1. Russia
Yeah, its really cold

2. Russia’s Time Zones

3. From Muscovy to Russia Fringe of Europe Viking descent
Russian Orthodox Church
Mongols ruled since the 13th Century

5. Russia Ivan III: the Great
threw out the Mongols in 1462 and
married the niece of the last Byzantine emperor.
Tsar

6. Ivan the Great (r )
Ivan III Tearing the Great Khan’s Letter Requesting More Tribute in 1480.

8. Vasiliy III

9. Ivan IV: the Terrible 1533-1584 Came to the throne at 3 The Boyars
16 crowns himself Tsar

10. Ivan IV The Terrible

11. Good Period: 1547-1560 Marries Anastasia Romanov
Extended the Russia Empire
Built schools, churches, and hospitals

13. Russia in the Late 1500s

14. Bad Period: 1560-1584 Secret police Killed thousands
Killed his heir in 1581
Built St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow

18. Time of Troubles
Michael Romanov
Romanovs rule until 1917

19. Peter the Great (r )

20. Peter I: The Great Born in 1672- shared power with brother and sister
Comes to the throne at 10
Takes the throne in 1589/ 1696
visits the West

21. Execution of the Streltsy

23. Westernization Dress and appearance Church control
Broke noble power: Colleges and Table of Ranks
Armed forces
Women’s rights
Potatoes

24. Peter Cuts the Beards of His Boyars

25. Corruption Civic Duty- Table of Ranks
“ This is as if a servant, seeing his master drowning, would not save him until he had satisfied himself as to whether it was written down in his contract that he should pull him out of the water!”

26. Bad Side
Crude and violent
Killed his son and heir Alexis

27. St. Petersburg “Window to the West”
Fought Sweden for 21 years
100,000 dead
Capital
Peterhof

28. Russia & Sweden After the Great Northern War

29. Battle of Poltava (1709)

30. Russia Under Peter I

38. Legacy Made Russia a world power
Left the throne to his second wife Catherine I