Russian Eastern expansion Tsarist Russia, as a major imperial power, had ambitions in the East. By the 1890s it had extended its realm across Central Asia to Afghanistan, absorbing local states in the process. The Russian Empire stretched from Poland in the west to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the east. With its construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway to the port of Vladivostok, Russia hoped to further consolidate its influence and presence in the region. In the Tsushima incident of 1861 Russia had directly assaulted Japanese territory.
Russian Eastern expansion Tsarist Russia as a major imperial power had ambitions in the East By the 1890s it had extended its realm across Central Asia to Afghanistan absorbing local states in the process The Russian Empire stretched from Poland in the west to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the east With its construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway to the port of Vladivostok Russia hoped to further consolidate its influence and presence in the region In the Tsushima incident of 1861 Russia had directly assaulted Japanese territory