1. A NEW DYNASTY

2. THE END OF THE TROUBLES  New Tsar chosen by Zemskii Sobor: MIKHAIL ROMANOV  Restoration of order & rebuilding of monarchy & society  Triumph of autocracy  Increased centralization  Church gained authority  Service gentry benefited

3. A NEW DYNASTY THE END OF THE TROUBLES  But not everyone benefited  Boyars: numbers reduced, now tied in service to tsar  Common people: continued to lose freedoms & be subjugated

4. A NEW DYNASTY REIGN OF MIKHAIL I (1613-1645)  Assumed power over devastated country  Worked with Zemskii Sobor & Boyar Duma  Dominated by father, Patriarch Filaret  Set out stabilizing & rebuilding

5. A NEW DYNASTY REIGN OF ALEXEI (1645-1676)  Old crises, new problems, accomplishments  Revolt in 1648  Administrative reform: ULOZHENIE (1649)  Stenka (Stepan) Razin uprising (1667-1671)  Control of Ukraine

6. A NEW DYNASTY THE CHURCH  Power of Church grew with Muscovy  Important unifying force during Time of Troubles

7. A NEW DYNASTY RASKOL: THE SCHISM  Patriarch Nikon  calls for return to authentic Byzantine ritual  stirs major opposition

8. A NEW DYNASTY RASKOL: THE SCHISM  Causes break in Church  Church Council of 1667 affirms Nikon’s “corrections”  Old Believers break away  Archpriest Avvakum burned at stake, followers persecuted “Boyarina Morozova Arrested for her Beliefs”