The Romanov autocratic empire, the second-largest contiguous land empire in history after the Mongols, spanning from the Baltic and Black Seas to the Pacific Ocean and, until 1867, across the Bering Strait into Alaska.
Collapsed during the February Revolution when Tsar Nicholas II abdicated on 2 March (O.S.) / 15 March (N.S.) 1917 at Pskov; power passed to the Russian Provisional Government, ending 300 years of Romanov rule.
The atlas holds 7 border frames for Russian Empire — the shape you scrub through changes in 1721 · 1772 · 1792 · 1808 · 1848 · 1890 · 1907.
Leading English-language historian's comprehensive survey of Russia from the empire through Soviet period.
Sweeping interpretation of the Russian patrimonial state up to the late imperial era.
First-hand account by an 18th-century Romanov autocrat of court and the seizure of the throne.
Russia’s aristocracy through the Napoleonic invasion of 1812.
Imperial Russian society in its last confident decades.