The Imperial Russian Army was the standing land force of the Russian Empire, founded November 2, 1721, and organized around regular troops alongside Cossack and Muslim auxiliary forces. It bore the brunt of Napoleon's 1812 invasion and, under Nicholas I, numbered over 1.1 million troops at the start of the Crimean War in the 1850s, before dissolving with the empire in 1917. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Peter the Great's reformed Russian army defeated Sweden at Poltava in the 1700-1721 Great Northern War
The Imperial Russian Army fought the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War, precipitating Bulgarian independence
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The Imperial Russian Army (Russian: Русская императорская армия, romanized: Russkaya imperatorskaya armiya) was the army of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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The Imperial Russian Army purchased 58 Maxim machine guns (chambered in 7.62×54mmR) from DWM in 1899 and contracted with Vickers in 1902 to manufacture the design in Russia.
Wikipedia: Nagant M1895
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The Nagant M1895 was adopted as the standard issue sidearm for the Imperial Russian Army and police officers, where it replaced earlier Smith & Wesson models such as the Model 3.
Wikipedia: Madsen machine gun
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The Imperial Russian Army bought 1,250 Madsens initially for the cavalry but also later used issued to other elements of the army and deployed them during the Russo-Japanese War and WW1.
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