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Remarkable Increase Of Russian Territory

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Day
22
Month
June
Year
1877
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Public Domain
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At toé beginning of the reigii of Ivan III., the first autocratie mier of Russia, in the yenr 14G2, the territory he governed oompmsed about 11,000 square miles. At tris deaffh; in 1505, the rhok extenlof his dominions inoluded aboui 43,000 square miles. Under the (Vu [van IV. ("The Terrible") a oonéider ftble quantity of territory waa onüexed, so tliat nt the time of his death, in 1584, tlic BllfisiftD empire may be eomputed to hare oontained 75,000 sqnare miles. Theodoro I., who suoceedcil Ivnn, fleqnirtid tenitory from the Swedes, nnd also pnshed his conquestg bevond the Ural monntains ; and at lus deáth, in 15ÍJS, the lÍTissiftn sway extended over 130,000 square miles. On the accesBion oí Michael I., in 1618, the extent of the Buesinu empire m;iy be takeu at 156,000 square miles. Peter I., by Ms nnmeroub conquesta, materially increased its exteut, iind at liis death, in 1725, it compriaed 282,454 square miles. During the reignsof the Ernpn ssesAnnalvanovyna, Eliznbeth, and Cnthnrino II., loxge anueiatioiM were made, ao tliat on the death of the latter, iu 179G, the Bussian dominions extended over 852,472 square miles. The Emperor Paul I.addod Georgia to his dominion. Alexander I. (onquci-ed Finland and nnuexed other territorjes, inerensing the extent of the Russiau empire before he died, in 1825, lo 3til,5H2 squai-fi miles ; wliile Nieliolas I., by the campaigns of 1828 and 1829, seoured to ltnssia the khauntes of Erivan and Nahitciievwn, the district of Ordnbáb, and the phSimííc frf Aohalzlc, raising tl i ■ total extt'iit oï the J{uskí;ih nipire to 3(i,112 squnre miles. Tlms sincetlie reorgnni,ation of the llnssian sovereiguty under I van III., some 400 years ago, the territorial dominions of liussia have increased to thirty-nve times their original size.

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