Contribution: Lonely Bear and Cub timeline - expansion of Russia (by Ended)

Lonely Bear and Cub timeline - expansion of Russia​

Only Russian expansion of territory noted (along with family or some fun stuff).

If you want to hear about other countries getting or losing territory - read the story.

If you want to hear about other important developments - read the story.

I just wanted to put together a timeline of Russian expansion of power and territory.

If you feel like I missed an important piece or got something wrong - let me know.

May 10, 1845 Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich is born.

At the age of seven, Grand Duke Alexander received the rank of First Officer

1855 Tsar Nicholas I died. Tsesarevich Alexander rose as Alexander II of Russia. Alexander's older brother became Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich. Grand Duke Alexander was now second in line for the throne.

Feb, 1855, There was an island and an archipelago divided between Russia and Japan by the Treaty of Shimoda. Under this agreement the island of Sakhalin was divided between north (Russia) and south (Japan). The Kuril were divided from Iturup to the south (Japan: Iturup itself, Kunashir, Shikotan and the Habomai islands) and from Urup to the north (Russia: Urup itself, Broutona, Chirpoy, Brat Chirpoyev, Simushir, Ketoy, Ushishir , Rasshua, Matua, Raykoke, Chirinkotan, Shiashkotan, Ekarma, Kharimkotan, Onekotan, Makanrushi, Antisferova, Paramushir, Atlasov and Shumshu).

These regions not only inhabit the Ainu, but also peoples like the Nivkhs (in the north of Sakhalin).

April 1861, Russia gained Asō Bay as a naval post on the east of Tsushima Island, Japan.

In 1862, Russia founds The Department on Protecting the Order and Public Peace, or Okhrana,

May 21, 1864, Russo-Circassian War ended after over 100 years of on-and-off conflict. Followed by the Circassian genocide.

April 24, 1865 Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich dies. Grand Duke Alexander is now Tsesrevich.

April 4, 1866 Tsar Alexander II is assassinated. Tsesarevich Alexander is now Tsar Alexander III.

April 30, 1866 Tsar Alexander III is corronated.

Over the years, the Russian Empire has been expanding, at first it was an eastern expansion that took them from eastern Europe to Siberia and Alaska.

Now, for years, they have been expanding to the south, towards Central Asia (where present-day Kazakhstan and parts of Kyrgyzstan already dominate, while to the south are the Khanates of Kokand and Khiva, and the Emirate of Bukhara). Mikhail Grigorievich Chernyayev conquered in 1865 parts that would be vital for the formation of Russian Turkestan.

Continuing with the clashes against Bukhara, the military leader Dmitri Ilyich Romanovsky confronted the Bukharians on the Irjar plain, on May 8, 1866 (20 NS).

As a consequence, it opened the way for the Russians for Khujand and Jizzakh, the Fergana valley, and some other territories.

Khujand was captured in May of 1866.

October 1866, Central Asia, the Russians under General Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann captured Jizzakh and the fortress of Ura-Tyube from the hands of the Bukharans.

October 14, 1866 The Franco-Russian war with the Koren Joseon dynasty begins.

November 1866 Emperor Alexander III married Princess Dagmar of Denmark, daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark. Dagmar takes the Orthodox name Maria Feodorovna.

January 1867, The Franco-Russian war with Korea ended. The island of Quelpart, Korea (more specifically the area of the city of Jeju) would become a Russian outpost, essentially turning the island into a Russian protectorate, just like Tsushima, Japan.

July 1867, Emperor Alexander III created the Turkestan Province-Military District (which occupies the area of the Russian Kazakh steppe, Kyrgyzstan and some other conquered territories further south).

July - Sept 1867 the Trans Siberian railroad was officially discussed by the Russian Government and started.

Sept 1867 the building of Murmansk was officially started along with a dedicated rail line.

Alexandrovsk or Alexandrovsk-na-Murmane settlement was also started.

Romanov-on-Murman grew up obtaining a port (the Semyonovsky port), a naval base and an adjacent settlement.

Oct 1867, Gold was found in the Alyáska Military District.

