-
1598
a period of anarchy known as the
Time of Troubles followed -
1613
Michael Romanov as the new czar in 1613 -
1689
Like the other Romanov
czars who preceded him, Peter was an absolutist monarch who claimed the
divine right to rule -
1703
Peter began the construction of a
new city, St. Petersburg, his window on the West. St. Petersburg was finished
during Peter’s lifetime and remained the Russian capital until 1918 -
1725
the Peter the Grea diad in 1725