Tsardom of Russia
The Tsardom Of Russia was a country that existed after The Grand Duchy of Moscow.
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| Capital | Moscow (1547–1712) Saint Petersburg (1712–1721) |
| Today part of |  Russia Ukraine Belarus |
From 1550 to 1700, Russia grew by an average of 35,000 square kilometres (14,000 sq mi) per year.[10] The period includes the upheavals of the transition from the Rurik to the Romanov dynasties, wars with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian conquest of Siberia, to the reign of Peter the Great, who took power in 1689 and transformed the tsardom into an empire. During the Great Northern War, he implemented substantial reforms and proclaimed the Russian Empire after victory over Sweden in 1721.
