Ivan III of Russia

throughout Eastern Europe. In Russia, the Mongols forced the Slavic princes to accept their rule and give them anything they desired such as tributes and slaves. The Mongols were under the two hundred year rule of Mongol khan because of the former territories of Kievan Rus. Kievan Rus was medieval state that was centered in a city known as Kiev and part of modern day Ukraine. The princes of Moscow emerged as hereditarily great during this time and somwhere around 1480 Ivan III felt that

There are many areas and factors to how Russia developed into an Enlightened Absolute and European country. In order to answer the question above I will need to understand Russia from the wider picture; how the Romanovs established authority, what was the significant changes in the Russian society, how did the economy develop, what was the ideology of the people and was foreign policies achieved by the monarchs of this century? These questions have opened up debates by many historians, such as Lucy

How Western was Russia The question is not is not whether Russia was a western nation, it is to how Western was Russia? This question has no set answer, it changes over time. Often times, throughout history, situations change, often times change is made in order to perfect imperfect systems. Russia is no different in this regard. Russia was less Westernized under the Mongols and the rule of the Ivan’s up through Ivan IV, but became more westernized under the rule of Peter I. Russia under the rule

encapsulates the Russian idea that land and size matters. Russian land has a strange mysticism to the Russian people. This can be traced back to the Tsar Ivan III. Ivan III effectively defeated the Mongol horde in the battle on the Ugra river. Once he defeated the Mongols he reconquered Russia for Moscow, this was known as the gathering of land. After Ivan III it was instilled that the Russians should expand their territory. Peter the Great is one of the greatest examples of how territorial expansion has

In the course of Russian History, there is a long running debate over whether Russia tends towards autocracy or if it is merely the illusion of autocracy. In its place, some have proposed that an oligarchy ruled by consensus. The relationship between the Tsar and the Boyars is the subject of much debate and varied based on the time in history and the personality of the Tsar. However, in general, the trend is towards autocracy. There are a few reasons for this. The first is that the importance of

history, Russia had been eager in becoming a nation of power. Russia would become a nation that would face many struggles. Its fight for world domination would see power change hands many times. Those struggles and sacrifice of time, money and lives would pay off in the end, as Russia would become the second highest power next to the United States. Russia is a country (Capital, Moscow) with a population of 142.5 million people with the major language being Russian. The people of Russia practice religions

Sorrow. Drink. An endless cycle of the first Tsar of Russia, often all at once. A sick and twisted beginning, torturing animals, raping women, and drinking himself to death, the Grand Prince of Russia started here to end in almost the exact same place he started. Ivan the Terrible was true to his name, the first dictator of Russia was a cruel part of history that is never to be forgotten. Born in the Rurik Dynasty, Ivan’s father was Vasili III who died when he was only a toddler. His mother, Elena

Ivan IV (1530-1584) was proclaimed Grand Prince of Moscow in 1533 and from 1547 until his death, the first to be crowned Tsar of Russia. During his reign, Ivan established autocracy, expanded Russia’s territory, and centralized its government. Ivan The Terrible earned his name through his unstable personality, containing bloodlust, paranoia and violent outbursts that would ultimately hurt his own country. On his deathbed, the Grand Prince of Moscow, Vasily III, told his wife, Princess Elena Glinskaya

Absolutism in Europe, during the 17th to 18th century, was very different from France, in the west, to the east, where countries like Russia are. The east and the west’s rulers’ ambitions, how their people were treated and their rights, and the economic standings of those countries were similar and different, shaping the country and its actions years later. In France, Louis XIII, with Cardinal Richelieu, diminished the power of the nobles greatly, killing thousands of them to keep the nobles’

failure to modernise in the centuries before. The Tsars ruled the largest empire on earth, with the same medieval muscovite ideas that Ivan ‘the terrible’ had brought in during the 16th century. The early rulers of Muscovy considered the entire Russian territory their collective property. Various semi-independent princes 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