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Jan 19, 2017 · This chapter examines the Russian empire’s expansion east and south into Siberia and the steppe in the eighteenth century. Regarding the conquest of Siberia, it explores the role of Cossacks, the violence of the conquest and continued treatment of native peoples, and the in-migration of East Slavs.
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The Russian Empire stretched from the Baltic Sea and eastern Europe to the Pacific Ocean, and during its nearly two-hundred-year history (1721–1917), it was ruled by a succession of autocratic czars who assigned varying degrees of local authority to as many as fifty appointed provincial governors.
Czar Peter I(1672–1725) founded the Russian Empire after a decisive peace treaty with his Swedish enemies in 1721, which resulted in important territorial gains and was followed by other significant military victories. As a member of the Romanov dynasty that had come to power in Russia in the early 1600s, Peter was determined to transform the once ...
Under Peter’s Petrine Reforms, Russia was divided into eight large gubernia (administrative provinces): Moscow, Ingria, Kiev, Smolensk, Arkhangel’sk, Kazan’, Azov, and Siberia. An appointed governor ruled each and chaired a council of eight to twelve advisers drawn from the gubernia’s gentry. Later, each gubernia was divided into a number of dolia(...
Nearly half of the Russian Empire’s inhabitants were serfs, peasant laborers who were attached to particular tracts of land owned by the Russian nobility. They were bound either to the land they worked or to the person of the nobleman who owned it. While their individual situations varied from place to place, serfs were largely restricted in their ...
Peter’s Grand Embassy set out in March 1697 as a diplomatic mission to secure allies in Russia’s campaign against the Turkish Ottoman Empire. In the course of his travels he visited Courland, on the Baltic Sea; Brandenburg, in present-day Germany; Holland; England; and Austria. Besides courting allies, Peter attended lectures; visited hospitals, mu...
In the Russian Empire of the early 1900s power shifted from the Romanov monarchy to factions who favored an end to the form of government nurtured by the last czars. Between 1905 and 1917 there were several attempted reforms, the abdication of Nicholas II, and ultimately the victory of the communist Bolshevik Party, which established the Soviet Uni...
Dec 31, 2017 · Abstract. Russian and Chinese expansion in Inner Eurasia was part of a global transformation in human relations with the biosphere, as states, empires, and corporations engaged in increasingly feverish competition to mobilize new lands and new resources.
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Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. The construction of a mighty empire and impressive high culture in a region uniquely far from the centers of global trade and culture was a great achievement. Elements of Eurasian empire and European military-fiscal state merged in the tsarist polity.
Kollmann, Nancy Shields, 'Nobility, Culture, and Intellectual Life', The Russian Empire 1450-1801, Oxford History of Early Modern Europe (Oxford, 2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 Jan. 2017), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199280513.003.0023, accessed 13 Apr. 2024.
The Russian Empire 1450-1750 (SIGNIFICANCE Study Guide) Emma Westerhof Society Politics/Government Religion/Culture Intellectual Advances Technology/ Infrastructure Economy/Commerce - Grand Prince or Czar (Caesar) autocratic ruler + above law; controlled lords, manipulated peasants - Boyars + Lords in practice checked Czar’s ultimate authority (e.g. Time of Trouble = appt. Michael Romanov ...
The early nineteenth century would see Russian forces racing across Siberia to the Pacific. It would also see them coming into conflict with the Ottoman Empire to the south. But that story will have to wait. Three maps showing the expansion of Muscovy into Russia, 1450, 1550, and 1750. By WHP, CC BY-NC 4.0.
