(CONDENSED FROM RAMBAUD’S HISTORY OF RUSSIA AND Ivan
Vassilievitch, The Great, Grand Prince of Moscow (1462-1505).
Novgorod, Tver, Rostov and Iavoslavl annexed to Muscovy. Permia
conquered. Moscow freed from the suzerainty of the Tartar Khan
of the Great Horde, 1478. Recommencement of Russia as a free
State. Vassili Ivanovitch, Grand Prince of Moscow (I505-1533).
Smolensk taken, 1514. Tartar invasion, 1521. Ivan Vassilievitch
(Groznie), The Terrible (1533-1584). Assumed the title of Tsar
of Muscovy, 1547. Married first Anastasia Romanovna Romanova.
Conquest of the Tartar Khanates of Kazan 1552 and Astrakhan
1554. War with the Livonian Order, Poland, the Tartars and
Sweden. Poland and Lithuania united, 1569. Polotsk and Livonia
lost to Russia. Novgorod reduced and the inhabitants massacred,
1570. Treaties with Elizabeth, Queen of England. Foreigners
enter Russian Military service. Siberia conquered, 1558-84.
Feodor (I.) Ivanovitch (1584-1598). Rise of Boris Feodorovitch
Godounoff, brother of the Tsaritsa Irina