Russian History 1462-2012

Ivan III The Great

Apr 5, 1462

Tripled the territory of his state conquered all of Rus and one of the longest reigning Russian Ruler

Ivan IV The Terrible

Jan 16, 1547

Conquered the Khanates of Kazan, Astrakhan and Siberia. made countless changes in the progression from a medieval state to an empire. killed his heir. was paranoid and treated nobility harshly but highly popular among the common people

Michael Romanov

Feb 21, 1596

First Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov. Reign marked the end of the time of troubles.

Peter I The Great

Nov 21, 1682

Made Russia an empire. Lead a cultural revolution that replaced some of the medieval social and political system with a modern scientific, Europe-Oriented, and rationalist system.

Catherine II The Great

Jul 9, 1762

Longest ruling female leader of Russia. Russia was revitalized growing larger and stronger than ever and becoming recoginzed as one of the great powers of Europe

Alexander II

Mar 2, 1855

Freed the Serfs, abolished capital punishment, ended some priviledges of the nobility, promoted universities, sold Alaska.

Nicholas II

Nov 1, 1894

Alexander Kerensky

Jul 21, 1917

Alexander
Alexander Kerensky was a lawyer and major political leader before the Russian Revolutions of 1917 belonging to a moderate socialist party,called Trudoviks

Vladimir Lenin

Jan 1, 1922

Lenin
Was a Russian communist revolutionary politician and political theorist.He served as the leader of the Russian SFSR from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until his death.

Joseph Stalin

Jan 1, 1953

Stalin
Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin was appointed general secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1922

Nikita Khrushchev

Oct 14, 1964

Nikita
In the power struggle triggered by Stalin's death in 1953, Khrushchev, after several years, emerged victorious. On February 25, 1956, at the 20th Party Congress, he delivered the "Secret Speech," denouncing Stalin's purges and ushering in a less repressive era in the Soviet Union

Mikhail Gorbachev

Dec 25, 1991

Gorbachev
Gorbachev's policies of openness and restructuring as well as summit conferences with United States President Ronald Reagan and his reorientation of Soviet strategic aims contributed to the end of the Cold War, removed the constitutional role of the Communist Party in governing the state, and inadvertently led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Boris Yeltsin

Mar 24, 2014

Grand Prince Vladimir of Kiev

Mar 2, 2022

Consolidated the realm from Ukraine to the Baltic Sea, converted to Christianity.