After Muscovites invaded Novgorod in 1471 and Lithuania failed to come to Novgorod's assistance, Novgorod was forced to accept the Korostyn' Treaty, which further limited its independence. Ivan III, still wary of uprisings because of what happened to his father, deported many of the citizens of Novgorod. He also replaced leaders of the Novgorodian church with Russian Orthodox leaders. Lands were taken from the natives and given to cavalrymen in return for military service. After establishing the reform of land management, called the pomestie system, there, he introduced it into Muscovite. By seizing the local nobles', called boyars, estates and giving it to his army, he helped bolster and centralize his power and create loyalty in his army and other servants. By 1489, Novgorod was a shell of its former self and now part of the ever-growing Russian state.
If the country has not enacted one of the highest tier government reforms
then the country gains 15 government reform progress.
Gain country modifier “Pomjestija Reform” for 25 years, giving the following effects:
−10% Military technology cost
+10 Morale of armies
Let us become more like Novgorod
If the country has not enacted one of the highest tier government reforms
then the country gains 15 government reform progress.
Gain country modifier “Novgorodian Reform” for 25 years, giving the following effects:
+25% Institution spread
10% Trade efficiency
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Russian claims in the East
In 1552, Czar Ivan IV the Terrible had launched an expedition against the Khanate of Kazan, east of Nizhny-Novgorod and a blocking point on the Volga. The use of heavy bombard guns breached the walls of the Tatar city, which was promptly overwhelmed and annexed. In 1556, in the wake of his success against Kazan four years earlier, Czar Ivan IV the Terrible launched a new expedition against the Khanate of Astrakhan, southward down the Volga. The capture of Astrakhan opened an access to the Caspian Sea and put the whole Volga basin under Russian control. Cities like Samara (1586), Saratov (1590) and Tsaritsyne (1589) were founded along the river to ensure proper control.
If provinve is not owned, controlled or has a permanent claim of Russia:
Russia gains a permanent claim on all provinces of this region
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Russian claims on Poland-Lithuania
Ivan IV of Russia had extended the borders of his homeland far to the South and the East, but had met with strong resistance in the West, in particular in Livonia. Wars with Poland, Lithuania (then a part of Poland) and even Sweden would last till 1583. Poland had annexed Lithuania in 1569 and, after many defeats at the hands of the Polish army, Ivan had to sign a peace treaty in 1582 where he lost all his previous western territorial gains. Enmity between the two countries would remain high, culminating with the Polish occupation of Moscow (1610) during the Time of Troubles (1598-1618).
Gain opinion modifier “rus_claimed_land” towards Russia worth -50 opinion for 50 years with a yearly decay of +1
It would jeopardize our diplomacy
Lose 5 prestige
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Russian claims on the Steppes
Immediately after the fall of Astrakhan, in the year 1557, Ivan IV launched a campaign in the steppes south of Kazan, the realm of the Nogaï Horde, heirs of some Mongol people. This was the first stepping stone for the expansion eastward. The Russian expansion eastward, led between 1560 and 1581 by Cossacks under Yermak and the private venture of the Stroganov merchants of Nizhny-Novgorod had seen much land fall under control of the Russian Czar. The conquest of the Khanate of Sibir in 1584 and the destruction of the last realm of Genghis Khan's heirs in Siberia was the last step before the exploration and control of the vast hinterland, that would eventually see the Cossacks build cities out of their Ostrogs (simple fortifications to ensure transit) and reach the Pacific ocean at Okhotsk in 1645.
Ivan felt that trade with Europe depended on free access to the Baltic and decided to turn his attention westward. In 1558 he went to war in an attempt to establish Russian rule over Livonia. Russia was at first victorious and succeeded in destroying the Livonian knights, but their ally Lithuania became an integral part of Poland in 1569. The war dragged on - while the Swedes (guarding their own interests in Estonia) supported Poland against Russia, the Crimean Tatars attacked Astrakhan and even made an extensive incursion into Russia in 1571 - they sacked and burned Moscow, leaving only the Kremlin standing.
Capital is Moskva (295) and is not controlled by Russia
Mean time to happen
1 month
Avenge this horrible insult
Gain 10 army tradition
Russia gains the opinion modifier “Sacked Moscow” towards Capital controller country worth -50 opinion for 10 years with a yearly decay of +5
Use it to crush the opposition
Gain country modifier “Opposition Crushed” for 10 years, giving the following effects:
−10% Stability cost modifier
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The Treasury Reform and the Abolition of the Kormlenije System
Some of the most important Russian reforms of Government were instituted by Ivan IV. Ivan had built on the works of Ivan III and bound the Pommiestie-class even closer to the monarchy. He also created a separate Chamber of Finance directly at his disposal, which provided a certain efficiency in the in- and outflow of cash. The abolition of the Kormlenije-system, a payment system for the provincial administration where salaries were paid 'in natura' directly from the hands of the peasants, and the redressing of the provincial administration organization made the monarchy much more efficient and powerful. Unfortunately for Russia, these reforms were not enough to hold the State afloat after the costly and disastrous Livonian Wars at the end of Ivan IV's reign.
