The Imperial Russian Navy was the navy of the Russian Empire, often dated from 1696 until the February Revolution of 1917.
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“Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn’t the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)