Ch 5: Russia Flashcards
Muscovy
In and around Moscow
Core of Russia
Europeanization
Modernization
Westernization
Slavic
Language family of Russian
Ivan III
The great
Overthrew Mongolian control
Archangel
Port where Peter launched his navy
Frozen half the year
Duma
Russian parliament to limit power of monarch
Doesn’t exist until 20th century
Streltsi
Palace guards, rebelled and shut down by violence of Peter
Ivan IV
The terrible
1st to use title of tsar
Time of troubles
Period after Ivan IV died
A lot of people fighting for power,
Trying to settle succession
Ends with Michael Romanov
Michael Romanov
First of Romanov dynasty
Stephen razin
Led uprising of serfs, put to death, serfdom gets more extreme afterwards
Old believers
Traditional Russian orthodox
Hate peter because he wants to modernize
German quarter
Inhabited by different nationalities, peter the great visited because it was very modern
Great northern war
Peter pushed swedes into harsh winter to defeat them, Russia gained land at Baltic Sea
Treaty of nystadt
Ended great northern war and confirmed Russian developments