1881

A wave of anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia

• Persia officially recognized Russia's annexation of Khwarazm in the Treaty of Akhal.

• Persia loses Turkmenistan to Russia

• Revolutionaries assassinated Alexander II the Liberator

• 1881-1885 Russia conquered Transcaspian Region, Turkestan, Kazakhstan

• 1881-1894 Under Emperor Alexander III the Russian administration increased efforts to assimilate non-Russian peoples

• 1857-1906 The Russians established a penal colony on Sakhalin. They transported numerous Russian criminal and political exiles there, including Lev Shternberg, an important early ethnographer of the Nivkh. The Nivkh were soon outnumbered; they were sometimes employed as prison guards and to track escaped convicts

• 1800-2001 Russia annexing Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti (Eastern Georgia) and deposing the Bagratids

• 1795-1918 Belorussia under Russian rule

• 1783-1917 War with Georgia

• 1700-1900 The Slavic Russians outnumber all of the native peoples in Siberia

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