The civil service helped the Tsar run the Russian Empire, performing his will and maintaining his authority. Their privilege was owed to and dependent on their service to the Tsar. This created ...

In January 1917, the Russian empire is still governed by the all-powerful Tsar Nicholas II -- one man, answerable only to God, who rules more than 170 million people. The Tsar's armies have grown ...

The Russian problem derives its hugeness and ... In a word, visualize the component human elements of the far-flung empire of the Tsars and you will begin to appreciate what Kipling meant when ...

ceding much of the former territory of the Russian Empire Late March 1918 - October 1922 The Russian Civil War rages until the Bolsheviks consolidate power, forming the Union of Soviet Socialist ...

From the late 19th century through to the outbreak of World War One in 1914, a series of threats to the Tsar's authority ... for the Tsarist Empire. In January 1905 the Russian held port of ...