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The time of troubles was a period of history comprising the years of interregnum between the fall of the Rurik Dynasty and the establishment of the Romanov Dynasty
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Mikhail Romanoc elected tsar (emperor of Russia) by the National Council, beginning the Romanov dynasty
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Rule of Peter 'I (the Great), first tsar to use the title 'emperor'
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St Petersburg established as the new capital
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Romanov empire expanded to include Crimea, Ukraine, Georgia and some parts of Poland
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Napoleon invaded Russia; Tsar Alexander I ordered the burning of Moscow, resulting in Napoleon's defeat
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Russian army officers tried to force the new tsar, Nicholas I, to introduce political reform in the Decembrist uprising
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Crimean War resulted in a humiliating defeat for Russia
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Emancipation Edict abolished serfdom in Russian
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Alexander II assassinated by terrorist group The People's Will
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Rule of Nicholas II
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Russian Social Democratic Party split into Menshevik and Bolshevik factions
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Russo-Japanese War resulted in the 1905 Revolution and the announcement of October Manifesto
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Russia involved in First World War
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Nicholas II abdicated and power was transferred to the Provisional Government
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Bolshevik Party seized power from the Provisional Government in a coup
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The Romanov family executed in Ekaterinburg by Bolshevik agents as the Russian Civil War escalated