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Michael Romanov (1613–45)
Michael Romanov, , czar of Russia (1613–45), founder of the Romanov dynasty; grandnephew of Anastasia. His election as czar, following successive appearances of false pretender, ended the so-called Time of Troubles, a period of social and political chaos in Russia that had begun in the late 16th cent. The real power in the government was Michael's father, the patriarch Philaret (d. 1633). -
PETER I (THE GREAT 1689-1725)
Peter I or Peter the Great,1672–1725, czar of Russia (1682–1725), major figure in the development of imperial Russia.
eter the Great is credited with dragging Russia out of the medieval times to such an extent that by his death in 1725, Russia was considered a leading eastern European state. He centralised government, modernised the army, created a navy and increased the subjugation and subjection of the peasants. -
Catherine II (1762–96)
Catherine II or Catherine the Great,1729–96, czarina of Russia.
Born a princess in Germany, Catherine the Great converted to Orthodoxy and was married to the heir to the Russian throne, the Grand Duke Peter of Holstein, grandson of Peter the Great. Though Catherine the Great had the support of Peter's mother, the Empress Elizabeth, she disliked her husband and helped engineer his removal from the throne. She took power as Tsarina or Queen, calling herself Catherine II. Soon after, she may have -
LENIN
was a Russian politician, communist theorist, leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, the main leader of the October Revolution and the first leader of the Soviet Union (1917-1924). -
WORLD WAR 1
The First World War, originally called the Great War, raged from 1914 to 1918. Mostly fought in western Europe in muddy, bloody trenches.
was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until the start of World War II in 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter. It involved all the world's great powers -
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
The 1917 Russian Revolution was not, as many people suppose, one well organised event in which Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown and Lenin and the Bolsheviks took power. It was a series of events that took place during 1917, which entailed two separate revolutions in February and October (with a great deal of political wranglings inbetween), and which eventually plunged the country into Civil War before leading to the founding of the Communist State. -
STRAT SOVIET UNION
Lenin is generally regarded as the founder of the Soviet Union. It emerged from the Russian Revolution and the civil war of 1918-21 that followed. the Soviet Union killed between 25 million and 60 million innocent humans - men, women and little children.was a constitutionally socialist state that existed between 1922 and 1991, ruled as a single-party state by the Communist Party with its capital as Moscow. A union of 15 subnational Soviet republics, the government and economy were highly -
WORLD WAR 2
World War II–which broke out two decades later and would prove even more devastating. Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, and World War II had begun. Over the next six years, the conflict would -
END OF SOVIET UNION
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved on December 25, 1991. This left all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union as independent sovereign states. The dissolution of the world's first and largest Communist state also marked an end to the Cold War. -
ADOLF HITLER
was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party Hitler was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He was at the centre of the founding of Nazism, the start of World War II, and the Holocaust.
