Russian & Turkey to French Revolution & Beyond

De facto regent of Russia, 1584-1598, and then the first non-Rurikid tsar, 1598 to 1605

1500s Russia

Russian film set in the Time of Troubles and the Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618)

Siege of Vienna by the Turks

1689-1725, Russian Czar; 1710-11 war with Ottoman Empire

Young Peter the Great

Peter the Great and the build up of the Russian Navy

1709 Battle of Poltava during war between Russia and Sweden (The Great Northern War, 1700-1721)

Epitaph for a king; Karl XII of Sweden (1697-1718)

Story set in 18th century Finland when the country was occupied twice by Russia, during the Great Northern War (1700-1721) and the Lesser Wrath (1741–1742)

1762-1796, Catherine the Great of Russia; 1768 war with Turkey (TV miniseries)

Catherine the Great

With Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Flora Robeson

Italian film

With Catherine Zeta-Jones

Troubled marriage of Catherine II (played by German actress Elisabeth Bergner) to Peter III (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and her subsequent ascension to the throne as Empress of Russia

Love life of Russian Czarina Catherine the Great (with Tallulah Bankhead)

Pugachev peasant uprising during the reign of Catherine the Great

During the Pugachev uprising, the love of Masha Mironova and Pyotr Grinev is threatened

Pugachev uprising of Cossacks and peasants in 1774-1745 under Empress Catherine II (aka Catherine the Great)

Estergon Castle in Hungary conquered by Turkish Invaders under Sultan Suleiman II in 1543

A young fellow in 18th-century Kazakhstan unites the country's disunited tribes

At the battle of Anyrakay in 1729 the Kazackhs defeat the Dzungars & taking control of their own territory for the first time in their history