Roushie Empire

Roushie Empire

Россійская Имперія  (Pre-reformed Russian)
Российская империя  (RussianCyrillic)
Rossiyskaya imperiya  (transliteration)
1721–1917
Motto: "S nami Bog!"Съ нами Богъ!"God is with us!"
Anthemnone
Imperial anthem
Bozhe, Tsarya khrani!Боже, Царя храни!"God Save the Tsar!"
Location o Roushie
CaipitalSt. Petersburg (main caipital), Moscow
Common leidsOffeecial
Roushie
Regional
Releegion
Offeecial
Roushie Orthodox
GovrenmentAbsolute 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
Emperor exercises legislative
pouer in conjunction wi the
State Cooncil an State Duma[1]
• 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
186622,800,000 km2 (8,800,000 sq mi)
191621,799,825 km2 (8,416,959 sq mi)
Population
• 1916
181,537,800
CurrencyRuble
ISO 3166 codeRU
Precedit bi
Succeedit bi
Tsardom o Roushie
Roushie Republic
Ober Ost
Karafuto Prefectur
Department o Alaska
Northren Caucasus
State oBuryat-Mongolie
The day pairt o
  • a. ^ Efter 1866, Alaska wis sold tae the Unitit States, but Batumi, Kars, Pamir an Transcaspia war acquired.
  • b. ^ Renamed Petrograd in 1914.
  • c. ^ Roushie continued tae uise the Julian calendar till efter the
    collapse o the empire (see Auld Style an New Style dates).

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

  1. "The Sovereign Emperor exercises legislative power in conjunction with the State Council and State Duma". Fundamental laws, art. 7
  2. . 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.