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Period: Nov 14, 1550 to
Russian Empire
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Death of Ivan IV
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Romanovs take power and create abosolutist system of government.
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Russian authorities build forts and trading posts along Siberian rivers.
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Privatters attracted by the fur trade expand farther east.
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State borders reach the Pacific
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Period: to
Alexis I's rule
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Peasants are legally bound as serfs to nobles and the tsar
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Peter the Great is born
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Period: to
Theodore III's rule.
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Period: to
Peter the Great's rule
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Tsar Peter the Great changes world-state's name from Muscovy to the Russian Empire
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Peter the Great marries Catherine I
Catherine eventually becomes empress after Peter's death -
Death of Peter the Great.
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Established a land route from Siberia to Moscow known as the Great Siberian Post Road