Nikolai von Bungen's Ministry of Finance created the Bank of American Lands, dedicated to long-term loans for the civilian population moving to Russian America.

These banks were in charge not only of loans, but also of the papers of the lands that were sold or bought in the colonial territory.

Jan 1868 Russia began investing in the growth of the Tsushima Island, Japan and Quelpart Island, Korea.

April 1868, Russia began it's campaign on the city of Samarkand, Emirate of Bukhara.

June 1868, Various territories such as Samarkand were ceded to Russia proper, causing Bukhara to lose its most fertile lands and the best for settlement, agriculture, etc.

The rest of the Emirate is basically a protectorate.

After the fall of the Emirate of Bukhara, The Khanates of Kokand became a protectorate as well.

Russia supports Abdur-Rahman as leader of Afghanistan, to make it an independent nation between Russia and the British Raj.

May, 1868 Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich was born.

May, 1869. War with the Khanate of Khiva began.

June, 1869 the Khanate of Khiva was conquered and became part of Russia.

June 7, 1869 Empress Maria Feodorovna and Emperor Alexander III have a second son, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov.

By the end of 1869 the Russian army was almost fully armed, having successfully integrated the Chassepots rifle, artillery, and other items of weaponry a little ahead of time.

Oct, 1869, The Suez Canal opened.

April, 1870 Russia adopted the Metric System.

April, 1870 The Russian Empire under Tsar Alexander III bought several American businesses and properties in the Hawai'i archipelago, where the Kingdom of Hawai'i is led by King Kamehameha V.

April, 1870 Russo-Japanese Treaty. Russian ownership of the Tsushima islands was greatly expanded, not to mention that the islands of Kamino-shima (or also called Kamijima) and Shimono-shima (also called Shimojima) became fully Russian properties.

March, 1871 Paris bans on the Russian navy in the Black Sea were lifted. They cannot travel the straits, but they can build a Black Sea navy.

May, 1871 One of Russia's Arctic expeditions found islands that were obviously uninhabited, some having exceptionally flat terrain. The largest of the islands received the name of New Siberia (Novaya Sibir), which coincides with the name of the archipelago: Novosibirsk.

Naturally with no other nearby country or native inhabitants able to claim the islands, Russia put up a flag and declared the territory as its own.

The northern group for their part first found Medvezhiy Island (Bear Island, as they called it after a bear swimming nearby) . Part of the northern expedition continued on their planned journey, finding the archipelago they called Kholadya. Russian annexed the islands.

Discussions regarding the islands of Medvezhiy and Kholadya (which are actually part of the same archipelago) were certain treaties with Sweden-Norway, delimiting fishing zones.

The Russian zone started quite close to Medvezhiy and moved north towards Kholadya.

(OOC: It's basically the fisheries protected zone of Svalbard.)

June, 1871, Russia conquered the Ili Sultanate (region also called Kuldzhin by the Russians), at that time between Russia and China, occupying a little more than 200,000 square kilometers. 'Temporarily' occupying the rebel region of China.

July - Sept 1872, The Russian Arctic expedition comes to an end when they find the last new territories on the routes planned by the Russian Geographical Society, having found two new territories (which do not seem to have much material wealth, but have scientific potential, like the others).

These territories have been named Emperor Alexander II Land and Emperor Alexander III Land.

(OOC: The discovered lands are OTL Land of Franz Josef and Northern Land / Emperor Nicholas II Land.).

Jan, 1873, Russia conquered Turkmen, more specifically on the Tekints and one of the largest Turkmen tribal groups in the Turkmenistan region that inhabited the Akhal-Teke or Ahal oasis.

The Russian state sent offers to the Merv oases and the Pendinsky oasis in the Kushka River Valley, demanding their surrender. The oasis of Merv and Pedisnky accepted.

April 1873, Treaty signed effectively dividing the island of New Guinea between three (the west in de-facto Dutch hands, and the eastern part divided in two, the Russian north and the German south).

Russia established a base for the Pacific navy at Cape Maclay (establishing a Russian Protectorate over Papua New Guinea).

