Roushie Empire

Roushie Empire Россійская Имперія  (Pre-reformed Russian) Российская империя  (Russian–Cyrillic) Rossiyskaya imperiya  (transliteration)
1721–1917
Flag Coat o airms
Motto: "S nami Bog!" Съ нами Богъ! "God is with us!"
Anthem: none Imperial anthem Bozhe, Tsarya khrani! Боже, Царя храни! "God Save the Tsar!"
Caipital	St. Petersburg (main caipital), Moscow
Common leids	Offeecial Roushie Regional Pols (Congress Poland) Finnish an Swedish (Grand Duchy o Finland)
Releegion	Offeecial Roushie Orthodox Minority Roman Catholicism Protestantism Judaism Islam Auld Believers Buddhism Paganism
Govrenment	Absolute monarchy (1721–1906) Constitutional monarchy (1906–1917)
Emperor
• 1721–1725 (first)	Peter I
• 1894–1917 (last)	Nicholas II
Chairman o the Cooncil o Meenisters
• 1905–1906 (first)	Sergei Witte
• 1917 (last)	Nikolai Golitsyn
Legislatur	Emperor exercises legislative pouer in conjunction wi the State Cooncil an State Duma[1]
• Upper house	State Cooncil
• Lower house	State Duma
History
• Accession o Peter I	7 May [O.S. 27 Apr] 1682[c]
• Empire proclaimed	22 Oct [O.S. 11 Oct] 1721
• Decembrist revolt	26 Dec [O.S. 14 Dec] 1825
• Feudalism abolished	3 Mar [O.S. 19 Feb] 1861
• 1905 Revolution	Jan–Dec 1905
• Constitution adoptit	6 May [O.S. 23 Apr] 1906
• Februar Revolution	15 Mar [O.S. 2 Mar] 1917
• October Revolution	7 Nov [O.S. 25 Oct] 1917
Aurie
1866	22,800,000 km2 (8,800,000 sq mi)
1916	21,799,825 km2 (8,416,959 sq mi)
Population
• 1916	181,537,800
Currency	Ruble
ISO 3166 code	RU
Precedit bi Succeedit bi Tsardom o Roushie Roushie Republic Ober Ost Karafuto Prefectur Department o Alaska Northren Caucasus State o Buryat-Mongolie
The day pairt o	Russia  Ukraine  Belaroushie  Moldovae  Romanie  Finland  Estonie  Latvie  Lithuanie  Poland  Armenie  Georgie  Azerbaijan  Kazakhstan  Kyrgyzstan  Tajikistan  Uzbekistan  Turkmenistan  Swaden  Turkey  Mongolie  Cheenae  Unitit States  Iran  Afghanistan  Canadae
a. ^ Efter 1866, Alaska wis sold tae the Unitit States, but Batumi, Kars, Pamir an Transcaspia war acquired. b. ^ Renamed Petrograd in 1914. c. ^ Roushie continued tae uise the Julian calendar till efter the collapse o the empire (see Auld Style an New Style dates).

The Roushie Empire (Pre-reform Roushie orthografie: Россійская Имперія, Modren Roushie: Российская империя, translit: Rossiyskaya Imperiya) wis a state that existit frae 1721 till owerthrown bi the short-lived leeberal Februar Revolution in 1917.^[2]

1. ↑ "The Sovereign Emperor exercises legislative power in conjunction with the State Council and State Duma". Fundamental laws, art. 7
2. ↑ . Swain says, "The first government to be formed after the February Revolution of 1917 had, with one exception, been composed of liberals." Geoffrey Swain (2014). Trotsky and the Russian Revolution. Routledge. p. 15.; also see Alexander Rabinowitch (2008). The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd. Indiana UP. p. 1.