Russia - Age of Absolutism

By Tylin Wilson

  • 1598

    1598
    Ivan’s dynasty came to an end; a period of anarchy known as the Time of Troubles followed. This period did not end until the Zemsky Sobor, or national assembly, chose Michael Romanov as the new czar in 1613.

  • 1613

    1613
    Michael Romanov was chosen as the new czar 1613. The Romanov dynasty lasted unti 1917.

  • 1689

    1689
    Peter the Great became czar. Like the other Romanov czars who preceded him, Peter was an absolutist monarch who claimed the divine right to rule.

  • 1703

    1703
    On a marshland on the Baltic, 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

    1725
    Peter the Great's death. This turned Russia into an important European State

  • 1917

    1917
    The Romanov Dyansty ended.