# Map of Russia

Source page: https://geographichistory.app/empire/russia/

On the Geographic History map, Russia appears from 1495 to 1923. It reaches its largest mapped extent in 1900: about 22 million km² across 287 provinces.

Russia grew out of the Grand Principality of Moscow, which threw off Mongol overlordship in 1480 and became the Tsardom of Russia when Ivan IV was crowned tsar in 1547. Russian explorers and Cossacks crossed Siberia and reached the Pacific by the 1640s, and Peter the Great proclaimed the Russian Empire in 1721. The empire fell in the revolutions of 1917, and most of its lands became part of the Soviet Union in 1922.

## Mapped area by year (km²)

- 1495: 18,000
- 1515: 2,127,000
- 1535: 2,212,000
- 1555: 2,902,000
- 1575: 3,425,000
- 1595: 5,042,000
- 1615: 5,621,000
- 1635: 9,202,000
- 1655: 11,984,000
- 1675: 12,149,000
- 1695: 11,832,000
- 1715: 11,832,000
- 1735: 13,096,000
- 1755: 13,318,000
- 1775: 13,432,000
- 1795: 14,801,000
- 1815: 17,195,000
- 1835: 18,012,000
- 1855: 19,307,000
- 1875: 20,873,000
- 1895: 21,375,000
- 1915: 21,495,000

## About this map

Territory comes from the Chronas historical dataset used by the Geographic History app. Areas are approximate, computed from about 2,400 province shapes, and describe this map rather than official historical figures - border data for the ancient and medieval world is necessarily a reconstruction.