Russian Empire

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autocracy former empire monarchy sovereign state

The Russian Empire was a vast, autocratic state that existed from 1721 to 1917, spanning Eastern Europe, Northern Asia, and parts of North America, and serving as a major political and military power in world affairs.

Aliases (17)

Imperial Russia ×16
Tsarist Russia ×4
Russian Empire period ×3
Russian monarchy ×3
Imperial Russian government ×2
Russian America ×2
Russian imperial government ×2
Russian state ×2
Government of the Russian Empire ×1
Imperial Russia era ×1
Imperial Russian period ×1
Imperial government of Russia ×1
Russian Empire (Caucasus region) ×1
Russian Empire (diplomatic supporter of Austria) ×1
Russian Imperial government ×1
Tsarist authorities of the Russian Empire ×1
imperial Russia ×1

Statements (88)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	autocracy → former empire → monarchy → sovereign state →
administrativeDivision	guberniyas (governorates) → oblasts → okruhs →
alliance	Holy Alliance → Triple Entente →
alsoKnownAs	Imperial Russia → Tsarist Russia →
areaPeakApprox	over 22 million square kilometers →
borderedBy	Austro-Hungarian Empire → German Empire → Ottoman Empire → Persia → Qing dynasty →
capital	Moscow → Saint Petersburg →
coatOfArms	Imperial coat of arms of Russia →
continent	Asia → Europe → North America →
conventionalLongName	Russian Empire →
country	Russia →
currency	Russian ruble →
dissolutionEvent	Abdication of Nicholas II → February Revolution →
dissolutionReason	Russian Revolution of 1917 →
economicActivity	agriculture → serf-based agriculture (until 1861) →
endTime	1917 →
firstRuler	Peter the Great →
flag	black-yellow-white tricolour (imperial flag) → white-blue-red tricolour (merchant and later national flag) →
followedBy	Russian Republic → Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic → Soviet Union →
founder	Peter the Great →
governmentForm	absolute monarchy → autocracy →
greatPower	19th century → early 20th century →
headOfStateTitle	Emperor of All Russia → Tsar →
lastRuler	Nicholas II of Russia →
legalStatusOfMonarch	autocrat of all the Russias →
legalSystem	autocratic law under the Emperor →
legislature	State Duma →
majorWar	Crimean War → Napoleonic Wars → Russo-Japanese War → Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) → World War I →
navalAccess	Baltic Sea → Black Sea → Pacific Ocean →
notableEvent	Bloody Sunday (1905) → Decembrist revolt → Revolution of 1905 →
notablePolicy	Russification →
notableRuler	Alexander I of Russia → Alexander II of Russia → Catherine the Great → Nicholas I of Russia →
officialLanguage	Russian →
partOf	Concert of Europe →
populationPeakApprox	over 170 million →
precededBy	Tsardom of Russia →
rankByArea	one of the largest empires in history →
reform	Emancipation of the serfs (1861) →
religion	Russian Orthodox Church →
rulingDynasty	House of Romanov →
startTime	1721 →
stateReligion	Eastern Orthodoxy →
symbol	double-headed eagle →
territoryIncludes	Alaska → Baltic provinces → Belarus → Caucasus → Central Asia → Eastern Europe → Finland → Northern Asia → Poland → Siberia → Transcaucasia → Ukraine →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ahad Ha'am → Albert Cavos → Aleksandr Khinchin → Aleksandr Lyapunov → Aleksandr Vasilevsky → Aleksey Kuropatkin → Alexander Friedmann → Alexander Grin → Alexander I of Russia → Alexander II of Russia → Alexander III of Russia → Alexander Kolchak → Alexander Menshikov → Alexander Pushkin → Alexander Suvorov → Alexander Svanidze → Alexandre Kojève → Alexei Maximovich Peshkov → Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia → Alix of Hesse and by Rhine → Alla Nazimova → Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia → Anastasie Arapova → Andrei Tupolev → Andrei Vyshinsky → Andrey Yeremenko → Anna Pavlovna of Russia → Anna Petrovna, Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp → Anton Chekhov → Anton Denikin → Archimandrite Ignaty → Auguste de