IMPERIAL RUSSIA POLITICS

IVAN III

• Grand prince of Moscow from 1462 to 1505
• Declared russian independence from the mongol rule
• Made moscow into a large and powerful state

ACQUISITION OF NOVGOROD

• Was a prosperous trading city
• Ivan demanded that the city acknowledges his authority
• In 1478, he absorbed it into his state

COSSACKS

• Recruited/enslaved peasants that were offered freedom to settle conquered lands
• Turkish word for free man
• Particulary influential in the steepe lands to the south
• They moved into siberia

IVAN IV

• Reigned from 1533 to 1584
• Embarked on reforms to root out corruption in the governent
• Ruled with the help of his Chosen Council
• Worked to create an independant administration

PETER I

• Reigned from 1682 to 1725
• He spent much of his early rule in germantown
• Became fascinated by invention and innovation
• In 1689 he took the title of tzar
• He instituted a policy of modernization

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