Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (also All-Russian Empire or Russia) was a state that existed from 1721 until overthrown in 1917. One of the largest empires in world history, stretching over three continents, the Russian Empire was surpassed in landmass only by the British and Mongol empires.

War and Peace
Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus
The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians
The Russian Empire: A Multi-Ethnic History
For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia
Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Forty-Ninth
The Last Grand Duchess
Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908- 1918
The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule (Studies of Nationalities) (Volume 410)
From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847--1928
Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
The Crimean War: A History

Сергей Владимирович Волков
Культура империи была аристократична, но аристократизм вообще есть основа всякой высокой культуры. (Вот почему, кстати, народы, по какой-либо причине оказавшиеся лишенными или никогда не имевшие собственной «узаконенной» элиты — дворянства и т.п., не создали, по существу, ничего достойного мирового уровня, во всяком случае, их вклад в этом отношении несопоставим с вкладом народов, таковую имевшими.) Сама сущность высоких проявлений культуры глубоко аристократична: лишь немногие способны делать ч ...more
Сергей Владимирович Волков, Почему РФ - не Россия

Peter B. Golden
Russian authorities distinguished between steppe Islam, suffused, they believed, with Shamanism, and the Islam of the Uzbek cities, which they considered hotbeds of fanaticism. Catherine viewed Islam as a "civilizing" tool that would first make Kazakhs good Muslims, then good citizens, eventually good Christians. She used Tatar teachers, her subjects, who could travel among the nomads and speak their language, to preach a more "correct" Islam. The Tatars became an important factor in implanting ...more
Peter B. Golden, Central Asia in World History

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