Montferrand → Boris Shaposhnikov → Carlo Rossi → Catherine I of Russia → Catherine II of Russia → Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov → Domenico Trezzini → Dovid Bergelson → Eduard de Stoeckl → Ekaterina Dolgorukova → Ekaterina Pavlovna Volzhina → Eliyahu Berligne → Elizabeth of Russia → Empress Alexandra Feodorovna → Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia → Felix Dzerzhinsky → Fredrik Idestam → Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald → Friedrich Robert Faehlmann → Fyodor Bruni → Fyodor Dostoevsky → Gala Dalí → Georgy Lvov → Georgy Zhukov → Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia → Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia → Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia → Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich → Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia → Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia → Grigori Rasputin → Grigory Zinoviev → Ilia Chavchavadze → Ioannis Kapodistrias → Ivan Aivazovsky → Ivan Bakayev → Joseph Stalin → Józef Piłsudski → Kato Svanidze → Kato Svanidze → Kato Svanidze → Kliment Voroshilov → Konstantin Tsiolkovsky → Lavr Kornilov → Lazar Kaganovich → Leo Pinsker → Leo Tolstoy → Leon Trotsky → Lydia Lopokova → Lydia Lopokova → Maksim Gorky → Margarita Petrovna → Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) → Maria Nikolaevna of Russia → Maria Ulyanova → Marta Helena Skowrońska → Matthias Castrén → Maxim Litvinov → Maxim Peshkov → Menachem Ussishkin → Mendele Mocher Sforim → Mikhail Alekseyev → Mikhail Bakunin → Mikhail Frunze → Mikhail Gorchakov → Mikhail Kalinin → Mikhail Kutuzov → Mikhail Lomonosov → Mikhail Tukhachevsky → Nadezhda Krupskaya → Natalia Alexeievna of Russia → Natalia Petrovna → Natalia Sedova → Nestor Makhno → Nicholas I of Russia → Nicholas II of Russia → Nicolas Berdyaev → Nikolai Bukharin → Nikolai Gogol → Nikolai Rumyantsev → Nikolai Yezhov → Nikolai Yudenich → Nikolai Zinin → Nikolay Krasnov → Olga Khokhlova → Olga Naumova → Olga Nikolaevna of Russia → Otto von Kotzebue → Paul I of Russia → Pavel Alexandrov → Pavel Nakhimov → Pavel Postyshev → Peter III of Russia → Peter Kropotkin →	countryOfCitizenship
1905 Russian Revolution → Anna of Russia → Armenian Oblast → Artillery School of Saint Petersburg → Baku Governorate → Battle of Alma → Battle of Inkerman → Battle of the Chernaya → Berditchev, Russian Empire → Black Sea Governorate → Bloody Sunday (1905) → Bombardment of Odessa → Brusilov Offensive → Caucasus Military District → Caucasus Oblast → Caucasus Viceroyalty → Constitutional Democratic Party → Decembrist revolt → Elisavetgrad, Russian Empire → Elisavetpol → Elisavetpol Governorate → Elizabeth of Russia → Emancipation reform of 1861 → Emperor of All the Russias → Empress of Russia → Erivan Governorate → Erivan uezd → Governorate of Livonia → Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia → House of Romanov → Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg → Imperial Ballet School → Imperial Crown of Russia → Imperial Crown with ribbon connecting side crowns → Imperial Moscow Technical School → Imperial Russian Army → Imperial Russian Ballet → Imperial Russian Navy → Imperial double-headed eagle of Russia → Jebrail uezd → Jevanshir uezd → Kalinovka, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire → Kars Oblast → Kherson Governorate → Kiev Governorate → Kutais Governorate → Lesser coat of arms of the Russian Empire → Local Council of 1917–1918 → Marta Samuilovna Skavronskaya → Mensheviks → Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga → Ministry of Finance of the Russian Empire → Niva → Novo-Bayazet uezd → Orenburg Cossack forces → Peter II of Russia → Petrine era → Petrograd Institute of Civil Engineering → Petrograd Soviet → Prince Menshikov → Riga Polytechnic Institute → Russian Enlightenment → Russian Pacific Squadron → Russian Partition of Poland → Russian Revolution → Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) → Russian