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Tsardom of Russia

  • Siberian River RoutesThe three great Siberian rivers, the Ob, the Yenisey, and the Lena all flow into the Arctic Ocean. This geographic fact shaped every Russian expedition…
  • Expansion of Russia (1500–1800)In 1315, the political and cultural elite of the Golden Horde adopted Islam. This shift occurred as the Mongol Empire broke apart, leaving its western…
  • Crimean KhanateHacı I Giray arrived in Crimea from exile in Lithuania during the early 15th century to claim a throne that had been fractured by civil war.
  • Zemsky SoborTsar Ivan the Terrible convened the first Zemsky Sobor in 1549. This gathering brought together three distinct groups of Russian society for a single purpose.
  • Tsardom of RussiaOn the 16th of January 1547, Ivan IV stood before a crowd in Moscow and accepted the crown that would change history. He became the first ruler to officially…
  • House of RomanovOn the 21st of February 1613, a sixteen-year-old boy named Mikhail Romanov burst into tears of fear and despair while sitting at the Ipatiev Monastery in…