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Orthodox Revolutionaries
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Holy Russian Revolution
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Date | January 7, 2007-May 27, 2007
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Place | Russia
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Result | Creation of Holy Russian Empire
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Combatants
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Orthodox Revolutionaries
| Russian Empire Loyalists
| Uralic Separatists
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Notable Commanders
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Alexis II
| Tsar Sergei Gorbachev
| Murtaza Rakhimov
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Strength
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1,000,000 Partisans (est.), 450,000 Regulars
| 135,000 Partisans (est.), 300,000 Regulars
| 80,000 Partisans, 30,000 Regulars
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Casualties
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340,000 (70,000 killed, 250,000 wounded, 20,000 missing)
| 170,000 (40,000 killed, 115,000 wounded, 15,000 missing)
| 80,000 (30,000 killed, 45,000 wounded, 5,000 missing)
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Total Casualties
| 590,000 (140,000 killed, 415,000 wounded, 40,000 missing)
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The Holy Russian Revolution was a short but brutal civil war in what is now the Holy Russian Empire. It began on January 7th, 2007 (Orthodox Christmas), after Okhrana agents assassinated a priest in Moscow. What started as a protest escalated into a riot after police were brought in to quell the demonstration, and escalated into a rebellion after the riot police joined the demonstrators. When the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Alexis II declared his support for the rebels, it soon became a revolution, and then into a civil war.
Although the war was multi-sided and included foreign forces from several countries, the main hostilities took place between Orthodox revolutionaries and forces loyal to the Kyrusian-backed Russian Empire. The revolution was declared over on May 27th, 2007 (Pentecost in the Orthodox Church) when the last Loyalist stronghold (Pskov) fell to Orthodox Revolutionaries.