CHRONOLOGY - Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present - page 406

Publication of Ivan Pososhkov's book On Poverty
and Wealth .

1725-1729
First Arctic expedition of Vitus Bering.

1721
Treaty of Nystadt ends Great Northern War with
Sweden; Russia acquires Livonia, Estonia,
Karelia, and Ingria.
Peter assumes title of emperor; Senate honors
him with designation of Peter the Great.
Spiritual Regulation issued establishing office of
Holy Synod to administer the Church; Patri-
archate formally abolished.
Merchants allowed to purchase villages to attach
serf laborers to industrial and mining enter-
prises.
Organization of state postal service.

1726
Supreme Privy Council created; it will dominate
Russian politics until 1730.
Alliance between Russia and Austria established.

1727
Death of Catherine and accession of Peter II, son
of Czarevich Alexis.
Downfall and exile of Alexander Menshikov.

1727-1730
Reign of Peter II, grandson of Peter the Great
from his son Alexis.

1722
Table of Ranks promulgated.
Peter abolishes succession law and assumes right
to choose his own successor.
Little Russian College founded to administer
Ukranian affairs.

1728
First issue of newspaper, Sankt-Peterburgskie vedo-
mosti.

1730
Constitutional crisis results from Supreme Privy
Council's unsuccessful attempt to impose lim-
itations on Anna's power.
Peter's inheritance law of 1714 requiring inher-
ited gentry estates to be handed down undi-
vided is repealed.
Emergence of Ernst-Johann Biron as favorite in
Anna's government.

1722-1723
War with Persia; Russians campaign along Cas-
pian Sea and conquer parts of Azerbaijan,
which they will hold until 1735.

1722-1724
Completion of first universal (male) census; first
collection of “soul tax.”

1730-1740
Reign of Anna Ivanovna, second daughter of
Ivan V, Peter the Great's half-brother.

1724
Catherine, Peter's second wife, is crowned as
empress.
Founding of the Imperial Russian Academy of
Sciences at St. Petersburg.

1731
Establishment of Noble Cadet Corps, a cadet
school for gentry children.

1725
Death of Peter and accession of Catherine.

1731-1742
Kazakh khans swear oaths of loyalty to Russia.

1725-1727
Reign of Catherine I (hegemony of Alexander
Menshikov).

1732-1741
Vitus Bering's Second Arctic expedition.