Russian Empire Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
former empire in Eurasia and North America (1721–1917)
About Russian Empire
Comrade, believe: it will arise,the star of captivating happiness;Russia will spring from slumberand on the shards of autocracyThey will write our names! —To Chaadaev by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, 1818 While the Russian Empire was officially proclaimed in 1721, it was preceded by Russian kingdoms dating back as early as the 9th century. In the 8th and 9th centuryVikingexplorers and traders started to navigate on the mighty Russian rivers to reach the Arab Muslim andByzantineGreek Empires around the Mediterranean. When travelling through Russia, the Vikings came into contact – and conflict – with local Slavic tribes. Legend has it that these "...drove the Varangians (Vikings) back beyond the sea, refused to pay them tribute, and set out to govern themselves", only to find themselves det
Russian Empire Travel Guide Sections
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