Russia's European borders remained relatively stable in the 19th century. It was during this period, though, that Russia completed its conquest of the Caucasus, Central Asia, and what became its Maritime Province (Vladivostok). From the rise of Moscow after the Mongols until the early 20th ce...
MichaelMichael, detail of a mid-19th-century coloured lithograph by Peter Borel based on a 17th-century painting. 2 of 2 The rise and fall of the Russian tsarsOverview of tsarist rule in Russia. See all videos for this article The empire had its genesis when the Russian nobility sought a...
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Some argue that Putin’s annexation of Crimea is an attempt to return Russia to the glory of its pre-Soviet days, “as one of the world’s greatest civilizations.” Although Ukrainian nationalism remains strong, particularly in the eastern part of the country, Ukrainian officials and analysts r...
1. A survey of the principal, primarily monographic and to a lesser degree article-type, literature on the history of Russia during the feudal period published in the last two years has to be preceded by a glance at the state of so important a component of a historian's work as ...
Russia’s multi-ethnic history is violent, confusing, and redolent, with invasions, counter-measures, great leaders and equally-powerful monsters, s...
Russia is a power unlike others in Central Asia, given its role as the region's former coloniser, which started in the 19th century and even in the 18th for some of the northern parts of Kazakhstan. This legacy has its positive and negative aspects: it has been positive insofar as it ha...
"In the late Middle Ages, there was a civilization called Kievan Rus, based in Kiev," said Applebaum. "Both Russia and Ukraine trace their origins back to that state." That civilization is said to have been founded in the ninth century by Vikings. "But it's, of course, many centuries...
Empire (18th–19th centuries) Soviet period and beyond (20th century) Judging by the historical records, by approximately 1000 AD the predominant ethnic group over much of modern European Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus was the Eastern branch of the Slavs, speaking a closely related group of dia...
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