A NEW DYNASTY

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A NEW DYNASTY
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A NEW DYNASTY

• THE END OF THE TROUBLES
• New Tsar chosen by Zemskii Sobor MIKHAIL
  ROMANOV
• Restoration of order rebuilding of monarchy
  society
• Triumph of autocracy
• Increased centralization
• Church gained authority
• Service gentry benefited

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A NEW DYNASTY

• THE END OF THE TROUBLES
• But not everyone benefited
• Boyars numbers reduced, now tied in service to
  tsar
• Common people continued to lose freedoms be
  subjugated

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A NEW DYNASTY

• REIGN OF MIKHAIL I (1613-1645)
• Assumed power over devastated country
• Worked with Zemskii Sobor Boyar Duma
• Dominated by father, Patriarch Filaret
• Set out stabilizing rebuilding

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• REIGN OF ALEXEI (1645-1676)
• Old crises, new problems, accomplishments
• Revolt in 1648
• Administrative reform ULOZHENIE (1649)
• Stenka (Stepan) Razin uprising (1667-1671)
• Control of Ukraine

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A NEW DYNASTY

• THE CHURCH
• Power of Church grew with Muscovy
• Important unifying force during Time of Troubles

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A NEW DYNASTY

• RASKOL THE SCHISM
• Patriarch Nikon
• calls for return to authentic Byzantine ritual
• stirs major opposition

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A NEW DYNASTY

• RASKOL THE SCHISM
• Causes break in Church
• Church Council of 1667 affirms Nikons
  corrections
• Old Believers break away
• Archpriest Avvakum burned at stake, followers
  persecuted

Boyarina Morozova Arrested for her Beliefs