And what region might that be: the Russian empire?

俄罗斯帝国吗？

Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz in 1903 in Dvinsk, part of the Russian empire.

马克·罗斯科1903年出生在俄罗斯帝国的德文斯克，原名马库斯·罗斯科维茨。

He was born in the Russian empire to a noble family, with admirals and princes among his forebears.

他在帝俄时期出生于一个贵族家庭，先祖中不乏海军元帅和王子。

The Russian empire was rather like Charlemagne's empire in 800 in the coronation at Aachen or Aix-la-Chapelle and all of that.

沙皇俄国倒是非常像查理曼帝国即公元800年在亚琛加冕称王的查理曼帝国。

It saw the creation of the Russian empire, first known as Muscovy, and it saw Columbus' first voyage to the America's.

它见证了俄罗斯帝国的建立，古俄罗斯帝国，它还见证了哥伦布的第一次美洲航行。

So before there was a Russian empire, or even a Russian kingdom, there was the Kievan Rus.

所以在俄罗斯帝国甚至俄罗斯王国出现之前，就有了基辅罗斯。

The winery was founded during the days of the Russian empire in order to produce top-quality sparkling wine to compete with popular French Champagnes.

酒厂成立于俄罗斯帝国时代，以生产优质起泡酒为己任同受欢迎的法国香槟竞争。

The peace of Brest-Litovsk also gave France, Britain, and the US an excuse to lend peacekeeping troops at various points around the Russian empire.

《布列斯特和约》也给了法国，英国和美国一个理由在俄国四周各地派往维和部队。

Like many others, his life has been shaped by the fracturing of the Soviet Union and the Russian empire before it; his work chronicles the political-and moral- disintegrations that followed.

和其他许多人一样，他的一生也受到了前苏联和前俄罗斯帝国解体的影响；他的作品记录了随之而来的政治和道德的瓦解。

The Russian empire, however, had enjoyed a profound peace for near twenty years before, and could at that time have very few soldiers who had ever seen an enemy.

而俄罗斯帝国， 在这之前已经享受了将近二十年的太平盛世， 那时候能够见过敌人的士兵寥寥无几。

During this period the attention of military staffs around the world were drawn to Manchuria, where the Russian and Japanese empires fought over control of northeast China and the Korean peninsula.

在此期间， 世界各地军事人员的注意力都集中在满洲，俄罗斯帝国和日本帝国在那里争夺中国东北和朝鲜半岛的控制权。

Whoever examines with attention, the improvements which Peter the Great introduced into the Russian empire, will find that they almost all resolve themselves into the establishment of a well regulated standing army.

仔细研究彼得大帝给俄罗斯帝国带来的改进， 就会发现它们几乎都解决了建立一支训练有素的常备军的问题。

These problems included the relationship of foreign nations with established armies, the so-called white Russian armies which appeared during this time period, and the liberation movements which sprang up in non-Russian parts of the former Russian empire.

这些问题包括外交上要面临新组建的军队的问题，即在这期间出现的俄国白军，以及前俄罗斯帝国非俄国区域出现的解放运动。