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Period: Feb 2, 1462 to Feb 2, 1505
Ivan III The Great
Significance of his ruling: Tripled the amount of Russian territory -
Period: Feb 2, 1533 to
Ivan IV The Terrible
Significance of his ruling: Conquered new territories creating a multicultural Russia -
Period: to
Michael Romanov
Significance of his ruling: Founder of Romanov dynasty which lasted until 1917 -
Period: to
Peter I The Great
Significance of his ruling: He completely changed from traditional Russia to a more Westernized civilization -
Period: to
Catherine I The Great
Significance of his ruling: Longest ruling empress in Russia -
Period: to
Alexander II
Significance of his ruling: Declared emancipation of the Serfs -
Period: to
Nicholas II
Significance of his ruling: Lead Russia from being a great power to a economic and military collapse as well as lost the Russo - Japanese War -
Period: to
Alexander Kerensky
Significance of his ruling: Provided arms to Petrograd workers to revolt against the Bolsheviks, exiled to Paris soon after -
Period: to
Vladimir Lenin
Significance of his ruling: Mastermind behind Bolshevik revolution and take over in 1917 -
Period: to
Joseph Stalin
Significance of his ruling: Succeeded in stopping German Invasion of the Soviet Union in WWII, went on the offense againt Germany -
Period: to
Nikita Khrushchev
Significance of his ruling: he was responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy -
Period: to
Mikhail Gorbachev
Significance of ruling: First executive president of the Soviet Union -
Period: to
Boris Yeltsin
Significance of ruling: First freely elected president, reconstructed Soviet economy -
Period: to
Vladimir Putin
Significance of ruling: Credited for bringing political stability; currently prime minister and chairman of Russia -
Period: to
Dmitri Medvedev
Significance of ruling: A modernizer of Russia; Not running for a second term -
Period: to Feb 2, 1015
Grand Price Vladimir of Kiev
Significance of his ruling: Converting Russia to Christianity