Edit: Alexander and the administrator of Novo Guinea used benevolent imperialism instead of following how the others did it. This would set the standard of how natives were to be treated and uplifted in future colonies and protectorates.

Jan-March 1874, Tsar Alexander III formed a kind of Zemstvo of Novaya Gvineya.

April 6, 1875 Grand Duchess Xenia is born.

Feb 26. 1876 Russia-Korea Treaty. A Russian legation in Seoul. The opening of the port of Pusan to sailors (without the purpose of permanent occupation) and Russian merchants.

May 16, 1876, the Russians declared war on the Ottoman Empire.

October 1876, Peace conference with the Ottoman Empire.

November 3, 1876 the Russians and Ottomans would sign a peace treaty (verified by the English) that would end the Russo-Turkish war of 1876.

Under the articles of the treaty, the Ottoman Empire would give independence to: Serbia, Romania, Montenegro and Bulgaria. While Bosnia-Herzegovina would receive the status of a largely autonomous principality (de-facto independent).

Russia would get its conquests in the Caucasus and more.

And the de-facto British Empire would get Cyprus as a territory.

Russia acquired Dobruja and the lost territories in Crimea, but Dobruja on the Danube went to Carol I's Romania.

Oct - Dec 1877 A kind of Kurdish autonomy was re-established within Russian territory, at least cultural autonomy and to some extent administrative since the Kurds entered the Russian civil service to administer these areas.

The only thing left out of Kurdish rule was military matters, the Russians were creating railways, fortresses and fortifying the region in general for a future war.

July-Sept 1879, Treatise of Livadia between Russia and China. Russia would return part of the Ili region but keep the rest as part of Russia.

Russia has consulates and trade missions to Ili City (Kulja), Tarbagatai (Chuguchak, Tacheng), Kashgar and Urga (Ulan Bator).

October 7, 1879 Russia sent a permanent military mission to Persia with Russian instructors.

July 28, 1880 British-Russian Treaty over Afghanistan. The North basically becomes a Russian Protectorate. The South becomes a British protectorate and the middle of the country is left independent.

October 17, 1880 The Trans-Siberian Railway was finally finished and inaugurated.

Jan - March, 1881 The city of Novo Alexandria (or Novaya Aleksandriya for the Russians), in the north of Brazil was founded to produce natural rubber to export to Russia.

April-June 1881 Alyáska became a Governorate (Guberniya) and was no longer considered not a colony, but another integral territory of the Russian Empire.

Tsar Alexander III added the title of 'Tsar of Alyáska'

May 11, 1881 Aceh became a protectorate-vassal of the Russian Empire.

August 27 a transaction between Russia and Spain, where Spain sells the territories of New Philippines (Marshall Islands, Carolines and Palaus) to Russia in exchange for a monetary sum and aid for the Spanish reconstruction.

However, the exchange will take until 1882-1883 to be completed due to administrative issues and Russian inspections in the area.

1882 the territories of Khiva, Bukhara and Kokand were abolished and fully integrated within the Russian Empire according to legal status.

April - June 1882 Russians and Polish expedition to West Africa bought the island of Mondoleh (OTL Cameroon)

the name 'Slavic Africa' was chosen (Russian, Slavyanskaya Afrika, Славянская Африка and Polish, Słowiańska Afryka)

May 1882, the Transcaspian railway was finished in the Russian Empire.

October-November 1882 The Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Bali sign an agreement that makes Bali a Russian protectorate. actually composed of the minor Balinese kingdoms of Klungkung, Buleleng, Karangasem, Mengwi, Badung, Tabanan, Gianyar, Bangli and Jembrana, with their respective dynasties and institutions.

Among which Klungkung was the first among equals, and therefore received the privilege of titles of King of Bali (but it was mainly nominal), and also the main residence of the main administrators was in the Klungkung territory. It was the only federation within the official Russian protectorates, and the only one with a Hindu majority.

Jan-March, 1883 Slavic Africa permits were received to establish a port, which was named New Krakow (Russian Новый Краков, Novyy Krakov and Polish Nowy Kraków) on the mainland of western Africa.

