Grand Prince Ivan IV The Terrible

Introduction

In February 2014, unmarked Russian soldiers seized airports and governmental buildings around Crimea. With the armed gunmen surrounding the government buildings, including the parliament, Crimea voted in a new government of pro-Russians and decided to make plans for Crimea’s future. On March 16 officials reported a 97% vote to join Russia. After this, both the EU and the United States –Western Powers—placed a series of sanctions and restrictions on Russia. This included travel bans on many of the officials and entities involved as well as some economic embargos and restrictions—the most effective of which is a weapons embargo—and the indefinite suspension of the Russian Federation from the prestigious G-8, now the G-7. The question

The Mongols, referred to as Tatars, then established the empire of the Golden Horde, of which the Khan becomes overlord of all the Russian Princes. Between 1547 and 1584, Grand Prince Ivan IV becomes the first ruler to be proclaimed and is later named Grand Prince Ivan IV the Terrible as he institutes a reign of terror against the nobility. This creates a period of instability and foreign intervention when the National Council elects Michael Romanov as tsar in 1613, starting the Romanov dynasty which would last in Russia until the 1917 revolution.22 In 1609, Poland invaded Russia, starting the Polish-Russian War. This continues –with Russia then invading Poland in 1654—until Russia and Poland sign a peace treaty in 1667. Russia then goes to war against the Ottoman Empire in 1736, the start of the Russo-Turkish

Russia received Belarus, Lithuania and the Ukraine. In 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte led troops into Russia in his famous fight to become leader of the world, the rough Russian winter weather nearly destroys his army.11 In 1853, the Crimean War starts, an unsuccessful attack against the French, British and Ottoman alliance for Ottoman territories. 51 years later, Russia goes to war against Japan in the Russo-Japanese War, which starts the 1905 Russian revolution, resulting in a number of reforms giving freedom of speech and legalizing political parties as well as forcing Nicholas II to grant a constitution and establish a Parliament – the