CHRONOLOGY - Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present - page 404

Russia joins anti-Turkish Holy League with
Venice, Poland, and the Holy Roman Empire.
Slavic-Greek-Latin academy opens in Moscow.
Peter begins experiments in shipbuilding on
Lake Pleshcheyev.

1697-1698
Peter leads Great Embassy to Western Europe. He
visits the Netherlands, England, and Austria but
fails to secure help against the Ottoman Empire.

1698
Streltsy revolt breaks out in Moscow while Peter
is in the West and is savagely suppressed.

1687
Peter marries Evdokiia Lopukhina.

1699
Beginning of metal production in the Ural Moun-
tains region.

1687-1689
Vasilii Golitsyn's failed campaigns against the
Tatar Khanate of Crimea.

1700
Peace with Ottoman Empire.
Swedes defeat Russians at Narva.
Patriarch Adrian dies; no successor will be
appointed until 1917.
Russia adopts Julian calendar.

1689
Treaty of Nerchinsk with China establishes
boundaries between the two nations.
Sophia removed as regent, banished to Novode-
vichi Convent.

1689-1695
Second regency under Peter's mother; Ivan V
and Peter I continue as co-czars.

1700-1721
Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden.

1701
Kiev College is transformed into an academy.
Monasteries required to turn over revenues to
state.
School of Mathematics and Navigation founded.

1689-1725
Reign of Peter I the Great.

1690
Birth of Peter's son and heir, Alexis.

1702
Peter issues manifesto welcoming foreigners to
Russia.
First public theater opened in Moscow.

1693
Peter visits Archangel and sees ocean for the first
time.

1696
Following Ivan V's death, Peter becomes sole
czar.
Russians capture port of Azov on the Sea of Azov,
near the Black Sea, after an unsuccessful attack
in the previous year.
Building of a naval squadron begins at Azov.

1703
Founding of St. Petersburg on the banks of the
Neva River; construction of Peter and Paul
fortress begins in St. Petersburg.
Publication of first Russian newspaper, Vedomosti
(Gazette).

1704
Russians take Narva from Swedes. 1697

Preobrazhenskii Prikaz given exclusive author-
ity over political crimes.
Conquest of Kamchatka peninsula.

1705
Systematic military conscription established.