Gain country modifier “Chamber of Finance” for 25 years, giving the following effects:
+10% Global tax modifier
Gain country modifier “Kormlenije Abolished” for 25 years, giving the following effects:
−10% Administrative technology cost
Only reform Treasury
Gain country modifier “Chamber of Finance” for 9125 days, giving the following effects:
+10% Global tax modifier
Only abolish Kormlenije
Gain country modifier “Kormlenije Abolished” for 9125 days, giving the following effects:
−10% Administrative technology cost
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The Russian Orthodox Church Declares Independence
Not long before the Byzantine Empire collapsed, the Russian Church became, in effect, independent from the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Metropolitan Jonah, installed by the Council of Russian bishops, was given the title of Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia. Ever since the Russian Church has been growing more and more independent of Constantinople, instead allying itself with the Russian state.
(Our country) gains a permanent claim on this province
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Hundred Chapter Synod
In 1551 Metropolitan Mascarius convened the Church in what became known as the Hundred Chapter Synod in order to unify Church ceremonies and duties all over Russia. They also demanded that the government cancel its jurisdiction over the Church.
Nikon was the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1652 to 1666. He undertook an extremely vigorous reform of church discipline and ritual with a view to purging accretions and eccentricities from the Russian rites. His reforms, particularly his correction of service books from the Greek (1654), created a schism in the Church and inspired the formation of a major opposition sect, the Raskolniki, who retained the older usages banned by Nikon. Heterodox sects such as the Dukhobors formed and attached themselves to the Raskolniki to avoid persecution. By 1658, Nikon had aroused sufficiently powerful opposition to bring about his banishment, and in 1666 he was deposed and degraded. He was a figure unique in Russian church history, for he opposed any interference by the state in church affairs and considered the two institutions to be distinct and separate. His reforms were maintained after he was deposed.
Leading Russian Church officials had noticed a number of discrepancies between Russian and Greek sermons, rites and books, and in 1652 Patriarch Nikon convened a synod to study these matters. A second synod was convened in 1666 where a number of reforms were issued to correct this as well as condemning much of the traditions of the past. This led to a great schism - raskol - where the those who opposed these changes came to be known as Old Believers or raskolniki.
One random owned and cored province (except capital):
Peasant rabble (size 2) rise in revolt
One other random owned and cored province (except capital):
Peasant rabble (size 1) rise in revolt
Support the Old traditions
Lose 10% Patriarch authority
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The Reforms of Peter the Great
During the late 17th and early 18th century Peter the Great instituted a series of reforms aimed to make Russia into a modern European state. The government and army were reformed under the supervision of advisors from Western Europe and Peter, dreaming of making Russia a maritime power sought to take control of the Baltic and Black Sea coasts. The drastic reforms met strong opposition as people were affronted by the sudden dispense of their traditional life and traditions and were followed by several uprisings.
Any neighbouring country has embraced at least 2 more institutions than Russia
The year is between 1680 and 1720.
Mean time to happen
10 months
The reforms are necessary
If the country has not enacted one of the highest tier government reforms
then the country gains 15 government reform progress.
Gain 5 army professionalism
Gain ruler modifier “Western Reforms” until ruler's death, giving the following effects:
−20% Institution embracement cost
+25% Institution spread
Avoid outside influence
If Russia has a stability of less than +3,
then it gains 1 stability,
else it gains 50 administrative power.
If the country has not enacted one of the highest tier government reforms
then the country gains 15 government reform progress.
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The Bulavin Rebellion
The Bulavin Rebellion broke out in October 1707 when Kondraty Bulavin and a band of Don Cossacks ambushed and killed a group of bounty hunters sent by Peter the Great to arrest fugitive peasants hiding out in the Don region. The underlying reasons were that Peter's newly-reformed state was expanding, something that had started to infringe on both the Cossack's lands as well as their semi-autonomy. The rebellion turned not against the Tsardom but against Peter and his advisors, who were seen as evil forces whose reforms were seen as trying to destroy Russia.
One random owned and cored province (except capital):
Noble rebels (size 3) rise in revolt
One other random owned and cored province (except capital):
Noble rebels (size 2) rise in revolt
Revert some reforms
Remove country modifier "Western Reforms"
Gain country modifier “Reversed Reforms” for 5 years, giving the following effects:
+10% Technology cost
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Fyodor Baikov's Diplomatic Intermezzo
Fyodor Baikov went to Beijing in 1656 in an effort to open up diplomatic relations with China. However, misinterpreting the Chinese etiquette made him behave in a way that got the Chinese ministers to believe that Russia acknowledged China as her Master. A message was dispatched to Moscow. The letter contained instructions on the yearly tribute that the vassal 'Russia' must now pay. The Czar had no chance to protest as no one in Moscow could understand Chinese. The Russian government ignored the event as if it has never taken place and China was too busy being subjugated by the Manchu dynasty to care.
