• the Imperial Russian statesman and sociologist Paul von Lilienfeld laid out his theories on organicism when he served as the governor of Courland?
• the Emperor of Russia, Alexander III bought the art of Ukrainian realist painter Volodymyr Orlovsky?
• the Russian Empire built the Krepost Sveaborg fortress around Helsinki, Finland, during the First World War?
• the Russian dreadnought Imperatritsa Mariya capsized and sank while at anchor in Sevastopol in 1916 after one of her powder magazines caught fire and exploded?
• the Russian battleship Sinop was the first large warship to use triple expansion steam engines?
• the German battleship SMS König sank the Russian battleship Slava during Operation Albion in 1917?
• the coronation ceremonies of Russian Tsars Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I were decorated by Italian theatre set designer Pietro Gonzaga?
• in April 1802, Georgian nobles who opposed the Russian annexation of Georgia were assembled in Tbilisi's Sioni Cathedral (pictured), surrounded by Russian troops, and forced to take an oath to the Imperial Crown of Russia?
• in 1906, Georgian Socialist-Federalists managed to seize 315,000 rubles during an attack on a Russian treasury in Dusheti?
• in order to subdue the heresy of Imiaslavie, the Russian Empire sent two transport ships and a gunboat to Mount Athos in Greece, and stormed the St. Panteleymon Monastery?
• in the Ukrainian-Soviet War (1917-1922) the Ukrainians fought for their independence first from the Russian Empire, and then the Soviet Union?
• of the six torpedoes fired to scuttle (result pictured) the Russian pre-dreadnought battleship Slava during the Battle of Moon Sound in 1917, only one worked?
• the Russian battleship Dvenadsat Apostolov served as the stand-in for the Potemkin during the filming of Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin?
• the Soviet atheist magazine Bezbozhnik (cover pictured) accused some rabbis of having organized anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire?
• the reforms of the Great Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, based on the French revolution, were annulled by the military intervention of the Russian Empire?
• the engines of the Russian pre-dreadnought battleship Ekaterina II (pictured) were disabled when the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutinied in June 1905 to prevent her from joining Potemkin?
• though the Steel Military Egg and the Order of St. George Egg were relatively modest designs in the spirit of World War I austerity, the two Fabergé eggs made for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia were still priced at more than 13,000 rubles?
• traversing all the guns of the Russian pre-dreadnought battleship Chesma to one side as far as they could go produced a list of 7.6°?
• while most Enlightenment scholars criticized the Byzantine system of the Eastern Roman Empire, Konstantin Leontiev, a scholar from the Russian Empire praised it for the very same reasons?
• the crew of the Russian battleship Georgii Pobedonosets mutinied themselves when they confronted the mutinous battleship Potemkin in Odessa Harbor in June 1905?
• the arrival of Prussian troops led by Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq prevented a Russian defeat in the 1807 Battle of Eylau?
• the Grodno Sejm of 1793, the last Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, passed the Second Partition of Poland with deputies bribed or coerced by the Russian Empire's army?
• the Azov Cossack Host was the only Cossack Unit in the Russian Empire that had a naval role?
• the Jewish Socialist Workers Party in the Russian Empire mobilized 3,000 of its cadres in self-defense militias during 1906?
• the Kiev tram was the first electric tramway in the Russian Empire, and the second one in Europe, after the Berlin Straßenbahn?
• the Vitebsk Rail Terminal in Saint Petersburg (pictured) contains a replica of the first train used in the Russian Empire?
• in 1863, the U.S. gave Russia plans to build ten Passaic class monitors, partly because of the fear that the American Civil War would escalate into war between Britain and Russia?
• forces of the Russian and Austrian Empires attempted to defeat an isolated French division in the Battle of Dürenstein on 11 November 1805, three weeks after the Battle of Ulm and three weeks before the Battle of Austerlitz?
• Bonawentura Niemojowski, a Polish politician during the Congress Poland period, became one of the most vocal supporters of the November Uprising against the Russian Empire and a leader of the revolutionary Polish government?
• Welshman Sir Gore Ouseley arranged for Azerbaijan to become part of the Russian Empire in 1814?
• Charles Gascoigne developed the carronade while manager of the Carron Company in Scotland, but emigrated to avoid his creditors and spent the last 20 years of his life organising the production of iron and cannon for the Russian Empire?
• Alexei Mikhailovich was the only Imperial Russian Grand Duke to bear the name and patronymic of a Tsar?
• Judeopolonia was a proposed buffer state between the Russian and German Empires with a projected population of 30 million Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, Latvians, and Baltic Germans?
• U.S. diplomat Norman Armour disguised himself as a Norwegian courier to help a Russian princess—his future wife—escape the country after the collapse of the Russian Empire?
• Emperor Nicholas II of Russia was billed 3,250 rubles for Rosebud, the first Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Alexandra Fyodorovna?
• French protests caused the Russians to award the contract for the Gangut-class battleship to a Russian firm rather than the German winner of the 1908 international design contest?
• Emperor Alexander III of Russia provided funding for the construction of a Russian Orthodox church on Bredgade in Copenhagen at the behest of his Danish-born empress?
• Polish writer Henryk Rzewuski fought for Poland's independence in 1809 but later collaborated with the Russian Imperial Viceroy of the Kingdom of Poland, Ivan Paskevich?
• Russian Rear-Admiral Andrei Alexandrovich Popov (pictured) designed two circular battleships and a yacht for the Romanovs?
• Emperor Alexander III of Russia was billed 4,750 rubles for the Renaissance egg, the final Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Maria Feodorovna?
• Kiev Governorate was one of the first eight other governorates of the Russian Empire?
• Olga Taratuta, a Ukrainian anarcho-communist, escaped from a Russian prison in 1906 while serving a 17-year sentence?
• Union for Active Struggle was a secret paramilitary organization dedicated to reclaiming Polish independence, with support by Austria-Hungary against the Russian Empire?
• Walerian Łukasiński, a 19th century Polish Army officer, was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment by the Russian Empire, and died in prison after 44 years, becoming one of the martyrs of the Polish struggle for independence under the partitions?
• Scotsman Adam Menelaws became the de facto leading architect of the Russian Empire when he was around seventy years old?
• after the November Uprising in partitioned Poland, the government of the Russian Empire offered a bounty for one of the Polish leaders, Jan Czyński?
• despite the Russian authorities' intention to turn the Teachers' Seminary in Veiveriai into a center of Russification, the seminary became a center of the Lithuanian National Revival?
• Three Emperors' Corner is a former tripoint between the Austrian Empire, German Empire and the Russian Empire, created in the late 19th century in the aftermath of the partitions of Poland?
• St. Cyril's Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine was closed by the Tsarist Government and its living quarters were converted into a hospital and later an insane asylum, which lasted until the mid-late 20th century?
• Pavel Argeyev, a Russian flying ace, fought on both the Eastern Front and the Western Front for both Russia and France during the First World War?
• Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality, the doctrine of the Russian Empire in the 1830s–1850s, was also a family motto of its creator Sergey Uvarov?
• Peter P. Dubrovsky, Russian diplomat, collected valuable manuscripts from destroyed libraries during the time of the French Revolution?
• Princess Vera Konstantinovna was the last surviving member of the Romanov family who could remember Imperial Russia?
• Repnin Sejm of 1767-68 in Poland was so named after the Russian Empire ambassador Nicholas Repnin, who coerced the Sejm (Polish parliament) into accepting his demands?
• 19 crewmen of the Russian oceanliner SS Czar received the Silver Sea Gallantry Medal from King George V of the United Kingdom for rescuing 102 survivors from a burning ship in October 1913?

