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Period: Apr 5, 1462 to Oct 27, 1505
Ivan III (The Great)
He was the Grand Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of all Russia ruling from 5 April, 1462 to 27 October, 1505. During his ruling, he tripled the territory of his state, renovated the Moscow Kremlin, laid foundations of the Russian state, and ended the dominance of the Golden Horde. He was one of the longest rulers in Russian history. -
Period: Jan 16, 1547 to
Ivan IV (The Terrible)
He was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and the Tsar of Russia from 1547 until his death on 28 March, 1584. He transformed Russia into a multiethnic and multiconfessional state spanning almost one billion acres. Ivan the Terrible was the first ruler crowned as Tsar and changed Russia from a medieval state to an emerging power. -
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Michael Romanov
He was the Tsar of Russia from 1613 to 1645 and founded the Romanov dynasty, which ruled Russia until 1917. He helped restore order to Russia and obtained peace with Sweden and Poland. He also ended the so called time of troubles which was a period of social and political chaos in Russia that begun in the late 16th century. -
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Peter I (The Great)
He ruled the Tsardom of Russia from 1682 to 1725. He is credited for dragging Russia out of the medieval times and by his death Russia was considered a leading eastern European state. He also created a navy, modernized the army, centralized government, and his domestic policy allowed him to execute an aggressive foreign policy. -
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Catherine II (The Great)
The longest ruling empress of Russia ruling from 9 July, 1762 to her death on 17 November, 1796. She revitalized Russia under her ruling and it was recognized as one of the great powers of Europe. She reformed the administration of Russian guberniyas, and she founded new cities under her orders. She modernized Russia along the Western Europe lines, and the Catherinian Era is sometimes called the Golden Age of the Russian Empire. -
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Alexander II
Emperor of Russia from 2 March, 1855 until he was assassinated on 13 March, 1881.He was devoted to the prosecution of the Crimean War, and negotiations for peace because Russia was exhausted and humiliated by war. He started a period of radical reforms including developing Russia’s natural resources and to reform branches of the administration. -
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Nicholas II
Succeeded his father in 20 October, 1894, and was determined that Russia shouldn’t be left for colonial possessions he encouraged Russian expansion in Manchuria. This provoked war with Japan in 1904. He was in power until 15 March, 1917 and died in 1918. -
Alexander Kerensky
He was a major political leader before and during the Russian Revolutions of 1917.Kerensky served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian Government until it was overthrown by the Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin. He would spend the remainder of his life in exile, dying in New York City in 1970 at the age of 89. -
Joseph Stalin
Joseph was the leader of the Soviet Union in the mid-1920s. Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution in 1917, Stalin was appointed General Secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1922 until his death in 1953. -
Vladimir Lenin
Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as the leader of the Russian SFSR in 1917, and then as Premier of the Soviet Union in 1922, until his death in 1924. Politically a Marxist his thoughts are known as Leninism. -
Nikita Khrushchev
He 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. He also served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
He is a former Soviet statesman; he served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was the first and last president of the Soviet Union from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. In March 1990, Gorbachev was elected as the first executive President of the Soviet Union. -
Boris Yeltsin
He was a Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet. He died April 23rd 2007. -
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir is a Russian politician who has been the President of Russia since May 7th 2012. Putin previously served as President from 2000 to 2008. He also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. Putin was also previously the Chairman of United Russia. -
Dmitri Medvedev
He is the tenth and current Prime Minister of Russia since 2012.He previously served as the third President of Russia from 2008 to 2012. When he took office at the age of 42, he was the youngest of the three Russian Presidents who have served. -
Period: to Jul 15, 1015
Grand Prince Vladimir of Kiev
He was a prince of Novgorod and grand prince of Kiev from 11 June, 980 to 15 July, 1015. By 980 he consolidated the Kievan realm from modern day Ukraine to the Baltic Sea. In 988 Vladimir converted to Christianity and then Christianized the Kievan Rus’.