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Aug 25, 1530
Ivan the terrible
Born:25 August 1530Died:28 March 1584 (aged 53) was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 until his death.Ivan managed countless changes in the progression from a medieval state to an empire and emerging regional power, and became the first ruler to be crowned as Tsar of all Russia.
His father died when the boy was only three and Ivan was proclaimed the Grand Prince of Moscow. At first, his mother Yelena Glinskaya acted as a regent, but she died when Ivan was eight years old. -
Romanov dynasty begins
The Romanov Dynasty (1613 to 1917) was the last imperial dynasty to rule Russia. During the Romanov reign Russia became and remained a major European power.
Czar Michael began a dynasty that would rule for more than three centuries.
The Romanov rule dates back to 1613 when the first czar, Michael Romanov, ascended the Russian throne. Elected to rule at age sixteen -
Peter the great
Peter the Great was born in 1672 and he died in 1725. Peter was tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725. His self-given title was Peter the Great though he was officially Peter.Peter was a grandson of Tsar Michael Romanov. In 1682 Peter was proclaimed Tsar at the tender age of 10. But due to power struggles between different political forces in the country, the young Tsar was forced to rule jointly with his brother Ivan. -
Catherine the great
Born:2 May 1729
Died:17 November 1796 (aged 67)
was the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia reigning from 9 July 1762 until her death at the age of 67.and came to power followings assassinations of her husband -
vladimir lenin
born:22 April 1870
died:21 January 1924 (aged 53)
was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist who served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.Lenin was one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the 20th century, who masterminded the Bolshevik take-over of power in Russia in 1917, and was the architect and first head of the USSR -
Joseph stalin
born:18 December 1878
died:5 March 1953 (aged 74)
was the first of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 until his death in 5 March 1953.
One of the most powerful and murderous dictators in history, Stalin was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century. His regime of terror caused the death and suffering of tens of millions, but he also oversaw the war machine that played a key role in the defeat of Nazism. -
leon trotsky
born:7 November 1879
died:21 August 1940 (aged 60)
was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.
Trotsky was a key figure in the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia, second only to Vladimir Lenin in the early stages of Soviet communist rule. But he lost out to Joseph Stalin in the power struggle that followed Lenin's death, and was assassinated while in exile. -
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, and which eventually plunged the country into Civil War before leading to the founding of the Communist State. -
start and the end of the soviet union
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.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.
