Russia Timeline Project By zarriahsmith25 1891 BCE Famine in Russia kills between 375,000 and 400,000 and affects millions more 1530 BCE Ivan lV "the Terrible" became Russia'd first Crowned Czar Grandson of Ivan the Great, names himself "The Czar" of Russia. 1470 BCE Ivan lll "the Great" ended mongols rule 1200 BCE Mongols invade Kiev 800 BCE Scandina Warriors & slavs settle near Volga 1650 Peasants became Serfs 1860 The Khodynka Tragedy. 1882 Pogroms against Jews spread across the Russian Empire 1894 Tsar Alexander III dies after a sudden illness 1895 Lenin, future leader of the Bolsheviks, is arrested to be kept in solitary confinement for 13 months and then exiled to Siberia