1. Today we will learn about Ivan the Terrible to the Russian Revolution
the Russian Empire
from the early days of
Ivan the Terrible to the Russian Revolution
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2. Ivan
Peter and Catherine
Alexander
Nicholas

5. Imperial Russia

6. Russia Divided
For hundreds of years Russia’s population was divided into groups of very rich and very poor.

7. Golden Horde Mongol conquerors that defeated the princes of Muscovy
Dominated Russia for 250 years
Collected heavy taxes and forced Russians to serve in the Mongol army.

8. Imperial Crown of Russia
Czar
Another term for Emperor
Imperial Crown of Russia

9. The first Czar (Tsar), Ivan the Terrible
Overthrew the Golden Horde by 1480
Built the famous Kremlin in Moscow which house St. Basil’s Cathedral and serves their government center much like our White House.

10. Started to bring Western European ideas and culture to Russia
Believed that Russia must have good seaports to become a world power
Built St. Petersberg, the new capital, as a “window on the west.”
Peter the Great

11. The arts flourished in Russia
The arts flourished in Russia. She encouraged science and literature as well.
Expanded Russia’s borders
Catherine the Great

12. Westernization
A process of becoming more like Western Europe.

13. Freed the serfs and gave them their own land
Freed the serfs and gave them their own land. The serfs had to pays high taxes to the nobles.
Towns were given more control over their own affairs
Alexander II

14. Forced to share his power with a Russian congress after the mass killing known as Bloody Sunday where government troops shot protestors
The last czar of Russia overthrown by organized revolutionaries in 1917
Nicholas II

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