Monarchs of Russia

Peter toured Europe incognito as a shipwright, returned to drag Russia westward. The beard tax, new calendar, navy built from noth...

German princess who deposed her husband Peter III and ruled 34 years. She corresponded with Voltaire and Diderot, the Nakaz law co...

Crowned first Tsar 1547, Ivan conquered Kazan and Astrakhan, opening Siberia. The Stroganov expeditions crossed the Urals. Later r...

Pious, family devoted, catastrophically mismatched to revolution. Bloody Sunday 1905, Rasputin influence, Alexandra dependence. Wo...

Emancipation 1861 freed 23 million serfs, the largest single liberation in history, on terms that kept them in commune debt. Judic...

Alexander came to the throne after the murder of his father Paul I. After defeats at Austerlitz and Friedland he made peace with N...