| St. Petersburg | To promote education and growth, Peter wanted a seaport that would make it easier to travel to the West. Therefore, Peter fought Sweden to gain a piece of the Baltic coast. After 21 long years of war, Russia finally won |
| St. Petersburg | To promote education and growth, Peter wanted a seaport that would make it easier to travel to the West. Therefore, Peter fought Sweden to gain a piece of the Baltic coast. After 21 long years of war, Russia finally won |
| Ivan III of Moscow | was a great ruler, conquered a lot of cities around Moscow. He liberated part of Russia from the Mongols. He began centralizing the government, he had spy's to stay communicated with him to know what was up in his kingdom. |
| Vasily | Son of Ivan III continued the same as his father, added more territory to Russia, increased the power of the central government, continued fortifying the power of the center. |
| Ivan IV the terrible | Son of Vasily, became king when he was 3 years old, so the nobles took advantage to keep away monarch and they tried to kill him, when Ivan IV was 16 he was coronated (Himself) king, started the term Czar.
When Anastasia died began the bad period, he turned against the boyars and using anew secret police he executed many boyars, their families and peasants who worked on their lands
He killed his older son and when he died his other son had to rule but was uncapable and when he died started the times of trouble because there was no heir and boyars wanted power but agreed Michael Romanov the grandnephew of Anastasia to start ruling |
| Anastasia | Wife of Ivan IV part of the Romanov boyars, when she died Ivan IV became the Terrible period. Ivan accused the boyar of poisoning her. |
| Michael Romanov | Grandnephew of Anastasia started the Romanov Dynasty |
| Peter I The great | Absolut ruler admired the western Europm and lnew russia was behind, was 24 years old when he became the sole ruler of Russia. he embarked on the “Grand Embassy,” a long visit to western Europe to learn about European customs and manufacturing techniques. |
| Serfdom | Russian landowners wanted serfs to stay on the land and produce large harvests. The landowners treated the serfs like property. When a Russian landowner sold a piece of land, he sold the serfs with it. Landowners could give away serfs as presents or to pay debts. It was also against the law for serfs to run away from their owners. |
| Peter wants westernization | After the trip he wanted westernization but knew some will be against.
*Peter abolished the office of patriarch, head of the Church and set up a group called the Holy Synod to run the Church under his direction.
*Peter reduced the power of the great landowners. He recruited men from lower-ranking families. He then promoted them to positions of authority and rewarded them with grants of land.
*To modernize his army, Peter hired European officers, who drilled his soldiers in European tactics with European weapons. Being a soldier became a lifetime job. To pay for this huge army, Peter imposed heavy taxes. |
| Westernizing Russia | *introduced potatoes
*started Russia’s first newspaper and edited its first issue himself
*raised women’s status by having them attend social gatherings
*ordered the nobles to give up their traditional clothes for Western fashions;
*advanced education by opening a school of navigation and introducing schools for the arts and sciences.
Peter believed that education was a key to Russia’s progress. subjects were not only permitted to leave the country, many were forced to do it. |
| Russia was behind | *They were very traditionalist. Boyars didn’t care about modern, wester things
*They were isolated, they had just 1 port, Archangel port. It was congelado, So it was very difficult to get transportation of products. He wanted to make another port
*Not a lot of people went to Russia
*The Mongols didn't allow Russia to experience the renaissance
*This people were eastern orthodox, while the rest of Europe were Catholics, they saw them as heretics (Russia)
*the economic system was still feudalism, thee serves were the owner of that land, almost were slaves because they had little payment, they could be sold and gifted
*there wasn’t new technologies because there wasn't a boom to learn new things |
| St. Petersburg | To promote education and growth, Peter wanted a seaport that would make it easier to travel to the West. Therefore, Peter fought Sweden to gain a piece of the Baltic coast. After 21 long years of war, Russia finally won |
