27 July
Dates in History
1645Tsar Aleksey Mikhailovich comes to the throne. During the reign of Aleksey Mikhailovich the central authority becomes stronger and the serfdom forms (Sobornoye Ulozhenie (Code of Law), 1649). Ukraine re-unites with Russia (1654); Smolensk, Severia and other territories are returned; uprisings in Moscow, Novgorod, Pskov (1648, 1650, 1662) and Krest’anskaya war (Peasant war) of 1670-71are put down. |