I need 5 "watershed" events for a timeline on Russia?

Question: I need 5 "watershed" events for a timeline on Russia!?

Just some ideas of some interesting ones please and the date too!?
Ill look them up and research them myself i just need ideas
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

989 Vladimir I of Kiev converts to Christianity, leading to the eventual destruction of paganism in Russia and the territories it would conquer!.

1242 Alexander Nevsky defeats the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of the Ice, freeing the Russian territories of Western European interference for the next century and allowing for the further development and survival of Eastern Orthodoxy!.

1613 MIchael Romanov becomes Tsar, founding a dynastry that would last 300 years!.

1721 Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden in the Northern War, leading to the founding of St!. Peterburg (during the war) and opening Russia to Europe!.

1812 Tsar Alexander I defeat Napoleon!. Exposure to French Revolutionary ideas plant the seeds that would eventually lead to the Russian Revolution a century later!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

1552 - the capture of Kazan' from the Khanate of Kazan' by Ivan Grozny - Russia becomes a multi-cultural country
1703 founding of ST Petersburg by Peter the Great
1861 - The Emancipation of the Serfs by Alexander II
October 1917 - Bolshevik Revolution
1991 - Collapse of the Soviet UnionWww@QuestionHome@Com

Rule of Peter the Great, The Russian Revolution, The Second World War, launch of Sputnik, Perestroika and Glasnost!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

heyyy im not sure but do you live in michigan!? lol
i think i have the same project due tomorrow!. :PWww@QuestionHome@Com