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Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825
1453 Through the Reign of Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584) The Time of Troubles to the First Romanovs (1598-1682) Peter the Great and His Legacy (1682-1762) The Age of Catherine the Great (1762-1801) The Reign of Emperor Alexander I (1801-1825)

                                     

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Peasant Revolts
Church Schism (Raskol)
Origins of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment


Russia's Globalization:
A Key

Events marked Russia Symbol are specific to Muscovy/Russia's internal development.
Those marked World Symbol are important world historical or cultural events.
Engagement Symbol indicates specific points of sociocultural or military engagement between Muscovy/Russia and foreign powers or individuals.




















 

 

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Patriarch Nikon
Portrety, gerby i pechati Bol'shoi gosudarstvennyi knigi of 1672 g. [Portraits, Coats of Arms and Official Seals in the Great State Book of 1672]
St. Petersburg: Izd-vo Peterburgskoi arkheologicheskago instituta, 1903
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division