Russia - Age of Absolutism

By Audric

  • 1598

    1598
    After the end of Ivan's dynasty in 1598 a state of a period of anarchy known as the Time of Troubles.

  • 1613

    1613
    The "Time of Troubles" ended when the Zemsky Sobor, or national assembly, chose Michael Romanov as the new czar.

  • 1689

    1689
    Peter the Great became czar in 1689.He ruled as an absolutist monarch who claimed the divine right to rule.

  • 1703

    1703
    On a marshland on the Baltic in 1703, Peter began the construction of a new city, known as St. Petersburg, his windo on the West St. Petersburg was finished during Peter’s lifetime and remained the Russian capital until 1918.

  • 1725

    1725
    By the end of Peters life in 1725, Russia was an important European state.

  • 1917

    1917
    The Romanov dynast lased until 1917