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Apr 5, 1462
Ivan III (The Great)
Ivan is one of the longest-reigning Russian rulers in history. He tripled the territory of his state and laid the foundations of the Russian state. -
Jan 16, 1547
Ivan IV (The Terrible)
Ivan transformed Russia into a multiethnic and multi confessional state. He was also the first ruler to be crowned as Tsar of All the Russians. -
Michael Romanov February
Michael’s reign marked the end of all troubles and he was the founder of the Romanov dynasty. -
Peter I (The Great)
Peter led numerous successful wars and expanded the Tsardom into a huge empire that became a major European power. He also led a cultural revolution that replaced the traditionalist and medieval, social, and political system with a modern, scientific, Europe-oriented, and rationalist system. -
Catherine II (The Great)
She was the most renowned and longest-ruling empress of Russia. Russia was revitalized under Catherine’s reign, growing larger and stronger than ever and becoming recognized as one of the great powers of Europe. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail is a former Soviet Statesman also the 1st and last president of the Soviet Union from 1988-1991. -
Alexander II March 2, 1855
Alexander was an emperor of Russia; his most important achievement was the Emancipation of Serfs in 1861 for which he became known as Alexander the Liberator. -
Nicholas II
Nicholas II was the last emperor of Russia and the Autocrat of all the Russia. His reign saw imperial Russia go from being one of the great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. Under his rule Russia was defeated in the Russo-Japanese war. -
Alexander Kerensky
Alexander was a leader before and during the Russian Revolution. Kerensky served as the 2nd Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government until over thrown by Lenin. -
Joseph Stalin
Defacto leader of Soviet Union. Stalin was appointed General secretary of the party’s central committee in 1922. -
Vladimir Lenin
Russian Communist revolutionary leader of SFSR. Lenin was Soviet Union premier from 1922-1924 when he died. -
Nikita Khrushchev
1st secretary of communist party in 1953-1964, was the chairman of the council of Ministers of premier 1958 -1964 responsible for the partial destalinization of the soviet union. -
Boris Yeltsin
Boris was a Russian Politican and the first president of the Russian Federation from 1991-1999. -
Vladimir Putin
-Putin startred as a Prime Minister and then president from 2000-2008. Again served as a Prime Minister from 2008-2012 and now is the current President since 2012. Also, Putin was a previous chairman. -
Dmitri Medvedev
Dmitri served as the 3rd president of Russia from 2008-2012 and is the 10th and current Prime Minister. -
Grand Prince Vladimir of Kiev
He was an outstanding political figure in Ancient Russia. During his rule Christianity was adopted in Russia. He introduced the practice of human sacrifice.