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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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Peter the Great and His Legacy (1682–1762): A Summary of Russian History
Russia Symbol Introduction
Russia Symbol The Early Years
Russia Symbol The Drive Toward Westernization
Russia Symbol The Drive Toward Empire
Russia Symbol The Historical Assessment
Russia Symbol Immediate Successors
Russia Symbol The Reign of "the Daughter"
Peter the Great and His Legacy (1682–1762): A Summary of World History
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Russia's Globalization:
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Peter I, Tsar and Emperor of Russia (1672–1725), and Ivan V, Tsar of Russia (1666–1696) Royal property charter granted for service in the war with the Turkish Sultan and the Crimean Khan Printed and manuscript document, with Safavid Persian silk textile cover
Moscow, 1686
NYPL, Slavic and Baltic Division

This royal charter rewards Iuda Davydov Protasov (fl. 17th century), a state clerk, for military service against the Ottoman Turkish sultan Mehmed IV (r. 1648–87) and his vassals, the Crimean Tatar Giray Khans. It was issued under the names of Ivan V and the future Peter the Great, half brothers who ruled as co-tsars from 1682 to Ivan’s death in 1696. From 1682 to 1689, Sofiia (1657–1704), their sister and half sister, respectively, held control of the government and ruled with the aid of her paramour, Prince Vasilii Golitsyn (1643–1714), himself an unsuccessful campaigner against the Crimean Khans.