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The military history of the Russian Empire encompasses the history of armed conflict in which the Russian Empire participated. This history stretches from its creation in 1721 by Peter the Great, until the Russian Revolution (1917), which led to the establishment of the Soviet Union. Much of the related events involve the Imperial Russian Army ...
Unit 3 Introduction – Land-Based Empires 1450 to 1750. By Trevor Getz. From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, five vast, multicultural empires took power where the collapsing Mongol Empire used to rule. Gunpowder weapons were a great advantage, but they developed many other strategies to maintain control. The article below uses ...
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The defeat of Russian efforts to seize the Baltic coastline from Sweden was followed by economic collapse. Almost simultaneously, the Muscovite dynasty died out and civil war erupted between claimants to the throne. This in turn unleashed anarchy in Russian society, as well as foreign invasion.
Jan 19, 2017 · Abstract. 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. It surveys Russian in-migration ...
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.
May 29, 2014 · These campaigns shaped and defined Russian military and political policies and are crucial in understanding Russia’s empire-building enterprise in the 18th and 19th centuries. Duffy, Christopher. Russia’s Military Way to the West: Origins and Nature of Russian Military Power, 1700–1800. Boston: Routledge, 1981.
Abstract. This chapter examines reforms of army and administration across the eighteenth century. Under Peter I and his successors Russia’s navy expanded from virtually nothing to a fleet that defeated Sweden in the first decade of the century and the Ottoman navy by the 1760s; the infantry army and its officer corps greatly accelerated a ...
