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1570
Ivan's oprichnina attacks Novgorod, razes city,
and massacres inhabitants.
1584
Founding of Archangel (Arkhangelsk) on the
White Sea.
Death of Ivan IV.
1571-1572
Crimean Tatars raid and burn Moscow.
1584-1598
Reign of Feodor I, third son of Ivan IV.
1571-1600
Fortification of southern frontier; beginning of
Don, Zaporozhe, and Ural Cossacks.
1586
Founding of the fortress of Ufa in the Urals.
1572
Ivan IV disbands oprichnina and purges its leaders.
1586-1587
Founding of Tobolsk and Tiumen, the first Rus-
sian fortresses in Siberia.
1575
Ivan abdicates temporarily in favor of Semyon
Bekbulatovich.
1587-1598
Boris Godunov, Feodor's brother-in-law, acts as
regent.
1577
Establishment of commercial ties with Holland.
1588
Giles Fletcher visits Moscow.
1580
First law forbidding peasants to change land-
lords.
1589
Law code (Sudebnik). Russian patriarchate estab-
lished and office established in Moscow.
1580s
Boris Godunov sends 18 Russians to study
abroad; they do not return.
1590
Outbreak of war with Sweden.
1581
Ivan kills his eldest son, Ivan.
1591
Murder of Prince Dmitrii, son of Ivan IV, at Uglich.
1581-1584
Cheremis and Tatar uprisings against Muscovite
rule.
1595
Peace of Teusin ends war with Sweden.
1596
Creation of Uniate Church in Poland-Lithuania.
1581-1592
New property books drawn up that serve as basis
for serfdom.
1597
Ukaz grants nobles five years to claim their fugi-
tive peasants.
1582
Yermak's initial conquest of khanate of western
Siberia.
Privilege of St. George's Day (November 26),
permitting peasant movement once a year, is
abolished.
1598
Feodor dies childless, ending lineage of rulers
who could trace their ancestry back to Rurik.
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