Tsardom of Russia

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1547 – 1721 · up to 14,328 thousand km² · Eastern Europe & Russia

Capital: Moscow (1547–1712), Saint Petersburg (1712–1721)

The Tsardom of Russia, also known as the Tsardom of Moscow, was the centralized Russian state from the assumption of the title of tsar by Ivan IV in 1547 until the foundation of the Russian Empire by Peter the Great in 1721. It is generally regarded as the first phase of Tsarist Russia.

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Predecessors: Grand Principality of Moscow, Kazan Kingdom, Principality of Tver, Novgorod Republic

Successors: Russian Empire

Rulers

Rus and Russia

Ivan the Terrible 1533 – 1584, Feodor I 1584 – 1598, Boris Godunov 1598 – 1605, False Dmitry I 1605 – 1606, Vasily Shuisky 1606 – 1610, Seven Boyars 1610 – 1613, Michael I 1613 – 1645, Alexis the Most Quiet 1645 – 1676, Feodor III 1676 – 1682, Peter the Great 1682 – 1725

Events on its territory

• 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar
• 1552 Siege of Kazan
• 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral
• 1564 Ivan Fyodorov's Apostol
• 1565–1572 Oprichnina
• 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir
• 1589 Establishment of the Moscow Patriarchate
• 1598–1613 Time of Troubles
• 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow
• 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar
• 1666–1667 Schism of the Russian Church
• 1670–1671 Stenka Razin's uprising
• 1682 Accession of Peter the Great