Ming gains the opinion modifier “Ignored Vassal Demands” towards Russia worth -25 opinion for 25 years with a yearly decay of +1
Pretend to be a Chinese Vassal
Lose 5 legitimacy
Ming gains the opinion modifier “Paid Vassal Respect” towards Russia worth +10 opinion for 10 years with a yearly decay of -1
Pretend to be a Chinese Vassal and pay Tribute
Lose 5 legitimacy
Lose ducats equal to 0.25 years of income
Ming gains the opinion modifier “Paid Vassal Tribute” towards Russia worth +50 opinion for 25 years with a yearly decay of -2
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Stenka Razin's Cossack Uprising
Stenka Razin (or Stepan Timofeyevich) was a Don Cossack hetman who carried out a series of successful raids on Persian and Russian settlements 1667-69. Having acquired great fame and wealth, Razin launched a new campaign in 1670 against the czar's fortress cities on the Volga. With a force of about 7,000 Cossacks, he seized Tsaritsyn and Astrakhan. In both towns Razin and his men engaged in drunken orgies and perpetrated savage atrocities against the nobles and military officers - he also replaced the local governments with Cossack institutions of self-rule. Razin continued his advance up the Volga, and along the way he incited the serfs and urban lower classes to join his rebellion. He captured Saratov and proceeded to Simbirsk, while his insurrection spread throughout the Volga region and even into some of the central Russian provinces. Alarmed at Razin's success, Czar Alexis sent an army to relieve Simbirsk. The force inflicted a decisive defeat on Razin's undisciplined and badly equipped troops. Razin fled to the Don, but on April 24, 1671, he was captured by loyalist Cossacks and turned over to the tsarist authorities. Brought to Moscow and tortured, Razin was executed by quartering in Red Square.
One other random owned province with Steppes terrain:
Cossack rebels (size 2) rise in revolt
Give more autonomy to provinces
Every owned province with Steppes terrain:
Gain 50% local autonomy
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The Treaty of Nerchinsk
The permanent Russian exploration and colonization of Siberia that started under Ivan the Terrible, had regularly continued throughout the 17th century, with most of eastern Siberia discovered by the end of the century (Kamchatska was reached in 1679). The Amur basin had been explored by Khabarov in the 1650s and in 1689, a Russo-Chinese border conflict was settled by the first Chinese-European agreement, the Treaty of Nerchinsk, fixing the Amur border. In 1727, the Kyakhta treaty would even make provisions for a Russian trading station to be established in Peking, the capital of the new Manchu dynasty (1644-1911).
Gain opinion modifier “Refused Treaty of Nerchinsk” towards Russia worth -50 opinion for 25 years with a yearly decay of +2
Russia gains a claim on all provinces in West or East Siberia region
Every country with at least one province in West or East Siberia region
Gain opinion modifier “Claimed Western Siberia” towards Russia worth -50 opinion for 25 years with a yearly decay of +2
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The Great Northern Conflict
In 1697, the 15 years old Charles XII ascended the Swedish throne. Seeing the opportunity, the Russian Czar Peter I allied with Denmark and Poland-Saxony in 1699. However, with British and Dutch naval assistance, Charles XII landed on Zealand and promptly defeated the Danes, then moved to Estland where his badly outnumbered Swedes (1 to 5) won a crushing victory over the Russians. Instead of finishing the Russians, Charles moved against August II of Poland-Saxony and drove him out of Poland in 1704 (having the pro-Swedish Stanislaw Leszczynski elected King), then subjugating Saxony in 1706. While the Russians started the construction of St. Petersburg (1703) and rebuilt their armies, they also took parts of Estland (1704-1706). Charles then decided to march to Moscow via the Ukraine where the Cossacks under Mazeppa had again risen in revolt (1708). The harsh winter and Russian raids decimated his army and he was finally beaten at the battle of Poltava in 1709. The wounded king escaped to the Ottomans. The Russians were encircled by the Ottomans on the Prut River, but Peter succeeded through bribery to obtain a safe conduct in exchange for Azov. While Charles was still exiled in Turkey, Russian, Danish, Hanoverian and even Prussian troops captured most of the Swedish provinces around the Baltic. Having emerged from Turkish internment, Charles got killed in 1718 in front of the Norwegian fortress of Frederickshald. The peace treaties that followed Sweden lost most of her Baltic empire.
Gain opinion modifier “Enemy of Sweden” towards Russia worth +30 opinion for 10 years with a yearly decay of -3
Russia gains the opinion modifier “Enemy of Sweden” towards previously mentioned country worth +30 opinion for 10 years with a yearly decay of -3
Let others move first
Lose 5 prestige
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Governmental Reforms and the Absolutism
In the course of Peter the Great's reign, medieval and obsolescent forms of government gave place to effective autocracy. In 1711 he abolished the boyarskaya duma, or boyar council, and established by decree the Senate as the supreme organ of state to coordinate the action of the various central and local organs, to supervise the collection and expenditure of revenue, and to draft legislation in accordance with his edicts. Martial discipline was extended to civil institutions, and an officer of the guards was always on duty in the Senate. From 1722, moreover, there was a procurator general keeping watch over the daily work of the Senate and its chancellery and acting as 'the eye of the sovereign'.
If the country has not enacted one of the highest tier government reforms
then the country gains 15 government reform progress.
Gain country modifier “Absolutism” for the rest of the campaign, giving the following effects:
+1% Yearly legitimacy
−0.04 Monthly autonomy change
+1 Yearly absolutism
The Old Way is better!
