1667 Peace of Andrussov with Poland: Little Russia east of the Dnieper, including Smolensk, Kiev, Seversk, Vitebsk, and Polotsk are acquired by Russia. Thus the territory which had been taken by the Lithuanians and annexed to Poland by Treaty of Lublin (1569) became Russian again.
1670 Rebellion of Stenka Kazin. He takes Tzaritzin, Astrakhan, Saratov, Samara, Nijni-Novgorod, Tambov, and Penza.
1671 Stenka Radzin is defeated near Simbirsk and executed at Moscow.
1676 Death of Alexis. He is succeeded by his eldest son, Feodor. During his reign the books of pedigrees (razviadnie Knigi), which determines the rank of each family and the office to which it was entitled (mestnichestvo), were destroyed.
1682 Death of Feodor. After a sanguinary outbreak of the Strelitz, which lasted three days, Ivan and Peter were declared joint sovereigns, and their sister Sophia was to act as regent during their minority.
1689 Treaty of Nertchinsk: the fertile region of the Amur, conquered by a handful of Cossacks, is restored to the Chinese, and the fortress Albazin is rased.
1696 Peter takes from the Turks the fort of Azov, situated at the mouth of the Don, and converts it into a naval port. In its vicinity he commences the building of the new town of Taganrog.
1697-98 Peter makes his first journey through Europe.
1698 The Strelitz break out into open revolt, which is suppressed with great bloodshed. Their corps is dissolved.