The Imperial Russian Navy (Russian: Российский императорский флот) operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917. Formally established in 1696, it lasted until dissolved in the wake of the February Revolution of 1917. It developed from a smaller force that had existed prior to Tsar Peter the Great's founding of the modern …

It was not rescheduled before the Russian Revolution. The next census in Russia only occurred at the end of 1926, almost three decades later. Organization. The census project was suggested during 1877 by Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky, a famous Russian geographer and ... Publication of the results started during 1898 and ended in 1905. In total, 119 volumes for 89 guberniyas, …

The All-Russian nation (Russian: общерусский народ, obshcherusskiĭ narod) or triune Russian nation (триединый русский народ, triedinyĭ Russkiĭ narod), also called the pan-Russian nation (Ukrainian: пан-руський народ, pan-Rus′kyǐ narod), is the term for a irredentist ideology that sees the Russian nation as comprising a "trinity" of sub-nations: Great Russia, …

Die Russische Revolution von 1905 (russisch Революция 1905 года в России, Rewoljuzija 1905 goda w Rossii) umfasst eine Reihe von 1905 bis ins Jahr 1907 andauernder revolutionärer Unruhen im russischen Kaiserreich, ausgelöst vor allem durch den russisch-japanischen Krieg und den Petersburger Blutsonntag von 1905. Die Maßnahmen, mit denen die Regierung des …

Workers' councils. According to the official historiography of the Soviet Union, the first workers' council (soviet) formed in May 1905 in Ivanovo (north-east of Moscow) during the 1905 Russian Revolution (Ivanovsky Soviet).However, in his memoirs, the Russian Anarchist Volin claims that he witnessed the beginnings of the St Petersburg Soviet in January 1905. The Russian …

The Imperial Russian Army (Russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. Rússkaya imperátorskaya ármiya) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Army consisted of more than 900,000 regular soldiers and nearly 250,000 irregulars (mostly Cossacks

Okhrana group photograph in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire in 1905: Agency overview; Formed: 1881; 141 years ago () Dissolved: ... Following the outbreak of the 1905 Revolution and assassination of Plehve, Pyotr Stolypin, as the new MVD Minister and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, set up a nationwide net of Security Stations. By 1908 there were 31 Stations, and …

Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 combined with a rising tide of revolutionary feeling in Russia to produce the Russian Revolution of 1905. This upheaval was initially provoked by Bloody Sunday, in which thousands of unarmed protesters (largely urban workers and intellectuals) seeking to present a petition to the Tsar were met by imperial troops, who …

Gangut (Russian: Гангут) was both the lead ship of the Gangut-class dreadnoughts of the Imperial Russian Navy built before World War I and the last of her class to be completed. She was named after the Russian victory over the Swedish Navy in the Battle of Gangut in 1714. She was completed during the winter of 1914–1915, but was not ready for combat until mid-1915.

The Kishinev pogrom or Kishinev massacre was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev (modern Chișinău, Moldova), then the capital of the Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire, on 19–21 April [O.S. 6–8 April] 1903. A second pogrom erupted in the city in October 1905. In the pogrom of 1903, which began on Easter Day, 49 Jews were killed, 92 were …