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Russification
This was aimed at suppresing the cultures of non-russian people within the empire. The Campaign also targeted jews and mulim people throughout the empire. The term refers to policies designed to spread russain culture and language among non-russians. While the ussr rejected russification, the soviet goverment was more successful in spreading the russian anguage than its tsarist predecessors. -
Alexander I
Alexander I inheited the throne in 1801 and was initially opened to liberal ideas. He eased censorship and promoted education. By the time Napolean invaded Russia in 1812,Alexander had drawn back from reform. He joined the conservative powers in opposing liberal and nationalist impluses in Europe. He died in 1825. -
Alexander II
Alexander the II is the eldest son of Emperor Nicholas I. Alexander was born in Moscow on April 17, 1818 and came to the throne on February 19, 1855. After the death of his father. He was crowned in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin on August 26, 1856. After his accession to the throne Alexander II accomplished important reforms, notably the abolition of serfdom, as well as changes in national, military and municipal organization. He also rethought foreign policy. -
Decembrist Revolt
In December of 1825 in St. Petersburg, Russia, a group of military officials staged a revolt against Tsar Nicholas I. Nicholas wanted the accomplish many new regulations to prevent the spread of the liberal movement in Russia. The Decembrist Revolt of 1825 was a conflict of similarities between Russian military liberals and the conservative tsar. Though easily put down by the tsar's forces, the revolt had bad consequences for both the tsar and the Russian people. -
Alexander III
Alexander III unexpectedly came to the throne in 1881 on the assassination of Alexander II. Alexander III was under no pressure that he could suffer the same fate as his father. He introduced repression of members as the corner stone of his reign. In 1866 Alexander married Princess Marie Dagmar, the daughter of King Kristian IX of Denmark and sister of Queen Alexandra of Britain. Alexander became Tsar of Russia on the assassination of Alexander II in 1881. -
Emancipation of serfs
On this day, Czar Alexander II emancipated the serfs of Russia. The 20 million serfs represented one-third of that nation’s population. The reform, together with a related reform in 1861, amounted to the liquidation of serf dependence previously suffered by peasants of the Russian Empire. In some of its parts the serfdom was ended earlier. -
Peter Stolypin
Peter Stolypin was a russian prime minister from 1906 to 1911. he was assinated at a theatre and is best remembered for his attempts at land reforms. His tenure was marked by efforts to repress revolutionary groups, as well as for the institution of noteworthy agrarian reforms. Peter hoped through his reforms, to stem peasant by creating a class of market-oriented small holding landowners. He is often known as one of the last major statesmen of Imperial Russia. -
Zemstvos
In 1864 Alexander II announced that he was allowing each district to set up Zemstvos. These were local councils with powers to get roads, schools and medical services. However the right to elect members was restricted to the wealthy. Zemstvos is one of the district and provincial assemblies established in Russia in 1864. The word came in 1865. Following the October Revolution the Zemstvos were closed down. -
nicolas II
He was the final Tsar of Russia. He had horrible leadership skills and was even hated by the Russians. He was then overthrown by the goverment which lead to the russian revolution. He gave his people hope that everything will be okay. Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. -
March 1881
Czar Alexander II, the ruler of Russia since 1855, was killed in the streets of St. Petersburg by a bomb thrown by the member of the revolutionary "People's Will" group. The People's Will organized in 1879 had terrorism and assassination in their attempt to overthrow Russia's czarist autocracy. They murdered officials and made several attempts on the czar's life before finally assassinating him on March 13, 1881. -
Pogroms
Russia gained a big Jewish population when it scooped up Poland and expanded into Ukraine. Alexander III limited the number of Jews allowed to study and practice their professions. He revived old laws that forced Jews to live in certain restricted areas. The persuction encouraged violent mob attack on Jews, known as Pogroms. Gangs beat, murdered Jews and even went as far as to burn down their houses. The police didn't stop the attack. Many Jews then escaped from russia. Some went to the U.S -
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Began in the 1890s and stretched 5,000 miles from european Russia to the Pacific Ocean. This was done to link iron and coal mines to factories and to transport goods across russia -
Vladimir Ulyanov
Older brother was executed for trying to kill Alexander III. Vladirmir used an alias name Lenin. He would then take power in a revolution that changed russia. -
War With Japan
Nicolas II called on his people to fight for ''the faith'',czar and the father's land'' but the russians suffered defeat after another after another. News of the disasters unleashed discontent created by years of cruelty. Liberals called for a constitution and reforms to overhaul the goverment. A priest made a march thinking that the czar would help. Scared of the marchers, the czar fled the palace and called soldiers. The soldiers then started shooting the marchers killing the peoples faith. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was an event with grave consequences for the Tsarist regime. As the disregard for ordinary people shown by the massacre undermined support for the state.
So many took to the streets to protest about these conditions and reached the winter palace. The Tsar , Nicholas the second , was not in the palace at this time . So the protestors had to come in face with the Cossacks. The Tsars royal army. When the cossacks saw what was going on , they panicked and started shooting. -
Revolution of 1905
By October 1905, general strikes had spread to all the large cities, and the workers' councils or soviets, often led by the Mensheviks, became revolutionary governments. The strikes' magnitude convinced Nicholas II, advised by Sergey Witte, to issue the October Manifesto, promising an elected legislature.
The Romanov dynasty, the autocracy which put too much pressure on the 'citizens' who were actual pretty much slaves was the main cause of the Revolution of 1905. -
october manifesto
Document issued by Tsar Nicholas II in October 1905. In response to the unrest caused by the Russian Revolution of 1905 and on the advice of his minister Sergey Witte, Nicholas promised to guarantee civil liberties and establish a popularly elected Duma. The manifesto satisfied the moderate revolutionaries, and further unrest was crushed. -
Duma
The State Duma of the Russian Empire was a legislative assembly in the late Russian Empire, which met in the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg. It was convened four times between 1906 and the collapse of the Empire in 1917. Simply it is a form of Russian governmental institution, that was formed during the reign of the last Czar, Nicholas II. It is also the term for a council to early Russian rulers and and city and regional legislative bodies in the Russian Federation. -
1911
The 1911 Kebin earthquake or 1911 Chon-Kemin earthquake, struck Russian Turkestan on January 3. Registered at a 7.7 magnitude, it destroyed more than 770 buildings in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and resulted in extensive surface faulting in the valleys of Chon–Kemin, Chilik and Chon-Aksu. Most of the region's inhabitants lived in yurts, which are relatively resistant to earthquakes and unlikely to cause deaths even if they do collapse.
