Russian History: Imperial Period (1689-1916)

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Chronology of Russian History: Imperial Period - (dead link)
From Chronology of Russian History - (dead link) by Robert Beard, Bucknell Russian Studies Department

Alexander II and His Times
A Narrative History of Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky
"...the work presented here interweaves the personal and public lives of Alexander II, Bakunin, Dostoevsky, Herzen, the Soloviev family, Tolstoy, Turgenev, the revolutionary Sophia Perovskaya, and others."
By Walter Moss

The Anglo-Russian Entente, 1907

The Beginnings of Railways on Russia
by Kevin Fink

The Boxer Rebellion
Brief summary

Catherine I (Ekaterina Alexeevna)
Empress of All Russia (1725-1727)

Catherine The Great (Ekaterina Alexeevna)
Empress of All Russia (1762-1796)

The Emancipation Manifesto - (dead link)
March 3, 1741

The Empire That Was Russia:
The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated
Sections include: Photographer to the Tsar ; Architecture ; Ethnic Diversity ; Transportation ; People at Work.
A Library of Congress [U.S.] Exhibit

The Evil Monk: The Life and Times of Gregory Efimovich Rasputin - (dead link)
By Arturo BeÈche

The Feodor Volkov Regional Drama Theatre - (dead link)
"In 1750 Fyodor Volkov founded the first Russian professional theatre in Yaroslavl."

History of St. Petersburg
Illustrated Short History of St. Petersburg, Russia
From St. Petersburg At Your Fingertips

"Napoleon in Russia: Saviour or Anti-Christ" - (dead link)
By Janet Hartley, Lecturer in International History, London School of Economics
Originally published in History Today, Vol. 41, 1991.

"The Ninth Circle: The Lena Goldfield Workers and the Massacre of 4 April 1912" - (dead link)
By Michael Melancon; Originally published in Slavic Review, Fall 1994.

The October Manifesto of 1905 - (dead link)

Peace Treaty of San Stefano (March 3, 1878) [The Berlin Treaty]
Ended the Russo-Turkish war

Peter I's Table of Ranks - (dead link)

Peter The Great
Brief summary from the St. Petersburg Times' Romanov Timeline

Programme of the Russian Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party, 1905 - (dead link)

St. Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Certain Explosive Projectiles (November 29 - December 11, 1748)

The Stolypin Agrarian Reform (1906) - (dead link)
On Peasants Leaving the Land Commune

The Reinsurance Treaty, June 18, 1887

Romanov Timeline
Face to Face with the Czars
"The Romanov Dynasty begins in 1613 and ends with the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Explore Russia's rich history through the lives of some of its most famous leaders. Click on a date and meet face-to-face with the rulers of the House of Romanov."
By Alexei K. Levykin, St. Petersburg Times

The Russian Fundamental Law of 1906 - (dead link)

The Russian Post-Emancipation Household: Two Villages in the Moscow Area
1995 Master Thesis in History (University of Bergen) by Herdis Kolle

The Three Emperors' League, June 18, 1881

Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War, 1905

Under the Romanovs
Chapter from the online book The History of Russian Navy

Treaty concerning the Cession of the Russian Possessions in North America (June 20, 1747) - (dead link)

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