Russian Empire

Until comparatively recent times the part of the world which is known as the Russian Empire was a conglomeration of independent or semi-independent political units, animated with centrifugal as well as centripetal forces; and even at the present day it is far from being

Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

We were always told that the force which welded together in one the different races and tongues of the Russian Empire was a spiritual force; that the Russian held his faith dearer than his life; and that even his devotion to the Czar had its origin in religion.

Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences George William Erskine Russell 1886

Chi-nam-po with its timber stores, or Port Arthur, or even that conglomeration which is called the Russian Empire, which He did not confide to my care; but He will ask me what I have done with that life which He put at my disposal; -- did I use it for the purpose for which it was predestined, and under the conditions for fulfilling which it was intrusted to me?

"Bethink Yourselves!" Leo Tolstoy 1869

The Parliament of the Russian Empire is the main legislative assembly.

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According to the Constitution, the Head of State of the Russian Empire is the Emperor of

Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2010

On the eve of the World War I, it was the great poet Ziya Gokalp, himself of Kurdish origin, who wrote about the then-enemy, the Russian Empire, that "its land shall be devastated, Turkey shall be enlarged and become Turan," referring to the Turkic-speaking peoples of Central Asia.

Dr. Josef Olmert: Erdogan, New Ottomanism and the Middle East Dr. Josef Olmert 2011

On the eve of the World War I, it was the great poet Ziya Gokalp, himself of Kurdish origin, who wrote about the then-enemy, the Russian Empire, that "its land shall be devastated, Turkey shall be enlarged and become Turan," referring to the Turkic-speaking peoples of Central Asia.

Dr. Josef Olmert: Erdogan, New Ottomanism and the Middle East Dr. Josef Olmert 2011

He was born Axel Waldemar Gallén, in 1865 in a small town in what was then the Grand Duchy of Finland, part of the Russian Empire.

Finnish Landscapes in Paris Judy Fayard 2012

On the eve of the World War I, it was the great poet Ziya Gokalp, himself of Kurdish origin, who wrote about the then-enemy, the Russian Empire, that "its land shall be devastated, Turkey shall be enlarged and become Turan," referring to the Turkic-speaking peoples of Central Asia.

Dr. Josef Olmert: Erdogan, New Ottomanism and the Middle East Dr. Josef Olmert 2011

Born in the squalid and oppressive Pale of Settlement — that area of the vast Russian Empire where Jews were compelled to live — he managed by dint of a heroic self-discipline, stunning intellect, and, above all, phenomenal charm, to make the case for Zionism in the chancelleries and drawing rooms of Europe, particularly England.

The Life of Zion 2010