If Russia has a stability of less than +3,
then it gains 1 stability,
else it gains 50 administrative power.
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The State takes control of the Russian Church
In 1721, in order to subject the Orthodox Church of Russia to the state, Peter the Great abolished the Patriarchate of Moscow. Thenceforward the patriarch's place as head of the Church was taken by a spiritual college, namely the Holy Synod, consisting of representatives of the hierarchy obedient to the czar's will. A secular official - the ober-prokuror, or chief procurator - was appointed by the tsar to supervise the Holy Synod's activities. The Holy Synod ferociously persecuted all dissenters and conducted a censorship of all publications.
Gain country modifier “State-Controlled Church” for the rest of the campaign, giving the following effects:
+10% Global tax modifier
−10% Stability cost modifier
If Clergy estate exists
Clergy loses 25 loyalty
Leave the Patriarchate alone
Gain 25% Patriarch authority
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The Kurland Succession of 1726
The death of the last Duke of Kurland, Frederick William, in 1711, left no heirs to the Duchy except the weak and ill Ferdinand, and a lot of contenders in Russia and Poland. In 1726, the Polish Sejm managed to impose Maurice of Saxony, the bastard son of the current Polish King, as Duke, but only to change her mind and ask his withdrawal. At the same time, Russia was pushing for her own candidate, the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, son-in-law of the Czarina Catherine I. After much bribing, negotiation and behind the scene diplomacy, Maurice was summoned to either leave or suffer war. It started in 1727, with Russia firmly committed and sending 8,000 troops to conquer the Duchy within 8 days. The war did not last long enough to embrace all of Europe and Maurice fled to France where he then had a brilliant military career.
Every country which has a core on province owned by Kurland
Gain opinion modifier “Claimed Courland” towards Russia worth -25 opinion for 5 years with a yearly decay of +5
Ignore this petty matter
Every country which has a core on province owned by Kurland
Gain opinion modifier “Did Not Claim Courland” towards Russia worth +10 opinion for 5 years with a yearly decay of -2
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The Duma and the Legislative Reform
In 1767 Catherine the Great convened a commission composed of delegates from all the provinces and from all social classes (except the serfs) for the purpose of ascertaining the true wishes of her people and framing a constitution. The debates went on for months and came to nothing. Catherine's Instruction to the commission was a draft of a constitution and a code of laws. It was considered too liberal for publication in France and remained a dead letter in Russia.
Gain country modifier “Liberal Constitution” for the rest of the campaign, giving the following effects:
−5% Liberty desire in subjects
−5% State maintenance
Lose 25 Absolutism
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Mercantilist Reforms
In the late 18th century Russia adopted an increasingly mercantilist policy as a consequence of the growing monopolization of the power of the aristocracy.
Gain country modifier “Mercantilism Reforms” for the rest of the campaign, giving the following effects:
+5% Provincial trade power modifier
No, we shall opt for Free Trade
Gain country modifier “Free Trade Reforms” for the rest of the campaign, giving the following effects:
5% Trade efficiency
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The Pugatchev Uprising
The revolt started in 1773 in the Urals region. Led by Emelian Pugatchev, it was an uprising of displaced Cossacks and peasants, following a leader who claimed to be Peter III, the assassinated husband of Czarina Catherine II. In the winter of 1773-1774, the revolt had taken control of most of the Volga basin and even threatened Moscow, bringing the realm of Catherine to the brink of collapse. Finally, regular troops under Suvarow managed to capture Pugatchev near Tsaritsyn and he was executed in Moscow.
A large group of Finnish officers in the service of the Swedish king has sent us a dispatch declaring the ongoing war illegal and asking us if we would consider helping them form an independent nation of Finland. It could be useful as a buffer state...
One random province owned by Sweden with core of Finland
Nationalist rebels (size 2) (friendly to Russia) rise in revolt
Reject their pleas
Sweden gains opinion modifier “Rejected Anjala League” towards Russia worth +10 opinion for 5 years with a yearly decay of -2
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The Decembrist Revolution
Revolution! The autocratic government has fallen and the [Root.Monarch.GetTitle] justly beheaded at Peter’s Square. It is time to create a new Russia, a Revolutionary Russia!
The new regime takes its leaders from the formerly secret ranks of the Union of Salvation, a cabal of Imperial Army officers who took a stand against oppression and led the uprising against the [Root.Monarch.GetTitle]. Pavel Pestel was the ideological heart of the Union, while Mikhael Lunin and Nikita Muraynov led the charge from the front lines. Sergei Trubetskoy, nominally the leader of the Union, has only recently returned to Russia following ill-health. Each places a bid for leadership of the new Russian state.
The revolutionary state aims to abolish serfdom, establish equality under the law, and redistribute the land of oppressive nobles between the State and the peasantry. With a strong foundation in political liberalism, the revolution carries an unwavering resolve to challenge autocracy throughout the world.
A new ruler comes to power with skill +3/+3/+3 and one of the following names, chosen at random:
Mikhail Sergeyevich Lunin
Pavel Pestel
Nikita Muraynov
Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy
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The Third Rome
Our soldiers parade into the newly christened city of Tsargrad, formerly Constantinople, in celebration of the heroic victories that have led to this moment. With this new conquest, [Root.GetName] will be seen in the eyes of the world as the true Third Rome!