April - Jun, 1883 The Volga-Don Canal was completed in record time, effectively linking the commercial and population passage between the Volga rivers and the Don River. With a series of dam constructions and adequate infrastructure, more than 3,000 kilometers of the Volga River and tributaries became navigable.

Obviously this was very useful for the passage of ships and people through European Russia, from the Caspian and Caucasian regions now economic resources could travel to tributaries of the Don, the Sea of Azov or the Black Sea through the rivers

July-Sept, 1883 Russia took control of the abandoned Egyptian fort of Sagallo (Сагалло in Russian, ساغلو in Arabic) with the settlement of New Moscow near Ethiopia.

July-Sept, 1883 Spain finally transferred ownership of 'Nueva Filipinas' to Alexander III's Russian Empire, moving the Palao, Carolines and Los Pintados / Marshall Islands to Russian ownership.

July-Sept, 1884 Moskva-Volga canal, which links the Moskva River with the northern sections of the Volga River is completed.

Alyáska railway was completed, effectively connecting back and forth various of the most populated ports and cities on the southern coast of Alyáska.

Jan-Mar 1885 Edit: Alexander hosting the Saint Petersburg Conference. It kinda set the stage for Russia's role as a neutral arbitrator in international politics. Two deals were especially important to Russia:

Otto von Bismarck agreed to sell his Namibian port (mainly thinking it was a worthless desert) to the Russian state. Walvis Bay, Namibia, South West Slavic Africa

Russia bought from France her possessions on the island Kingdom of Merina / Madagascar (or at least sovereignty over them, without expelling the French) and allowed Russia to take over the reins of the administration in this regard.

June 17, 1885, the Second Russian Arctic Expedition returns from a successful trip to the North Pole.

July - Sept 1885 Queen Ranavalona III of Merina / Madagascar agreed to be a protectorate of Russia.

April - June 1886 The Bloch Report was condensed from 3000 pages to 60. Said report from the ministry would explain how the future wars of the Russian Empire against industrialized nations in Europe would be.

April 1886 Russian Namibia (South West Slavic Africa). In addition to Walvis Bay, Russian settlers would form around various springs and vital points for the formation of the colony, the settlement of New Petrograd. (OOC: New Petrograd = Windhoek).

April 1886 The Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich presented the idea of "containers" made of steel, which would be an advance for the development and transport of goods through maritime trade routes and railways of the Russian Empire.

Such containers could be easier to transport and safer for goods, with certain adjustments regarding cranes and means of transport. Edit: Steel was too expensive, so this was an idea who's time had yet to come.

April 6, 1886 Russia buys the Island of Socotra and turns it into a nature preserve with some limited tourism.

October 28, 1886 Russia declares war on China. Joining the Sino-Japanese / Sino-German wars.

Oct - Dec 1886 Joseon dynasty under King Gojong and the Lanfang Republic declared their independence under the influence of Russia.

Soon the Lanfang Republic now declares a treaty that makes them a tributary of Russia, allowing the Russians to act much more publicly than before and not only sell arms to Lanfang but invest even more in its other industries.

March 3 1887, Russia gains control the entirety of Chinese Manchuria (Inner Manchuria)

June 18 1887, the treaty that ended the Sino-Japanese war. Russia officially gets Chinese Manchuria (Inner Manchuria), The Kingdom of Korea and the Lanfang Republic gain independence from Qing. Lanfang is recognized as a Russian protectorate. Korea is an unofficial protectorate.

July-Sept 1887 Russia gained through treaties and trade towards new islands, which they called Novo White Russia (Новая Белая Русь, Novaya Belaya Rus) .

(OOC: The island of New Britain, New Ireland and other islands)

Oct-Dec 1887 New Petrograd (Новый Петроград, Novyy Petrograd), South West Slavic Africa On October 1 the Russian city authorities, loyal to Tsar Alexander III of Russia, reach a series of treaties with the northern and southern tribes in the Namib desert.

By the Treaty of New Petrograd (1887), these tribes became part of the Russian colony.

