Generic Info
Nation Name: The Russian Empire (Russian: Rossiyskaya imperiya)
Symbols: Pieter’s Tricolor, Arms, Гром победы, раздавайся!, Mother Russia
Homeland Population: 35,500,000
Imperial Population: ca. 8,000,000
Location/Claims: Location
Capital City: Moscow
Government Info
Government Type: Unitary Autocratic Absolute Monarchy
Brief Explanation of Government: The Tsar, Emperor of all the Russias, is the Absolute monarch of the Russian Empire. The liberal reforms of Pieter the Reformer brought great change to Russia, which were enhanced by Wojciech II’s reforms. Pieter established the Ministries, known formally as Collegiates, to administer various aspects of the Empire for the Emperor. A Senate, comprised of 10 members chosen by the Emperor, governs legal affairs. Russia is divided into Guberniyas, and then Oblasts. Guberniyas are administered by a Landrat, while Oblasts are maintained by Zemstva. The Most Holy Synod is the principal organ of government of the Orthodox Church of Russia.
Ideology: Nationalism, Pan-Slavism, Autocracy, Orthodoxy, Christian government, Interventionism
Leader/s: Emperor (Tsar) Alexander (Pavlovich) I Jagiellon
Population Info
Religion: Orthodoxy
Main/Accepted Culture(s): Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, other Slavic
Other Cultures: Central Asian (there are tons of them), Manchurian
Military Info
Army: Russia fields one of the largest armies in Europe. It is therefore not very surprising that the Russian army is far from being an elite force in general, although several regiments undergo extensive training and are on par with other European forces. Most of the Russian army is comprised of conscripted serfs or peasants trained in the musket and pressed into service, with the goal of them obtaining mastery in combat through firsthand experience. Russia has an officer corps that is extremely competent, and whose most renowned member is Count Alexander Suvorov. However, their efficacy is limited by Russia’s vast army, which is difficult to focus against the enemy.
In terms of structure: 2 Battalions per Regiment (regiments are roughly 3.000), 5 Regiments per Division; several divisions per corps
- Imperial Grenadier Corps, St. Petersburg – 56.000 – Mikhail Kutuzov
- V. Corps – 28.000
- VI. Corps – 28.000
- Imperial Central Army, Smolensk – 87.000 – Alexander Suvorov
- III. Corps – 30.000
- IV. Corps – 32.000
- XII. Corps – 25.000
- Imperial Army of the Ukraine, Kiev – 41.000 – Pyotr Rumyantsev
- II. Corps – 26.000
- IX. Corps – 25.000
- Imperial Western Army, Minsk – 30.000 – Grand Duke Nikolai Jagiellon
- XIV. Corps – 30.000
- Imperial Guards, Moscow – 18.000 – Nikolai Saltykov
- VIII. Imperial Guard – 18.000
- Imperial Army of Circassia and the Caucasus – 28.000 – Michael Barclay de Tolly
- X. Corps – 28.000
- Imperial Siberian Army, Yekaterinburg – 18.000 – Nikolai Repnin
- XI. Corps – 18.000
- Imperial Eastern Army, Vladivostok – 17.000 – Ivan Saltykov
- VII. Corps – 17.000
Total: 295.000
Approximately 0.69% of the Imperial Population
After full mobilization, the Russian Army would number around 2 million individuals, or 5.6% of the Imperial Population, including the Standing Army.
Division Structure
- Pehotniy Polk
- Pehotniy Polk
- Pehotniy Polk
- Kavaleriyksiy Polk
- Artilleriyskiy Polk
Navy: The Russian Navy is a naval force whose chief purpose is the control of the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea. It is a competent force when compared to the neighboring naval powers, fielding a much more powerful fleet than Kurdistan and Sweden. However, it pales in quality when compared against powers such as England.
- White Squadron – Baltic Sea (St. Petersburg) – Lazar Obrenovič
- Flagship Tsaritsa Yekaterina
- Ships of the line – 2
- Frigates – 6
- Sloops of war – 11
- Black Squadron – Black Sea (Sevastopol) – Fyodor Ushakov
- First Rates
- Flagship Voda Moskvy
- Vavilonskaya bashnya
- Tsarevich Mikhail
- Ships of the line – 8
- Frigates – 16
- Sloops of war – 26
Other Info
Brief Description of your Economy: Backward and unindustrialized. Serfdom is the lay of the land, with wealthy noblemen governing large estates worked by Serfs, who often live in poverty. Russia has wealthy industries in Salt, Vodka, Tar, Iron, and Oak production, which could nevertheless be modernised to provide additional yields. The new tax system, introduced as a part of Pieter’s reforms, has doubled the revenue of the treasury and allowed the budget of the Imperial Government to almost double in size.
Goals: Protect Slavdom, expand in Asia, restore order to France, gain territory adjacent to St. Petersburg to fortify it, reform the system of Serfdom (but not eliminate it), and perhaps most importantly, remove kebab.
History: OTL until Time of Troubles. In the Time of Troubles, the collapse of the Rurikovich dynasty brought about a time of heightened turmoil that caused much of the government of Muscovy to collapse. In 1605, the Commonwealth invaded Muscovite lands, bringing about great destruction in their wake. However, the Russian forces rallied behind Marshal Mikhail Romanov who led Russia to the Peace Accords at Novgorod in 1617, in which Muscovy and her vassals made several concessions to Poland-Lithuania and Sweden following great victories at Smolensk in 1616 and Novgorod in 1617.
After the Peace Accords of Novgorod, Mikhail Romanov was elected as Tsar of Russia and crowned in 1618 in Moscow. Mikhail, however, was the unfortunate victim of an assassination in 1629, after eleven years as Tsar. Mikhail had no direct male heirs, and as such his eldest daughter, Tsarevna Arina, became the ruler. A weak ruler, she was eventually displaced in the rule by Prince Wojciech Jagiellon, her spouse.
Wojciech I thus became the first Jagiellon ruler of Russia. Descended from the Polish Jagiellons who had nevertheless lost the crown of Poland, he immediately began by dismissing the Streltsy as Russia’s armed force and attempted to modernize the Russian army as per modern standards. He, however, largely failed, as shown by the failure of Russia to obtain a decisive victory against Sweden in the 1658-1662 Russo-Swedish war.
Wojciech I perished in 1665. Wojciech II was subsequently crowned as Tsar. He ruled from 1665 to his death in 1691. He was succeeded by Pieter I, who would later be known as “The Great.”
During Pieter the Great’s reign, Ingria and the areas around Smolensk were taken back by the Tsardom from the Swedes in the War of the North that lasted for nearly 18 years. In 1718, after finally winning a great victory in the War of the North against Sweden, he proclaimed the Russian Empire in Moscow, building great projects in Neva, renamed as “St. Petersburg,” in order to consolidate Russian claims to Ingria.
Pieter also brought about numerous reforms, modernising much of the Russian administration, as well as the administrative divisions of the country. Under his rule, several profitable enterprises were nationalised and a new tax law was passed, almost duplicating the revenue of the imperial treasury by the time of his death in 1745. He was succeeded by numerous descendants, of whom Yekaterina Vlasevna Jagiellon is the most renowned.
Aided by skillful generals such as Rumyantsev and Repnin, as well as admirals such as Ushakov, Yekaterina led the Russian Empire to victory against the evil and oppressive kebab in the First and Second Turkish Wars, seizing much of the Ottoman Caucasus as well as the Kars region. Her spouse, Pavel, was an ineffective ruler. She was succeeded by Pavel I, who perished after a few months by an equestrian accident. His son, Aleksander Pavlovich, succeeded him as Emperor.
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