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The Great Northern War
Russia and lacked a secure northern seaport, except at Archangel on the White Sea, whose harbor was frozen for nine months a year. Access to the Baltic was blocked by Sweden, whose territory enclosed it on three sides. Peter's ideas for a window to the sea led him in 1699 to make a alliance with Saxony, and Denmark against Sweden, resulting in the Great Northern War. The war ended in 1721. -
The Decembrist Revolt
Took place at St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. About 3,000 soldiers led by russian army officers, led the protest to get Nicholas I off the throne. The protest took place in December so the protestors were called Decembirists. -
Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
The 1861 Emancipation Manifesto proclaimed the emancipation of the serfs on private estates and of the domestic serfs. By this edict more than twenty-three million people received their liberty. Serfs were granted the full rights of free citizens, gaining the rights to marry without having to gain consent, to own property and to own a business. -
The assasanation of Alexander II
Alexander fell victim to an assassination plot in Saint Petersburg.
As he was known to do every Sunday for many years, the emperor went to the Mikhailovsky Manège for the military roll call. He travelled both to and from the Manège in a closed carriage accompanied by six Cossacks with a seventh sitting on the coachman's left. The emperor's carriage was followed by two sleighs carrying, among others, the chief of police and the chief of the emperor's guards. The bomb was thrown under thecarrige. -
. Bloody Sunday
Was a massacare St. Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed, peaceful demonstrators marching to present a petition to the Czar Nicholas II were gunned down by the Imperial Guard while approaching the city center and the Winter Palace from several gathering points. The shooting did not occur in the Palace Square. Bloody Sunday was an event with grave consequences for the Tsarist regime. to the disagree of ordinary people shown by the massacre undermined support for the state. -
Revolution of 1905
Was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. Some of it was directed against the government, while some was undirected. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies. It led to the establishment of limited constitutional monarchy, the State Duma of the Russian Empire, the multi-party system, and the Russian Constitution of 1906. -
Russo-Japanese War
Russo-Japanese War was the first great war of the 20th century.It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden; and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne
Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place. Crowned on May 26, 1894, Nicholas was neither trained nor inclined to rule, which did not help the autocracy he thought to preserve in an era desperate for change. -
The March Revolution
The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. The Tsar was deposed and replaced by a provisional government in the first revolution of February 1917 March in the Gregorian calendar; the older Julian calendar was in use in Russia at the time. In the second revolution, during October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a Communist government -
World War 1
Russia was involved because they sent the most troops to the war. Russia's empire then fell and they then were moving into a different direction. When the Russians got blown out of every battle they were in. This being involved in the war caused the government to fail and the rise of the Soviet Union.
