Absolutism in easturn Europe

  • History

    When Ivan’s dynasty came to an end in 1598, a period of anarchy known as the
    Time of Troubles followed
  • history

    Michael Romanov as the new czar
  • history

    Peter the great became czar
  • 1703

    On a marshland on the Baltic in 1703, Peter began the construction of a new city called St. Petersburg
  • history

    By his death in
    1725, Russia was an important European state
  • history

    The Romanov dynasty lasted until 1917