Pоссийская Империя (ru–Cyrl)
Rossiyskaya Imperiya (translit)
The Russian Empire |
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1721–1917 |
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Motto
Съ нами Богъ!
(God is with us!) |
Anthem
"God Save The Tsar!" |
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The Russian Empire in 1866 [1] |
| Capital |
Saint Petersburg (1721–28)
Moscow (1728–30)
Saint Petersburg/Petrograd (1730–1918) |
| Language(s) |
Official: Russian
Recognised regional languages: Finnish, Swedish, Polish
Second language: French |
| Religion |
State Church: Russian Orthodox
Minorities:Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Old Believers, Muslims, Buddhists |
| Government |
Absolute Monarchy |
| Emperor |
| - 1721–1725 |
Peter I |
| - 1894–1917 |
Nicholas II |
| Legislature |
State Duma |
| History |
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| - Accession of Peter I |
May 7, 1682 NS,
April 27, 1682 OS¹ |
| - Empire proclaimed |
October 22, 1721 NS,
October 11, 1721 OS |
| - Decembrist revolt |
December 26, 1825 NS,
December 14, 1825 OS |
| - Abolition of feudalism |
March 3, 1861 NS,
February 19, 1861 OS |
| - Revolution of 1905 |
January–December 1905 |
| - Constitution |
April 23, 1906 |
| - February Revolution |
March 15, 1917 NS,
March 2, 1917 OS |
| - October Revolution |
November 7, 1917 NS,
October 25, 1917 OS |
| Area |
| - 1916 |
21,799,825 km2 (8,416,959 sq mi) |
| Population |
| - 1916 est. |
181,537,800 |
| Density |
8.3 /km2 (21.6 /sq mi) |
| Currency |
Ruble |
| 1: Russia continued to use the Julian calendar until after the collapse of the empire; see Old Style and New Style dates. |
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