In 1809, to protect their imperial capital, Saint Petersburg, the Russians conquered Finland and converted it into an autonomous buffer state within the Russian Empire.

(The First Total Census of Russian Empire.

Prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917, it was known as the Imperial Russian Geographical Society.

The Russian Empire was encumbered by the war against Turkey.

The State Bank of the Russian Empire () was the main bank of the Russian Empire from 1860 to 1917.

Kiev prospered during the late 19th century Industrial Revolution in the Russian Empire, when it became the third most important city of the Empire and the major centre of commerce of its southwest.

The Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire.

The Russian Empire Census of 1897 recorded 626,000 people living in Warsaw, making it the third largest city of the Empire after St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Ministry of Justice one of the Russian Empire's central public institutions.

In those days, the Russian Empire's policies vis a vis the Armenian question had changed.

The dream of empire is, indeed, the gulag that imprisons the Russian mind.

The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political unrest through vast areas of the Russian Empire.

During the war, Austro Hungarian authorities established the Ukrainian Legion to fight against the Russian Empire.

In the 19th century, the Russian Empire began to expand and spread into Central Asia.

The autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland was formed within the Russian Empire which included the Åland Islands.

Diamond was born in Kishinev, Bessarabia, at the time part of the Russian Empire.

The Bolsheviks fought against both these forces and national independence movements in the former Russian Empire.

This design was used by the Adyghe people in the 19th century fight against the Russian Empire.

Biography Dinaburg was born in 1884 in Khorol in the Russian Empire (now Poltava Oblast, Ukraine).

In the war, Sweden ignominiously lost Finland, which became a Grand Duchy in the Russian empire.

When the Crimean War began, he was sent to the Russian Empire, arriving at Balaklava in January 1855.

They arrived in France at the end of the 19th century as refugees from pogroms in the Russian Empire.

Then you have the Russian Empire, which, you know, give or take,

He supported greater autonomy and an independent Cabinet ( Senate ) for Finland, and resisted Russia's panslavic intentions to make Russian the only official language everywhere in the Russian Empire.

The days of empire are over, no matter how much wealth oil and gas is bringing to Russia. Only if Ukraine maintains its independence will the imperial nostalgia of Russia s elites be shattered.

The Central Asian Revolt started in the summer of 1916, when the Russian Empire government ended its exemption of Muslims from military service.

Ministry of Finance one of the Russian Empire's central public institutions, in charge of financial and economic policy.

As a result of the war, the eastern third of Sweden was established as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland within the Russian Empire.

The Russian Expeditionary Force was a World War I military force sent to France by the Russian Empire.

Other territories of the Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) were incorporated into the Russian empire at various times in the 19th century as a result of Russian wars with Persia.

The total population of the Russian Empire was recorded to be 125,640,021 people (50.2 female, 49.8 male urban 16,828,395 ).

In 1916, a body of Belgian armoured cars were moved from the IJzer front to help the Russian Empire.

He considered the victory of Japan over Tsarist Russia as an example of colored peoples defeating white peoples.

Biography Born in Minsk in the Russian Empire (now in Belarus), Zisling emigrated to Palestine in 1904.

Twice in the twentieth century, the omnipotent Russian state was dramatically weakened at the beginning, when the Russian Empire collapsed, and at the end, when the USSR ceased to exist.

It led to the establishment of limited constitutional monarchy, the State Duma of the Russian Empire, the multi party system, and the Russian Constitution of 1906.

He was sent by his father to live with an uncle in Tbilisi, then in the Russian Empire, and studied medicine there.

Austria Hungary (1867 1918) Finland and Russia (1809 1917) The Russian Empire never recognized Finland as a state in its own right.

Would the sybaritic, globe trotting Lugovoi agree to wear the crown? Running the Kremlin is, after all, a testing job.

Among the Ukrainians that rose to the highest offices in the Russian Empire were Aleksey Razumovsky, Alexander Bezborodko and Ivan Paskevich.

By this contract, Anna and Karl Friedrich renounced all rights and claims to the crown of the Russian Empire on behalf of themselves and their descendants.

The city was burned down by the Tatars in 1513, by the Ottomans in 1538, and by Imperial Russian troops in 1686.

As Finland became part of the Russian Empire in 1809, Emperor Alexander I expanded the University and allocated substantial funds to it.

Imperial Russia Under Peter I ( the Great ), Russia was proclaimed an Empire in 1721 and became recognized as a world power.

The Treaty of Ganja was concluded between the Russian Empire and Iran on 10 March 1735 near the city of Ganja in Azerbaijan.