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  When Ivan’s dynasty came to an end in 1598, a period of anarchy known as the Time of Troubles followed.
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  This period of anarchy did end until the Zemsky Sobor, or national assembly, chose Michael Romanov as the new czar in 1613.
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  Peter the Great became czar in 1689.
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  On a marshland on the Baltic in 1703, 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.
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  Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxe29LaqIvEUnder Peter, Russia became a great mil- itary power. By his death in
 1725, Russia was an important European state.
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  Link<ahref='http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q21MMy9faAs' >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q21MMy9faAs</a>The Romanov dynasty lasted until 1917. One of its most prominent members was Peter the Great.