Tsardom of Russia

The Tsardom of Russia (also known as Tsardom of Muscovy; officially (Tsardom of Rus) or, in hellenized form, ) was the name of the centralized Russian state from Ivan IV's assumption of the title of Tsar in 1547 till Peter the Great's foundation of the Russian Empire in 1721.

The period includes the upheavals of the transition from the Rurik to the Romanov Dynasty, drawn-out military conflict with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as well as the Russian conquest of Siberia, leading up to the 42-year reign of Peter the Great, who ascended in 1682 and transformed the Tsardom into a major European power, after a military victory over Sweden and Poland implemented substantial reforms and proclaimed the Russian Empire () in 1721.

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While Ivan assumed the title of "Tsar and Grand Duke of the entire Rus'" (Царь и Великий...
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