Russia (1550-1780)

By ivy.helena
  • Period: Nov 14, 1550 to

    Russian Empire

  • Death of Ivan IV

  • Romanovs take power and create abosolutist system of government.

  • Russian authorities build forts and trading posts along Siberian rivers.

  • Privatters attracted by the fur trade expand farther east.

  • State borders reach the Pacific

  • Period: to

    Alexis I's rule

  • Peasants are legally bound as serfs to nobles and the tsar

  • Peter the Great is born

  • Period: to

    Theodore III's rule.

  • Period: to

    Peter the Great's rule

  • Tsar Peter the Great changes world-state's name from Muscovy to the Russian Empire

    Tsar Peter the Great changes world-state's name from Muscovy to the Russian Empire

  • Peter the Great marries Catherine I

    Catherine eventually becomes empress after Peter's death

  • Death of Peter the Great.

  • Established a land route from Siberia to Moscow known as the Great Siberian Post Road