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In the battle of Poltava the Swedish did not know what they were running into when they began their attack on the Russians fortified camp. The Swedish were to attack the Russian camp before dawn but were set back because their cavalry was not prepared in time. It was 0400, when the sun was beginning to outline the eastern mountain ridge, before generals Rehnskjold and Löwenhaupt ready with their…

Russia” and put in place many decrees which affected the Russian people in in radical and very personal ways. Peter “issued no fewer than three thousand decrees” …on everything from the structure of government to…

Peter the Great born in Moscow and his family was with his father: Alexis of Russia, his mother:Natalya Naryshkina and his religion was Russian Orthodoxy , Russia on 9 June 1672 and he died in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire on 8 February 1725. He became emperor of Russia in 2 November 1721 and he resigned in 8 February 1725 when he died, his successor was Catherine I. He reign the tsar of Russia 7 May 1682 and stop it 2 November 1721 when he became the emperor, the coronation was in the day of…

The Soviet Union that sprung out of the Russian Revolution remained a superpower into the 1990’s while today borders drawn after this war are fought over by different ethnic and religious factions. The aftermath of World War One sealed the fate for the rest of the twentieth century condemning generations…

conflict between the Crimean Tatars and the Russians. Vladimir Putin’s Russia has claimed that the Crimea peninsula has always been Russian soil, as the Russian people have always lived there. The Kremlin further claimed that the Crimean Tatars were just a group of settlers of Turkic origin, and thus they had no genetic claim to the land. In essence, they were considered something akin to squatters (Goble). These claims have been refuted by historians and Russians alike, but now even more…

There were many causes for the Russian Revolution to occur. With the revolution Russia became the Soviet Union. The Emperor Nicholas II and the Tsar's regime were brought to an end and replaced by the provisional government and later by the dictatorship of Lenin. It was a beginning of era for Russia and other countries in the world. It all started with the revolution that occurred in 1905. Russia was ruled by Nicholas II, a Tzar. The Tzar had the total power over Russia and its people, commanded…

Throughout the 19th century Russian reformers demanded the setting up of a democratically elected Constituent Assembly. At first groups like Land and Liberty used non-violent methods to gain reform but in 1879, the People's Will was formed. In January, 1880, the group contacted the Russian government and claimed they would call off the terror campaign if the Russian people were granted a constitution that provided free elections and an end to censorship. On 25th February, 1880, Alexander II…

known as Holy Synod was formed which lasted till 1917, last phase that they enjoyed the privileges before it saw its total freedom in 1990’s. The policy of the Bolsheviks was really harsh on the religious grounds profoundly hostile particular to Russian orthodox. On January 23, 1918 a decree was issued declaring the separation of the church from the state and the school from the church. This decree put an end to the centuries old alliance between the church and state, where later during 1990’s,…

At this time, the Russian nobility had almost exclusive rights to own serfs. Russia had been becoming less dependent on serf service to the state and had freed the nobility from their requirement to serve the state, so serf bondage became much more of a private civil matter…

dispute arose when the Ottoman sultan yielded to French pressure, despite knowing that this would anger the Russians, and assigned the care…