Early modern period
Tsardom of Russia
- Period
- AD 1547 – AD 1720
- Duration
- approx. 173 years
- Greatest extent
- around AD 1718
- Area (max.)
- approx. 14.2 million km²
Profile
Strength
Musket regiments (the Streltsy) and Cossack hosts; with them Russia pushed deep into Siberia within a few decades.
Famous figures
- Ivan the Terrible
- Boris Godunov
- Michael I Romanov
- Alexis I
- Peter the Great
Wars & battles won
- Conquest of Kazan (1552)
- Conquest of the Khanate of Sibir (from 1582)
- Russo-Polish War (1654–67): Smolensk and Kyiv gained
Wars & battles lost
- Livonian War (1558–83)
- Polish occupation of Moscow (1610–12)
Languages
- Russian
Period and duration
Tsardom of Russia — according to the map data from AD 1547 to AD 1720, roughly 173 years. The dates refer to the time the empire is drawn as its own territory on the world map; historians sometimes date its founding and end differently.
Greatest extent
Tsardom of Russia — greatest extent around AD 1718: the mapped borders then cover about 14.2 million km², roughly 9.6% of Earth's land area. The area is calculated from the border lines of the map and is therefore an approximation.
Predecessors and successors
States that ruled the same territory directly before and after:
Before (AD 1546)
After
Neighbours around AD 1718
The largest states in the region at the same time:
Learn more
- Open the world map in AD 1718 — tap the empire for a detailed description
- Tsardom of Russia on Wikipedia
- All 371 empires at a glance
Borders and dates: Cliopatria / Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0). Coastlines: Natural Earth. Text: Centaurian.