Monarchs of Russia

7 monarchs and royal houses of Russia, listed alphabetically with title and reign.

The Tsar Liberator, who freed 23 million serfs in 1861, the greatest single reform in Russian history, followed by courts, local...

German born princess who deposed her husband and ruled for 34 years. She annexed Crimea in 1783, partitioned Poland, corresponded...

The dynasty elected in 1613 after the Time of Troubles, ruling Russia for just over three centuries. It produced Peter the Great...

Ivan the Great, grand prince of Moscow who tripled its territory, refused tribute to the Horde in 1480 ending the Mongol yoke...

Crowned first Tsar of All Russia in 1547. He conquered Kazan and Astrakhan, opened Siberia, created a secret police of oprichnina...

Last Russian emperor, unprepared and unfortunate, whose reign brought defeat by Japan, the 1905 revolution, Rasputin at court and...

Two meters tall, he studied shipbuilding in Dutch yards, then built a navy and a new capital, Saint Petersburg, founded in 1703...