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 Early Russian History 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Russification

Courtney Bigelow

 

 

 

 

Russification was a policy made by Uvarov. Russification was first formulated in 1770.  He defined three areas of Russification – autocracy, orthodoxy and ‘Russian-ness’. Of the three, Russian-ness was the most important. After Alexander the III russifcation took a new turn. He thought that all the all cultures and nationalists should be wiped out and that everyone should become Great-Russians.      http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/russification.htm

 

Russification is the spreading of Russia.  The picture that I have made is a picture of Russia and I put red play dough around it because people associate Russia with red. And I outlined Russia in red. To resemble that Russia is spreading. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/russification.htm

 

The major areas of Russification are politics and culture. In politics, an element of Russification is assigning Russian nationals to leading administrative positions in national institutions. In culture, Russification primarily amounts to domination of the Russian language in official business and strong influence of Russian language on the national ones. The shifts in demographics in favour of Russian population are sometimes considered as a form of Russification as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification

 

Russification is an adoption of the Russian language or some other Russian attribute (whether voluntarily or not) by non-Russian communities. In a narrow sense, Russification is used to denote the influence of the Russian language on Slavic, Baltic and other languages, spoken in areas currently or formerly controlled by Russia, which led to emerging of russianisms, trasianka and surzhyk. In a historical sense, the term refers to both official and unofficial policies of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union with respect to their national constituents and to national minorities in Russia, aimed at Russian domination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification

 

Peter the Great

Kurt Lauk

Peter the Great

   By Kurt Lauck  

Peter the great was born in 1672 and he died in 1725. Peter was the tsar of Russia he shared this power with his half brother Ivan from 18682 through 1725 when peter died. Peter was given the name great by him self because he had the power to do so when he was the tsar his real name was peter the 1st. because of peter the great Russia had an army. Peter before he became the tsar he came went to the Netherlands and worked in a ship yard. He worked in the ship yard to learn how to build boats. He wanted to learn how to build boats so that Russia could have a navy. He wanted Russia to have a navy so that he could gain land and places to trade with countries. The place that peter really wanted to take over was the Ottoman Empire so that Russia could have control over the black sea. 

 

 

 

 

Boat

 

The boat that I build  was to represent peter the great. The boat represents peter because of the navy. Peter is the reason that Russia had a navy because he is the one the one that showed Russia how to build boats. He learned how to because he went to the Netherlands and worked in a ship yard

Sources http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/peter_the_great1.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_The_Great#Early_reign

 

Amy's Decembrists' Revolt

 

The Decembrist Revolt

My project is showing the two countries fighting against one another. They went into battle to go against the new tsar, Nicholas. Many of the men went chanting many things out to the other soldiers. Also a lot of the men were on horses.

It shows the Decembrists going into the fight for what they believe is right.

 

Decembrist Revolt started in Imperial Russia on December 14th, 1825. The Russian army led with around 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I’s assumption of the throne after his elder brother removed himself from the line of succession. The uprising took place in The Senate Square in St. Petersburg in 1925. To mark the event it was renamed Decembrist Square. Prince Trubetskoy was suppose to come in and stick up for Nicholas, but he had failed so then Nicholas sent Count Mikhail Miloradovich to pacify the rebels. Miloradovich was greatly respected by ordinary soldiers because he was a well known military hero. January 3 the rebels whom survived the defeat then went to St. Petersburg to stand trial with the northern leaders. Five Decembrist were hanged. Although something weird occurred which left the crowd in a sign of relief because in there country if something goes wrong and doesn’t work in an execution the victims are set free. At the time when the men were being hanged the ropes used had split before any of them actually died. Nicholas although went against what the past leaders made and said he wanted new ropes for the prisoners to be hanged.  After this it was the last public execution in Russian imperial history. In the end the Decembrists wanted to implement a liberal political program, their revolt has been considered the beginning of a revolutionary movement. The Decembrist also were in a tradition of a long line of palace revolutionaries who wanted to place their candidate on the throne.

 

Alexander I

Jack Guy

The event i had for this project was alexander the first helping to defeat napoleon bonapart.

on june 1812 napelon led his army into the country of russia. His army was made up of soliders from several nations

now under his control. Napoleon exacted a sort fo short war to punish a zar named alexander.

Napoleon took aroun six hundred thoushands men into russia. he wanted to attack the russian army in a major

battle. the kind of battle he usually won. alexander had know his type of fighting and knew he couldnt

win so he adopted a cleaver plan. so instead of facing napoleon head on the russians simpaly kept retreating every time napolean

would try to attack. Enraged napoleon would follow the retreating russians again and agin marching his army deaper

and deeper into russia. thus the war dragged on longer then napoleon expected.and he had brought few supplies

and he had hoped his army would live of the land as usuall but alexander used a policy called scorched

earth where he would have hi men burn the places they had left behind. and so napoleons army had trouble finding

supplies. napoleons army only engaged the russins in one major battle the battle of borodino.

which in the end of this battle over five hundred thoushand of the man that had followed napoleon

into battle had died in this war. and that is how alexander in the end finally defeated napoleon.

by usuing his scorched earth policy. the end

 

 

my diorama was over the defeat of napoleon by alexander. it depics the defeat by alexander.

by him standin over napoleon lik on top of him like he has beatin him very badly.

