Russian Empire
Proper noun
Meaning
Russian Empire
The Flag of The Russian Empire.
A Map showing the Russian Empire in 1866.
(historical) The Russian state from 1721 to 1917.
Examples
Nobody wants to die, everybody wants to live, but the Russians want to rebuild a Russian empire and we don't want to live in a Russian empire. The Russians try to put us on our knees, but we're fighting right now for freedom and for the future of our children and our country.
Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.
After eight months of liberal rule, the October Revolution brought Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks to power, leading to the creation of the Soviet Union in place of the disintegrated Russian Empire.
According to Harold Williams Stürmer was 'a more corrupt, cynical, incompetent and lying functionary it would be difficult to find in the Russian Empire'.
After incorporation into Russian Empire more Jews from the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth settled here.
A group of Sakhalin Ainu c. 1903 According to the Russian Empire Census of 1897, 1,446 persons in the Russian Empire reported Ainu language as their mother tongue, 1,434 of them in Sakhalin Island.