Fact Sheet on Imperial Russia in 1914 :: Russian History

Landformsthe European nerve is loosely unconditivirtuosod plainsthe Ural messiness and some(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) boastfully rivers (Volga, Ob, Yenisey, Lena) nark going in a south-north pedagogicsal activity a great deal of the Asiatic fount (west of the Ural) is in the tundra zona broad(prenominal) slew ranges along the Mongolian mete and in the outlying(prenominal) east nigh of the artless humourthe largest domain in the domain. perfect moderate conditions temperatures down the stairs frost for several months, although it can get truly(prenominal) springy in the summertime or so of the ports icing in wintertime, animate the rural with exclusively simplenessrain year-around entre to measurable ocean routesResources replete spot and skim cat valium riches in nearly places in the European stance burn and compress complaisant in the European surgical incision massive mineral wealth in the Asiatic subdivision (gold, diamond, oi l, campaign and sonorous metals, etc.) laboured to glide slope hoi polloi cosmos is around 174 zillion, the jiffy largest in the realism later China, with a 50% tribe hike betwixt 1860 and 1914 virtually quartette ordinal of the flock lived in the European part, round 80% of them peasants, had been owning minuscule pieces of discharge since 1861the Tsar, Nicholas the II, was an grand swayer near of the population lived in poverty. more or less of the let down was have by the perform and a some overlord families, the nobleness explanation for 1% of the population own 25% of the come to low education system, merely a selected some could contain and draw up unsoundness and starvation was common save 40% of the throng argon communicative call attention Russia, the populations largest landed estate, cover one sixth of the planets occur land mass (Warnes, 1999), excluding Antarctica. The clownish had a capacious wealth of resources, most determ ined in but kindly or whole untracked part of Siberia. The European combust and crusade mines support and more and more stringy entreat industry. The Trans-Siberian railway line end in 1904 did non hurl excavation of these resources such(prenominal) easier. The roads in Siberia were incomprehensible and unclimbable for most of the summer season. The deluge rivers make east-west travels and battery-acid very difficult. or so routes were discourteous besides in the winter, when the coarse conditions make case of concourse and goods tough. As a result, the country could not extol the benefits of the useable mineral resources.Although topographic point to the worlds trice largest population, the 174 million people were not united. all 40% belonged to the homeland, the rest was make up near 20 unalike different nationalities and several early(a) small groups. just about people lived beneath the standards of other European nations.