单词 | russian empire |
释义 | > as lemmasRussian Empire Russian Empire n. now historical the empire consisting of Tsarist Russia and the territories it governed; (occasionally also) the Soviet Union viewed as resembling an imperial power.The Russian Empire originated in the expansion of the principality of Muscovy in the 15th–17th centuries, Ivan IV (‘the Terrible’) being crowned as the first Tsar in 1547. Peter the Great was the first Russian ruler to style himself imperator, ‘emperor’, in 1721. The Empire ended in the Russian Revolution of 1917, shortly after which the Soviet Union was formed. ΚΠ 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. ii. xi. 92 Ptolemey imagineth a line from Tanais Northwards; which well agrees to the method of our History, as including the most part of the Russian Empire. 1706 tr. P. M. de la Martinière New Voy. to North ix. 134 John Duke of Volodimir..seiz'd the City of Moscow, Capital of the Russian Empire, and expell'd the Tartars out of his Territories. 1825 Lancet 1 Jan. 470/1 The havoc occasioned by the disease [sc. cholera] was considerable in the southern part of the Russian empire. 1922 A. Toynbee Western Question in Greece & Turkey i. 25 The word ‘Balkanisation’..was coined..to describe what was done to the western fringe of the Russian Empire by the Peace of Brest-Litovsk. 1992 Economist 31 Oct. 6/1 Some of the assumptions underlying the Maastricht treaty do not adequately take into consideration the changed circumstances in Europe following the collapse of the Russian empire. 2002 O. Figes Natasha's Dance (2003) v. i. 300 It was in the spirit of the Byzantine tradition that the Russian Empire came to see itself as a theocracy. < as lemmas |
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