Российская Империя (ru–Cyrl)
Rossiyskaya Imperiya (translit)
The Russian Empire
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| Motto
Съ нами Богъ!
(God is with us!)
| Anthem
"God Save The Tsar!"
| | The Russian Empire in 1866 [1]
| | Capital
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Saint Petersburg (1721–28)
Moscow (1728–30)
Saint Petersburg/Petrograd (1730–1918)
| | Language(s)
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Official: Russian
Recognised regional languages: Finnish, Swedish, Polish
Second language: French
| | Religion
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State Church: Russian Orthodox
Minorities:Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Old Believers, Muslims, Buddhists
| | Government
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Absolute Monarchy
| | Emperor
| | - 1721–1725
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Peter I
| | - 1894–1917
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Nicholas II
| | Legislature
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State Duma
| | History
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| | - Accession of Peter I
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May 7, 1682 NS,
April 27, 1682 OS¹
| | - Empire proclaimed
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October 22, 1721 NS,
October 11, 1721 OS
| | - Decembrist revolt
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December 26, 1825 NS,
December 14, 1825 OS
| | - Abolition of feudalism
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March 3, 1861 NS,
February 19, 1861 OS
| | - Revolution of 1905
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January–December 1905
| | - Constitution
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April 23, 1906
| | - February Revolution
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March 15, 1917 NS,
March 2, 1917 OS
| | - October Revolution
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November 7, 1917 NS,
October 25, 1917 OS
| | Area
| | - 1916
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21,799,825 km2 (8,416,959 sq mi)
| | Population
| | - 1916 est.
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181,537,800
| | Density
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8.3 /km2 (21.6 /sq mi)
| | Currency
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Ruble
| | 1: Russia continued to use the Julian calendar until after the collapse of the empire; see Old Style and New Style dates.
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