battleship Retvizan → Russian battleship Tsesarevich → Russian ruble (Empire) → Ryazan Governorate → Sharur-Daralayaz uezd → Shusha uezd → Siege of Perekop (1736) → Simbirsk, Russian Empire → Smolensk Governorate → Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania → Socialist Revolutionary Party → State Bank of the Russian Empire → Surmalu uezd → Taurida Oblast → Terek Oblast → Tiflis Governorate → Tiflis Spiritual Seminary → Tolstoy family → Tsaritsyn → Tula Governorate → Tver Governorate → Ural Cossack forces → Viceroy of the Caucasus → Vilna Governorate → War Ministry of the Russian Empire → Wilgelm Vitgeft → World War I home front in the Russian Empire → Yekaterinoslav Governorate → Zakatal Okrug → Zangezur uezd → Zinovy Rozhestvensky → black-yellow-white tricolour (imperial flag) → guberniya →	country
Abba Ahimeir → Abraham Zapruder → Achmed Abdullah → Al Jolson → Alexander Kerensky → Alfred Rosenberg → Anatole Litvak → Anton Denikin → Ben Shahn → Berl Katznelson → Boris Pasternak → David Sarnoff → Der Nister → Eliyahu Berligne → Eliyahu Dobkin → Emma Goldman → George Kistiakowsky → Georgy Malenkov → Golda Meir → Harry Warner → Herbert Backe → Hermann Minkowski → Igor Markevitch → Igor Stravinsky → Ivan Bagramyan → Jack Delano → Joseph M. Schenck → Karinska → Kato Svanidze → Konstantin Mereschkowski → Lev Kamenev → Lev Landau → Louis B. Mayer → Lydia Lopokova → Meir Vilner → Nikita Khrushchev → Ossip Gabrilowitsch → Peter Kapitza → Pyotr Krasnov → Rosa Luxemburg → Rosa Luxemburg → Rose Friedman → Samuel Goldwyn → Serge Koussevitzky → Sholem Rabinovich → Solomon Lefschetz → Stanislav Kosior → Vitaly Ginzburg → Vsevolod Meyerhold → Vyacheslav Molotov → Yitzhak Gruenbaum → Yitzhak Shamir → Zerach Warhaftig →	countryOfBirth
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld → Aleksandra Sokolovskaya → Alexander Herzen → Alexander Kerensky → Anna Petrovna → Bartolomeo Rastrelli → Berl Katznelson → Boris Pasternak → Der Nister → Eliyahu Dobkin → Emma Goldman → Georgi Plekhanov → Georgy Malenkov → I. L. Peretz → Igor Stravinsky → Ivan Bagramyan → Karinska → Karl Bryullov → Konstantin Mereschkowski → L. L. Zamenhof → Leo Pinsker → Lev Kuleshov → Marc Chagall → Marta Samuilovna Skavronskaya → Nikolai Sokoloff → Ossip Gabrilowitsch → Peter Kapitza → Prince Menshikov → Roman von Ungern-Sternberg → Rosa Luxemburg → Rosa Luxemburg → Serge Koussevitzky → Sholem Rabinovich → Vitus Bering → Vsevolod Meyerhold → Vyacheslav Molotov → Wassily Kandinsky →	citizenship
Anglo-Russian invasion of the Netherlands → Baltic campaign → Battle of Alma → Battle of Balaclava → Battle of Borodino → Battle of Friedland → Battle of Gallipoli → Battle of Inkerman → Battle of Kay → Battle of Kunersdorf → Battle of Leipzig → Battle of Mukden → Battle of Port Arthur → Battle of Sinop → Battle of Tannenberg → Battle of the Chernaya → Bombardment of Odessa → Brusilov Offensive → Caucasus campaign → Charge of the Light Brigade → Danube campaign → Dardanelles naval operations → French invasion of Russia → Patriotic War of 1812 → Polish–Russian War (1792) → Russian advance toward Berlin (1759) → Russo-Japanese War → Siege of Perekop (1736) → Siege of Port Arthur → Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) → Third Silesian War → War of the Bavarian Succession ("Russian Empire (diplomatic supporter of Austria)") → War of the Fourth Coalition → War of the Second Coalition → War of the Sixth Coalition → War of the Third Coalition →	belligerent
Abraham Joshua Heschel → Alexander III of Russia → Alexander Kolchak → Alexander Suvorov → Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia → David Ben-Gurion → David Grün → Eliel Saarinen → Georgi Plekhanov → Giorgi Melitonis dze Balanchivadze → Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia → Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia → I. L. Peretz → Isaiah Berlin → Ivan Aivazovsky → Ivan VI of Russia → Karl Bryullov → L. L. Zamenhof → Lev Kuleshov → Marc Chagall → Meyer Lansky → Mikhail Frunze → Mikhail Lomonosov → Nicholas I of Russia → Nicholas II of Russia → Otto von Kotzebue → Paul I of Russia → Sergei Eisenstein → Vasily Chuikov → Yehuda Leib Maimon → Yitzhak Ben-Zvi → Yitzhak-Meir Levin → Ze'ev Jabotinsky →	birthPlace