All that remains is to decide on the capital of our renewed nation; shall it remain in the great city of [Root.Capital.GetName], or shall we relocate the court to Tsargrad?
gets the modifier “The Third Rome” until its owner changes, giving the following effects:
+1 yearly legitimacy,
+100% local manpower modifier,
−20% local development cost,
+20% local defensiveness,
+20% local tax modifier.
Always enabled:
[Root.Capital.GetName] shall be made even more glorious!
The capital of the country:
gets the modifier “The Third Rome” until its owner changes, giving the following effects:
+1 yearly legitimacy,
+100% local manpower modifier,
−20% local development cost,
+20% local defensiveness,
+20% local tax modifier.
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The Restoration of Kiev
Kiev was once the capital of the first great empire of the Rus. Over the years it has been sacked by impertinent Princes, burned to the ground by the Mongols, and subjected to the rule of Lithuania.
Now the city has fallen under our control, and we have the means to restore the once-magnificent city to its former glory. If we choose this path, we would be embracing the legacy of Kievan Rus and adopting a distinctly Ruthenian cultural identity; a great empire will be reborn.
Malyuta Skuratov was one of the most prominent leaders during the Oprichnina - when Ivan the Terrible and his secret police carried out thousands of executions and land confiscations. Skuratov had made a name for himself in 1569 when he participated in the trial and execution of Ivan's only cousin, Vladimir of Staritsa - a possible pretender to the throne. Later that same year he strangled the Metropolitan of Moscow, Philip II, for criticizing the trials, and in 1570 he was responsible for killing thousands of citizens during a punitive expedition to Novgorod. Skuratov was killed in 1573 at the siege of Weissenstein during the Livonian War.
Gain skill 3 Spymaster advisor named Malyuta Skuratov in Moskva (50% cheaper to employ)
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The Chosen Council
In 1543, only 14 years old and with astonishing force and bravery, Grand Prince Ivan IV ended the reign of terror of the Boyars. Behind him stood his friend Alexi Adashev and the talented priest Sylvestr, who would succeed the wise Makari as metropolitan of Moscow. Sylvestr and Adashev belonged to a group of advisors called the Chosen Council, which was of great help in reforming Russia during the earlier part of Ivan IV's reign but fell out of favor following the death of Ivan's first wife Anastasia in 1560. Ivan, who had become unbalanced after his grave illness in 1553, accused his old friends of having poisoned his wife and had them exiled, leaving no one to temper his brutality.
Gain skill 2 Statesman advisor named Alexi Adashev in Moskva (50% cheaper to employ)
Gain skill 3 Theologian advisor named Sylvestr in Moskva (50% cheaper to employ)
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Boris Morozov
Russian statesman and treasurer with a long career at the Kremlin court. He was brother-in-law and tutor for Tsar Alexis and led the government during Alexis' early reign. Supervising Payroll and the Grand Treasury, Morozov tried to increase the state's income by lowering salaries and introduce new taxes. The high tax on salt caused, and gave name to, the Salt Riot of 1648. After a short exile in a monastery, Morozov was able to return to Moscow where he maintained a low profile while controlling much of the government. He later participated in drafting the Sobornoye Ulozheniye, a new legal code to replace the Sudebnik laws by Ivan III. It cemented serfdom as well as the nobility's exclusive privilege of owning serfs and stipulated class as both hereditary and unchangeable.
ain skill 2 Treasurer advisor named Boris Morozov in Moskva (50% cheaper to employ)
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Mikhailo Shcherbatov
Mikhailo Shcherbatov was an important statesman, historian and philosopher in 18th century Russia. He became a member of the Board of Trade in 1770 and a president of the Chamber Council and a Senator in 1779. Though a leading representative of Russian conservatism and a proponent of the Russian Enlightenment movement, he is perhaps best know as an author. His 'History of Russia from the Earliest Times' was published between 1771 and 1791 in seven volumes. Shcherbatov's final work 'On the Corruption of Morals in Russia' was published in 1797 and contained a scathing attack on the contemporary social customs.
Russian statesman and ethnographer Vasily Tatishcev graduated from the Engineering school in Moscow and participated in the Great Northern War (1700-1721) against Sweden. He became an important figure in Peter the Great's Foreign Office and later backed the ascension of Anna of Russia in opposition to the Supreme Privy Council. His most prominent role came as the author of 'Russian History Dating Back to the Most Ancient Times', one of the earliest full-scale works on Russian history.
At the age of nineteen Lomonosov obtained admission into the Slavic Greek Latin Academy in Moscow by pretending to be a son of a priest. A scholarship to the University of Saint Petersburg was later followed by studies abroad at the University of Marburg under the tutelage of German Enlightenment philosopher Christian Wolff. Lomonosov would go on to become an important Russian scientist in a variety of fields, but perhaps best known for discovering the atmosphere of Venus. He was appointed secretary of state in 1764 but dies only one year later.
