He presided over the redrawing of the map of Europe at the Congress of Vienna (1815), which ultimately made Alexander the monarch of Congress Poland. The "Holy Alliance" was proclaimed, linking the monarchist great powers of Austria, Prussia, and Russia. Although the Russian Empire played a ...
New Townis a product of 19th-century expansion which was minor in Vilnius comparing it to major metropolises of the Western Europe but nevertheless increased the Vilnius population fourfold (from 50 000 in 1800 to over 210 000 in 1914). Naujamiestis was conceived by the Russian Empire to be ...
And here is a map of the Allies and the Central Powers in World War One.1914 Europe: Allied, Central, and Neutral Powers Click to enlargeThe question for the Czech Legion was, how to get back home. It was impossible to take the direct way back through the battle lines of WWI. So, ...
A new map of the Russian Empire [electronic resource]: divided into its governments, from the latest authoritiesJohn , ca. Cary
According to their data, the population of the region decreased by more than two million people compared to 1914. In a history textbook for tenth graders, the Russian Empire’s policy towards Kazakhstan is described by the author [sic] with terms like “territorial expansion,”“protectorate,”...
divided into the area directly acquired by Russia in 1795 and the area acquired from Prussia after the Napoleonic wars (in 1815). The latter was part of the nominally autonomous Kingdom of Poland and lived under the Napoleonic Code whereas the earlier was directly ruled by the Russian Empire....
(used from 1914-1917) TheState Bank of the Russian Empire, the first central bank in Russia, served as the dominant financial institution from 1860 until the end of the Russian Empire in 1917. On 7 November 1917, the first day of theOctober Revolution, an armed detachment under direct orde...
For a discussion of the circumstances and events leading up to the February 1917 revolution, see Rex A. Wade,The Russian Revolution, 1917, third ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 28–52; Mikhail Zygar,The Empire Must Die: Russia’s Revolutionary Collapse, 1900–1917(New Yor...
with Étienne Falconet’s black statue of Peter the Great on his rearing horse atop a massive rock. Sometimes I saw newlyweds by the statue popping corks as an icy wind blew in across the Neva River and made the champagne foam fly. They were standing at a former pivot point of empire....
In 1914, when his native Finland was still part of the Russian Empire, he traveled around Samara province and recorded music of traditional fiddlers from local Erzya Mordva villages on wax cylinders. These recordings have been preserved in the Finnish archives. ...