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Muscovy, Muscovy - Early Imperial Russia, Muscovy - Evolution of the Russian Aristocracy, Muscovy - Evolution of the Russian Autocracy, Muscovy - Expansion, Muscovy - Rise of Muscovy, Muscovy - Romanovs, Muscovy - See Also, Muscovy - The time of Ivan IV, Muscovy - Time of Troubles, Muscovy - Western European knowledge of Muscovy, <i>This article incorporates public domain text from the Library of Congress Country Studies.</i> - Russia, Grigory Kotoshikhin's <i>Russia during the reign of Alexey Mikhailovich</i> (1665) is the undispensible source for those studying administration of the Muscovite tsardom-->
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ARTICLES RELATED TO Muscovy - The time of Ivan IV | | | |  Muscovy - The time of Ivan IV: Encyclopedia II - Muscovy - The time of Ivan IVThe development of the tsar's autocratic powers reached a peak during the reign of Ivan IV, and he became known as the Terrible (his Russian epithet, groznyy, means threatening or dreaded). Ivan strengthened the position of the tsar to an unprecedented degree, demonstrating the risks of unbridled power in the hands of a mentally unstable individual. Although apparently intelligent and energetic, Ivan suffered from bouts of paranoia and depression, and his r ...
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| | | | Muscovy - The time of Ivan IV: Encyclopedia II - Muscovy - Rise of Muscovy When the Mongols invaded the lands of Kievan Rus', Moscow was an insignificant trading outpost in the principality of Vladimir-Suzdal'. Though Mongols burnt down Moscow in the winter 1238 and pillaged it in 1293, the outpost's remote, forested location offered some security from Mongol attack and occupation, and a number of rivers provided access to the Baltic and Black Seas and to the Caucasus region. More important to Moscow's development in what became the state of Muscovy, however, was its rule by a series of princes who were ambitious, ...
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| | | | Muscovy - The time of Ivan IV: Encyclopedia II - Muscovy - Western European knowledge of Muscovy Muscovy remained a fairly unknown society in western Europe until Baron Sigismund von Herberstein published his Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii (literally Notes on Muscovite Affairs) in 1549. This provided a comprehensive view of what had been a rarely visited and poorly reported state. In the 1630s, Muscovy was visited by Adam Olearius, whose lively and well-informed writings were soon translated into all major languages of Europe.
Further exploration of the Russian lands was conducted by English and Dutch merchants. One of t ...
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| | | | Muscovy - The time of Ivan IV: Encyclopedia II - Muscovy - Early Imperial Russia Main article: Imperial Russia.
The following article in the series describes how in the 18th century, Russia was transformed from a static, somewhat isolated, traditional state into the more dynamic, partially Westernized, and secularized Russian Empire. This transformation was in no small measure a result of the vision, energy, and determination of Peter the Great. Historians disagree about the extent to which Peter himself transformed Russia, but they generally concur that he laid the foundations for empire building over the ...
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| | | | Muscovy - The time of Ivan IV: Encyclopedia II - Muscovy - Expansion Russia continued its territorial growth through the 17th century. In the south-west, it acquired eastern Ukraine, which had been under Polish rule. The Ukrainian Cossacks, warriors organized in military formations, lived in the frontier areas bordering Poland, the Tatar lands, and Russia. Although they had served in the Polish army as mercenaries, the Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Host remained fiercely independent and staged a number of rebellions against the Poles. In 1648, the peasants of Ukraine joined the Cossacks in rebellion during the ...
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| | | | Muscovy - The time of Ivan IV: Encyclopedia II - Muscovy - Time of Troubles Ivan IV was succeeded by his son Fedor, who was mentally deficient. Actual power went to Fedor's brother-in-law, the boyar Boris Godunov. Perhaps the most important event of Fedor's reign was the proclamation of the patriarchate of Moscow in 1589. The creation of the patriarchate climaxed the evolution of a separate and totally independent Russian Orthodox Church.
In 1598 Fedor died without an heir, ending the Rurik Dynasty. Boris Godunov then convened a Zemsky Sobor, a national assembly of boyars, church officials, and commone ...
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| | | | Muscovy - The time of Ivan IV: Encyclopedia II - Muscovy - Evolution of the Russian Autocracy Internal consolidation accompanied outward expansion of the state. By the 15th century, the rulers of Muscovy considered the entire Russian territory their collective property. Various semi-independent princes of Rurikid stock still claimed specific territories, but Ivan III forced the lesser princes to acknowledge the grand prince of Muscovy and his descendants as unquestioned rulers with control over military, judicial, and foreign affairs.
Gradually, the Muscovite ruler emerged as a powerful, autocratic ruler, a tsar. By assuming t ...
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| | | | Muscovy - The time of Ivan IV: Encyclopedia II - Muscovy - Evolution of the Russian Aristocracy Boyars were hereditary nobles of three categories: 1) Rurikid princes of Upper Oka towns, Suzdal, Rostov, Yaroslavl, etc. that lived in Moscow after their hereditary principalities had been incorporated into Muscovy (e.g., Shuisky, Vorotynsky, Repnin, Romodanovsky); 2) foreign princes from Lithuania and Golden Horde, claiming descent either from Grand Duke Gediminas or from Genghis Khan (e.g., Belsky, Mstislavsky, Galitzine, Trubetskoy); 3) ancient families of Muscovite nobility that have been recorded in the service of Grand D ...
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| | | | Muscovy - The time of Ivan IV: Encyclopedia II - Muscovy - Romanovs The immediate task of the new dynasty was to restore order. Fortunately for Russia, its major enemies, Poland and Sweden, were engaged in a bitter conflict with each other, which provided Russia the opportunity to make peace with Sweden in 1617 and to sign a truce with Poland in 1619. After an unsuccessful attempt to regain the city of Smolensk (the Smolensk War) from Poland in 1632, Russia made peace with Poland in 1634. Polish king Wladyslaw IV, whose father and predecessor Sigismund III had been elected by Russian boyars as tsar of Russia during the Time of Troubles, renounced all claims to the title ...
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