Boris Godunov was elected in 1598 to succeed Fedor. He consolidated Russia's territorial gains, but, soon after he came to power, drought, famine, and plague killed half a million people in Muscovy. Peasants fled their villages, leaving their holdings reclaimed by weeds. In response Godunov decreed that the peasants were forbidden to leave the estates on which they were born (Ivan IV had passed a similar decree in 1581). The peasants had truly become serfs.
Gain country modifier “Enserfed Peasants” for the rest of the campaign, giving the following effects:
+10 National manpower modifier
−10% Institution spread
−1 National unrest
Do not enserf them
Lose 10 legitimacy
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Full Serfdom enforced by Sobornoye Ulozheniye
Czar Alexis received a superficial education from his tutor Boris Ivanovich Morozov before acceding to the throne at the age of 16. Morozov, who was also Alexis' brother-in-law, initially took charge of state affairs, but in 1648 a popular uprising in Moscow forced Alexis to exile Morozov. Alexis bowed to the rebels' demands and convened a land assembly (zemski sobor), which in 1649 produced a new Russian code of laws (Sobornoye Ulozheniye), which legally defined serfdom.
Gain country modifier “Legal Serfdom” for the rest of the campaing, giving the following effects:
+20 National manpower modifier
−20% Institution spread
Accept deteriorating Economy and Burgher Uprisings
If has country modifier “Enserfed Peasants”
Remove country modifier "Enserfed Peasants"
Gain country modifier “Deteriorating Economy” for 10 years, giving the following effects:
−25% Goods produced modifier
+5 National unrest
If Burghers estate exists
Burghers loses 25 loyalty
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The Reactionary Policy
After the Pugachev revolt, Catherine realized that for her the people were more to be feared than pitied, and that, rather than freeing them, she must tighten their bonds. Before her accession to power, Catherine had planned to emancipate the serfs, on whom the economy of Russia was based. When confronted with the realities of power, Catherine saw very quickly that emancipation of the serfs would never be tolerated by the owners, whom she depended upon for support, and who would throw the country into disorder once they lost their own means of support. The fortune of a noble was evaluated not in lands but in the 'souls' he owned. Catherine instead turned her attention to organizing and strengthening a system that she herself had condemned as inhuman. She imposed serfdom on the Ukrainians who had until then been free. By distributing the crown lands to her favorites and ministers, she worsened the lot of the peasants, who had enjoyed certain autonomy. At the end of her reign, there was scarcely a free peasant left in Russia.
Has had country flag rus_pugachev_uprising for at least 2 years
Mean time to happen
64 months
Keep the Masses in Chains
Remove country modifier "Enserfed Peasants"
Remove country modifier "Legal Serfdom"
Gain country modifier “Complete Serfdom” for the rest of the campaign, giving the following effects:
+25 National manpower modifier
−30% Institution spread
Let us introduce the idea of 'Freedom'
Remove country modifier "Enserfed Peasants"
Remove country modifier "Legal Serfdom"
Gain country modifier “Increased Freedom” for the rest of the campaign, giving the following effects:
+10 Morale of armies
If Nobility estate exists
Nobility loses 50 loyalty
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Czar Paul I's Liberal Legislation
Paul I, in an effort to strengthen the autocracy, reversed many of Catherine's policies - he reestablished centralized administrative agencies she had abolished in 1775, increased bureaucratic control in local government, and sought to impose limits on the authority of the nobles. While Catherine caused many ordinary Russians to be enslaved through serfdom, Paul was the first Russian czar to limit the work required of these unfortunate people. At Gatchina, Paul educated their children, lent them money, instituted a system of free medical care, gave them more land for their use, and upgraded agricultural technology. In short, he was a model landlord. When it came to Russia's most humble people, as both czar and grand duke, he sought to end their suffering and improve their lives. In this, he put into action the Enlightenment ideas parroted, but never followed unless it suited her, by his mother.
If the country has not enacted one of the highest tier government reforms
then the country gains 15 government reform progress.
Remove country modifier "Enserfed Peasants"
Remove country modifier "Legal Serfdom"
Remove country modifier "Complete Serfdom"
Gain country modifier “Restricted Serfdom” for the rest of the campaign, giving the following effects:
−1 National unrest
+25% Technology cost
If Nobility estate exists
Nobility loses 20 loyalty
It is perfect as it is
If Russia has a stability of less than +3,
then it gains 1 stability,
else it gains 50 administrative power.
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Czar Alexander I's Liberal Legislation
Alexander abolished many barbarous and cruel punishments then practiced and in 1802 introduced a more orderly administration of government by the creation of eight ministries. He improved the condition of the serfs and promoted education, doubling the number of Russian universities by establishing those at Saint Petersburg, Kharkiv, and Kazan. Nevertheless, despite the humanitarian ideas inculcated in him by his tutor La Harpe and despite his own wish to make his people happy, Alexander lacked the energy necessary to carry out the most urgent reform, the full abolition of serfdom. The institution of serfdom was, in the Czar's own words, 'a degradation' that kept Russia in a disastrously backward state. But to liberate the serfs, who composed three-quarters of the population, would arouse the hostility of their noble masters.
