Major Dates in Russian History.
c. 860 First Slav attack on Constantinople
Cyrillic alphabet devised
862 - 879 Ryurik (Rurik) as a ruler of Novgorod
879 - 913 Oleg first ruler at Kiev
882 Novgorod and Kiev united
911 First Russian treaty with Constantinople
913 - 945 Igor as ruler of Kiev
944 Igor of Kiev makes treaty with Constantinople
945 - 964 Olga (widow of Igor) as a ruler of Kiev
945 - 972 Svyatoslav I
955 Olga of Kiev baptized
967 Svyatoslav of Kiev sacks Khazaria
973 - 978/980 Yaropolk I
988 / 989 Christianity officially adopted
1015 Boris and Gleb martyred
1025 The town Yaroslavl founded
1037 St. Sophia, Kiev, begun
1043 St. Sophia, Novgorod, begun
c. 1050 ?
St. Hilarion's On the law and the Grace
1051 First native Russian metropolitan elected
1097 Princely conference at Lyubech
c. 1100 Instruction of Vladimir II Monomakh
1108 The town Vladimir founded
1113 Primary Cronicle completed
c. 1125 The icon Virgin of Vladimir was made
1156 The town Moscow (Moskva) founded
1158 Dormition Cathedral built in Vladimir
1187 Igor Tale
1198 Church of the Savior built on Nereditsa Hill, Novgorod
1221 The town Nizhniy Novgorod founded
1223 First Tatar raid
1240 Tatar rule established in Rus
1242 Alexander Nevsky defeats Teutonic Knights
1270 Novgorod signs treaty with Hanseatic League
1300 Metropolitan see transferred from Kiev to Vladimir
1318 Yury of Moscow obtains Yarlyk from Tatars
1340 St Sergius founds Trinity Monastery
1378 Theophanes the Greek active in Novgorod
1380 Dmitriy Donskoy defeats Tatars at Kulikovo
1392 Moscow annexes Nizhniy Novgorod and Suzdal
1405 Iconostasis of Annunciation Cathedral, Moscow
1410 Rublyov's Old Testament Trinity icon
Lithuanians defeat Teutonic knights at Tannenberg
1428 Solovki monastery founded
1453 Constantinople falls to Ottoman Turks
1458 Lithuanians set up rival Orthodox metropolitan
1475 - 1479 Fioravanti builds Dormition Cathedral in Moscow
1478 Ivan III crushes Novgorod
1480 Ivan III ends tribute to tatars
1494 Ivan III closes Hanseatic depot in Novgorod
c. 1500 - 1550 Trinity Chronicle
1503 Church council supports Josephites
1505 Archangel Cathedral, Moscow, begun
1510 Vasiliy III annexes Pskov
1514 Moscow absorbs territory of Smolensk
1532 Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoe
1547 Ivan IV assumes title of "Tsar"
1550 Sudebuik (law code)
1551 Council of Hundred Chapters
1552 Ivan IV conquers Kazan
1555 Muscovy company formed in London
St. Basil's Katehdral, Moscow built
1564 First book printed in Moscow
1577 Commercial links established with Holland
1582 Conquest of western Siberia
1584 Archangel founded
1589 Patriarchate of Moscow founded
1596 Union of Brest
Smolensk Kremlin established
1598 Fyodor I, last Ryurikid ruler, dies
1605 Time of troubles begins
1613 - 1645 First Romanov ruler
Mikhail Romanov, son of Fyodor Romanov, who later became Metropolitan Filaret begins the era of Romanov dynasty
1618 "Marvelous Church" built at Uglich
1632 Town Irkutsk founded
1649 Ulozhenie (new legal code) promulgated
Church of the Nativity built in Putinki, Moscow
1652 Nikon became partiarch of Moscow
1658 Nikon's New Jerusalem begun
1666 Church council deposes Nikon but confirms reforms
1667 - 1670 Palace of Kolomenskoe built
1670 - 1671 Revolt of Stenka Razin
1680 Mestnichestvo abolished
1682 Archpriest Avvakum martyred
1686 Treaty with Poland confirms Russian possession of Kiev
1687 Slav-Greek-Latin established in Moscow
1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk singned with China
1697 - 1698 Peter I's Great Embassy
1700 Start of Great Northern War
1703 Site of St. Petersburg captured from Swedes
Russia's first newspaper published
1704 Old Admiralty built in St. Petersburg
1709 Peter I defeats Charles (Carl) XII in Poltava
1712 Peter I transfers seat of government to St. Petersburg
1714 Church of the transfiguration, Kizhi island
1721 Peace treaty of Nystad
Patriarchate abolished
1725 Academy of Science founded at St. Petersburg
1740 - 1750 Dukhobor sect founded
1752 Letter on the Utility of Glass by Mikhail Lomonosov
1754 Winter Palace (by architect B. Rastrelli) built in St. Petersburg
