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French invasion of Russia (1812): The French army crossed the Neman River into Russia. 14 September: French invasion of Russia (1812): The French army entered a deserted Moscow, the high-water mark of their invasion. 14 December: French invasion of Russia (1812): The last French troops were forced off of Russian territory. 1813: 24 October
Russian polar expedition of 1900–02; Trans-Siberian Railway Panorama; Russian Empire at the 1900 Summer Olympics; The premiere of the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in Moscow; Amur anti-Chinese pogroms; The launching of the cruiser Aurora; The release of the first issue of the RSDLP newspaper Iskra
An invasion is a military offensive in which sizable number of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objectives of establishing or re-establishing control, retaliation for real or perceived actions, liberation of previously lost territory, forcing the partition of a country, gaining concessions or access to ...
Between 1922 and 1991 the history of Russia essentially became the history of the Soviet Union. [opinion] During this period, the Soviet Union was one of the victors in World War II after recovering from a surprise invasion in 1941 by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, which had previously signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union.
The Russian Civil War (Russian: Гражданская война в России, romanized: Grazhdanskaya voyna v Rossii) was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
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Russia in 1914 Demographics of pre-WW1 European countries. The central development in Russian foreign policy was to move away from Germany and toward France. Russia had never been friendly with France, and remembered the wars in the Crimean and the Napoleonic invasion; it saw Paris as a dangerous front of subversion and ridiculed the weak governments there.
The Russian invasion of Manchuria or Chinese expedition (Russian: Китайская экспедиция) [4] occurred in the aftermath of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) when concerns regarding Qing China's defeat by the Empire of Japan, and Japan's brief occupation of Liaodong, caused the Russian Empire to speed up their long held designs for imperial expansion across Eurasia.