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On January 16, 1547, Ivan has crowned tsar and grand prince of all Russia. The title tsar was derived from the Latin title caesar and was translated by Ivan's contemporaries as emperor. -
Iven's rule was to vastly expand the territory of Moscow and Ivan brought the independence of duchies. -
The Mongol Empire invaded and conquered Kievan Rus in the 13th century, destroying many cities, including Ryazan, Kolomna, Moscow, Vladimir, and Kyiv, with the only major cities escaping destruction being Novgorod and Pskov. -
They controlled the Volga trade route between the Varangians and the Muslims, connecting the Baltic to the Caspian Sea and the Dnieper and Dniester trade. The trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks was a medieval trade route that connected Scandinavia, Kievan Rus', and the Eastern Roman Empire. -
Peter the Great became tsar in 1682 upon the death of his elder brother Feodor but did not become the actual ruler until 1689. He commenced reforming the country, attempting to turn the Russian Tsardom into a modernized empire relying on trade and on a strong, professional army and navy. -
Serfdom became the dominant form of a relation between Russian peasants and nobility in the 17th century. Serfdom only existed in central and southern areas of Tsardom of Russia. -
Czar Alexander II, the ruler of Russia since 1855, is killed in the streets of St. Petersburg by a bomb thrown by a member of the revolutionary Peoples. -
On 31 October 1917 13 November, N.S, the Bolsheviks gained control of Moscow after a week of bitter street fighting -
The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. -
Eliminated those who disagree w/his policies, killed 20-25 million Russians, hunger,Murder. Defeated Hitler in WWII.