 

http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/napoleon/section8.rhtml

 

 Phil Gage

Gengis Khan Takes over Russia

 

My name is Phil Gage and my event is about   Russia being invaded by Kahn and the Mongols. About 1162, there was born to a noble clan of the Mongols a child named Temuchin. Genghis declared war, and although the Mongols took many rich cities with frightful brutality, they had barely touched the frontiers of the vast Persian Empire. Genghis made good use of the Mongol passion for accurate information. When Genghis died in 1227 his son Ogadai was chosen Khan. The Mongols invaded Russia in 1236, eventually conquering all but the northern forest parts. In the process, a tribe called the Kumans ran west into Hungary. He blocked the mountain passes in the Carpathians with his best troops and hurried back to Buda to convene parliament. Given this pace and their performance in Persia, they could probably have overrun Europe in a year. But just as they were regrouping, a messenger came with the news of the death of the Khan. Genghis Khan had made a law, to ensure the permanence of his dynasty, that all his descendants, wherever they may be, must return to Karakoram to elect a new Khan. The Mongols broke off the invasion, never to return. This is surely one of the most important but least-known turning points in history.

 

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/WestTech/xmongol.htm

 

 

Here is my five sentence paragraph about the event. The event was when the Mongols invaded Russia and almost took over Europe in one year. Genghis Kahn died in 1227 his son Ogadai was chosen as the Kahn to lead the Mongolian army. Russia was nearly conquered in 1236. Ogadai was a good leader. Given the pace they were conquering countries they would eventually become powerful enough to take over the world,

 Peter the Great

Zach Roth

 

 

 

PETER THE GREAT

 

            Peter the Great was born in 1672 and died in 1725. He was the tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725. He became emperor of Russia in 1721. Peter was the grandson of Michael Romanov. He became tsar at the age of 10. His self-given title was Peter the Great, but officially he is Peter I. Peter the Great was credited for dragging Russia out of the mid-evil times. Due to power struggles he had to rule together with his brother Ivan under the patronage of his sister Sofia. After tsar Ivan died in 1696, Peter remained monarch. He engineered a series of reforms that put Russia out in front of major European powers. In 1700 he started the Northern War with Sweden to try and regain access to the Baltic Sea and Baltic trade. During the war St. Petersburg was founded. Russia later named St. Petersburg the capital of Russia. St. Petersburg later became Russia’s major sea port. Peter sent Russian’s west to be educated, and imported skilled labour. Peter modernized everything for Russia. He modernized the calendar, simplified numerals, and encouraged private industry and mining. He burrowed no money, but taxes the citizens heavily.

 

 

http://www.cityvision2000.com/history/peterthe.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/peter_the_great.htm

 

 

Peter the Great was tsar of Russia. He wasn’t very powerful at all. But he was powerful enough to drag Russia out of mid-evil times. He was tsar from 1682 to 1725. In 1721 he became the emperor.

 

 Ivan the Terrible

Zak Ryan

 

 

In fifteen eighty one Ivan the terrible struck his daughter in law for wearing immodest clothing, which may have caused her to have a miscarriage. His son also named Ivan heard of this which sparked a heated argument with his father. While they were arguing Ivan’s father struck him in the head with a pointed staff causing his accidental death. This happened on the fifteenth day on November 1581. It says that Ivan the terrible may have died setting up a chess board, but was more likely that he died while playing chess with Bogdan  Belsky.  When Ivans tomb was opened and examined in nineteen sixty there were high levels of mercury suggesting that he was poisoned. Just three days before he was allegedly poisoned  he tried to rape Borris  Godunov sister, and when Ivan Died Godunov became tsar.  When Godunovs sister cried out he herd her and Ivan let her go. So thinking that he was marked for death he poisoned him in fear of his own life.

 

 

Stephanie Garner

The Romanov Dynasty

 

      The Romanov Dynasty

 

The event that I am learning about is the Romanov Dynasty.  The Romanov Dynasty was basically the house of Romanovs. They were the second to last imperial dynasty of Russia. They ruled the country for five generations. The Romanovs share their origin with two dozen other Russian noble families. The family fortunes soared when Roman's daughter, Anastasia Zakharyina, married the young Ivan IV of Muscovy in February 1547. Their marriage was an exceedingly happy one, but her untimely and mysterious death in 1560 changed Ivan's character for the worse. The Romanovs' fortunes again changed dramatically with the fall of the Godunov dynasty in 1606 when a former leader of the anti-Godunov party and cousin of the last legitimate tsar, Filaret Romanov was valued by several impostors who attempted to claim the Rurikid legacy and throne during the Time of Troubles. Several marriages were contracted with princesses. But in the 1850s practically all marriages had been with German princelings. The Romanov Dynasty soon came to an end.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanov_Dynasty

 

            My diorama represents the Romanov Dynasty because it was their family’s armor crest. It was the symbol used to represent their family. All I did was outline the symbol with a color of clay. The clay is supposed to be a type gold color. This is because I wanted to show that they were at once royal.

