Russia in the 1800s
RUSSIA IN THE 1800'S
Since the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the Russian Tsars had followed a fairly consistent policy of drawing more political power away from the nobility and into their own hands. This centralization of authority in the Russian state had usually been accomplished in one of two ways--either by simply taking power from the nobles and braving their opposition (Ivan the Terrible was very good at this), or by compensating the nobles …
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…universities
1888 Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade
1890 Borodin's opera Prince Igor
Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty
1891 Beginning of the Trans-Siberian railway
1891-1893 Making of the Franco-Russian alliance
1892-1903 Witte as minister of communications, finance and commerce
1894-1917 NICHOLAS II ROMANOV
1896 Disasterous production of Chekhov's The Seagull in St. Petersburg
1897 Jan 28 First all-Russian census counts 128,907,692 people
1898 Moscow Art Theater founded, produces Chekhov's Sea Gull
1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party (Minsk)
Occupation of Port Arthur
1900 Boxer Rebellion; Russia occupies Manchuria
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