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	Romanov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Upon the death of childless Fyodor, the 700-year-old line of Moscow Rurikids came to an end.
		As a former leader of the anti-Godunov party and cousin of the last legitimate tsar, Filaret Romanov was valued by several impostors who attempted to claim the Rurikid legacy and throne during the Time of Troubles.
		The early Romanovs were generally loved by the population as in-laws of Ivan the Terrible and innocent martyrs of Godunov's wrath.
	wikipedia.cas.ilstu.edu /index.php/Romanov (1482 words)

	Russia Engages the World - NYPL
		Romanov Dynasty: The House of Romanov, an old boyar family, was elected in 1613 to serve as Russia’s second ruling dynasty, after the end of the Rurikid dynasty.
		Rurikid Dynasty: Dynasty thought to have been established by a Viking, Rurik, to rule Novgorod in the 9th century.
		Time of Troubles (Smutnoe vremia): The name conventionally given in Russian historiography to the period (1598-1613) between the demise of the ancient ruling dynasty of Russia, the Rurikids, and the accession of the Romanov dynasty.
	russia.nypl.org /glossary.html (2130 words)

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		Most rulers of Moscow were blessed with long reigns and ensured father-to-son inheritance of the throne, which brought stability and prevented the civil wars of succession that plagued many of their enemies.
		Furthermore, generation after generation produced Muscovite heads of state who proved to be able administrators, diplomats, and warriors and who were ruthless in fulfilling the dynastic ambitions of their branch of the Rurikids.
		These leaders were also shrewd: they outmaneuvered the Mongols, whose power faded just as Muscovy's blossomed; they attracted noble and peasant settlers to their territory; and they won the support of the Orthodox Church in their quest for dominance over the other Russian principalities.
	russia.nypl.org /history/mongol.html (710 words)

	Informat.io on Time Of Troubles
		The Time of Troubles (Russian: Смутное время, Smutnoye Vremya) was a period of Russian history comprising the years of interregnum between the death of the last of Moscow Rurikids, Tsar Feodor Ivanovich, in 1598 and the establishment of the Romanov Dynasty in 1613.
		Minin appeals to the people of Nizhny Novgorod to raise a volunteer army against the Poles.
		Before a year had passed a conspiracy was formed against him by an ambitious Rurikid prince called Vasily Shuisky, and he was assassinated in the Moscow Kremlin, together with many of his supporters.
	www.informat.io /?title=time-of-troubles (915 words)

	Wikinfo \| Rurik Dynasty
		The state that existed from 862 until 1240 (see Mongol invasion of Russia) is called the Kievan Rus'.
		The Mongols forced the Rurikid rulers to withdraw to the city of Novgorod.
		After the 1480s, the dynasty ruled over a state called Muscovy and held court at Moscow.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Rurik_Dynasty (249 words)

	EefyWiki - RUS Lecture 3
		The Romanov dynasty owed its legitimacy to a tenuous connection (Mikhail was the grand-nephew by marriage of [Ivan Grozny] to the Rurikids, but lasted more than 300 years.
		Mikhail (1613-1345) was not a strong, involved leader; he was guided by his father, [Patriarch Filaret] for most of his reign.
		The [French Revolution] of 1789 caused her to become even more repressive, although she did not apparently consider intervention a possibility.
	eefy.editme.com /RUSLecture3 (813 words)

	Wikinfo \| Romanov
		The House came to power with the election of Michael Romanov as ruler of Russia in 1613 following a period of exceptional anarchy known as the "Time of Troubles".
		Tenuous ties of marriage existed between the Romanovs and the previous dynasty of Rurikids.
		By the dawn of the 20th century it had become a leading European industrial power, though quite backward in political and social terms.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Romanovs (451 words)

	Kievan Rus Database (Literacy In Rus) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Jews of Kiev were identified with those of Tmutarakan, who were its literati, the bearers of the old tradition in letters.
		The hatred between Kiev and Chernigov/Tmutarakan (ruled by two branches of the same dynasty) can then be explained in terms of a kind of Kievan cultural inferiority complex.
		Fearing the domination of Chernigov/Tmutarakan, the Kievans refused to accept the Rurikids of that branch of the dynasty who had at their disposal Jews, experienced in the art of writing and translating, as their rulers.
	members.aol.com /ingigerthr/Literacy_In_Rus.html (299 words)

	Kievan Rus' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, a long and unsuccessful struggle against the Mongols combined with internal opposition to the prince, and foreign intervention weakened Halych-Volhynia.
		With the end of the Mstislavich branch of the Rurikids in the mid-fourteenth century, Halych-Volhynia ceased to exist; Poland conquered Halych; Lithuania took Volhynia, including Kiev, conquered by Gediminas in 1321 ending the rule of Rurikids in the city.
		Actually, no other contemporary royal family was so well-connected as the Rurikids.
	www.anime.co.za /wiki/Kievan_Rus' (3112 words)

	Titles of European hereditary rulers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Slavic term Knieže / Kniaz / Ksiaze, which originally meant a ruler in general, became translated as Prince in the Western European languages.
		According to the inheritance traditions of the Rurikids and the Gediminids, the dynasties that ruled in Russia and Lithuania in the 10th-16th centuries, territories of a late prince were divided by his close male relatives.
		The prince, who received the recognition of seniority with the biggest share of the inheritance, was called Velikiy Kniaz.
	www.geocities.com /eurprin/index.html (2007 words)

	(Very) old Ladoga: just 120 kilometers from Russia''s northern capital lies the small village of Staraya Ladoga. Like ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Here, at the confluence of the rivers Volkhov and Ladozhka, ruled the Viking leader Rurik, founder of Russia's first royal dynasty.
		Prince Oleg the Prophet, one of Rurikids, met his end here.
		According to an episode immortalized in the Chronicle (and which became widely known through Alexander Pushkin's "Song of Oleg the Prophet"), a soothsayer warned Oleg that he would die because of his favorite horse.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-1305669_ITM (2370 words)

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		These Vikings called the land Rus, and when one of them emerged as the uncontested ruler, his name turned out to be Rurik.
		Etymological speculation has it that Rus means simply "the earth," and that the dynasty of the Ruriks or Rurikids are legendary "earth kings." If this is so, Matushka Rus, Little Mother Russia, would turn out to be nothing other than Mother Earth herself.
		The central fact of Russian history is the decision made in 988 by Prince Vladimir to convert from his previous pagan beliefs to the Orthodox Christianity purveyed by the Patriarch of Constantinople, himself an appendage of the Byzantine Emperor.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/goya/42/venecia/3rdrome.htm (19109 words)

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