History of Russia

The history of Russia.

• Early Russian East Slavs
• Kievan Rus'
• Khazaria
• Mongol invasion of Russia
• Muscovy
• Imperial Russia and Russian Tsars
• Russian Revolution
• Russian Civil War
• Soviet Union
• Warsaw Pact
• Collapse of the Soviet Union
• Commonwealth of Independent States
• Post-communist Russia
• List of famous Russians

Some of today's independent nations have historically been closely tied to Russia. See the history of Belarus, history of Estonia, history of Finland, history of Latvia, history of Lithuania, history of Ukraine.

See also the eastern Orthodoxy, the history of Europe, history of Asia, Russian colonization of the Americas, and history of present-day nations and states.