Russia

By Sophie Bromley
  • 862

    First modern state founded

    The first modern state in Russia was founded in 862 by King Rurik of the Rus, who was made the ruler of Novgorod. Some years later, the Rus conquered the city of Kiev and started the kingdom of the Kievan Rus.
  • 981

    Red Ruthenia conquered

    Vladimir conquered Red Ruthenia from the Poles.
  • 1015

    Vladimir died

    Vladimir died. He was succeeded by Sviatopolk I, who may have been his biological son by the rape of Yaropolk's wife. Sviatopolk ordered the murder of three of Vladimir's younger sons.
  • 1237

    Mongol invasion of Rus

    Mongol invasion of Rus: Batu Khan set fire to Moscow and slaughtered and enslaved its civilian inhabitants.
  • 1582

    Livonian War.

    Livonian War: The Peace of Jam Zapolski ended Polish–Lithuanian participation in the war. Muscovy gave up its claims to Livonia and the city of Polatsk.

  • Army arrived in russia

  • ARMY invades Russia

    False Dmitriy and his army arrived in Moscow.
    Feodor and his mother were strangled.
    False Dmitriy was crowned tsar

  • Polish Russian War

    Sigismund rejected the boyars' conditions

  • Russian polish war

    The Treaty of Hadiach established a military alliance between Poland and the Zaporozhian Host, and promised the creation of a Commonwealth of three nations: Poland, Lithuania and Russia.

  • Russian polish war ended

    The Treaty of Andrusovo ended the war between the Commonwealth and Muscovy without Cossack representation. Poland agreed to cede the Smoleńsk and Czernihów Voivodships and acknowledged Muscovite control over the Left-bank Ukraine.

  • Russia declares war

    Great Northern War: Muscovy declared war on Sweden.

  • The Russian division

    The Russian guberniyas were divided into lots according to noble population.

  • Turkish Declared war on Russia

    Charles XII of Sweden persuaded the Ottoman sultan to declare war on Russia.

  • Peace declared with treaty

    Peace was concluded with the Treaty of the Pruth. Russia returned Azov to the Ottoman Empire and demolished the town of Taganrog.

  • The Capital of Russia

    The Russian capital was moved from Moscow to Saint Petersburg.

  • Gurbaniyas

    Lots were abolished; the guberniyas were divided instead into provinces, each governed and taxed under a preexisting elected office (the Voyevoda). Provinces were further divided into districts, replacing the old uyezds. The district commissars were to be elected by local gentry.

  • Russian Invasion

    Russia invaded the Ottoman provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia.

  • Treaty signed.

    The Treaty of Aigun was signed, pushing the Russian-Chinese border east to the Amur river; Tariff Act reduces import tax.

  • Russian Civil war

    Russian Civil War: The Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia was established in Vladivostok.

  • Moscow

    Napoleon and his army occupied Moscow, but were forced to flee when the city burned to the ground. In 1918, following the Russian Revolution, it became the capital of the Soviet Union.

  • Population

    The population reaches 143,927,091 people according to a love population counter.