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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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Boris Godunov
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Russia's Globalization:
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     Louis XIV

The long reign (1643–1715) of Louis XIV exemplified absolute monarchical rule. His government endeavored to impose orderly administration and to suppress religious dissent (through the revocation of Protestant rights, 1685). His court was the center of Europe's cultural and artistic life, a model for all European monarchs and aristocrats. The king set the standard for literature and the arts, as well as for the rules of polite social intercourse.

Peter the Great (r. 1682–1725) adopted many of the aesthetic qualities of France cultivated under Louis for his new capital at St. Petersburg, and for his palace Peterhof on the Gulf of Finland.

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