1. HISTORY OF RUSSIA Ms. Kseniya Zharchinskaya, assistant professor
(Жарчинская Ксения at portal.tpu.ru)
November 5
2015

2. Lecture 2: The Muscovy State. Rise of an Empire
4.1. «The Time of troubles» – 1603 – 1613
Feodor Ivanovich, 1584 – 1598.
Opened borders for foreigners,
Did not have children and became the last representative of Rurik dynasty,
Got the title «Blessed» because he did not interested in politics.

3. Lecture 2: The Muscovy State. Rise of an Empire
4.1. «The Time of troubles» – 1603 – 1613
Boris Godunov, 1598 – 1605
Was elected by people of «Земский собор» (Grand National Assembly);
Built new cities (e.g. Voronezh, Samara, Saratov, Tomsk);
Built fortresses along the borders of Russia;
Issued a decree on the "Fixed years" in 1597, which led to the Serfdom of Russia («крепостной крестьянин», the term for an unfree peasant).

5. The Great Famine, Russia, 1601 – 1603

6. Polish – Muscovite war, 1605 – 1618

7. Russian prince Dmitry (1582 — 1591) He was last son of Ivan IV.
(1582 — 1591)
He was last son of Ivan IV.
Died under mysterious circumstances in 1591.
Boris Godunov is sometimes blamed for his death.

8. Gregory Otrepiev, 1605
«Pseudo»
Russian imposters of Dmitry Ivanovich False Dmitry I – Лжедмитрий I; Григорий Отрепьев, former monk, supported by polish magnates in False Dmitry II – Лжедмитрий II ; the “rebel of Tushino”. personality is not discovered.
False Dmitry II, 1613

9. Murdered False Dmitri, killed 2000
Lecture 2: The Muscovy State. Rise of an Empire
4.1. «The Time of troubles» – 1603 – 1613
Vasili Shuisky, 1606 – 1610
Murdered False Dmitri, killed 2000
Poles, who occupied Moscow;
Signed an alliance with Sweden;
Did not continue a fight for throne
after 1610.

10. Struggle for Moscow (independence), 161275

11. Pozharsky and Minin monument
near the St Basil's Cathedral, 1804–1816.
National Unity Day on the 4th of November
(in the memory of 1612 struggle for independence)
Stated by Vladimir Putin in 2005, replaced the
previous celebrations for the Great October
Revolution of 1917 (the 7th of November).
Dmitry Pozharsky is asked
to lead the army against Poles

12. The House of Romanovs (1613 – 1917)
Lecture 2: The Muscovy State. Rise of an Empire
Painting of the 16-year-old Mikhail
taking the crown in 1613
by Grigory Ugryumov, 1764 – 1823.
The House
of Romanovs
(1613 – 1917)

13. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna Romanova

14. Michael Romanov
1613 – 1645
Was elected by the Grand National Assembly,
Finished a war with Sweden,
Started to recover the country,
Created 5 government offices – Prikazy (Posolsky, Razryadny, Streletsky, Treasury, Aptekarsky)

15. 1645 – 1676 Aleksey Romanov Raised taxes (e.g. for the Sault),
Lowered the salaries of servicemen,
Wrote a new legal code Sobornoye ulozheniye, 1649.
The peasants were tied to the land on which they worked,
Put down the rebellions,
The eastern part of Ukraine («Little Russia») came to Russia.