Question: The first leader of Europe's largest country, following the collapse of the union of republics that was formed as a result of the Russian revolution, died in what city?

12 Romania 238,392 13 Belarus 207,600 14 Kazakhstan * 180,000 (est.) Rank Country Area (km2) Notes Russia * 3,972,400 17,098,242 including North Asia Ukraine 603,628 This includes Crimea France * 551,394 643,801 when the overseas departments are included Spain * 498,468 505,992 when the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla are included Sweden 449,964 6 Norway 385,178 This includes Svalbard and Jan Mayen 7 Germany 357,168 8 Finland 338,145 9 Poland 312,685 10 Italy 301,338 11 United Kingdom 248,532 1,976,102 when the British Overseas Territories are included. 2,724,902 including Asian part 15 Greece 131,940 16 Bulgaria 110,994 17 Iceland 102,775 18 Hungary 93,030 19 Portugal 91,568 20 Austria 83,858 21 Czech Republic 78,866 22 Serbia 77,453 This excludes Kosovo 23 Ireland 70,273 24 Lithuania 65,300 25 Latvia 64,589 26 Croatia 56,594 27 Bosnia and Herzegovina 51,129 28 Slovakia 49,036 29 Estonia 45,339 30 Denmark 44,493 This includes Faroe Islands; 2,210,579 including Greenland 31 Switzerland 41,290 32 Netherlands 41,198 Excluding Caribbean Netherlands, Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten. 33 Moldova 33,846 34 Belgium 30,510 35 Albania 28,748 36 Macedonia (Former Yugoslavian Republic) 25,713 37 Turkey * 23,507 783,562 including Asian part 38 Slovenia 20,273 39 Montenegro 13,812 40 Kosovo 10,908 Partially recognized state 41 Cyprus 9,251 42 Azerbaijan * 6,960 86,600 including Asian part 43 Luxembourg 2,586 44 Georgia * 2,428 69,700 including Asian part 45 Andorra 468 46 Malta 316 47 Liechtenstein 160 48 San Marino 61 49 Monaco 1.95 50 Vatican City 0.44 Total 10,141,183 ± 5,000 <SEP> Naina Yeltsina was rarely seen in public. A major public appearance was the state funeral of her late husband in Moscow in April 2007. She accompanied her husband on some of his foreign visits, including 1997 visits to Sweden, Finland, and a 1999 visit to China. As a rule, Naina Yeltsina never interfered in her husband's political work. However, in the 1996 election campaign, she met with voters and gave interviews to the media. <SEP> The Russian Empire collapsed with the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution of February 1917 (March in the Gregorian calendar; the older Julian calendar was in use in Russia at the time). Alongside it arose grassroots community assemblies (called 'soviets') which contended for authority. In the second revolution that October, the Provisional Government was toppled and all power was given to the soviets. The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. <SEP> trotsky, and others, believed that the revolution could only succeed in russia as part of a world revolution. lenin wrote extensively on the matter and famously declared that imperialism was the highest stage of capitalism. however, after lenin's death, joseph stalin established 'socialism in one country' for the soviet union, creating the model for subsequent inward looking stalinist states and purging the early internationalist elements. the internationalist tendencies of the early revolution would be abandoned until they returned in the framework of a client state in competition with the americans during the cold war. with the beginning of the new era, the after stalin period called the "thaw", in the late 1950s, the new political leader nikita khrushchev put even more pressure on the soviet-american relations starting a new wave of anti-imperialist propaganda. in his speech on the un conference in 1960, he announced the continuation of the war on imperialism, stating that soon the people of different countries will come together and overthrow their imperialist leaders. although the soviet union declared itself anti-imperialist, critics argue that it exhibited tendencies common to historic empires. some scholars hold that the soviet union was a hybrid entity containing elements common to both multinational empires and nation states. it has also been argued that the ussr practiced colonialism as did other imperial powers and was carrying on the old russian tradition of expansion and control. mao zedong once argued that the soviet union had itself become an imperialist power while maintaining a socialist façade. moreover, the ideas of imperialism were widely spread in action on the higher levels of government. non russian marxists within the russian federation and later the ussr, like sultan galiev and vasyl shakhrai, considered the soviet regime a renewed version of the russian imperialism and colonialism. <SEP> This ensured that Yeltsin would be the political leader of the Russian successor state following dissolution. This situation resulted in political turmoil as the Soviet and Russian leadership wrestled for control, which culminated in the 1991 August Putsch, where the Soviet military attempted to overthrow Gorbachev. Although the coup was ultimately averted, this situation contributed to rising instability in the Soviet Union. Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin had been elected President of Russia in June 1991 in the first direct presidential election in Russian history. By October 1991, as the USSR was on the verge of collapse, Yeltsin announced that Russia would proceed with radical reforms, including market - oriented reform along the lines of Poland's ``big bang '', also known as`` shock therapy''. <SEP> the removal of hungary's border fence with austria occurred in 1989 during the collapse of communism in hungary, which was part of a broad wave of revolutions in various communist countries of central and eastern europe. the dismantling of the electric fence along hungary's 240 kilometres (149 mi) long border with austria was the first fissure in the ``iron curtain ''that had divided europe for more than 40 years, since the end of world war ii, and caused a chain reaction in east germany that ultimately resulted in the demise of the berlin wall.