1. The Russian Empire
Parker Cruise

2. Early history
The Golden Horde dominated Russia and its surrounding areas before (1240’s-1480)
The largest city was Moscow
Center of political power
Forest zone across Eurasia
1547-tsar
“Third Rome” successor of Constantinople
Muscovy
Muscovy surrounded Moscow
Princes led movement
Prince Ivan IV – S and E against Kazan and Astrakhan

3. Muscovy

4. Despair After 1600, the empire became very poor and landlocked
There was only one port to the ocean, Arkhangelsk, to the north.
Blocked off by different rulers and empires other ways

5. Siberia Northeast Asia(strongly preferred by Russians)
Thinly inhabited but with natural resources
Fur
Ob', the Yenisey, and the Lena
Oil, gas, coal, gold, uranium, nickel, manganese, diamonds, tin, cobalt, and iron ore
Merchants gave tsars contacts

6. Strogonov Fur Traders(wealthy)
Led the Russian explorers that originally delved into Siberia
heavily armed, murdered indigenous foragers
Destroyed the Sabir Khanate
Rivers, Pacific, Alaska
Frontier with scattered forts and criminal colony
1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk

7. Society Empire Expanded bringing in new people
Islam was more popular than Christianity (Russian speakers were Orthodox Russian)
Old- farmers, hunters, architects, writers, merchants
New- herders, caravans, soldiers
Peasants began to work for land lords so they could acquire land
Change lords
Peasants were treated well
Warfare caused peasants to runaway to the Cossacks or sell themselves to slavery
1649, official serfs (heriditary)

8. Cossacks Resided between Muscovy and the Black and Caspian seas
Turkic for soldier
Bands, saddle, terrifying
Made temporary alliances
Russia
soldiers and settlers working for the Strogonovs
Every major town in Siberia
Camps on Amur River
Fought off Sweden and Ottoman
Autonomous

9. Peter the Great Romanov and tsar Gave Russia more power and size
Away from Asian roots and towards western civ.
Sophia
Foreigners quarter
learned about Life away from Russia
Blacksmithing, carpentry, shipbuilding, war
Rallied against Sophia and took control.
Still a teenager

10. Peter’s Rule Expanding and moderation Black Sea Navy
Warred with Ottomans to free Constantinople
Legal protector
Port of Azov 1696, 1713, SW
Traveled across west Europe
Reformed Russia through toleration and Trade
Modern army took the Baltic sea and made direct contact for Russia to Europe.
Major power

11. Peter’s rule cont. Built St. Petersburg, his “window on the west”
Baroque style (France)
Imitate Europe, beards, woman attendance, edu
Merit not birth
1716, the tsar answers to no one and is over everything in the kingdom as a Christian ruler
Not good for serfs

12. Other accomplishments of Russia
Pacific NE colonized
1741, Captain Vitus Bering sailed across the straight and in to Alaska
Monopoly on fur trade, entire NW coast of NA
Cathrine the Great
Russia beat the Ottomans and acquired the North shore of the Black Sea
Poland split up three times between 1772 and 1795, Russia then expanded 600 miles W
Gold, iron, timber
Westernization

13. Works Cited
Bulliet