3. Steppe Region

4. Admired Byzantine culture –became Orthodox Christians
Prince Vladimir I
Admired Byzantine culture –became Orthodox Christians

5. Mongol Invasion
By 1240 Russia part of the Mongol Empire – had to pay tribute through taxes

6. Stopped paying tribute and declared himself leader of Russia
Ivan III
Known as Ivan the Great
Stopped paying tribute and declared himself leader of Russia

7. Ivan IV Ivan the Terrible

8. The Romanovs
Michael Romanov comes into power after the Time of Troubles (years of wars and revolts)
Family remained in power for 304 years
Peter the Great became czar in 1682 – modernizes Russia and looks to the West for trade and development

9. Catherine the Great

10. Russian Peasants

11. Romanov Family

12. A Land of Contrasts

13. Nicholas II becomes czar in 1894 – he will be the last Russian czar
Russia badly beaten in the with Japan – leads to “Bloody Sunday”

14. Food and fuel shortages due to WW I
1917 Riots
Food and fuel shortages due to WW I

15. Vladimir Lenin
Promoted Communism

17. History of the Soviet Union: Leadership

18. Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin

19. Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev

20. Vladimir Putin
Mikhail Gorbachev

21. Dmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin