Illustrated Timeline

By hwinstead15

  • 1598

    1598
    Ivan’s dynasty came to an end in 1598, it was known as Time of Troubles

  • 1613

    1613
    This period did not end until the Zemsky Sobor, or
    national assembly, chose Michael Romanov as the new czar

  • 1689

    1689
    Peter the Great became czar. Peter was an absolutist monarch who claimed the divine right to rule

  • 1703

    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

    1725
    By Peters death Russia was an important European state

  • 1917

    1917
    The Romanov dynasty lasted until now