Rurikovich
Dinasty (IX-XVI cent)
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Ivan IV the Terrible (Grozny) |
August 25, 1530 |
Kolomenskoye |
March 18, 1584 |
Grand prince of Moscow (1533-84) and the first to be proclaimed tsar of Russia (from 1547). |
Times
of troubles (end XVI - beg. XVII cent)
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Romanov
Dinasty (XVI-XX cent)
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Michael |
July 22, 1596 |
Moscow |
July 23, 1645 |
Tsar of Russia from 1613 to 1645 and founder of the Romanov dynasty. |
Alexey ("the Quietest") |
March 19, 1629 |
Moscow |
January 29, 1676 |
Tsar of Russia from 1645 to 1676 |
Fyodor III |
May 30, 1661 |
Moscow |
April 27, 1682 |
Tsar of Russia (reigned 1676-82) who fostered the development of Western culture in Russia, thereby making it easier for his successor, Peter I to enact widespread reforms. |
Ivan V |
August 27, 1666 |
Moscow |
January 29, 1696 |
Nominal co-tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1696. |
Sophia |
September 27, 1657 |
Moscow |
July 14, 1704 |
Regent of Russia from 1682 to 1689. |
Peter I ("the Great") |
June 9, 1672 |
Moscow |
February 8, 1725 |
Tsar of Russia, who reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V (1682-96) and alone thereafter (1696-1725) and who in 1721 was proclaimed emperor (*imperator*). (click here for chart) |
Catherine I |
April 15, 1684 |
? |
May 17, 1727 |
Peasant woman of Baltic (probably Lithuanian) birth who became the second wife of Peter I and empress of Russia (1725-27). |
Peter II |
October 23, 1715 |
St. Petersburg |
January 29, 1730 |
Emperor of Russia (1727-30) |
Anna ("the Slut" - sorry) |
January 28, 1693 |
Moscow |
October 17, 1740 |
Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740. |
Ivan VI |
August 12, 1740 |
Moscow |
July 5, 1764 (killed) |
Infant Emperor of Russia (1740-41). |
Elisabeth |
December 18, 1709 |
Kolomenskoe |
1762 |
Empress of Russia (1741-1762) |
Peter III |
February 21, 1728 |
Kiel Germany |
1762 (killed) |
Emperor of Russia (1761-1762) (click here for chart) |
Catherine II ("the Great") |
May 2, 1729 |
Stettin, Prussia [now Szczecin, Pol.] |
November 17, 1796 |
German-born empress of Russia (1762-1796) (click here for chart) |
Paul |
October 1, 1754 |
St. Petersburg |
March 23, 1801 (killed) |
Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801. |
Alexander I ("the Victorious") |
December 23, 1777 |
St. Petersburg |
December 1, 1825? (decided to retire?) |
Emperor of Russia (1801-25), who alternately fought and befriended Napoleon I during the Napoleonic Wars but who was a leader of coalition that defeated the emperor of the France. |
Nicholas I |
July 6, 1796 |
Tsarskoye Selo, near St. Petersburg |
March 2, 1855 (suicide?) |
Russian emperor (1825-55), often considered the personification of classic autocracy; for his reactionary policies, he has been called the emperor who froze Russia for 30 years. |
Alexander II ("the Liberator") |
April 29, 1818 |
Moscow |
March 13, 1881 (killed) |
Emperor of Russia (1855-81). Liberal. |
Alexander III ("the Peacemaker")
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March 10, 1845 |
St. Petersburg |
November 1, 1894 |
Emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894, opponent of representative government, and supporter of Russian nationalism. He adopted programs, based on the concepts of Orthodoxy and autocracy. (click here for chart) |
Nicholas II ("the Bloody") |
May 18, 1868 |
Tsarskoye Selo, near St. Petersburg |
July 17, 1918 night Ekaterinburg
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The last Russian emperor (1894-15.3.1917), generally judged as an inept and autocratic ruler. (click here for chart)
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