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Key

Muscovy and its tsars The false Dmitrys and their camps Poland–Lithuania Sweden The Zaporozhian Cossacks bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Time of Troubles, 1598–1613 — overview — source
  2. Boris Godunov — election, the Romanov purge, the famine, his death — source
  3. Филарет (Романов) — tonsure, Rostov, Tushino, captivity, return and the title Great Sovereign — source
  4. False Dmitry I and False Dmitry II — source
  5. Polish–Russian War of 1609–1618: Vyborg, Smolensk, Klushino, the 1618 siege, Deulino — source
  6. Battle of Moscow (1612): Minin, Pozharsky, Trubetskoy against Chodkiewicz — source
  7. Treaty of Stolbovo, 1617 — source
  8. Smolensk War, 1632–1634, and the Peace of Polyanovka — source
  9. Moscow uprising of 1648 (the Salt Riot) and the Law Code of 1649 — source
  10. Patriarch Nikon — election, the vow of obedience, the reform — source
  11. Pereiaslav Agreement, 1654, and Buturlin's refusal to swear for the tsar — source
  12. Battles of Konotop (1659) and Chudniv (1660) — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

Muscovy, 1600–1660

How did Muscovy go from a throne no one could hold to a Romanov tsardom fighting for Ukraine?
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