State · 1721 – 1917
Russian Empire
A state of 1721 – 1917 — 196 years in Europe. It replaced Tsardom of Russia, Cossack Hetmanate and Principality of Abkhazia and 2 more and followed Kingdom of Imereti. It was replaced by Russian Republic and followed by Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918). The atlas records 1,436 things within it — wars and battles 83 · regime change 1 · unrest and atrocity 22 · famine and plague 3 · natural disasters 4 · treaties 14 · people 1,301 · works and ideas 8. Its line of rulers holds 15 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 196 years
- 1721 – 1917
- Rulers
- 15
- the Emperor of all the Russias
- Most ground
- 22.96 million km²
- in 1900
- Within it
- 1,436
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 5
- on record, with years
1721 · first mapped · 14.37 million km²
1900 · at its largest · 22.96 million km²
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Kingdom of Imereti · follows · 1260 – 1810
- Talysh Khanate · replaces · 1747 – 1828
- Principality of Abkhazia · replaces · 1463 – 1570
- Tsardom of Russia · replaces · 1547 – 1721
- Cossack Hetmanate · replaces · 1648 – 1764
- Shahrisabz beylik · replaces
After it
- Russian Republic · replaced by · 1917
- Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918) · followed by · 1916 – 1918
Rulers
The line of Emperor of all the Russias - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter the Great | 1721 – 1725 | 4 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | |
| Catherine I of Russia | 1725 – 1727 | 2 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | spouse |
| Peter II of Russia | 1727 – 1730 | 3 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | |
| Anna of Russia | 1730 – 1740 | 10 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | |
| Ivan VI of Russia | 1740 – 1741 | 1 year | deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | |
| Elizabeth of Russia | 1741 – 1762 | 21 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | |
| Peter III of Russia | 1762 – 1762 | under a year | deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | nephew or niece |
| Catherine the Great | 1762 – 1796 | 34 years | died a natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell | spouse |
| Paul I of Russia | 1796 – 1801 | 5 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Alexander I of Russia | 1801 – 1825 | 24 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Nicholas I of Russia | 1825 – 1855 | 30 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | sibling |
| Alexander II of Russia | 1855 – 1881 | 26 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Alexander III of Russia | 1881 – 1894 | 13 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Nicholas II | 1894 – 1917 | 23 years | abdicatedWikidata's end cause on the term | child |
| Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia | 1917 – 1917 | under a year | killedWikidata's manner of death | sibling |
15 rulers, 15 with terms dated as terms, covering 1721 – 1917. Median reign 10 years. 6 of 14 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of head of government, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Nikolay Rumyantsev | 1810 – 1812 |
| Ivan Shcheglovitov | 1917 – 1917 |
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
14.37 million km² in 1721, 22.19 million km² in 1911; at its largest 22.96 million km² in 1901. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
coat of arms, undatedGreater Coat of Arms of the Russian Empire · Public domain 
coat of arms, undatedLesser coat of arms of the Russian Empire · Public domain 
flag, 1721 – 1858Flag of Russia · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Russia_(1858%E2%80%931896).svg.png)
flag, 1858 – 1896Flag of Russia (1858–1896) · Public domain flag, from 1896Flag of Russia · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1700 – 1799134 rows · 8 wars and battles · 5 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Alexander Pushkin · writer · 1799 – 1837
- Catherine the Great · ruler · 1729 – 1796
- Adam Mickiewicz · writer · 1798 – 1855
- Alexander I of Russia · ruler · 1777 – 1825
- Nicholas I of Russia · ruler · 1796 – 1855
- Nikolai Lobachevsky · scientist · 1793 – 1856
- Paul I of Russia · ruler · 1754 – 1801
- Alexander Suvorov · commander · 1729 – 1800
and 126 more in the atlas.
1800 – 1899970 rows · 42 wars and battles · 5 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Vladimir Lenin · politician · 1870 – 1924
- Leo Tolstoy · philosopher · 1828 – 1910
- Joseph Stalin · politician · 1878 – 1953
- Fyodor Dostoevsky · philosopher · 1821 – 1881
- Marie Curie · scientist · 1867 – 1934
- Anton Chekhov · scientist · 1860 – 1904
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · artist · 1840 – 1893
- Rosa Luxemburg · politician · 1871 – 1919
and 962 more in the atlas.
1900 – 1999330 rows · 33 wars and battles · 13 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Russian Revolution · unrest · 1917
- Ayn Rand · philosopher · 1905 – 1982
- Mikhail Sholokhov · politician · 1905 – 1984
- Isaac Bashevis Singer · writer · 1904 – 1991
- Dmitri Shostakovich · artist · 1906 – 1975
- Russian Civil War · war · 1917 – 1922
- Menachem Begin · politician · 1913 – 1992
- Russo-Japanese War · war · 1904 – 1905
and 322 more in the atlas.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood196 years
stood longer than 62% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held22,964,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 100% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century6.1
had more wars on record per century than 100% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median10 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 35% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record15
has more rulers on record than 88% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 39 causes the record names and 3 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1701 – 1937, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1900, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q34266 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.