⠀⠀Russian Empire⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Россiйская Имперiя (oct 22, 1721 – sep 1, 1917)
Description:
Self-designated name: Россiя; Россiйская Имперiя; Россiйское Государство (Rossiya; Rossiya; Rossiyskaya Imperiya; Rossiyskoye Gosudarstvo).Capital: Moscow (before 1732); Saint-Petersburg (since 1914 - Petrograd).
National anthem: The Prayer of the Russian people ("God Save the Tsar!"): 1) first version with the music of the English anthem (1918 - 1933), 2) second version with Russian music (1933 - 1917); Worker's Marseillaise (since 6 March 1917).
System of government: Samoderzhaviye (Tsarism).
State structure: Unitary state (with Autonomous regions - since 1809).
Legal family: Romano-German legal family.
Basic law: Sobornoye Ulozheniye (until 1 Jan. 1835); Digest of Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire (since 1 Jan. 1835).
Head of state: Emperor and Autocrat of All Russia (before 2 March 1917); vacancy (since 2 March 1917).
Government: Committee of Ministers (1802 - 1905), Soviet of Ministers (19 October 1905 - 27 February 1917), Provisional Committee of the State Duma (27 February 1917 - 2 March 1917), Russian Provisional Government (since 2 March 1917).
Head of Government: Chairman of the Committee of Ministers (1810 - 1905), Chairman of the Soviet of Ministers (1905 - 1917), Chairman of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma (27 February 1917 - 2 March 1917), Minister-Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government (since 2 March 1917).
Supreme representative body: State Duma (since 1905).
Type of interaction with religion: confessional type with caesaropapism.
State religion: Orthodox Christianity (Orthodox Catholic Eastern Greek-Russian Church).
Primate (predstoyatel'): Most Holy Governing Synod.
Currency: Rouble.
Military alliance: Anti-French Coalition (1792 - 1807; 1812 - 1815); Holy Alliance (1815 - 1853); Alliance of the Three Emperors (1873 - 1887); Franco-Russian Alliance (1891 - 1907);
Triple Entente (1907 - 1918).
System of units of measurement: Russian units of measurement.
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Date:
oct 22, 1721
sep 1, 1917
~ 195 years