Roushie Empire
Roushie Empire | |||||||||||||||||||
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1721–1917 | |||||||||||||||||||
Motto: "S nami Bog!"Съ нами Богъ!"God is with us!" | |||||||||||||||||||
Caipital | St. Petersburg (main caipital), Moscow | ||||||||||||||||||
Common leids | Offeecial Roushie | ||||||||||||||||||
Releegion | Offeecial Roushie Orthodox Minority | ||||||||||||||||||
Govrenment | Absolute monarchy (1721–1906) Constitutional monarchy (1906–1917) | ||||||||||||||||||
Emperor | |||||||||||||||||||
• 1721–1725 (first) | Peter I | ||||||||||||||||||
• 1894–1917 (last) | Nicholas II | ||||||||||||||||||
Chairman o theCooncil o Meenisters | |||||||||||||||||||
• 1905–1906 (first) | Sergei Witte | ||||||||||||||||||
• 1917 (last) | Nikolai Golitsyn | ||||||||||||||||||
Legislatur | |||||||||||||||||||
• Upper house | State Cooncil | ||||||||||||||||||
• Lower house | State Duma | ||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||
• Accession o Peter I | 7 May [O.S. 27 Apr] 1682[c] | ||||||||||||||||||
• Empire proclaimed | 22 Oct [O.S. 11 Oct] 1721 | ||||||||||||||||||
• Decembrist revolt | 26 Dec [O.S. 14 Dec] 1825 | ||||||||||||||||||
• Feudalism abolished | 3 Mar [O.S. 19 Feb] 1861 | ||||||||||||||||||
• 1905 Revolution | Jan–Dec 1905 | ||||||||||||||||||
• Constitution adoptit | 6 May [O.S. 23 Apr] 1906 | ||||||||||||||||||
• Februar Revolution | 15 Mar [O.S. 2 Mar] 1917 | ||||||||||||||||||
• October Revolution | 7 Nov [O.S. 25 Oct] 1917 | ||||||||||||||||||
Aurie | |||||||||||||||||||
1866 | 22,800,000 km2 (8,800,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||||||
1916 | 21,799,825 km2 (8,416,959 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||||||||||
• 1916 | 181,537,800 | ||||||||||||||||||
Currency | Ruble | ||||||||||||||||||
ISO 3166 code | RU | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Roushie Empire (Pre-reform Roushie orthografie: Россійская Имперія, Modren Roushie: Российская империя, translit: Rossiyskaya Imperiya) wis a state that existit frae 1721 till owerthrown bi the short-lived leeberal Februar Revolution in 1917.[2]
References
- ↑ "The Sovereign Emperor exercises legislative power in conjunction with the State Council and State Duma". Fundamental laws, art. 7
- ↑ . Swain says, "The first government to be formed after the February Revolution of 1917 had, with one exception, been composed of liberals." Geoffrey Swain (2014). Trotsky and the Russian Revolution. Routledge. p. 15.; also see Alexander Rabinowitch (2008). The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd. Indiana UP. p. 1.