Question by ask_4peace: who is the first Tzar in Russia??
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Answer by jennifersuem
Ivan the Great first took the title “grand duke of all the Russias”, following his marriage to Sophia Paleologue, a Byzantine Princess (niece of the last Byzantine Emperor) in 1469, consolidated surrounding areas under Moscow’s dominion.
In 1547, his grandson Ivan the Terrible was officially crowned the first Tsar (from the Roman Caesar, also written Czar) of Russia at the age of sixteen.
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Czar Michael
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Rurik of Novgorod: 862-882
Oleg of Kiev: 882-912
Svyatslav: 962-972
Vladimir I: 980-1015
Yaroslav the Wise: 1019-1054
Vladimir II Monomakh: 1113-1125
Yury Dolgoruky: 1149-1157
Andrey Bogolyubov: 1157-1174
Alexander Nevsky: 1252-1263
Daniil of Moscow: 1276-1303
Ivan I (Kalita): 1325-1340
Dmitry Donskoy: 1359-1389
Ivan III (the Great): 1462-1505
Vasily III: 1505-1533
Yelena (Regent): 1533-1547
Ivan IV (the Terrible): 1547-1584
Fyodor I: 1584-1598
Boris Godunov: 1598-1605
False Dmitry: 1605-1606
Vasily Shuysky: 1606-1610
Mikhail Romanov: 1613-1645
Alexey: 1645-1676
Fyodor III: 1676-1682
Peter I and Ivan V (Regent– Sofia):1682-1689
Peter I and Ivan V: 1689-1696
Peter I (the Great): 1696-1725
Catherine I: 1725-1727
Peter II: 1727-1730
Anna: 1730-1740
Elizabeth: 1741-1761
Peter III: 1761-1762
Catherine II (the Great): 1762-1796
Paul I: 1796-1801
Alexander I: 1801-1825
Nicholas I: 1825-1855
Alexander II: 1855-1881
Alexander III: 1881-1894
Nicholas II: 1894-1917
Alexander Kerensky: 1917
Vladimir Lenin: 1917-1924
Josef Stalin: 1929-1953
Nikita Khrushchev: 1957-1964
Leonid Brezhnev: 1964-1982
Yury Andropov: 1982-1984
Konstantin Chernenko: 1984-1985
Mikhail Gorbachev: 1985-1991
Boris Yeltsin: 1991-1999
Vladimir Putin: 2000-present