Directory of Russian Empire Resources

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Sites devoted to the history of Russia from the end of the XVII century till 1917.

Subcategories

• 1905 Revolution
• Crimean War
• Noble Russian Familes
• Rasputin, Grigory
• Romanovs
• Russo-Japanese War
• War of 1812
• World War I

Resources in This Category

• Alexander Palace Association Websites

  http://www.alexanderpalace.org/
  List of most of the Alexander Palace sites including ten online Russian History books.

• All Photo: Russian Empire in Photographs

  http://all-photo.ru/empire/
  Historic photo-collection represents almost all fields of Russian life before the October revolution. [Russian, English]

• Face of Russia

  http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/
  A fascinating website based on the writings of James Billington, Librarian of Congress and former professor of Russian history at Princeton.

• Meeting of Frontiers

  http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html
  Tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West and the parallel exploration of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the two in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

• St. Petersburg 1900

  http://www.alexanderpalace.org/petersburg1900/
  Historic photographs and history of St. Petersburg, Russia, in the time of the Romanov Dynasty.

• The Empire That Was Russia

  http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
  Exhibit by the Library of Congress of Prokudin-Gorskii's photographs of pre-revolutionary Russia.

• The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures

  http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/russian/s1a.html
  Article dedicated to the study of the Alaskan Russian Church Archives by Dr. Vyacheslav Ivanov. Covers history of the discovery of Alaska by Russian. Links to related sites.

• The Time of Trouble

  http://www.abcgallery.com/list/2001oct01.html
  Article about the tragic period of Russia's history as seen by Dutch merchant Usaak Massa.

Other Languages

• Russian

 

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