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| 1604 |
| | | The first false Dmitry marches into Russia with a Polish army to claim the throne | |
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| 1608 |
| | | A second false Dmitry marches on Moscow, to be followed by a third in 1612 | |
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| 1613 |
| | | Michael Romanov is elected tsar, beginning a new dynasty on the Russian throne | |
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| 1617 |
| | | The treaty of Stolbova brings into Swedish hands the coast round the Gulf of Finland, ending Russian access to the Baltic | |
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| 1648 |
| | | A Cossack rebellion leads to the eventual transfer of their territory from Poland to Russia | |
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| 1649 |
| | | The Russian empire, expanding eastwards through Siberia, reaches the Pacific coast | |
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| 1652 |
| | | Nikon becomes patriarch of all Russia and introduces reforms which cause the Old Believers to form a breakaway sect | |
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| 1689 |
| | | The 17-year-old Peter the Great becomes co-tsar of Russia with his half-brother Ivan V | |
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| 1696 |
| | | Peter the Great makes an unexpected raid down the river Don and captures Azov from the Crimean Tatars | |
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| 1697 |
| | | The Russian tsar, Peter I, studies western European technology, working as a ship's carpenter in Dutch and English shipyards | |
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