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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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The Time of Troubles through the Reigns of the First Romanovs: A Summary of Russian History
Russia Symbol Introduction
Russia Symbol The False Dmitriis
Russia Symbol A National Rally
Russia Symbol The First Romanovs
Russia Symbol The Schism in the Russian Orthodox Church
The Time of Troubles through the Reigns of the First Romanovs: A Summary of World History
Europe
Eurasia


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.


 


    A National Rally

Starting in 1610, a new patriarch, Germogen (ca. 1530–1612), led a religious and national rally with the help of Kuzma Minin (d. 1616), who was by trade a butcher; Prince Dmitrii Mikhailovich Pozharskii (1578–1642); and a zemskii sobor. By 1613, these forces had saved Muscovy, and the roughly 500 delegates of the zemskii sobor, after six weeks of debate, elected a new tsar, the sixteen-year-old Mikhail Romanov (r. 1613–45), a member of an old boyar family who was to become the founder of Russia’s second dynasty.









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