Facts on topics related to Russian Empire

British Empire

• "Majulah Singapura", the national anthem of Singapore, was originally a theme song for events held by Singapore's City Council during colonial times?
• V.D. Savarkar wrote The Indian War of Independence, a nationalist history of the 1857 uprising, in response to British celebrations of the 50th anniversary of its suppression?
• Ethel Benjamin was the first woman in the British Empire to present a legal case in court?
• Gingee Fort in Tamil Nadu, India was called the "Troy of the East" by the British for its inaccessibility and is one of the few forts still surviving in the state?
• Kadambini Ganguly (pictured) was one of the first female graduates in the British Empire and the first female conventional doctor in South Asia?
• Kondavid Fort (pictured), built in the 14th century by the Reddy dynasty, was the theatre of several wars among many rulers of North India, South India, and the British?
• Zambian laws concerning homosexuality have largely remained unchanged since the country gained independence from the British Empire in 1964?
• 22 Australians have been decorated with the George Cross, the highest civil decoration for heroism in the British Empire?
• Sergeants Jose and Francisco Diaz were two brothers in the Puerto Rican Militia who helped defeat Sir Ralph Abercromby and defend Puerto Rico from a British invasion in 1797?
• an elaborate network of coastal batteries was built by British colonial authorities to protect Hobart Town, but it was never used to defend the Tasmanian port from attacks by enemy warships?

Russia

• 17th century Russian diplomat Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin (pictured) is reputed to have insisted on lying in bed during an audience with the King of Denmark, who was himself confined to his bed, to demonstrate equality between Russia and Denmark?
• Abkhaz writer Fazil Iskander publishes articles for the Russian newspaper Kultura?
• aluminium alloys developed by Russian metallurgist Igor Gorynin are claimed to have the highest specific strength of all known weldable metallic materials?
• Armenian composer and musician Ara Gevorgyan composed the music for Russian prima ballerina Anastasia Volochkova's "Golden cage" ballet dedicated to the Bolshoi Theater?
• aviation historian Randy Acord was awarded the Alaska–Siberian Lend Lease Award for his role in improving Russian–North American relations during World War II?
• Chechen military commander Said-Magomed Kakiev has been declared a Hero of the Russian Federation four times, making him one of the most decorated Russian citizens?
• Chinese immigration to the Russian Far East has led to fears of Chinese irredentism in Russia, even though there are less than 35,000 Chinese in all of Russia?
• Count Orlov's Marble Palace, decorated with 32 shades of Russian marbles, currently houses the largest exhibition of Pop Art in Saint Petersburg?
• Emperor Paul of Russia ordered the name of his mistress Anna Lopukhina to be given to warships and to be inscribed on the standards of his Leib Guard?
• England brokered the 1617 Treaty of Stolbova between Sweden and Russia?

