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The Great Northern War
The Great Northern War was a conflict in whicha coallition led by the Tsardom of Russia. The War started when an alliance Denmark-Norway, Saxonia and Russia declared war on the Swedish Empire, launching a three fold attack at Swedish holstein-gottorp, Swedish Livonia, and Swedish Ingria. -
The Decimbrist Revolt
The Decembrist Revolt toke place in Imperial Russia on December 26, 1825. Russian army officers led 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the thrown after his elder brother Constantine removed himself from the line of succession. The rebels were then called the Decembrists because of the events that happened in December. This uprising, which was supressed by Nicholas I, toke place in Senate Square in St. Petersburg. -
Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command. In Russia the traditional relationship between lord and serf was based on land. It was because he lived on his land that the serf was bound to the lord. Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared unlawful by presidential order -
The Assassination of Alexander II
A bomb was thrown under his iron-clad carriage, to stop it. Several Circassians of the escort were wounded. Rysakóff, who flung the bomb was arrested on the spot. Then, although the coachman of the Tsar earnestly advised him not to get out, saying that he could drive him still in the slightly damaged carriage, he insisted upon alighting.Grinevétsky, the latter threw a bomb between himself and Alexander II, so that both of them should be killed. They both lived for a few hours after. -
The Russo-Japenese War
The first great war of the 20th century. Russians began a new railway from Harbin through Mukden to Port Arthur. The development of the railway was a contributory factor to the Boxer Rebellion, and the railway stations at Tiehling and Lioyang were burned. The Russians also began to make inroads into Korea. By 1898 they had acquired mining and forestry concessions near the Yalu and Tumen rivers. Japan decided to strike back before the Trans-Siberian Railway was complete. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was a massacre on 22 January 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed, peaceful demonstrators marching to present a petition to the Tsar 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 regi -
World War I
It was originally called the World War or the Great War from its occurence until World War II in 1939. It involved all of the worlds great powers, which were assembled in two oppisong alliances. These alliances both reorganized and expanded as more nations entered the war. More than 70 million military personel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million were killed. -
The March Revolution
It all stared when 90 000 textile workers went on strike in Russia protesting about the shortage of fuel and bread. Many people joined and by the end of the week 400 000 people had joined the cause. Signs that said "Down with the Tsar" and "Down with the war" were displayed. The Tsar (or czar spelt both ways) had banned protesting so he sent out the military to shoot the protesters. Instead the army shot their officers and joined the cause.
