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  • Jan 22, 1440

    Ivan the Great

    was a Grand Prince of Moscow and "Grand Prince of all Rus" and he was one of the longest-reigning Russian rulers in history. ruled from january 22, 1440- october 27, 1505.
  • Mar 18, 1533

    Ivan the terrible

    was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 until his death. His long reign saw the conquest of the Khanates of Kazan, Astrakhan, and Siberia, transforming Russia into a multiethnic and multiconfessional state spanning almost one billion acres, approximately 4,046,856 km2
  • Michael Romanov

    was the first Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov,His reign marked the end of the Time of Troubles.
  • Peter the Great

    Peter the Great, Peter I or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov, ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May 1682 until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his half-brother.
  • Catherine The Great

    Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, was the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning from 9 July 1762 until her death on 17 November 1796.
  • Alexander the II

    Also known as Alexander the Liberator, was the Emperor of the Russian Empire from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881. He was also the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Finland.
  • Nicholas the II

    Was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Prince of Finland, and titular King of Poland. His official short title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias and he is known as Saint Nicholas.
  • Vladimir Lenin

    was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician Who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years (1917–1924), as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system.
  • Alexander Kerensky

    Was a major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917.
  • Joseph Stalin

    Was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 and later held the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953.
  • Nikita Khrushchev

    Led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.
  • Mikhail Gorbachev

    Is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991.
  • Boris Yeltsin

    Was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.
  • Dmitri Medvedev

    Is the third President of the Russian Federation.Born to a family of academics, Medvedev graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State University in 1987.
  • Vladimir Putin

    Is a Russian politician who served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus
  • Grand Prince Vladimir of Kiev

    Was a grand prince of Kiev, ruler of Kievan Rus' in (980–1015). Vladimir's father was the prince Sviatoslav of the Rurik dynasty.[5] After the death of his father in 972, Vladimir, who was then prince of Novgorod, was forced to flee to Scandinavia in 976 after his brother Yaropolk had murdered his other brother Oleg and conquered Rus.