(n): the territory occupied by a nation
(n): formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia
(n): one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991)
(n): a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917
(n): the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised
(n): a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
(n): the territory occupied by a nation
