10 Things You May Not Know About the
Vikings
Vikings in Russia
Scandinavia & Russia: In the Footsteps of
the Vikings
Early Russian History
Early East Slavs 1 2 3
Rus’ Khaganate (Russkiy Kaganate) 1 2
Family tree of Russian monarchs
Princes of Novgorod (862–882)
Rurik Dynasty 1 2
Rurik, Prince of Novgorod, r. 862-879 1 2 3
Oleg the Prophet, r. 879-882 1 2 3 4 5
Grand Princes of Kiev (882–1157)
Kievan Rus’ 1 2 3
Oleg the Prophet, r. 879-912 1 2 3 4 5
Igor of Kiev, r. 913-944 1 2 3
Olga of Kiev, r. 945-960 1 2 3
Vladimir the Great, r. 980-1015 1 2 3
Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod (1236-
40, 1241-56, 1258-59), Kiev (1236-1252) and
Vladimir (1252-63) 1 2 3
Mongolian Invasion of Kievan Rus
(1237-1240) 1 2 3 4 5
Grand Princes of Moscow (1325–1547)
Ivan I Kalita, r. 1325-1340
Simeon the Proud, r. 1340-1353
Ivan II the Red, r. 1353-1359
Dmitry of the Don, r. 1359-1389 1 2 3
Vasily I, r. 1389-1425
Vasily II the Dark, r. 1425-1433, 1433-1434,
1434-1445, 1445-1446, 1447-1462 1 2 3
Ivan III the Great, r. 1462-1505 1 2 3
Vasili III, r. 1505-1533 1 2 3
Ivan IV the Terrible, r. 1533-1547 1 2 3 4 5
Tsars of Russia (1547–1721)
Ivan the Terrible, r. 1533-1584 1 2 3 4
Anastasia Romanova Zakharyina-Yurieva, first wife
to Ivan the Great and the first Russian Tsaritsa
(b. 1530–d. 1560) 1 2 3
Feodor, r. 1584-1598 1 2 3
Boris Godunov, r. 1598 to 1605 1 2 3
Vasily IV, r. 1606-1610 1 2
Romanov Dynasty, (1613 to 1917) 1 2 3
Michael I, r. 1613 to 1645 1 2 3
Peter the Great, r. 1782 to 1725 1 2 3 4
Catherine I, second wife and Empress consort of
Peter the Great, and Empress regnant of Russia
from 1725 until her death in 1727.
Peter II, r. 1727-1730
Elizabeth of Russia, r. 1741 to 1762 1 2 3
Catherine the Great, r. 1762–1796 1 2 3 4
Alexander I, r. 1801-1825 1 2 3
Nicholas I, r. 1825-1855 1 2 3
Alexander II, r. 1855-1881 1 2 3
Alexander III, r. 1881-1894 1 2 3
Nicholas II, r. 1894-1917 1 2 3 4 5 6
Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) 1 2
Crimean War, 1854-1856
Leaders
Vladimir Lenin, Premier of the Soviet Union,
1917-1924; Chairman of the Council of People’s
Commissars of the Soviet Union, 1923-
1924 1 2 3 4 5
Leon Trotsky, Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet,
1917; People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs
of the RSFSR, 1917-1918; People’s Commissar of
Military and Naval Affairs of the Soviet Union,
1918-1925 1 2 3
Felix Dzerzhinsky, head of the Cheka (1917-1922)
and the GPU/OGPU (1922-1926) 1 2 3
Joseph Stalin, Premier of the Soviet Union, 1941-
1953 1 2 3 4
Lavrentiy Beria, Minister of Internal Affairs and First
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers,
5 March–26 June 1953 1 2 3
Georgy Malenkov , Premier of the Soviet Union, 1953-
1955
Nikita Khrushchev , Premier of the Soviet Union, 1958-
1964
Leonid Brezhnev , General Secretary of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1964-1982
Mikhail Gorbachev, first president of the Soviet
Union, 1990 to 1991
Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia, 1991-1999
Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, 1999-2008 and 2012-present
Forms of Government
Absolute Monarchy 1 2 3 4
Communism 1 2 3
Monarchist Union of Central Russia 1 2 3
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Places
Gulags 1 2 3 4
Kremlin & Red Square 1 2 3
Moscow 1 2 3
Stalingrad (now Volgograd) 1 2 3
St. Petersburg 1 2 3
People, History & Events
Brief History of Russia
Chronology of Important Events
Collectivization 1 2 3
Kulaks 1 2 3
Fall of the Soviet Union 1 2 3
The Great Patriotic War 1 2 3
History of Russia
History of Russia
Holodomor 1 2 3
Katyn Massacre 1 2 3
Kronstadt Uprising 1 2 3
Mongol Invasions 1 2 3 4
Red Terror 1 2 3
Russian Revolution 1 2 3
A short overview of the Russian history
Timeline of Russia
World War II
Battle of Narva: Feb—Aug 1944 1 2 3
Siege of Leningrad: Sept 1941—Jan 1944 1 2 3 4
Battle of Anzio: Jan to June 1944 1 2
Battle of Britain: July—Oct 1940 1 2 3
Battle of Brody: June 1941 1 2 3
The Second Battle of Kharkov: May 1942 1 2
Battle of Berlin: April—May 1945 1 2 3
Battle of Kursk: July—Aug 1943 1 2
Battle of Moscow: Oct 1941—Jan 1942 1 2
Battle of Stalingrad: Aug 1942-Feb 1943 1 2 4 4
The Eastern Front 1 2 3 4
German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Operation Barbarossa 1 2 3 4
German War Crimes & Atrocities against the USSR 1 2 3 4
Soviet War Crimes & Atrocities 1 2 3 4
World War II Snipers 1 2 3 4 5 6
Georgy Zhukov, Soviet general and Marshal of the
Soviet Union 1 2 3
10 Great Russian Military Leaders
Security Forces
Cheka 1 2 3
KGB (Committee for State Security) 1 2 3
NKVD 1 2 3
Cosmonauts
Yuri Gagarin
Gherman Titov
Andriyan Nikolayev
Valentina Tereshkova, 1937-present
Valery Bykovsky
Vladimir Komarov
Konstantin Feoktistov
Alexey Leonov
Sergei Krikalev
Valeri Polyakov
Authors
Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904
Maxim Gorky, 1868-1936
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1918-20081 2
Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992
Ballet Dancers
Anna Pavlova, 1881–1931
Vaslav Nijinsky, 1889-1950
Maya Plisetskaya, 1925–2015
Rudolf Nureyev, 1938-1993 1 2 3
Mikhail Baryshnikov, 1948–present
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