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How Did Fifteen Years Without a Riurikid Tsar Reshape Russia? - The Collapse of Riurikid Rule and the Russian Time of Troubles | Sleepy Facts About History
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In 1598, the Riurikid dynasty, which had ruled Rus and Muscovy for seven hundred years, ended when Tsar Feodor died without an heir. This episode examines the fifteen-year crisis that followed, known as the Time of Troubles, exploring how a political system built entirely on sacred blood struggled to survive without it. When the mechanism for producing legitimate authority failed, Muscovite society faced famine, impostors claiming the throne, foreign invasion, and civil war.
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