Ivan the Terrible of Russia is one of the most well known leaders of all time. Ivan was the son of the Grand Prince Vasili III and Helena Glinskaya . At three years old, Ivan’s father died. After that Ivan was now Grand Prince. Ivan’s mother, Helena, then took over as regent. In 1547, Ivan the Terrible is crowned at sixteen years old. Instead of taking only the title Grand Prince, however, he became the Grand Prince and Tzar of all of Russia. This is definitely telling of how power hungry Ivan was
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14. Why the boyars were a barrier to building an absolute state in Moscow? What did Ivan do to that respect? The boyars were a group that acted as a break from the authority of the Grand Prince, who in this time period was Ivan. Not wanting anything to impede his power nor to stop his desire for absolute power, Ivan started to take away from the boyar’s resources. This attack was more subtle than direct but there could be no doubt to the motive of his actions. Ivan began to establish a new class
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The main cause of the Russian Revolution was the corrupted leader. The czar was very unfair since not everybody had the same freedom (“Russian Revolution”). He would make some people more free than others. In the passage it says, “by 1917, most Russians had lost faith in the leadership ability of Czar Nicholas II” (Russian Revolution History.com). He was also the main cause of the revolution. The people he ruled for were not happy people. They didn't like him and wanted him gone. Germany finally
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The three enlightened despots in Europe during the late 1700s were Catherine the Great of Russia, Joseph the II of the Holy Roman Empire of Austria, and Fredrick the Great of Prussia. Catherine the Great controlled Russia. She was a daughter of a German noble and married Peter II. She became ruler after the government was overthrown and her husband was killed. The focus in her rule was to westernize and modernize Russia. She created a new law code and greatly expanded Russia. She put down the Pugachev
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Peter the Great was the Czar (and later self-proclaimed emperor) of Russia from 1682-1725. At that time, the country was an absolute monarch. Meaning that Peter could do whatever he pleased, whenever he pleased. There were no restrictions to keep him from doing something that violated the rights of his citizens. Though it isn't like anyone would stop him anyway, because he was nearly seven feet tall. The things he did ranged from modernizing the military, to having his own son killed for treason
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Nicholas II was a good man, undeniably unsuited to his role as Tsar in Russia’s turbulent times; Nicholas is a great, tragic figure of history. In a different situation Nicholas would have flourished as a family man but he was born as the Emperor and autocrat of Russia he was given the impossible job of maintaining the Empire during its final years. Throughout his reign as Tsar Nicholas struggled to cope with the task of ruling the empire and the system depended completely him. The fundamental laws
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Paper 2: The Russian Revolution c. 1910-24 Checklist: Key Topics to Revise A. Russia before the First World War: i. The Nature of Russia as a State ii. Government and Politics under the Tsar iii. Economy and Society iv. Failures before WWI v. Opposition to the Tsar B. The First World War i. Russia’s involvement in WWI ii. Rasputin iii. Effects of WWI on Russia C. The Revolutions of 1917 and the Provisional Government i. The Fall of the Tsar (February / March Revolution
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James Crarer 12EUC709 - The Russian Empire The Russian Empire Essay “In what ways did Peter the Great’s reforms transform the concept of the Empire?” Peter the Great’s reforms are widely considered to be one of the most defining moments in Russian history. Beginning as an effort to modernize the country’s military, as the era progressed the reforms expanded, instigating economic development, governmental modernization, intellectual reorientation and social reconstruction.1 The injection
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any action. This autocracy showed how Russia was politically behind compared to other European nations, as all major western-European countries had some sort of democratic aspects in their government. An important fact in Russian politics at this time was that the few Russian tsars who had been reformers, modernised Russia in some ways, but did nothing about politics, as all of them believed in the convenience of autocracy. Some clear examples of Russia´s political backwardness were: It had no
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Notes 19th Century Russia The Russian people are descendants of the ‘Rus’ who are thought to be a mixture of Scandinavian and Slavic origin and settled in that region out of ± 800 AD Byzantine Empire A major legacy of the Byzantine Empire for the Russians was the eastern orthodox or Greek Orthodox Church With the decline of Byzantium came a wave of conquest from the East, the Mongols until the 15th century (Tatars). To a large extent, the Mongols allowed Russians to maintain their way of life:
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