absolutism

  • 1598

    a period of anarchy known as the
    Time of Troubles followed
  • 1613

    Michael Romanov as the new czar in 1613
  • 1689

    Like the other Romanov
    czars who preceded him, Peter was an absolutist monarch who claimed the
    divine right to rule
  • 1703

    Peter began the construction of a
    new city, St. Petersburg, his window on the West. St. Petersburg was finished
    during Peter’s lifetime and remained the Russian capital until 1918
  • 1725

    the Peter the Grea diad in 1725