 

Ivan III

By Will Bainter

 

 

 

 

 

Ivan III was born January 22 1440 and died October 27 1505. Another name that Ivan the third was known as was Ivan the great. Ivan was the longest ruler in the history of Russia. Ivan succeeded his father to become ruler in 1462. During his reign Ivan tried his hardest to avoid war and confrontation. During his time as Russian ruler Ivan united the Russian nation and strengthened there government witch was a monarchy at the time. Ivan adopted the double headed eagle as an emblem for Russia witch he took from the Byzantine Empire. Ivan was the Tsar of Russia from 1462-1505. When Ivan was in reign the government also changed essentially and took on an autocratic form which it had never had before. Ivan was the creator of the consolidated Muscovite state. In 1472 Ivan’s eldest brother passed away. Since his brother, named Yuri, did not have any children all of his estate was passed to Ivan III. This made his other two older brothers very angry. In 1497 to 1502 the royal family was having some serious problems. It seemed that Ivan’s family was murdering each other so that they could get to the throne. Little is known of Ivan’s activities during his early time of his reign. But one thing that is known is that he was known as a great witch is good because he was not terrible.

 

 

 

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/persons6_n2/ivaniii.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_III_of_Russiar

http://www.nndb.com/people/775/000097484/

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0825702.html

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-38508/Russia

 

 Duma

By Chad Haley

 

The Russian Legislature

 

 

 

The revolution forced tsar to institute reforms such as a new constitution and a duma. Since 1870 the municipalities in European Russia have had institutions like those of the zemstvos. All owners of houses, and tax-paying merchants, artisans and workmen are enrolled on lists in a descending order according to their assessed wealth. The total valuation is then divided into three equal parts, representing three groups of electors very unequal in number, each of which elects an equal number of delegates to the municipal duma. Under the pressure of the Russian Revolution of 1905, on August 6, 1905, Sergei Witte issued a manifesto about the convocation of the Duma, initially thought to be an advisory organ. In the subsequent October Manifesto, the Tsar pledged to introduce basic civil liberties, provide for broad participation in the State Duma, and endow the Duma with legislative and oversight powers. The State Dumain Russia is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (parliament), the upper house being the Federation Council of Russia. Under Russia's 1993 constitution, there are 450 deputies of the State Duma (Article 95), each elected to a term of four years (Article 96). However, the 2007 Duma elections will be carried out in a new format: all 450 deputies will be elected by a system of proportional representation. Russian citizens at least 21 years old are eligible to run for the Duma (Article 97).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duma

 

 

 

 

 Kassi Smith

Catherine the Great

  Catherine the Great was known as the Princess of Germany, Catherine II, and Yekaterina II Alexeyevna. Her religion was Russian Orthodox. The diorama I made was of the outline of germany with a crown on top of it. Her reign was from June 28, 1762 to November 15, 1796. Her full name was Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst. She was born on May 2, 1729 in Stettin and she died November 15, 1796. She died when she was 67 years old by having a stroke in the bathtub. She was married to Peter III but she had many lovers. With Peter she had three legitimate children named Paul, Anna Petrovna, and Aleksey. Anna died when she was only two years old. She also had an illegitimate son by Grigori Orlov, Alexis Bobrinskoy. After her and Peters first son was born he was very violent because he had suspicions about if he was really the father of not. Many people had suspicions but really no body cared because she finally had an heir. Her fathers name was Christian August Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst and her mothers name was Johanna Elizabeth of Holstein-Gottorp. In 1762 she overthrew her husband and was crowned Empress of all Russia. Soon after she started calling herself Catherine II she may have been behind Peter’s death.

 

Paul's Trans-Siberian Railroad

 

 

Kyle Gerwin's Catherine the Great takes over Poland

 Catherine the Great was the leader of Russia after her husband was assasinated.  She did many things that were very big in her rule.  One of her biggest things was how she took land away from Poland.  She took land away from Poland because she thought that Poland belonged to there country. 

This portrat to the left is both the German army and Russian army ready to take land away from Poland.  They would attack as soon as Catherine the Great gave them the right away.  Both countrys battled very well.

 

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_Catherine_II_of_Russia

 

 

 

Junior Adame

Ivan the Terrible

 Ivan The Terrible

    Ivan the IV also known as Ivan the terrible was a really bad Tsar.  He was probably one the worst tsars ever.  Throughout the time he ruled he had many different wars. The years he ruled were from 1530-1584.  He was a really big alcoholic and laughed too loudly.  He hated and loved too fiercely and he never forgot anything.  Ivan was only 3 years old when his father died. His uncle Yuri challenged his rights to the throne, was arrested and imprisoned in a dungeon and there he was left to starve. Ivan's mother, Jelena Glinsky, assumed power and was regent for five years. She had Ivan's other uncle killed, but a short time afterwards she suddenly died, almost surely poisoned. A week later her confidant, Prince Ivan Obolensky, was arrested and beaten to death by his jailers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_IV_of_Russia

 

John Zappone

Russia and Germany attack Poland

 

 

Ryan Guyton

Peter the Great

 

 

Ashley Winzeler

Checka

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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