Czars of Russia

  • Oct 29, 1462

    Ivan the great:

    During his time the Russians gained independence
  • Period: Oct 29, 1462 to

    Czars of Russia

  • Oct 29, 1464

    Ivan the Great

    He was in an empire and normally paid the rulers but he didn't one time and they got in a fight about it and he won. After that he never got demanded again.
  • Oct 29, 1470

    Ivan the Great

    He launched a war against the Novgorod princedom and in 1470 he conquered it. He claimed all of northern Russia from Finland to the Ural mountains.
  • Peter the Great

    The first emperor of Russia
  • Peter the Great

    peter ascended to the throne
  • Peter the Great

    St. Petersburg sprang up, becoming Russia's new capital
  • Peter the Great

    Embarked his biggest military under taking, called Northern War.
  • Nicholas l

    People described him as a soldier and a little bit of peter the great.
  • Nicholas l

    He was never brought up to be an empire
  • Nicloas l

    He was never brought up to be an empire
  • Nicholas

    He didn't want to be a ruler but after Alex died he felt that he had to or he was going to die. He was going to die because no one liked him.
  • Nicholas

    When he died there was a rumor that he poisoned himself, but the truth was that he didn't. He got a cold in 1853 and it got so bad that he died.