Though the Empire was not officially proclaimed by Tsar Peter I until after the Treaty of Nystad (1721), some historians argue that it originated when Ivan III of Russia conquered Veliky Novgorodin 1478. According to another point

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By the end of the 19th century the area of the empire was about 22,400,000 square kilometers (8,600,000 sq mi), or almost 1⁄6 of the Earth's landmass; its only rival in size at the time was the

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From its initial creation until the 1905 Revolution, the Russian Empire was controlled by its tsar/emperor as an absolute monarch, under a system of tsarist autocracy. After the

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Alongside the local organs of the central government in Russia there are three classes of local elected bodies charged with administrative

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Railways
After 1860, the planning and building of the railway network had far-reaching effects on the economy,

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The Russian Empire's state religion was Orthodox Christianity. The Emperor was not allowed to "profess any faith other than the Orthodox" (Article

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The judicial system of the Russian Empire was established by the statute of 20 November 1864 of Alexander II. This system – based partly on English and Frenchlaw – was predicated on the separation of judicial and administrative functions, the

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