Side by side

Georgia and Russia compared

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

🇬🇪Georgia

1008Bagrat III becomes the first king of a unified Georgia

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🇷🇺Russia

882Oleg takes Kiev and Kievan Rus' becomes a single state

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Shared indicators
43
Domains
9
Crossed events
6
Data through
2026-08-10

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Entangled histories

6 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 24 July 1783

    Treaty of Georgievsk

    King Erekle II of Kartli-Kakheti placed his kingdom under Russian protection, ceding control of foreign affairs in exchange for guarantees of its integrity and dynasty against Persia and the Ottomans.

    Politics & Power · from the Georgia chronicle · Fragmentation, Foreign Pressure and Russian Annexation · Treaty of Georgievsk (1783), Georgia: Turkish and Persian domination

  2. 1801

    Russia annexes Kartli-Kakheti

    The Russian Empire unilaterally annexed eastern Georgia and abolished the Bagrationi monarchy, beginning the absorption of the Georgian lands that was completed over the following decades.

    Colonisation · from the Georgia chronicle · Fragmentation, Foreign Pressure and Russian Annexation · History of Georgia, Treaty of Georgievsk (1783)

  3. 26 May 1918

    Democratic Republic of Georgia proclaimed

    Amid the collapse of the Russian Empire, Georgia proclaimed an independent democratic republic governed by Mensheviks, with a democratic constitution and land reform.

    Independence · from the Georgia chronicle · Republic, Soviet Conquest and the Georgian SSR · Georgia: Independent Georgia, History of Georgia

  4. Feb–Mar 1921

    Red Army conquest

    The Soviet Red Army invaded, took Tbilisi after heavy fighting and proclaimed the Georgian SSR on 25 February 1921, incorporating Georgia into the Soviet Union.

    War & Rupture · from the Georgia chronicle · Republic, Soviet Conquest and the Georgian SSR · Georgia: Independent Georgia, History of Georgia

  5. 9 April 1989

    The April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi

    Soviet troops violently broke up a peaceful pro-independence demonstration in Tbilisi, killing about twenty people and galvanising the Georgian national movement.

    Politics & Power · from the Georgia chronicle · Republic, Soviet Conquest and the Georgian SSR · Georgia: Independent Georgia

  6. Aug 2008

    Russia–Georgia war over South Ossetia

    A five-day war around South Ossetia drew in the Russian military; estimates put the combined dead at about 850 with over 100,000 displaced. Russia then recognised Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a step most states rejected.

    War & Rupture · from the Georgia chronicle · Independent Georgia: Conflicts, the Rose Revolution and the Western Turn · Georgia: Independent Georgia, South Ossetia