|
9th century |
Emergence of Kievan Rus |
|
988 |
Kievan Rus adopts Christianity as its state religion |
|
1237 |
Mongol invasion |
|
1480 |
End of Mongol yoke |
|
1497 |
Law Code for the first time limits the peasant’s freedom
of movement from one squire to another |
|
1598-1613 |
‘Time of Troubles’: period of dynastic crisis |
|
1613 |
Romanov dynasty established |
|
1649 |
Tsar Alexis’ Law Code marks culmination of the process
of enserfment of the peasant |
|
1682-1725 |
Reign of Peter I |
|
1695-96 |
Azov military campaign against the Crimean Tartarts and
the Turks |
|
1697-98 |
Peter’s grand tour of the West |
|
1700-21 |
Northen War against Sweden |
|
1711 |
Governing Senate established |
|
1714 |
Peter I’s decree confers hereditary status on manors of
service nobility |
|
1721 |
Peter assumes title of emperor |
|
1722 |
Table of Ranks introduced |
|
1762 |
Compulsory service for the nobility abolished |
|
1762-96 |
Reign of Catherine the Great |
|
1767 |
Convocation of Legislative Commission |
|
1773 |
Pugachev revolt |
|
1785 |
Charter of the Nobility codifies exclusive privileges of
landowning gentry |
|
1790 |
Publication of A. Radishchev’s Journey from St
Petersburg to Moscow |
|
1796-1801 |
Reign of Paul I |