July - Sept 1888 Russia buys the British companies investment in Kenya and takes control of that portion of British East Africa. It is named Keniya (Кения).

Jan - Mar 1889, the Russian Empire finished the White Sea-Balic Sea Canal (Беломо́рско-Балти́йский кана́л, Byelomorsko-BaltiyskiyKanal), which links the White Sea and the Baltic Sea (Gulf of Finland) through the lakes Vygozero, Onega and Laga the Neva and Svir rivers.

This also includes the Volga-Baltic Waterway (Volgobalt, Волгобалт), which connects the Volga and the Baltic through the Neva River.

This effectively forms a huge maritime transport system in European Russia, where the Moskva and Volga rivers (via the Moscow Canal), the Volga and the Don, the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea (and the Sea of Azov) are connected. , the White Sea and the Baltic Sea, among many other river systems of European Russia (mainly tributaries of the Volga).

April - June 1889 May 2, King Menelik II and Tsar Alexander III sign a friendship treaty, Ethiopia can trade with whoever it wants but it is simply more effective, easier and more beneficial to trade with Russia, while Russia is not the master of Ethiopia but it is a positive pattern and influence.

With this treaty ensuring investment, some Russian military and merchants continue the expansion of the Russian Somaliland coast, now the objective is to connect it with Kenya and secure the southern border of Ethiopia.

Edit: Russia was helping them fight the locust swarm and cattle disease creating Ethiopia's famine crisis.

Jan - March 1891 the Tsesarevich inaugurated the recently completed Transmanchurian Railway, linking Port Arthur, Mukden and various cities of Inner Manchuria with Korea and Outer Manchuria, and therefore with the Trans-Siberian.

Oct-Dec 1893 Russian investments in Katanga, Kongo began, applying the particular Russian model to the region to search for resources in the region.

October 9, 1895 The Kingdom of Korea is annexed by Russia. This made Korea another governorate.

June 7, 1896 Fashoda War starts

November 26, 1896 Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire. Immediately followed by his allies in the conflict (Bulgaria, Bosnia, Greece, Kurdistan, Montenegro and Romania), and the uprising of armed groups of Kurds (not independent Kurdistan), Macedonians, Armenians and Arabs, among some others.

March 1897 American Hippo Bill, HR 23261 law passed.

April 6, 1897 The Ottoman Empire ceased to exist. Russia would annex the straits and their conquered territories.

Tsar Alexander III was also blessed by the patriarchs for the conquest of Tsargrad in a new pseudo-coronation, Tsar Alexander III received the title of "Tsar Augustus" (Caesar Augustus) in a Byzantine ceremony, propagandistically proclaiming the Orthodox restoration of the second Rome and the role of the Russian state in world orthodoxy.

Edit: Russia made unofficial protectorates of the remaining post-Ottoman states. Ottoman's vassal Kuwait fell under Russia's sphere of influence. The rest fell to Britain and France fighting over it.

Dec 1897 Russian Empire joined the Kingdom of Rattanakosin (better known simply as the Kingdom of Siam) Thailand as a protectorate.

Jan-March 1898 Founding of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, or abbreviated as KGB (Комитет государственной безопасности, КГБ). Also translated as Committee for State Security.

Jan 1898 Tsar Augustus, Alexander III, proclaims a mobilization towards the Austro-Hungarian border to "defend the Russian border from the possible effects of war."

May 1898 Russia annexed Galixia-Lodomeria including a small area of territory.

A Slovak state was formed under the wing of Russia.

July-Sept 1898 Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania fall within a great Russian influence

Russia was quick to expand her influence into Macedonia after this country's independence,

Ionia fell into the Russian sphere

The Slovak authorities came to a conclusion, they had chosen Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov as the main candidate for monarch (king) of Slovakia.

The Hungarian authorities on the other hand were still primarily undecided, so with the permission of Tsar Alexander III they entered a state of "regency without a monarch" for the time being.

Maybe because they wanted to wait for Slovak decisions or something else.

