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Imperial Russia

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The Russian Empire (or Imperial Russia) covers the period of Russian history from the expansion of the state of Muscovy under Peter the Great into the Russian Empire stretching from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposition of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start of the Russian Revolution in 1917.


Early Imperial Russia

Ruling the Empire Transformation of Russia in the Nineteenth Century The Last Years of the Autocracy