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| 1433 | Vasily II |  |
| Civil war between Vasily II & his kinsmen |
| 1558 | Ivan IV the Terrible |  |
| Beginning of the Livonian War |
| 1613 | Michael |  |
| Sweden declares war on Russia |
| 1632 | Michael |  |
| Outbreak of war with Poland |
| 1654 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich |  |
| Begins an unsuccessful War against Sweden |
| Ukraine Declared after the Ukraine is placed under the Tsar's protection by the Cossacks |
| Launches his first war against Poland |
| 1660 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich |  |
| Launches his a 2nd attack against Poland |
| 1676 | Theodore III |  |
| Oubreak of the 1st Russo-Turkish war |
| 1700 | Peter I the Great |  |
| Declares war on Sweden, