the Russian Empire

基本解释

The Russian empire was rather like Charlemagne's empire in 800 in the coronation at Aachen or Aix-la-Chapelle and all of that.
沙皇俄国倒是非常像查理曼帝国,即公元800年在亚琛加冕称王的查理曼帝国
The Russian empire, the state of Muscovy had already expanded greatly, but it's really Peter the Great, it's the big guy who expanded Russia, its territorial size enormously.
沙俄帝国在此之前已有大幅扩张,但是,是彼得大帝,是这个大家伙扩张了俄国领土,他统治下的沙俄幅员辽阔
Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the imperial household.
在第一次世界大战中俄军的节节败退导致了国内主要城市的大暴动，在1917年推翻了沙皇的统治。

After Poltava,Ukrainians became part of the Russian empire.
The Russian empire was rather like Charlemagne's empire in 800 in the coronation at Aachen or Aix-la-Chapelle and all of that.
沙皇俄国倒是非常像查理曼帝国,即公元800年在亚琛加冕称王的查理曼帝国
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So, Peter the Great, despite his dramatic expansion of the Russian empire, does not get this outlet on the Black Sea.
所以,彼得大帝,虽然为俄帝国的扩张立下汗马功劳,仍旧没能夺取黑海的入海口
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As a liberal city open to the world, Odessa was an aberration by the 19th-century standards of the Russian empire.
ECONOMIST: Could the famous Black Sea port sparkle again?