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Pogroms

RUSSIAN POGROMS BEGIN Pogrom came into frequent use as a term around 1881 after anti-Semitic violence erupted following the assassination of Czar Alexander II. Anti-Jewish groups claimed the government had approved reprisals against Jews. The first violence broke out in Yelizavetgrad, Ukraine, and then spread to 30 other towns, including Kiev. During Christmas of the […]

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The Romanov family: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia with his wife, Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt, and her daughters, Ol'ga, Tat'jana, Marjia e Anastasia and Aleksej. 1913

Romanov Family

Peter the Great The Romanovs were high-ranking aristocrats in Russia during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 1613, Mikhail Romanov became the first Romanov czar of Russia, following a fifteen-year period of political upheaval after the fall of Russia’s medieval Rurik dynasty. He took the name Michael I. Michael I’s grandson Peter I, also known […]

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The area around Moscow's Kremlin is lit up at night in 1986. Banners featuring Lenin's face celebrate the 70th anniversary of his revolution are hung on the State Historical Museum in the foreground.

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union was the world’s first Marxist-Communist state and was one of the biggest and most powerful nations in the world. It lasted from 1922 until its fall in 1991.

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A woman in a bright coat walks among the crowds in Red Square near the State Historical Museum, in Moscow, Russia, 1973.

Red Square

Origins of Red Square and Its Name Many medieval Russian cities built kremlins, or fortresses, to protect themselves from invaders. The original Kremlin in Moscow began in 1156 as a wooden structure north of the Moskva River. As Muscovite power and wealth expanded by the late 1400s, Prince Ivan III ordered the area now known […]

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Faberge Eggs for the Romanov Family

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The Mysterious Fate of the Romanov Family’s Prized Easter Egg Collection

After the Russian Revolution, the country’s new leaders, looking to make some quick rubles, started selling off the dazzling imperial treasures.

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Catherine the Great

Why Catherine the Great’s Enemies Turned Her into a Sex Fiend

From nymphomania to bestiality to voyeurism, there were few themes of sexual deviance that were not invented about the Empress of Russia.

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A Russian armored troop-carrier moves with soldiers atop next to a house set on fire by South Ossetian militia on in August, 2008.

How a Five-Day War With Georgia Allowed Russia to Reassert Its Military Might

Moscow’s aggressive reaction to its long-simmering tensions with the former Soviet republic signaled a newly assertive Russia.

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Lenin vs Stalin: Their Showdown Over the Birth of the USSR

Even after suffering a stroke, Lenin fought Stalin from the isolation of his bed. Especially after Stalin insulted his wife.

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Chechen separatists storm Russian school

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1961

Stalin’s body removed from Lenin’s tomb

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Russian forces enter Chechnya

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The Russo-Japanese War begins

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The Battle of Tsushima Strait

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1703

St. Petersburg founded by Peter the Great

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