An idea has been put forth at court to send [Root.Monarch.GetName] on a journey through Europe together with a large delegation - a Grand Embassy - in order to seek better relations with other European leaders - especially those who share common enemies with us. Another benefit could be the chance to study the technological advancements made in western Europe in order to help us to modernize.
Trigger country event “Grand Embassy Arrives in [Root.Capital.GetCapitalName]” in 30 days
Our country holds the knowledge we need
If Russia has a stability of less than +3,
then it gains 1 stability,
else it gains 50 administrative power.
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Grand Embassy Arrives in [Root.Capital.GetCapitalName]
A grand embassy has arrived from [From.GetName] led by [From.Monarch.GetName] [Root.Monarch.GetHerselfHimself]. [Root.Monarch.GetSheHeCap] is traveling the continent in order to secure better relations with other European states - especially those who share a common enemies. How should we great [Root.Monarch.GetHerHim]?
Gain opinion modifier “Received Grand Embassy” towards Russia worth +25 opinion for 25 years with a yearly decay of -1
Hidden effect: Trigger country event “Grand Embassy in [From.Capital.GetCapitalName]” in 30 days
Politely turn [Root.Monarch.GetHerHim] away
Lose 15 prestige
Gain opinion modifier “Rejected Grand Embassy” towards Russia worth -25 opinion for 10 years with a yearly decay of +1
Send [Root.Monarch.GetHerHim] packing!
Gain Diplomatic Insult casus belli against (Our country) for 24 months
Gain opinion modifier “Rejected Grand Embassy” towards Russia worth -25 opinion for 10 years with a yearly decay of +1
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Grand Embassy in [From.Capital.GetCapitalName]
Overwhelmed by our warm welcome, [From.From.Monarch.GetName] has informed us that he wishes to extend his visit in [Root.Capital.GetCapitalName]. In [From.From.Monarch.GetHerHim] quest to modernize Russia, [From.From.Monarch.GetSheHe] is most eager to get a chance to study the technological advancements of western Europe.
Gain opinion modifier “Rejected Grand Embassy” towards us worth -25 opinion for 10 years with a yearly decay of +1
Hidden effect: Trigger country event “Request to Stay Turned Down” in 10 days
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Generous Offer to Stay
Hearing of [Root.Monarch.GetName]'s reforms to modernize [Root.GetName], [From.GetName] has graciously invited us to extend our stay in [From.Capital.GetCapitalName] to take the opportunity to study their technological advancements.
Trigger conditions
None
Is triggered only by
event [[Russian events#Grand Embassy Arrives in [From.Capital.GetCapitalName]|Grand Embassy Arrives in [From.Capital.GetCapitalName]]]
Option conditions
Enabled if:
Country flag grand_embassy_government is set
Let us stay and study their governmental institutions
Lose ducats equal to 0.1 years of income
Capital gains 10 progress towards the next non-present institution
Hidden effect: Trigger country event “Extended Visit Pays Off” in 30 days
Enabled if:
Country flag grand_embassy_army is set
Let us stay and study their army
Lose ducats equal to 0.1 years of income
Capital gains 10 progress towards the next non-present institution
Hidden effect: Trigger country event “Extended Visit Pays Off” in 30 days
Enabled if:
Country flag grand_embassy_navy is set
Let us stay and study their navy
Lose ducats equal to 0.1 years of income
Capital gains 10 progress towards the next non-present institution
Hidden effect: Trigger country event “Extended Visit Pays Off” in 30 days
Trigger country event “Grand Embassy Arrives in [Root.Capital.GetCapitalName]” in 30 days
Enabled if:
Always enabled:
The time has come to return home
Clear country flag grand_embassy_government
Clear country flag grand_embassy_army
Clear country flag grand_embassy_navy
Clear country flag grand_embassy
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Request to Stay Turned Down
In our attempts to modernize [Root.GetName], the study of technological advancements in western Europe could be valuable. Unfortunately, a request to prolong our stay in [From.Capital.GetCapitalName] in order to do so has been denied.
Trigger country event “Grand Embassy Arrives in [Root.Capital.GetCapitalName]” in 30 days
Enabled if:
Always enabled
The time has come to return home
Clear country flag grand_embassy_government
Clear country flag grand_embassy_army
Clear country flag grand_embassy_navy
Clear country flag grand_embassy
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Extended Visit Pays Off
[Root.Monarch.GetName]'s extended visit to [From.From.Capital.GetCapitalName] to personally study their technological advancements seems to have been worth the while.
The queen consort Yekaterina is a German princess, one stronger and with more political power than her incompetent husband. She is deeply familiar with the ideas of the Enlightenment, and will endeavor to lighten the burden of Russian serfs. Her plans are ambitious, Yekaterina wants to usurp the throne and expand Russia's borders into Ottoman lands and Poland. Will we help her in her endeavor? Shall we place her on the throne of Russia and allow her to rule us all?
gets access to the discounted female Muscovite statesman (skill 2) named ‘Yekaterina Romanov’.
