In which we continue our year-long look at the events as they unfolded during the year of revolutions, 1917. Coverage is divided into Politicians, Artists and The Military

A small war was raging in Rus in January and February 1456.

The Free Economic Society was founded on June 26, 1765, promoted by several Russian aristocrats that earned the blessing of Catherine II herself.

On April 26, 1715, Peter I published his Military Statute, which remained in effect until the mid-nineteenth century.

Today it is hard to imagine the revolutionary atmosphere that pervaded the Soviet Union in March and April of 1985.

For centuries, the Russian Church strove to shield Muscovy from foreign influences, believing that they would weaken faith and put the kingdom in peril.

The year 1715 began with several innovations introduced by Tsar Peter I.

On January 8, 1815 was the monumental "meeting" of Alexander Pushkin and Gavrila Derzhavin, the greatest poets of their respective generations.

Born in 1865, Valentin Serov was one of Russia's greatest painters of the 19th and 20th centuries. His painting, 110 years ago, of Bloody Sunday, captured the tragedy and carnage of that pivotal event.

May 2 marks 300 years since the death of Prince Vasily Vasilyevich Golitsyn in remote northern exile.

Mikhail Bakunin played a role in uprisings all over the continent.

A short poem by Anna Akhmatova believed to be to Mikhail Lozinsky, who supported her through thick and thin.