August 12, 1898 Denmark and Russia formed the Kingdom of the Faroe Islands, independent from Denmark and led by Carl I (Prince Carl, grandson of Christian IX) who declared neutrality to the conflict with the help of Russia.

May 1899 Tsar Alexander III won a Nobel Peace Prize for trying to end the Fashoda War with a Peace Conference (that failed).

June 1899Tsar Alexander III sent a detachment of the imperial navy stationed in Namibia to the Federation of Rio Grande do Sul.although it is not a Russian protectorate, both states increased their commercial ties and Russian investment in the region increased.

July - Sept 1899 Tsar Alexander III began to press for an independent Katanga, Congo.

December 31st 1899, the Russian Empire was about to change from Julian to Gregorian calendar with a new arrival of the century

Feb - Mar 1901 Kuwait becomes a Protectorate of Russia.

Feb 9, 1901 Russia annexes Xinjiang and Mongolia

Feb 23, 1901 The Paris Treaty is signed. Formally ending the Fashoda War.

Feb 23, 1901 As part of the Paris Treaty, Russia gets formal possession of Katanga, Kongo. Recognition of the Russian annexations of former Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman territory, in addition to the later Russian sphere of influence.

Sept 7, 1901 The Boxer Protocols are signed. Peace with the Qing (China). China ceded Tuva-Mongolia and Xinjiang (North and Northwest China) to the Russian Empire.

Jan - Mar, 1902 Equatorial Guinea joins the Russosphere for protection and economic help to avoid collapse of the military junta.

June 15, 1902 Tsar Alexander I of Bulgaria officially ascends to the throne of Bulgaria, having turned 17 on June 15. On the same day Alexander I of Bulgaria signs a treaty with Tsar Alexander III of Russia (his relative), which creates a defensive alliance between Russia and Bulgaria, renewing all foreign relations and keeping Bulgaria under Russian rule.

May 27/28 (time differences) 1905, the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan sign the Treaty of Tsushima, which ends the conflict between the two states.

* Russia obtained the whole of the island of Sakhalin, the Kuril archipelago and some positions in the Japanese Pacific (minor islands under Japanese sovereignty).

* Japan recognized the Russian possession of these islands and also the Russian possession of the Tsushima archipelago.

Feb - Mar, 1909 Russia ratified the new borders of post-intervention Romania, gaining some territory.

Edit: Aug 30, 2021

January 2, 1912 the Imperial Federation and the German Empire, together with their allies, go to war with the Russian Empire and its allies.

This is motivated by the Persian refusal to accept the British ultimatum, with Russia backing Persia and supporting a war against the London-Berlin axis.

This means that the New Great War, which began in 1911, was once again greatly expanded.

The block of Washington and Buenos Aires now included the Russian Empire, Persia, Albania, Assyria, the Alawite State, Baghdad (Iraq), Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rio Grande do Sul, Thailand/Siam, Aceh, Bali, Lanfang Republic, the Russian colonies, Ethiopia, Druzia, Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait, Macedonia, Ionia, Cilicia, Montenegro, Serbia, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.

February 18, 1912 Russian troops and the Bogd Lama successfully formed an independent Inner Mongolia during the New Great War, on the Sino-Russian front.

With the establishment of independent Inner Mongolia, Russian troops and their collaborators successfully resist several Chinese counter-offensives.

However, the Han Chinese of Inner Mongolia still pose a problem.

August 16, 1912 the Empire of Japan officially joined the New Great War on the side of the United States and the Russian Empire.

November 3, 1912 Inner Mongolia authorities confer on the Russian Empire the status of 'Most Favored Nation', a special status for commercial benefits, mining and logging rights.

On the same day, major Russian expeditions to the northern territory of China also begin.

May 16, 1913 Shanxi province is conquered by Russian troops.

July 12, 1913 Shaanxi Province, with Russian backing, declares its independence from China.

July 18, 1913 Shandong declares its independence with the backing of the Russian Empire.

July 19, 1913 Henan declares its independence with the help of the Russian Empire and their armies.

July 21, 1913 The borders of northern China (Russia and allies) and southern China (Republic of China) are set after one last major battle.

