Russia

Vikings in Russia

Scandinavia & Russia: In the Footsteps of the Vikings

Early Russian History

Early East Slavs    1  2  3

Rus’ Khaganate (Russkiy Kaganate)    1  2

Family tree of Russian monarchs

Princes of Novgorod (862–882)
   Rurik Dynasty    1  2
   Rurik, Prince of Novgorod, r. 862-879   1 2 3
   Oleg the Prophet, r. 879-882   1  2   3  4  5

Grand Princes of Kiev (882–1157)
   Kievan Rus’    1  2  3
   Oleg the Prophet, r. 879-912   1  2   3  4  5
   Igor of Kiev, r. 913-944    1  2  3
   Olga of Kiev, r. 945-960    1  2  3  
   Vladimir the Great, r. 980-1015  1  2  3

Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod (1236-
     40, 1241-56, 1258-59), Kiev (1236-1252) and
     Vladimir (1252-63)    1  2  3

Mongolian Invasion of Kievan Rus
   (1237-1240) 1  2  3  4  5

Grand Princes of Moscow (1325–1547)
   Ivan I Kalita, r. 1325-1340
   Simeon the Proud, r. 1340-1353
   Ivan II the Red, r. 1353-1359
   Dmitry of the Don, r. 1359-1389  1  2  3
   Vasily I, r. 1389-1425
   Vasily II the Dark, r. 1425-1433, 1433-1434,
     1434-1445, 1445-1446, 1447-1462   1  2  3
   Ivan III the Great, r. 1462-1505  1  2  3
   Vasili III, r. 1505-1533   1  2  3
   Ivan IV the Terrible, r. 1533-1547   1  2  3  4  5

Tsars of Russia (1547–1721)
   Ivan the Terrible, r. 1533-1584   1  2  3  4
   Anastasia Romanova Zakharyina-Yurieva, first wife
     to Ivan the Great and the first Russian Tsaritsa
     (b. 1530–d. 1560)   1  2  3
   Feodor, r. 1584-1598   1  2  3
   Boris Godunov, r. 1598 to 1605   1  2  3
   Vasily IV, r. 1606-1610  1  2

Romanov Dynasty, (1613 to 1917)   1 2 3
   Michael I, r. 1613 to 1645   1   2  3
   Peter the Great, r. 1782 to 1725   1  2  3  4
   Catherine I, second wife and Empress consort of
     Peter the Great, and Empress regnant of Russia
     from 1725 until her death in 1727.   
   Peter II, r. 1727-1730
   Elizabeth of Russia, r. 1741 to 1762   1  2  3
   Catherine the Great, r. 1762–1796   1  2  3  4
   Alexander I, r. 1801-1825   1  2  3
   Nicholas I, r. 1825-1855   1  2  3
   Alexander II, r. 1855-1881  1  2  3
   Alexander III, r. 1881-1894   1  2  3
   Nicholas II, r. 1894-1917   1  2  3  4  5  6
     Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)  1  2

Crimean War, 1854-1856

Leaders
Vladimir Lenin, Premier of the Soviet Union,
   1917-1924; Chairman of the Council of People’s
   Commissars of the Soviet Union, 1923-
   1924   1 2 3 4 5

Leon Trotsky, Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet,
   1917; People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs
   of the RSFSR, 1917-1918; People’s Commissar of
   Military and Naval Affairs of the Soviet Union,
   1918-1925   1 2 3

Felix Dzerzhinsky, head of the Cheka (1917-1922)
   and the GPU/OGPU (1922-1926)   1 2 3

Joseph Stalin, Premier of the Soviet Union, 1941-
   1953   1 2 3 4

Lavrentiy Beria, Minister of Internal Affairs and First
   Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers,
   5 March–26 June 1953   1  2  3

Georgy Malenkov , Premier of the Soviet Union, 1953-   1955

Nikita Khrushchev , Premier of the Soviet Union, 1958-   1964

Leonid Brezhnev , General Secretary of the
   Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1964-1982

Mikhail Gorbachev, first president of the Soviet
   Union, 1990 to 1991

Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia, 1991-1999

Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, 1999-2008 and 2012-present

Forms of Government
Absolute Monarchy 1 2 3 4
Communism 1 2 3
Monarchist Union of Central Russia 1 2 3

Places
Gulags   1 2 3 4
Kremlin & Red Square 1 2 3
Moscow 1 2 3
Stalingrad (now Volgograd) 1 2 3
St. Petersburg 1 2 3

People, History & Events
Brief History of Russia
Chronology of Important Events
Collectivization    1 2 3
Kulaks   1 2 3
Fall of the Soviet Union  1 2 3
The Great Patriotic War   1 2 3
History of Russia
History of Russia
Holodomor  1 2 3
Katyn Massacre 1 2 3
Kronstadt Uprising 1 2 3
Mongol Invasions   1 2 3 4
Red Terror 1 2 3
Russian Revolution   1 2 3
A short overview of the Russian history
Timeline of Russia

World War II
Battle of Narva: Feb—Aug 1944   1 2   3
Siege of Leningrad: Sept 1941—Jan 1944   1 2 3 4
Battle of Anzio: Jan to June 1944   1 2 
Battle of Britain: July—Oct 1940 1 2 3
Battle of Brody: June 1941 1 2 3
The Second Battle of Kharkov: May 1942  1  2
Battle of Berlin: April—May 1945  1  2  3
Battle of Kursk: July—Aug 1943  1  2
Battle of Moscow: Oct 1941—Jan 1942  1  2
Battle of Stalingrad: Aug 1942-Feb 1943  1 2  4  4
The Eastern Front  1  2  3  4  
German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Operation Barbarossa  1  2  3  4
German War Crimes & Atrocities against the USSR 1 2 3 4
Soviet War Crimes & Atrocities 1 2 3 4
World War II Snipers  1  2  3  4  5  6
Georgy Zhukov, Soviet general and Marshal of the
   Soviet Union    1 2 3

10 Great Russian Military Leaders

Security Forces
Cheka 1 2 3
KGB (Committee for State Security) 1 2 3
NKVD 1 2 3

Cosmonauts
Yuri Gagarin
Gherman Titov
Andriyan Nikolayev
Valentina Tereshkova, 1937-present
Valery Bykovsky
Vladimir Komarov
Konstantin Feoktistov
Alexey Leonov
Sergei Krikalev
Valeri Polyakov

Authors
Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904
Maxim Gorky, 1868-1936
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1918-20081  2
Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992

Ballet Dancers
Anna Pavlova, 1881–1931
Vaslav Nijinsky, 1889-1950
Maya Plisetskaya, 1925–2015
Rudolf Nureyev, 1938-1993   1  2  3 
Mikhail Baryshnikov, 1948–present