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That's Imperial Russia, which also at the time included the country now known as Finland - do you advocate the modern Russian Federation being able to simply invade and take all of Finland as well? How about Alaska? Parts of Poland? How about Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia?
Using the territorial boundaries of the 18th and 19th century Russian Empire to determine what is and is not Russian today is the ridiculous nonsense that underpins the great propaganda campaign for Novorossiya, the long term Russian hardliner plan to seize any territory they feel they ought to own and displace the local populations.
I'm waiting for the inevitable attempt to claim Alaska by the Russians and state that the agreement to transfer it to America in the 1800's is now null & void.