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The first modern state in Russia was founded in 862 by King Rurik of the Rus, who was made the ruler of Novgorod. Some years later, the Rus conquered the city of Kiev and started the kingdom of the Kievan Rus.
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Vladimir conquered Red Ruthenia from the Poles.
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Vladimir died. He was succeeded by Sviatopolk I, who may have been his biological son by the rape of Yaropolk's wife. Sviatopolk ordered the murder of three of Vladimir's younger sons.
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Mongol invasion of Rus: Batu Khan set fire to Moscow and slaughtered and enslaved its civilian inhabitants.
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Livonian War: The Peace of Jam Zapolski ended Polish–Lithuanian participation in the war. Muscovy gave up its claims to Livonia and the city of Polatsk.
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False Dmitriy and his army arrived in Moscow.
Feodor and his mother were strangled.
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Sigismund rejected the boyars' conditions
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The Treaty of Hadiach established a military alliance between Poland and the Zaporozhian Host, and promised the creation of a Commonwealth of three nations: Poland, Lithuania and Russia.
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The Treaty of Andrusovo ended the war between the Commonwealth and Muscovy without Cossack representation. Poland agreed to cede the Smoleńsk and Czernihów Voivodships and acknowledged Muscovite control over the Left-bank Ukraine.
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Great Northern War: Muscovy declared war on Sweden.
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The Russian guberniyas were divided into lots according to noble population.
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Charles XII of Sweden persuaded the Ottoman sultan to declare war on Russia.
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Peace was concluded with the Treaty of the Pruth. Russia returned Azov to the Ottoman Empire and demolished the town of Taganrog.
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The Russian capital was moved from Moscow to Saint Petersburg.
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Lots were abolished; the guberniyas were divided instead into provinces, each governed and taxed under a preexisting elected office (the Voyevoda). Provinces were further divided into districts, replacing the old uyezds. The district commissars were to be elected by local gentry.
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Russia invaded the Ottoman provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia.
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The Treaty of Aigun was signed, pushing the Russian-Chinese border east to the Amur river; Tariff Act reduces import tax.
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Russian Civil War: The Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia was established in Vladivostok.
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Napoleon and his army occupied Moscow, but were forced to flee when the city burned to the ground. In 1918, following the Russian Revolution, it became the capital of the Soviet Union.
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The population reaches 143,927,091 people according to a love population counter.