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Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova
Recently returned from a tour through Europe, Princess Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova is a devoted and loyal friend to Catherine the Great. Though they were once estranged because of Yekaterina's scorn of the lovers Catherine chose as lovers who in her eyes disgraced the court, it is a more mature and forgiving Princess who has returned. During her tour, Yekaterina procured the entrée to the society of the learned in most of the capitals of Europe due to her literary and scientific reputation. This also gained her the appointment as Director of the Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences in Russia, the first woman in the world to head a national academy of sciences. It was a failing institution that lacked prominence and intellectual respectability, something Yekaterina managed to restore in a critical time in the history of science. The transformation from natural philosophy practiced by gifted amateurs to a professional enterprise had just begun.
Gain the “Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova” country modifier for 20 years, giving:
-5% technology cost.
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Anna Bunina
Despite having a rather basal education due to being raised by various relatives, Anna Bunina is an acclaimed writer who supports herself with help from patrons, pensions awarded her by the [Root.GetAdjective] $MONARCHTITLE$s and profits from her literary works. The small inheritance her father left her was used to employ tutors to further her education. Alexander Shishkov is her mentor and she is an honorary member of the 'Lovers of the Russian Word' and the 'Free Society of Lovers of Literature, Science, and the Arts'. As a woman, the membership for the 'Lovers of the Russian Word' does not allow her to discuss her works with the group in person, and her relationship with the other members is rather oppressive although helpful in advancing her literary career. Her first work is titled 'The Inexperienced Muse'.
The court was not open to women before Sophia entered [Root.GetAdjective] politics, which she did after the death of Alexis which brought her brother Feodor to the throne. He ruled under her thumb but as his health declined, so did her power as more people tried to take advantage of the sickly Tsar. At Feodor's death, Sophia[4] two brothers were crowned senior Tsar and junior Tsar, with her to govern in their place as Ivan had both physical and mental disabilities while Peter, only nine years old at the time, was deemed too young to properly rule $COUNTRY$. By attending Feodor's funeral she formally entered the political scene and planned to secure the throne for herself with the help of connections, allies and capable politicians such as Prince Vasily Galitzine which she deftly utilized. It caused quite a commotion as women were kept from involvement in politics but Sophia managed to secure the throne with the help of the Streltsy, a military troop, and the uprising they took part of after Feodor's death. During the time she spent at Feodor's side, Sophia has acquired a good education and a political savvy that convinced the nobles and patriarch of her capacities to rule $COUNTRY$. Though she haven't governed the country for long, Sophia has shown that if she takes the throne, she will rule with a firm and heavy fist. She has already started preparations to further the organization of the military and to create an institution of higher learning.
If the country uses ‘Statists vs Monarchists’ mechanics:
then strengthen Monarchists in power by 100%.
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Elizaveta of Russia
Though her education had been imperfect and desultory, Elizaveta is a bright, vivacious and beautiful woman who speaks Italian, German and French fluently. This is worth noting, as her coup to take the [Root.GetAdjective] throne will be successful if we agree to let her rule. Anna Leopoldovna's regency for her infant Ivan VI has been marked by high taxes and economic problems, which has furthered Elizaveta's cause. The Russian guards regiments supports her and could be the determining force that compels us to anoint her ruler. She has promised to never sign death sentences but is not adverse to spill blood. With the words, 'Who do you want to serve? Me, the natural sovereign, or those who have stolen my inheritance?' the Preobrazhensky Regiment was convinced to join her. Hopefully she has inherited her father's genius for government, Elizaveta has already shown signs of keen judgment and diplomatic tact that remains us of Peter the Great. Aleksey Bestuzhev-Ryumin is rumored to become her new vice chancellor, a formidable diplomat, and she has expressed her dissatisfaction with the cabinet council system, wishing to reconstitute the senate as it had been under Peter the Great, with the chiefs of the departments of state attending. Under her rule, perhaps we can establish the University of Moscow and the Imperial Academy of Arts?
If the country uses ‘Statists vs Monarchists’ mechanics:
then strengthen Monarchists in power by 100%.
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Anna of Russia
The obstinacy and cruelty of Anna of Russia can be explained by her upbringing, she was raised for the nunnery and grew up confined to a royal cult of domesticity which did not allow for her personality to develop properly. The [Root.GetAdjective] Supreme Privy Council has decided to publicly support her as our new ruler, hoping that she will become a figurehead or at least malleable enough to allow them to rule through her. A set of laws that will limit her powers is being drafted, prohibiting Anna to start war, call for peace, create new taxes, or promote individuals to high ranks. Nor will she be able to punish nobility without trial, grant estates or villages, promote anyone to court office, and she will not be able to spend the revenue generated by the state. Eight hundred noblemen have heard the rumors of Anna's possible ascent to the throne and have signed a petition that will urge her to continue to rule $COUNTRY$ in an autocratic style and to continue to carry out Peter the Great's political, social, and economic advances. We doubt that Anna will become a figurehead, nor will she be easy to control. She was brought to the [Root.GetAdjective] court early in life, making her well prepared to handle political structure. With the favor of the Imperial guards and the lesser nobility, Anna will get her way.
Russia's events:[1]
The Pomjestija Reform
Enabled if:
the country does not have Constantinople (151) as 
Emperor is not active: there is no revolution target
revolutionaries and 
peasant rebels in the country disband.
republic, if it isn't already.
revolution target.
5 years of manpower.
−2.5 Yearly revolutionary zeal
