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Events relating to russia
Alexander Scriabin's orchestral work, Poem of Ecstasy, has its first performance in New York
Diaghilev presents the first season of Ballets Russes in Paris, with Pavlova and Nijinsky in the company
Sergei Rachmaninov premieres his Third Piano Concerto during his tour of the USA as a pianist
Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Golden Cockerel has its premiere in Moscow
Alexander Scriabin completes Prometheus, the Poem of Fire, first performed in Moscow in 1911
Wassily Kandinsky's paintings entitled Compositions are the first examples of purely abstract art
The Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, wandering from home in midwinter, dies of pneumonia in the stationmaster's house at Astapovo
Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova settles in London and forms her own touring company
The Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin is assassinated in a Kiev theatre
Sergei Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky leave Russia for the west
The Kaiser and his advisers decide to postpone a preventive war against France and Russia
The 'Workers' Newspaper' Pravda (meaning 'Truth') publishes its first issue in St Petersburg
The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova publishes Evening, her first collection of poems
Under pressure from Russia, the London conference allots the ethnically Albanian region of Kosovo to Serbia
Maxim Gorky publishes Childhood, the first volume of his autobiographical trilogy
The Russian poet Osip Mandelstam publishes his first collection, Stone
The Russian painter and sculptor Vladimir Tatlin develops an abstract style to which he gives the name Constructivism
Tsar Nicholas II changes the name of his capital city to Petrograd, because St Petersburg sounds German
Germany promises to support Austria-Hungary if a strike against Serbia provokes war with Russia
The Austrian attack on Serbia causes Russia to mobilize her army
In response to the tsar's mobilization of his troops, Germany declares war on Russia
A German army encircles and almost annihilates a larger Russian force at Tannenberg
Turkey, launching an attack on Russian ports in the Black Sea, enters the war on the German side
Russia declares war on the Ottoman empire
Kasimir Malevich exhibits his painting Black Square in Petrograd, in the final Futurist exhibition
