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The Mongols invade Russia from 1200-1400
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Czar Ivan IV came to power in 1547. Some things he did while in power are commissioning St. Basil's Cathedral, expanding the Russian empire, and strengthened the power of the thrown. He got the nickname Ivan the Terrible because anyone who opposed him got murdered.
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In 1555, Czar Ivan IV commissioned St. Basil's Cathedral.
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In 1649, Michael Romanov makes serfdom legal.
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Peter the Great came to power in 1689. Some things he did were touring Europe and bringing back some modernization, giving freedoms to the lower class, and moving the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
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In 1812, Napoleon invades Russia with 600,000 men and leave with less than 10,000 men.
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Czar Alexander II came to power in 1861. Some things he did were emancipating the serfs, built railroads, modernized banking systems, established a Jury system, and gave freedom of the press.
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Czar Nicholas II came to power in 1869. Some things that he did while czar was created a constitutional monarchy by establishing the Duma, had a son named Alexi who had hemophilia, and met Gregory Rasputin, a mystical faith healer.
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In 1922 the USSR was established because there were no more people in the Romanov family to take the thrown. The USSR was led by Lenin for two years before he died of a stroke.
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After Lenin died, Stalin was the new leader of the USSR. He maintained power in three ways; by the communist party, the KGB (a national secret police force), and the Soviet Army. He modernized agriculture, had impossible quotas, had industrial growth, collected farms, and attached different ethnic groups.
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In 1945, the US and the USSR had a cold war. They had a forty year standoff. They were both nuclear superpowers, and both were afraid to use them because if they did it would be world destruction.
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Mikhail Gorbachev is elected president of Russia in 1985
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In 1991, there was a failed attempt to overthrow the government. Also in that year, Gorbachev resigned as president.
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The soviet Union broke up in 1991.
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Vladimer Putin is elected president in 2000. He served as president from 2000- 5-7-08.
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The new president Medvedev is inaugurated on May 7, 2008.
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Vladimer Putin is elected president again in 2012.
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In 860 the VIkings from Sweden crossed the Baltic Sea and settled west of the Ural Mountains
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