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Events relating to russia
Alexander Scriabin completes his Third Symphony, The Divine Poem, which is given its first performance in Paris in 1905
Troops fire on a demonstration in St Petersburg, in the event which becomes known as Bloody Sunday
Strikes and riots sweep across Russia in the wake of St Petersburg's Bloody Sunday
The Japanese defeat a larger force of Russians at Mukden in the final land battle of the Russo-Japanese War
Two thirds of the Russian fleet is sunk after being ambushed by Japanese warships in the Tsushima Strait
The Russian composer Alexander Scriabin becomes influenced by the theosophy of Madame Blavatsky
A complaint about maggotty meat on the Russian battleship Potemkin leads to thousands of deaths after troops fire on a demonstration
President Thedore Roosevelt mediates a peace treaty in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, between Russia and Japan
The first soviet ("council") of workers is set up in St Petersburg, introducing a word of great significance in Russian Communist history
Tsar Nicholas II reluctantly signs the October Manifesto, authorizing an elected duma or legislature
The monk Grigory Rasputin exercises a powerful influence over the Russian empress Alexandra
The Liberals win a majority in election for Russia's new duma and press ahead with proposals for land reform
Tsar Nicholas II issues a Fundamental Law emphasizing his own autocratic power
Tsar Nicholas II appoints as prime minister the reformist aristocrat Pyotr Stolypin
Tsar Nicholas II summarily dismisses Russia's new duma when it has been sitting for only three months
Sergei Diaghilev mounts a major exhibition of Russian art at the Petit Palais in Paris.
President Roosevelt wins a Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation between Russia and Japan
The Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin introduces land reform
Russian author Maxim Gorky completes his novel Mat ("The Mother"), written mainly during a visit to the USA
An Entente signed between Britain and Russia follows on from the 1904 Entente Cordiale with France to establish a new Triple Entente
Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev presents five concerts of Russian music in Paris
Anna Pavlova dances The Dying Swan, choreographed for her by Michel Fokine to music by Saint-Saëns
Sergei Diaghilev presents Fyodor Chaliapin in Boris Godunov at the Paris Opera
Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird is performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in a production by Stanislavsky
Bronislava Nijinska joins her brother Vaslav in the Maryinsky company in St Petersburg
