Science and Technology (Russian Empire) By Scott W. Palmer Although Russia made considerable progress in the decades preceding 1914, the onset of the First World War revealed the country's continuing dependency on foreign powers in sustaining its industrial, technological, and scientific systems. At the same time, the

Society. See also: History of Russian culture, Russian literature, Russian opera, Technology in the Russian Empire, and Cinema of the Russian Empire. It was a rural society spread over vast spaces; in 1913, 80% of the people were peasants. Soviet historiography proclaimed that the Russian Empire of the 19th century was characterized by systemic ...

16/03/2012 · The first electrified tram line was opened as late as 1881 in a Berlin suburb on the basis of designs by the Russian inventor. Alexander Poniatoff (Poniatov), a student of the founding father of ...

27/02/2017 · Between 1850 and 1900, the Russian Empire’s population doubled but remained rural with agricultural technology underdeveloped. Peasants accounted for four-fifths of the rural population; and large estates of more than 31 square miles (50 sq km), which accounted for 20 percent of all farmland, were inefficient.

As a young man he took the first of several trips to Europe, where he studied shipbuilding and other western technologies, as well as governing styles and social customs. He returned to Russia convinced that the empire could only become powerful by imitating western successes, and he instituted a number of reforms that revolutionized it:

Russian Empire. On January, 31, 1667, the Truce of Andrusovo was concluded, in which the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ceded Smolensk, Severia and Chernigov, and, on paper only for a period of two years, the city of Kiev to the Tsardom of Russia.Finally, the Eternal Peace of 1686 acknowledged the status quo, and put Kiev under the control of Russia for the centuries to …