Russia (Tsardom, later Empire)

Overview

The Russian Empire was the final period of the Russian monarchy, spanning most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about 22,800,000 km2 (8,800,000 sq mi), roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the third-largest empire in history, behind only the British and Mongol empires. It also colonized Alaska between 1799 and 1867. The empire's 1897 census, the only one it conducted, found a population of 125.6 million with considerable ethnic, linguistic, religious, and socioeconomic diversity.

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Borders & accuracy

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

• SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
• DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1900:Russian Empire
• SNAPSHOT1900
• MATCHEDRussian Empire
• POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire537

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

• World War I1914–18
  World-changing · 20M dead
• Eastern Front (World War I)1914–18
  World-changing · 6.0M dead
• Napoleonic Wars1803–15
  World-changing · 3.5M dead
• French Revolutionary Wars1792–1802
  World-changing · 1.5M dead
• Seven Years' War1756–63
  World-changing · 1.4M dead
• French Invasion of Russia1812
  World-changing · 1.0M dead
• War of the Sixth Coalition1812–14
  World-changing · 500K dead
• Battle of Poltava1709
  World-changing
• Russo-Circassian Genocide1763–1864
  Major conflict · 1.5M dead
• Russo-Circassian War1763–1864
  Major conflict · 1.5M dead
• Russo-Turkish Wars1676–1878
  Major conflict · 1.0M dead
• Crimean War1853–56
  Major conflict · 600K dead
• Russian Expansion into Siberia1582–1700
  Major conflict · 500K dead
• Great Turkish War1683–99
  Major conflict · 500K dead
• War of the Austrian Succession1740–48
  Major conflict · 500K dead
• Swedish Great Northern War1700–21
  Major conflict · 300K dead
• Great Northern War1700–21
  Major conflict · 200K dead
• Hungarian Revolution1848–49
  Major conflict · 200K dead
• Russo-Japanese War1904–05
  Major conflict · 200K dead
• War of the Fourth Coalition1806–07
  Major conflict · 180K dead
• War of the Third Coalition1805
  Major conflict · 100K dead
• Time of Troubles1598–1618
  Major conflict
• Battle of Narva (1700)1700
  Major conflict
• War of the Second Coalition1798–1802
  Major conflict

+ 513 more in the atlas.