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The Reign Of Peter The Great (7 May 1682 – 8 February 1725)

By ElizavetaMoskvina

  • Alexis died

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    Main Dates

  • A rebellion of the Streltsy

    Sophia Alekseyevna led a rebellion of the Streltsy

  • A revolt of the streltsy in Moscow

    It was brutally suppresed.

  • Fyodor died childless

  • Ivan and Peter were crowned as "double tsars"

  • Peter's escape to the monastery of Troitse Sergiyeva Lavra

    There he gathered adherents who percieved he would win the power struggle

  • The marriage of Peter the Great and Eudoxia

    It was arranged by Natalya Naryshkina.

  • The Preobrazhensky&Semyonovsky Guards

    The Preobrazhensky&Semyonovsky Guards regiments were formed

  • Peter became an independent sovereign

    It happened after Natalya Naryshkina's death.

  • The first campaign against Azov

    It ended in failure.

  • The second campaign against Azov

    Azov was captured.

  • Ivan's 5 death

  • The formation of Navy

  • The Grand Embassy

    The Grand Embassy was Russian diplomatic mission to Western Europe from March 9, 1697 to August 25, 1698 led by Peter the Great.

  • Peter forced his wife to become a nun

    Therefore, he freed himself from the union.

  • Peter introduced a new chronology.

    Russian calendar became conformed to European usage.

  • The Russo-Turkish Peace of Constantinople

    Peter retained possession of Azov.

  • Forming the great alliance

    Russia, Saxony, and Denmark Norway - the great alliance, which started the Northern War.

  • The defeat of the Russians at Narva

  • Peter ordered the first ships for the Baltic Fleet to be constructed

  • Constuctions of the city of St.Petersburg

  • The first Russian newspaper, Vedomosti ("Records")

  • The Russian capture of Narva

  • The Bulavin Rebellion

    1707 - 1709

  • Russia was territorically divided into 8 gubernii

    These gubernii were later dissolved into 50 provinces.

  • The Old Church Slavonic alphabet was modernized

    1708-1710.
    It was modernized into a secular script.

  • The battle of Lesnaya

  • The battle of Poltava

  • Peter marched against the Turks through Bessarabia

    Peter was surrounded on the Prut River.

  • The Boyarskaya Duma was replaced by the Senate

    Duma was replaced by the Senate as the supreme organ of state.

  • Peter married Catherine 1 (Marta Skowronska)

  • St.Petersburg was established as the new capital of Russia

  • The Peace of Aldrianople (Eldirne)

    It was concluded, leaving Azov to the Turks.

  • The naval battle of Gangut (Hanko)

    It is the first major Russian victory at sea.

  • Peter's son, Alexis, was charged with high treason, condemned to death

  • Peter instituted 9 "colleges"

    The number of which was later expanded to 13.

  • Peter abolished the Patriarchate of Moscow

    The patriarch's place as head of the church was taken by a spiritual college, namely the Holy Synod.

  • The Treaty of Nystad

    The eastern shores of the Baltic were ceded to Russia.

  • The Senate changed Peter's title from tsar to emperor of all the Russians

    Peter I assumed the title of all-Russian Emperor after defeating the Swedes in the Northern war of 1700-1721.

  • Peter issued a decree

    Peter issued a decree reserving to himself the right to nominate his successor

  • The status of the nobility was modified by Peter's Table of Ranks

    This replaced the old system of promotion in the state services.

  • the census was followed by substitution of a poll tax for the previous hearth tax

  • Institution of The Russian Academy of Sciences

  • Catherine was crowned empress