1755 Moscow University founded
1757 Academy of Arts founded in St. Petersburg
1762 Centry liberated from obligatory service
1766 - 1782 Bronze horseman statue (by Falconet) built in St. Petersburg
1767 Legislative commission
1772 First partition of Poland
1773 - 1775 Pugatchov rebellion
1783 Annexation of Crimea
1785 Charter of Nobility
1790 Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow by Radishchev
1793 Second partition of Poland
1795 Third partition of Poland
1793 Sitka founded as capital of Alaska
1806 Admiralty building in St. Petersburg remodeled
1807 Treaty of Tilsit signed with Napoleon
1812 French invade Russia
1814 M.Yu. Lermontov born
1816 Karamzin, History of the Russian State
1821 October 30. : F.M. Dostoevsky born in Moscow
1823 Evgeny onegin by A.S. Pushkin published
1825 Decembrist uprising
1830 revolt in Polish provinces
1832 Duchy of Warsaw becomes part of Russia
1837 January 29. : A.S. Pushkin dies because of a duel
1840 Hero of our Time by M.Yu. Lermontov published
1842 Dead souls by N.V. Gogol published
1853 Outbreak of Crimean war
1860 Vladivostok founded
1861 Emancipation of serfs
Fathers and sons by I.S. Turgenev published
1864 first part of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy) published
1867 Alaska sold to the USA (for $7.2 million)
1870 V.I. Lenin born in the town Simbirsk (later Ulyanovsk)
1871 First Wanderers' exhibition
1873 - 1874 first To the people movement
1879 first part of the novel Brothers Karamazov by F.M. Dostoevsky published
December 21. : In the town of Gori, Georgia borns Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugasvili (later known as Stalin)
1881 F.M. Dostoevsky dies in St. Petersburg
1891 Building of Trans-Siberian Railroad begun
1897 Moscow Art Theatre founded
1904 - 1905 Russo-Japanese War
1906 first Duma
December 19: L.I. Brezhnev is born in Kamenskoe, Ukraine
1914 - 1918 World War I
1917 February : February Revolution
October : The Socialist October Revolution
1917 - 1920 Civil War in Russia
1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk stops hostilities between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers.
1922 April : I.V. Stalin becames General Secretary of the Central Comittee of the Comminist Party
May 25. : V.I. Lenin has a major stroke, then two more and becomes disabled.
1923 The Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR) formed
1924 January 20: V.I. Lenin dies
1934 December: Leader of the Leningrad Communist Party, S. Kirov is murdered
1939 Nonaggression pact with Germany
November 31: Russo-Finnish war begins
1939 - 1945 The World War II
1941 Hitler invades USSR
1947 - 1989 The Cold War
1953 March : Stalin dies
March 22. : Nikita S. Khrushchev becames the first secreatary of CPSU
1955 Warsaw Pact
1956 Hungarian uprising crushed
1957 Sputnik I launched, the first man-made object in space, displaying advancement of the Soviet space program
1962 Cuban missile crisis
1964 Leader of the state N.S. Khrushchev deposed
October 14. : L.I. Brezhnev becames the first secreatary of CC CPSU
1968 "Prague Spring"
1971 N.S. Khrushchev dies
1977 June : L.I. Brezhnev replaces Nikolay Podgorny as a president of USSR
1979 Invasion of Afganistan
1980 Olympic games in Moscow
Vladimir Vysotsky dies in Moscow
1982 November 10. : L.I. Brezhnev dies from hard attack
November 12. : Yuri V. Andropov elected genearl secretary of CPSU
1984 February 9. : Yu.V. Andropov dies
February 13. : K.U. Chernenko elected the General secretary of CPSU
1985 March 10. : K.U. Chernenko dies
March 11. : Mikhail Gorbachev becames the first secretary of CPSU
1986 Perestroyka begins
1988 October: M.S. Gorbachev elected President of the USSR
1989 First multicandidate elections in the USSR
Last soviet troops leave Afganistan
1990 M.S. Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
1991 January: Crackdowns in Baltic countries Lithuania and Latvia
August 19. - 23: The Soviet coup (G K CH P)
August 24: M.S. Gorbachev resigns as head of CPSU
December 25: Resigns as president of the USSR
END OF THE SOVIET UNION.