THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · 1721–1916

Russian Empire

Russian Empire appears on the map from 1721 to 1916. At its greatest recorded extent, in 1900, it covered about 23.08 million km².

One of the realms of Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire. Moscow's grand princes threw off Mongol overlordship and gathered the Russian lands, and in 1547 Ivan IV, the Terrible, was crowned the first Tsar of All Russia. His conquest of Kazan and Astrakhan opened the Volga, and Cossacks and fur traders crossed Siberia to reach the Pacific by 1639.

See Russian Empire on the map in 1900

Reference map: Subdivisions of the Russian Empire by largest ethnolinguistic group (1897)
Reference map: Subdivisions of the Russian Empire by largest ethnolinguistic group (1897) Altes · CC BY-SA 4.0
On the map
1721–1916
Greatest extent
1900, about 23.08 million km²
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Wikipedia: Russian Empire · Wikidata Q34266

Territory through time

YearsArea drawn
1721–172614.45 million km²
1727–173314.53 million km²
1734–173715.05 million km²
1738–174315.03 million km²
1744–174715.13 million km²
1748–175115.13 million km²
1752–175615.31 million km²
1757–176115.24 million km²
176215.39 million km²
1763–176815.31 million km²
1769–177115.78 million km²
1772–177416.12 million km²
177516.06 million km²
1776–177716.06 million km²
1778–178216.17 million km²
1783–178716.30 million km²
1788–179016.31 million km²
179116.48 million km²
1792–179316.60 million km²
1794–179516.76 million km²
179616.75 million km²
1797–179816.69 million km²
1799–180216.72 million km²
1803–180416.77 million km²
180516.84 million km²
180616.89 million km²
1807–180817.05 million km²
1809–181017.38 million km²
181117.40 million km²
1812–181317.20 million km²
181417.43 million km²
1815–182317.40 million km²
1824–182717.40 million km²
1828–182917.68 million km²
1830–183317.58 million km²
1834–183517.63 million km²
1836–183917.63 million km²
1840–184517.63 million km²
1846–184719.00 million km²
184820.92 million km²
1849–185221.04 million km²
1853–185521.04 million km²
185620.99 million km²
1857–185821.02 million km²
185921.14 million km²
1860–186122.05 million km²
186222.04 million km²
186322.04 million km²
1864–186722.96 million km²
1868–186921.59 million km²
187021.68 million km²
1871–187221.71 million km²
1873–187622.17 million km²
1877–187922.39 million km²
1880–188422.32 million km²
1885–189422.29 million km²
1895–189722.34 million km²
1898–189922.34 million km²
1900–190423.08 million km²
1905–191122.30 million km²
191222.30 million km²
191322.34 million km²
191422.49 million km²
191523.07 million km²
191622.87 million km²

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