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Japan invades Russian-dominated Korea, and Russia defeats this

Bai China is disturbed by this and organizes troops who do skirmishes, in hindsight first fights of Russo-Chinese War (1893-9)

Russia forced to divert troops from Europe to protect against China in what they hope is a staring match, diminishing war effort in French Wars > Fifth French War (1892-5)

Chinese army led by Lee Cheng-chang invades Russia in gigantic attack, bringing Russo-Chinese War (1893-9) in true scope

Russia drops out of French Wars > Fifth French War (1892-5), although intends to come back after war's surely swift victory against the Yellow Peril

Bai Chinese attack on Kashgaria, but attack is based on uprising that doesn't happen

Lee Cheng-chang strikes up at Manchuria and puts Mukden in siege (as he cannot overcome city's defences)

Siege of Mukden successfully relieved by Russian troops coming from Trans-Siberian Railroad

Russian troops successfully storm forward from Kashgaria and strike towards Shaanxi

Lee Cheng-chang entreaties with Jebtsundamba Khutuktu to switch sides and succeeds

Russian railroads taken over by Bai and Mongolian forces, which leaves Russian troops in Manchuria in collapse

Chinese troops decisively strike northwards and take Manchuria whole, concluding with decisive and impressive fall of Vladivostok

Russia begins to suffer from famine

Palace coup sees Heads of Russia > 1837-1898 Michael II overthrown and replaced by Heads of Russia > 1898-1904 Constantine II

Russia accepts Buenaventuran offer for a peace, sending negotiators to San Francisco

Treaty of San Francisco; China granted control over Manchuria, Mongolia, and Transbaikal, which is a truly disastrous defeat for Russia

Troops returning home organize into Young Russian societies and many flock into cities

Heads of Russia > 1898-1904 Constantine II demobilizes dubiously loyal military and seeks to strengthen more loyal gendarmes against it

Heads of Russia > 1898-1904 Constantine II begins program to reform state and develop industry

Russia's Wars > Lithuanian War of Independence (1896-1902) sees more limited Russia military sent to crush Lithuania, succeeds but still faced with croppies

Young Russian Revolution (1902-8) breaks out; Russian troops mutiny and take the Winter Palace, put Heads of Russia > 1898-1904 Constantine II under house arrest, and give leader Heads of Russia > 1902-1903 Mikhail Morozov (Young Russia) † all power as Dictator

Mass breaks of army mutinies due to demoralization occur as well

Waves of peasants and serfs killing masters escalates to full peasant revolt, which Heads of Russia > 1898-1904 Constantine II suppresses brutally

Sobor elections return sweeping Young Russian majorities, but before it can meet Heads of Russia > 1898-1904 Constantine II comes to power in gendarme coup and revokes orders of serfdom abolition along with everything else Morozov declared

Heads of Russia > 1902-1903 Mikhail Morozov (Young Russia) † executed by Constantine II, who also executes massive numbers of his political opponents

Sobor members and army officers issue declaration fleeing to Pskov to regroup, and re-assembling there, it is able to organize militaries

Great Fear continues and escalates, and gendarmes find themselves unable to stop it

Great Fear begins, as returnee peasants destroy estates and kill their masters

Sobor ordered convened, Morozov issues provisional decrees on serfdom abolition and declaration of rights and responsibilities

Heads of Russia > 1898-1904 Constantine II purges army of doubtfuls and establishes gendarmerie at his head, and he brings in ships from more royalist navy to keep Petrograd in line

Heads of Russia > 1903-1904 Anton Kuskov (Young Russia) organizes regiments and Young Russian Army

Heads of Russia > 1903-1904 Anton Kuskov (Young Russia) successfully storms into Petrograd and arrests Heads of Russia > 1898-1904 Constantine II before he can flee

Russian navy in Kronstadt, headed by Imperatritsa Yekaterina II, fires upon Petrograd to get it to submit; destroys the Winter Palace along with much of the city, but is ultimately crushed by land artillery

Having lost much of its naval protection, Kronstadt now falls to Young Russian revolutionaries

Sobor, now organized in Petrograd, formally abolishes serfdom and declares a republic

Heads of Russia > 1898-1904 Constantine II formally put on trial for his crimes against the Russian people

Heads of Russia > 1898-1904 Constantine II executed after dramatic show trial, to widespread cheers

Heads of Russia > 1898-1904 Constantine II formally derecognizes abolition of serfdom, and despite his promise of reform this causes widespread peasant revolt as now they're being told to remove their own gains

Cossack-dominated viceregency dumas in Malorussia and Kuban declare independence under Ivan Doroshenko as Hetman

Central Asian states declare independence from Russia entirely

Siberian viceregency duma, dominated by Tsarists, declares independence, causing Siberia to fall into dramatic chaos

Russian Republic organizes armies against new threats, most particularly one under Heads of Russia > 1906-1909 Gavril Vartanyan (Young Russia)

Heads of Russia > 1906-1909 Gavril Vartanyan (Young Russia) successfully crushes the Siberian viceregency, leaving only an inaccessible remnant in Kamchatka

Malorussian Hetmanate engages in mass attacks against perceived enemies of the state, most particularly Jews, resulting in the Doroshenkian massacres

Heads of Russia > 1904-1906 Anton Kuskov (Young Russia), regarded as useless, overthrown in a coup cheered on by Duma and replaced by Heads of Russia > 1906-1909 Gavril Vartanyan (Young Russia)

Russian government issues promises for Malorussian autonomy which wins it support of Malorussian enemies of Doroshenko, and it successfully makes impressive advances

