Russian Empire (rus)

Russian Empire

Russian Empire ranks 6,088th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sleaford, Imabari, Ehime, and Tukums. Memorable people born in Russian Empire include Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, Georgy Shpagin, and Andrejs Pumpurs. Memorable people who died in Russian Empire include Pyotr Bagration. Russian Empire has been the birth place of many religious figures, and engineers and the death place of many military personnels. Russian Empire is located in Russia.

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about 22,800,000 km2 (8,800,000 sq mi), roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the third-largest empire in history, behind only the British and Mongol empires. It also colonized North America between 1799 and 1867. The empire's 1897 census, the only one it conducted, found a population of 125.6 million with considerable ethnic, linguistic, religious, and socioeconomic diversity. Read more on Wikipedia