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Jan 1, 1462
Ivan the Great
~Launched war against Novvgrad princedom
~Grand Prince of Moscow and Russia
~Made Alexander 1 give up his towns
~Russia emblem was the double-headed eagle
~Ivan married a Byzantine princess --> Zoe Ryan Dassow -
Period: Jan 1, 1462 to
Czars of Russia
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Jan 1, 1530
Ivan the Terrible
~Created Elite Army
~Built St. Besils Cathedral
~ Blinded architechs so they couldn't copy the cathedral
~Created Oprichunina
~Lost Baltic coast during war
~One of the smartest person of his times Caleb Ryan -
Peter the Great
~Propelled Russia to major European power
~Went against the Crimean Tatars to try to have a route to the Black Sea
~Went on European tour (studied other cutures)
~Gave up on the Black Sea trail and wanted to open up Baltic Sea
~Won northern war and Battle of Poltava
~1721 he got declared the Russian Empire
~St. Petersburd is his town Abigail Kratz -
Nicholas I
`The third son of Paul 1
`His soilders didnt like him
`When Alexander 1 died the economy went into termoil
`if Nicholas 1 didnt become czar he would have died
`He conquored more area than any other czar Caleb Ryan -
Alexander II
~Eldest son of Nicholas 1
~Great education
~Inherited a bloody Crimean
~Wanted to bring serfdom to an end
~Won war against Turkey to get Bulgaria back on the map
~Married Princess Marie of Hesse
~Had 8 children
~Bombed on March 13, 1881 Abigail Kratz -
Alexander III
-Alexander III brought peace and order to Russia
-His nickname is the peacemaker
-Alexander executed anyone responsible for his fathers death
- Alexander sentenced a man six months in jail for spitting on a portrait of himself Ryan Dassow