Anglo-Russian invasion of the Netherlands → Baltic campaign → Battle of Mukden → Battle of Sinop → Battle of Tsushima → Battle of the Yellow Sea → Caucasian War → Caucasus campaign → Danube campaign → French Revolutionary Wars → Greek War of Independence → Monastir Offensive → Renversement des alliances → Russian Civil War → Russian advance toward Berlin (1759) → Siege of Port Arthur → Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) → War of the Seventh Coalition → Western Front (World War I) →	countryInvolved
Aleksey Kuropatkin → Alexander Kolchak → Alexei Razumovsky → Ivan Bagramyan → John Paul Jones → Konstantin Rokossovsky → Mikhail Kirponos → Mikhail Tukhachevsky → Pavel Nakhimov → Pyotr Bagration → Pyotr Krasnov ("Imperial Russia") → Roman von Ungern-Sternberg → Semyon Timoshenko → Wilgelm Vitgeft → Zinovy Rozhestvensky →	allegiance
Mint Building → Monplaisir Palace → Mühlberg hill → Nicholas II diaries ("Imperial Russia") → Nicholas II diaries ("Russian monarchy") → Pushkin, Saint Petersburg → Russian Revival → Samson Fountain → Stanisław II Augustus Poniatowski → White Hall (Livadia Palace) → Étienne-Maurice Falconet →	associatedWith
Emperor of All the Russias → Ministry of Finance of the Russian Empire → Russian Partition of Poland → State Bank of the Russian Empire → Tsar of Russia → War Ministry of the Russian Empire →	appliesToJurisdiction
Congress Poland → Danubian Principalities → Emirate of Afghanistan → Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti → Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland) → Sanjak of Batum →	borderedBy
Crimea → Crimean Khanate → Kingdom of Imereti → Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti → Kokand Khanate →	annexedBy
Alexander Herzen → Anna Pavlovna of Russia → Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim → Olga Khokhlova → Wassily Kandinsky →	birthCountry
Eastern Front (World War I) → Pacific theater of the Russo-Japanese War → Polish–Russian War (1792) → Russo-Japanese War →	conflictBetween
Aleksandra Sokolovskaya → Alexei Razumovsky → Frederick Gardner →	countryOfActivity
Russian Empire ("Imperial Russia") → Russian Empire ("Tsarist Russia") →	alsoKnownAs
Imperial Russian administrative system → Table of Ranks reform →	appliesTo
Gözleve → Tatars →	conqueredBy
Battle of Balaclava → Battle of Borodino →	countryAtTime
Mensheviks →	activeIn
Poale Zion →	activeInRegion
Maxim machine gun →	adoptedBy
Dadiani family →	alliedWith
Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia →	allyOf
Otto of Greece →	appointedBy
Eliyahu Berligne →	areaOfActivity
Alaska was economically worthless →	associatedWithCountry
Cossacks →	associatedWithState
Anna Petrovna, Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp →	associatedWithTerritory
Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland) →	autonomyGraduallyReducedBy
Treaty of Tilsit →	between
Left-bank Ukraine →	cameUnderControlOf
St. Petersburg →	capitalOf
Treaty of Paris (1856) →	cededTerritoryFrom
Treaty of San Stefano →	cededTerritoryTo
Sugpiaq →	colonialContactWith
Unangas →	colonialHistoryWith
Unangan →	colonizedBy
Battle of Kay →	combatant
Battle of the Yellow Sea →	combatant2
Vitus Bering ("Russian Imperial government") →	commissionedBy
Crimean War →	conflictBelligerent
Batavian army →	conflictWith
Kaunas Fortress →	controlledBy
Russian Empire →	conventionalLongName
Concert of Europe →	coreMember
Muscovy →	coreOf
Hrodna →	countryDuring
Loukko manor, Askainen, Grand Duchy of Finland →	countryDuringBirthOfMannerheim
Alexandropol uezd →	countryDuringExistence
Flying University →	countryDuringOperation
Amber Room →	countryLocatedIn
Allied Powers of World War I →	countryMember
Crimea →	CrimeanWarBelligerent