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History
Empires, revolutions and the road to the modern state.
A lot of changes
Russian history goes from medieval principalities to the Russian Empire, the 1917 revolution and the Soviet Union. When the USSR fell in 1991, the Russian Federation showed up.
All of these periods left marks on politics, buildings, books and the way the country sees its place in the world.
Some dates
- 1547: Ivan IV is crowned tsar
- 1721: the Russian Empire is proclaimed
- 1917: the Russian revolutions
- 1922: the Soviet Union is formed
- 1991: the USSR ends and the Russian Federation begins