Tsarist Russia

• Chronology of Russian History: Imperial Period

• Count von Moltke: The Coronation of Tsar Alexander II, 1855 

• Alexander II, The Emancipation Manifesto, March 3 1861 
• Théophile Gautier: The Races on the Neva River, 1870 
• Mary Antin: A Little Jewish Girl in the Russian Pale, 1890 
• Prince Ukhtomskii: Russia's Imperial Destiny, 1891 
• Sergei Witte, On the tasks for economic policy, 1900 
• The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record: The photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offer a vivid portrait of a lost world--the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution. His subjects ranged from the medieval churches and monasteries of old Russia, to the railroads and factories of an emerging industrial power, to the daily life and work of Russia's diverse population.
• Pogrom in Russia

Russo-Japanese War

• Commander Vladimir Semenoff:  Coaling at Sea, 1905 The adventures of a Russian ship on its way to the Russo-Japanese war.

• Lindon Bates, Jr.:  In a Tartar Tent, c. 1909 

Russian Revolution of 1905

• Image Father George Gapon

• Bloody Sunday A summary
• Image Bloody Sunday
• Image Palace Square, St. Petersburg
• The October Manifesto
• Revolt on the armored cruiser Potemkin
• Manifesto of 17 October 1905  
• The Russian Fundamental Law of 23 April 1906  
• The Stolypin Agrarian Reform: On Peasants Leaving the Land Commune (obshchina), Ukaz of 9 November 1906 

1905 Party Programs

• Program of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1905 

• Program of the Russian Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party, 1905  

• The Octobrists  
• The Nationalists  
• Programme of the Union of the Russian People, 1905  
• The Bolsheviks, Russian SDP Program, 1 Aug 1903 
• The Menscheviks: On the Seizure of Power and Participation in a Provisional Government, April 1905

World War I

The Withdrawal of Russia: Revolution and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

• Image Tsar Nicholas II

• Diaries of Nicholas II, 1917

• Abdication of Nicholas II
• Russian Provisional Government
• Image Bolsheviks Arrive in Petrograd on "Sealed Train," May 1917
• Fighting in Petrograd, July 1917
• Resolutions adopted by the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets, June 1917
• Lenin, Call to Power, Oct 24, 1917
• Decree on Peace, November 1917
• Image Signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Map Russian territory lost after Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Image German spring offensive, 1918
• Image Russian POWs