Alternative History of Russian Empire 1547-1991

Welcome to my alternative history about Russian Empire 1547-1991

Ivan the Terrible 1512-1584 1533-1584

1547- Establish of the Russian Tsardom which is the early imperialism for Russian Empire.

1552- Russian armed forces arrived at Kazan. The Russian army breached the walls of Kazan. The civilian population of Kazan was massacred, the city occupied and hanged the leader.

1553–1554- First book printed in Russia, the Narrow-typed Gospel Book.

1556- Russia conquered and annexed the Astrakhan Khanate.

1558- Ivan demanded a back-breaking tribute from the Bishopric of Dorpat. The Bishop sent diplomats to Russia to renegotiate the amount; Ivan expelled them and invaded and occupied the Bishopric.

1560- Ivan's army crushed the forces of the Livonia Order.

1561- The Livonian Order agreed to the Union of Wilno, under which the Livonian Confederation was partitioned between Lithuania, Sweden and Denmark. Lithuania and Sweden sent troops to liberate their new territories against Russian possession.

1565- Ivan established the Oprichnina, a Muscovite territory ruled directly by the tsar.

1569- The Union of Wilno was signed. Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were merged into the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; Poland began aiding Lithuania in its war against Russians.

1572- The Oprichnina was attempted to abolish but failed by Russians.

1573- For unabolishing Oprichnina Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth declares decade war with Russia.

1581- Ivan killed his oldest son. Swedes join the war with Polish-Lithuania against Russians.

1582- Swedes left the war, because of their economy, and were feared of Russians. Russian soldiers dispersed the armed forces of the Siberia Khanate from its capital, Qashliq.

1583- Polish retreated from Russians and they begin advancing on Lithuanian zones. Ivan became one of the greatest among kings not just in Russia but internationally. Polish loss was a treaty of Vilnius which means Russians capture eastern Vilnius territories.

1584- Ivan died of mercury poisoning. The throne fell to his intellectually disabled son Feodor I; his son-in-law Boris Godunov took de facto charge of government.

Feodor I 1553-1598 1584-1598

1586- Requesting alliance from Queen Elizabeth I failed.

1587- Russians joined an alliance with England.

1589- Feodor was concerned about Swedes however Sweden refused to pay Russia for all those damages.

1590- Russians declare war on Swedes. The Treaty of Plussa expired. Russian troops have laid siege to Narva. A Swedish governor on the disputed territory refused to surrender to Russians.

1591- Russian troops begin advancing through swedes meanwhile Godunov agents failed to murder Ivan's third youngest son however he committed suicide instead.

1595- The Treaty of Tyavzino was signed. Ingria went to Russia.

1596- Feodor visited to London to Queen Elizabeth, and became the first Tsar to visit western European country.

1597-Feodor came back to Moscow to continue colonization of Siberia.

1598- Feodor died with no children. A Chomsky sobor elected Godunov the first non-Rurikid tsar of Russia.

Boris Godunov 1551-1610 1598-1610

1599- Boris Godunov hanged Vasily IV for trying to take Godunov Dynasty however he failed.

1602- False Dmitriy gets support from Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

1603- King James I of England demands a truce to Boris Godunov.

1604- False Dmitriy I claiming to be the deceased Dmitriy Ivanovich, he plans his own empire with invading Russia. A group of boyars defected in support of False Dmitriy, begins invading Russia, however most of the boyars got caught by the cossack troops and at least 65% of those boyars got hanged.

1605-1606 Battle of Dmitriy begins with Cossacks against Boyars.

1606- Boris's son was killed by Boyars during this war so Boris demands to execute False Dmitriy.

1607- False Dmitriy II, another claimant to the identity of Dmitriy Ivanovich, obtained financial and military support from a group of Polish magnates.

1609- Boris ceded border territory to Sweden in exchange for military aid against the government of False Dmitriy II. The Polish king Sigismund III led an army into Russia.

Wladislaw 1595 - 1648 1610-1613

1610- Boris Godunov was killed by Wladyslaw the future king of Poland and he takes the power as the polish tsar of Russia. Seven thousand Polish cavalrymen defeated a vastly superior Russian force at Klushino. A truce was established. The boyars promised to recognize Sigismund's son and heir Władysław as tsar, conditional on severe limits to his power and his conversion to Orthodoxy. Sigismund rejected the boyars conditions. False Dmitriy II failed to be shot so he escaped Kremlin and reached to Poles.

1611- Wladyslaw increased Catholicisms to Russia. King James I and Louis XIII supported Wladyslaw's reforms on Russia.

1612- Russia populace rising against the Poles recaptured the Kremlin. Russia becomes catholic 1612-1614 until Tsar Michael changes back into Orthodoxy. Russia begins fighting back against Poles.

1613- Sweden refuses to invade Russia. A zemsky sobor elected Michael Romanov, a grandson of Ivan the Terrible's brother-in-law, the tsar of all Russia, and Wladyslaw escaped through Russia and later became King of Poles.

Michael Romanov 1596-1645

1614- Michael immediately decreases Catholicism, and returns Orthodoxy.

1617- Ingrian War: The Treaty of Stolbovo ended the war. Kexholm, Ingria, Estonia and Livonia went to Sweden and parts of Lagnia.

1618- The Truce of Deulino ended the war. However it was tied so Russians get no land nor Poles.

1619- Feodor Romanov, Michael's father, was killed from Polish prison and Michael found out just a week.

1625- King Louis XIII supports Russia against Polish until 1635 when Russia was victorious at that time.

1632- Smolensk War: With the expiration of the Truce of Deulino, Russians begin advancing Polish army by occupying Smolensk.

1634- Best Poles were surrounded near the Smolensk and were forced to surrender, Poles lost all Smolensk.

1639- Russian Tsardom has been reached to Pacific Ocean, by some Russian Explorers.

1645- Michael died. His son, Alexis I, succeeded him.

1648- Khmelnytsky Uprising: A Polish szlachta, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, leads the Cossacks of the Zaporizhian Sich against the Polish and Swedish Crown. Salt Riot: Upset over the introduction of a salt and sugar tax, the townspeople launched a rebellion in Moscow. Salt Riot: A group of nobles demanded a zemsky sobor on behalf of the rebellion. Many of the rebellion's leaders were executed. Khmelnytsky failed to enter the Ukrainian capital, Kiev and was executed.