September 29, 1913 The separate peace between China and the Allied Bloc ends this portion of the New Great War. The Republic of China recognizes the loss of territory to Russia or to the new Protectorate Nations.

June 25, 1914 the island of Sumatra was almost entirely unified by the Sultanate of Aceh, Russian protectorate.

April - June, 1914 Lanfang Republic, Protectorate of Russia, expanded to the east, conquering Central and South Kalimantan.

April - June, 1914 The eastern half of Papua New Guinea is now controlled by Russia.

April - June, 1914 Keniya's troops successfully conquered Uganda and Tanzania (German East Africa)

Troops from the Russian Congo and the Keniya armies conquered the small German Congo, forming a continuous colonial empire from Katanga to Sagallo.

Edit Sept 15, 2021:

November 2, 1915 the entire island of Sumatra is now in the hands of Aceh, Protectorate of Russia.

January 4, 1916, the Allied Bloc and the London-Berlin Axis finally ratified the Treaty of Visegrad, ending the New Great War or World War II (as later historians would call it).

Russia officially gained:

* The Russian colonial empire annexed German East Africa (Tanzania and Uganda).

* Novaya Gvineya now owned the entire eastern part of Papua New Guinea.

Russian Protectorate and Russosphere gained:

* Bohemia joined the Kingdom of Czechoslovakia, making Nicholas I king of Czechoslovakia. Although obviously without as much power as in Russia.

* Cilicia annexes the island of Cyprus.

* Thailand made Cambodia a protectorate.

* Aceh and the Lanfang Republic annexed nearby territories.

Persia was effectively within the sphere of the post-New Great War Russian Empire, the Persians and Russians successfully driving out British influence from the state and eliminating British troops on Persian soil.

Tsar Nicholas II gave his approval to the unification of Palestine-Jordan (under the administration of Abdullah bin Al-Hussein) and the Emirate of Ha'il, led by Saud bin Abdulaziz (of the Rasheed / Rashidi Dynasty).

Russia had established a total of 7 states in North China that made up the Russosphere in the region. Inner Mongolia, Islamic Federative Republic of Gansu, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Republic of Zhili, and The Republic of Shandong.

The Federation of Rio Grande do Sul was even more of a Russian Protectorate at the end of the war with Russian Navy and Army units stationed in the country.

Edited Sept 30, 2021

Jan - Mar 1918. South Sudan becomes part of the Russian Colonial Empire

Eritrea becomes a becoming a new province with its regional autonomy of the Ethiopian Empire (Protectorate of Russia).

Edited Oct 2, 2021

April 5, 1918. Tsar Nicholas II is appointed monarch of Madagaskar in its entirety. Previously a protectorate. Now Merina was a part of Madagaskar , southern regions were legally outside the jurisdiction of the Merina crown, but the Russian Empire could ignore this due to its colonization-vassalization of the southern part).

Edited Oct, 21, 2021

January 10, 1920, Tsar Nichola II of the Russian Empire together with his Premier Pyotr Nikolaevich Balashov, meeting with heads of state and heads of government of the entire Russosphere, sign the Treaty of the Covenant of Nations or also known as the Treaty of Moscow (where it was created, signed and ratified by the various entities present).

Through this a common market was created, where there was a joint policy with free exchange of goods and movement of citizens along borders. In turn, there is a union of civil administrative or military executive functions for the military part of the alliance.

The Covenant was the result of Tsar Alexander III's legacy in building the Russosphere and Tsar Nicholas II's work in formalizing it, through treaties of various kinds with his allies in Europe and Asia.

The total list of members included: Russian Empire (including Finland), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Kurdistan, Syria, Ionia, Cilicia, Alawite State, Greater Lebanon, Assyria, Druzia, Baghdad, Mesopotamia, Kuwait, Bali, Aceh, Lanfang, Thailand, Persia, Ethiopia, Federative Republic of Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Zhili, Shaanxi, Henan, and Shandong.

* Rio Grande do Sul and the Faroe Islands, due to complications, received observer status and become 'potential members'.