Russian Empire

The  Russian Empire (R ussian: Российская Империя, tr.   Rossiyskaya Imperiya) was a major European nation in the Eastern area of the continent and large parts of northern Asia. It was headed by a hereditary tsar in the city of Petrograd, then Saint Petersburg.

Descended from the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire was established in 1721 and headed by the Romanovs until 1918, when it was dissolved and effectively replaced by the USSR. Its official religion has always been Russian Orthodoxy but there have been many minor religions as well. The official currency was the Ruble.