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| 53303958 | Ivan III the Great | Ivan III, was the Grand Duke of Moscow, ended Mongol domination of his dukedom, extended territories, subdued nobles, and attained absolute power; made Moscow the center of a new Russian state with a central government | 0 | |
| 53303959 | Ivan IV the terrible | he was the first "Tsar" of Russia who destroyed the Boyards. He was known as The terrible because of the severity and cruelty of his response to the policy of centralization | 1 | |
| 53303960 | Peter I | Also known as the Great; He was the son of Alexis Romanov; he was more interested in changing selected aspects of economy and culture through imitation of Western European models. His ideas made Russia much more like Europe and introduced western culture | 2 | |
| 53303961 | Vitus Bering | He was a Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait which made it easier to travel to North America(1681-1741) | 3 | |
| 53303962 | Patriarch Nikon | He was the head of the Orthodox Church from 1652-1667. He demanded to share authority with the Tsar and the Tsar became mad and broke with Nikon. He was later exiled to a remote monastery. Before that he had a thoroughgoing reform of Russian Orthodox texts and rituals. | 4 | |
| 53303963 | Avvakum | his death epitomized the tension between the church and the Russian government | 5 | |
| 53303964 | Catherine II the Great | her reform and administrative techniques made Russia an international power and increased Russian territory. | 6 | |
| 53303965 | Cossaks | undertook their own campaigns of expansion and vastly extended the range of Russian influence. | 7 | |
| 53303966 | Boyars | Russian nobles and aristocrats | 8 | |
| 53303967 | Novgorod | This city was founed by Rurik and is Russia's first important city. | 9 | |
| 53303968 | Oprichniki | A personal group of civil servants who arrested boyers and gave their lands to Ivan the Terrible's supporters | 10 |
