Russia (Tenaverse)

Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the All-Russian Empire (Russian: Всеросси́йская импе́рия, tr. Vserossiyskaya Imperiya, IPA:) is an located in Europe, Asia and North America. The largest country in the world and third largest empire in world history, stretching over three continents, the Russian Empire was surpassed in landmass only by the British and Mongol empires. The rise of the Russian Empire happened in association with the decline of neighboring rival powers: the Swedish Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Persia, Qing Empire and the Ottoman Empire. It played a major role in 1812–1814 in defeating Napoleon's ambitions to control Europe and expanded to the west and south.

The House of Romanov rules the Russian Empire from 1721 onwards, and its German-descended cadet branch, the House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov, rules from 1762. The Russian Empire extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea in the south, from the Baltic Sea on the west to the Pacific Ocean, into Alaska in America on the east and into the Petrines and Hawaii in the Pacific. With 314.8 million subjects registered by the 2013 census, it is the 4th largest country by population.