RUSSIA IN THE 1800'S Since the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the Russian Tsars had followed a fairly consistent policy of drawing more political power away from the nobility and into their own hands. This centralization of authority in the Russian state had usually been accomplished in one of two ways--either by simply taking power from the nobles and braving their opposition (Ivan the Terrible was very good at this), or by compensating the nobles …showed first 75 words of 1411 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1411 total…universities 1888 Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade 1890 Borodin's opera Prince Igor Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty 1891 Beginning of the Trans-Siberian railway 1891-1893 Making of the Franco-Russian alliance 1892-1903 Witte as minister of communications, finance and commerce 1894-1917 NICHOLAS II ROMANOV 1896 Disasterous production of Chekhov's The Seagull in St. Petersburg 1897 Jan 28 First all-Russian census counts 128,907,692 people 1898 Moscow Art Theater founded, produces Chekhov's Sea Gull 1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party (Minsk) Occupation of Port Arthur 1900 Boxer Rebellion; Russia occupies Manchuria