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Period: Jan 22, 1440 to Oct 27, 1505
Ivan III (The Great)
He helped tripled the territory of his state. He also ended the dominance of the Golden Horde over the Rus. He fixed up the Moscow Kremlin, and laid the foundations of the Russian state. He was one of the longest reigning Russian rulers in history. -
Period: Aug 25, 1530 to
Ivan IV (The Terrible)
He helped transform Russia into a multiethnic state spanning almost one billion acres. He also managed changes in the progression from a medieval state to an empire and combining regional power. He was the first ruler to be crowned as Tsar of All Russia. -
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Michael Romanov
Romanov dynasty is established. He was the first Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov. His reign marked the end of the Time of Troubles. -
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Peter (The Great)
He was a czar of russia and a major leader. Expanded the russian empire with his army. Wanted to destroy russia culture and westernize it. -
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Catherine II (The Great)
Empress of Russia, was the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia. -
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Alexander II
He was the Emperor of the Russian Empire until his assassination. Was also the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Finland. -
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Nicholas II
Was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Prince of Finland, and titular King of Poland. He approved the Russian mobilization of August 1914, which marked the beginning of Russia's involvement in World War I, a war in which 3.3 million Russians were killed. -
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Vladimir Lenin
was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years (1917–1924), as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system. -
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Joseph Stalin
He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 and later held the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. The office of the General Secretary was not the top position in the Soviet state, Stalin managed to use it to put more and more power in his hands after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. -
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Alexander Kerensky
was a major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Kerensky served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government until Vladimir Lenin was elected by the All-Russian Congress of Soviets following the October Revolution. He died in exile. -
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Nikita Khrushchev
He led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union. -
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Boris Yeltsin
Was the first President of the Russian Federation. On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet. On 12 June 1991 he was elected by popular vote to the newly created post of President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. -
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Mikhail Gorbachev
was a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union. He was the only general secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born during the Communist rule. -
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Vladimir Putin
He is a Russian politician who served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. -
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Dmitri Medvedev
he is the third President of the Russian Federation. Medvedev's top goals as President has been a wide-ranging modernization program, aiming at modernizing Russia's economy and society, and lessening the country's reliance on oil and gas. -
Period: to Jan 1, 1015
Grand Prince Vladimir of Kiev
He extended the Russian dominions and later in life promoted peace. He also helped promote christianity in Russia.