherine the Great · absolutism · Eastern Orthodox · Siberian exile · frozen tundra · Tolstoy · Pale of Settlement · Trans-Siberian Railway · Pushkin · czar · Dostoevsky · Nicholas II · Petersburg · Fabergé egg
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- Eastern EuropePoland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria
- empiresemperor, empress, imperial, Imperial China, imperial power
- Former StatesPrussia, Czechoslovakia, Austria-Hungary, Soviet Union, East Germany
- Historical NationsPrussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Bohemia, Qing Dynasty
- Russian HistorySoviet Union, tsars, Romanov, czars, tsar
Russian EmpireBritish Empire
Vast colonial domain
Ottoman Empire · Austro-Hungarian Empire · German Empire · Empire of Japan · Japanese Empire
Russian EmpireUnited States
North American federal republic
French Republic · parliamentary democracy · republic · federation · constitutional government
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