Ottoman Empire

• Bulgarian Dobri Zhelyazkov founded the first textile factory in the Ottoman Empire?
• fairy tale collector Nicolae Constantin Batzaria was an Aromanian representative among the Young Turks, an Ottoman government minister, and one of Romania's best-known creators of comic strips?
• Italian Vice Consul Vito Positano saved the future Bulgarian capital Sofia from burning by the Ottoman army?
• Poland–Lithuania and the Ottoman Empire signed a "perpetual" peace in 1533?
• As'ad Pasha al-Azm, governor of Damascus under the Ottoman Empire for 14 years, ordered the construction of the Azm Palace and Khan As'ad Pasha?
• Dolmabahçe Palace was the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1853 to 1923?
• Jean de La Forêt was the first French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1534, and that he negotiated in 1536 a Franco-Ottoman treaty of alliance?
• Joseph Cornelius O’Rourke, an Irish Count born in Estonia, became a Russian Lieutenant General, and was honoured with a statue in Belgrade for his victory over the Ottoman Empire in 1810?
• Khan al-Harir, built by Darwish Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Damascus, was the first great caravanserai to be built inside the old city walls of Damascus?
• Khotyn Fortress (pictured), site of the Battle of Khotyn between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire in 1621, is one of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine?

Mongol Empire

• Ani, a medieval city once rivaling Constantinople, was ransacked by Mongols and now stands in ruin?
• in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongol Empire had an alliance with the Armenians against their common enemy, the Muslim Mamluks?
• the Byzantine Empire and the Mongol Empire formed an alliance in 1263, and 4,000 Mongol soldiers were dispatched in 1282 to help defend Constantinople?
• the vast Mongol Empire that once stretched from East Asia to Romania was brought down by the Red Turban Rebellion?

German Empire

• German U-boat UB-4 was sunk in August 1915 by a fishing smack?
• Germany still held 1.2 million Russian prisoners of war in December 1918, nine months after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk obliged it to release them?
• World War I German U-boat UB-10 was credited with sinking 23 ships in a 13-day span in July and August 1915?
• World War I German U-boat UB-12 was credited with sinking her final ship two months after she disappeared in the North Sea?
• Henri Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the Times, averted a war between the French Third Republic and the German Empire in 1875?
• Jüri Vilms, a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee, issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence in February 1918, and was executed by German troops less than two months later?
• Judeopolonia was a proposed buffer state between the Russian and German Empires with a projected population of 30 million Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, Latvians, and Baltic Germans?
• Martin-Paul Samba went from being a favoured German collaborator to a feared rebel leader in colonial Cameroon?
• Mittelafrika was a prospective colony of the German Empire, articulating their aim to annex the land area stretching across Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean?
• Moshe Smoira, the first President of the Supreme Court of Israel, was wounded during the First World War while fighting for the German Empire?

Byzantine Empire

• Byzantine general Peter Phokas was originally born a slave and made a eunuch, but rose to become one of the senior-most commanders of the Byzantine Empire in the 960s and 970s?
• Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos created the Metropolitanate of Lithuania, which was later regarded as an "anomaly" by the Byzantine authorities?
• Byzantine official Peter the Patrician may have been responsible for the murder of Ostrogothic queen Amalasuntha, despite being instructed to secure her safety by emperor Justinian I?
• Istanbul's Vefa Kilise Mosque (pictured) is an example of a Byzantine church since converted into an Ottoman mosque?
• medieval Bulgarian military leader Ivan the Russian defended Plovdiv in a four-month Byzantine siege only for the citizens to let the Byzantines in while he was away?
• Sviatoslav of Kiev was invited by the Byzantine Empire to attack Bulgaria in order to force them to make concessions, but ended up conquering the country?
• Andronikos Kontostephanos was the leading general of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and that his career took him from Hungary to Egypt?
• Leo the Mathematician, called by some the cleverest man in 9th-century Byzantium, invented a system of beacons to warn of Arab raids and a fabled levitating throne for the emperor?
• New England used to be part of the Roman Empire, and China is still part of Japan?
• Ras Ibn Hani, a small cape located 8 km north of Latakia, Syria, was occupied almost continuously from the late Bronze Age until Byzantine times?

History of Russia

• the Millennium Monument in Novgorod, weighing more than 65 tons, incorporates bronze sculptures of 129 eminent figures in Russian history?