Commonwealth of Sweden invades Tsarist-controlled Murmansk and Karelia, which is tacitly accepted by the Young Russians

Russia successfully defeats the Malorussian Hetmanate, but Doroshenko flees to Paris before he can be captured

Russia puts captured leaders of the Hetmanate on trial for mass murder

Russia formally circumscribes the Malorussian Autonomy, bringing Malorussia into rebellion and pushing it into declaring independence

Heads of Russia > 1906-1909 Gavril Vartanyan (Young Russia) successfully crushes the Malorussian rebels and absorbs the region into Russia, after a terribly destructive Battle of Kiev

End of Young Russian Revolution (1902-8); Vartanyan signs treaties with Lithuanian Republic and completes a process of normalization

Death of Heads of Russia > 1796-1822 Paul and ascension of Heads of Russia > 1822-1827 Alexander

Heads of Russia > 1822-1827 Alexander intervenes in the Second French War (1821-32) by invading Prussia in the name of establishing a Polish state with himself as its Liberator, and secures from Austria the right to annex Galicia as part of it, in a war that goes badly for the badly mismanaged Russian army

Heads of Russia > 1822-1827 Alexander enacts a moderately constitutitonal system in which nobles elect volost councils, which elect okrug dumas, which elect oblast dumas, which elect governorate dumas, which elect viceregency dumas, which elects Chamber of Plenipotentiaries which is one house of the National Duma along with the Governing Senate

Heads of Russia > 1822-1827 Alexander establishes a Grand Duchy of Lithuania, with partial autonomy

Heads of Russia > 1822-1827 Alexander dies and is replaced by Heads of Russia > 1827-1837 Constantine I

Considering the war to conquer Poland to be a lost cause, Heads of Russia > 1827-1837 Constantine I signs a peace with Prussia, and also gives up most of Galicia

Heads of Russia > 1827-1837 Constantine I has a son to serve as his heir. However, shortly after the son's birth, his unhappy wife commits suicide

Heads of Russia > 1827-1837 Constantine I; his nine year old son, Heads of Russia > 1837-1898 Michael II becomes king with a regency run by his uncle Nicholas

Turkey falls into a succession war and the Ottoman line goes extinct; Russia goes to war to absorb it, resulting in a Franco-British intervention and the Russia's Wars > Turkish War of Succession (1841-4)

End of Russia's Wars > Turkish War of Succession (1841-4), with Russia forced to cede Crimea and Circassia but gets to eat Moldavia

Heads of Russia > 1837-1898 Michael II formally takes the full powers of the throne

A Masonic reforming cell, led by veterans of the Russia's Wars > Turkish War of Succession (1841-4), attempts a palace coup but gets crushed

With China's Wars > Transition from Qing to Bai (1854-63), Russia begins process of intervention by creeping from Kazakh lands

With collapse of Qing China in China's Wars > Transition from Qing to Bai (1854-63), Russia places Qing remnant in Mongolia and Manchuria under its protection

Lithuania launches revolt against Russian rule, brutally defeated and Lithuania's autonomy wholly revoked

Russia begins process of constructing riads and some railroads in Siberia, in particular a road to Vladivostok

Russia secures formal control of Liaodong Peninsula, and it turns into a naval base

Beginning of Russia's Wars > Second Circassian War (1872-5) after Russia invades Circassia

Russia begins work on constructing the Trans-Siberian Railroad (Railways > Russia), after having constructed several smaller railroads

End of Russia's Wars > Second Circassian War (1872-5) with a Russian defeat

Russia intervenes in the French Wars > Fourth French War (1880-4) on the German side

End of the French Wars > Fourth French War (1880-4) with a German victory

Writing of Constitution of 1909; Russia becomes a republic founded on Ideology > Sociocracy

Recessions > Panic of 1911; Russia's economic boom comes to a cratering end

Political dispute between the National Sobor and the High Administrators; the High Administrators order the army to fire upon and dissolve the Sobor, but Heads of Russia > 1914-1927 Gavril Vartanyan (Young Russia) † instead marches towards the High Administrators

Heads of Russia > 1914-1927 Gavril Vartanyan (Young Russia) † declares himself Chief High Administrator of Russia, with support from the National Sobor, and extends term limits for himself to 15 years

Heads of Russia > 1914-1927 Gavril Vartanyan (Young Russia) † puts an end to mir division policy, and instead he recognizes the mirs as cooperative institutions into which peasants co-own

With Russia's fleet rebuilt, Heads of Russia > 1914-1927 Gavril Vartanyan (Young Russia) † is finally able to deal with the White Russian Kamchatka remnant in Russia's Wars > Fall of Kamchatka (1915)

Heads of Russia > 1914-1927 Gavril Vartanyan (Young Russia) † establishes a system of mills across Russia, which also establishes a new class of industrialists getting prosperous on this

Beginning of Russia's Wars > Central Asian Wars (1919-28), as Heads of Russia > 1914-1927 Gavril Vartanyan (Young Russia) † invades Kazakhstan to make Russia whole

Heads of Russia > 1914-1927 Gavril Vartanyan (Young Russia) † dies, yielding power to his High Administrator of Agriculture, Heads of Russia > 1927-1942 Lidia Korsakova (Young Russia -- Administration)

Heads of Russia > 1927-1942 Lidia Korsakova (Young Russia -- Administration) wins power in her own right

Russia conquers Bukhara, ending Russia's Wars > Central Asian Wars (1919-28)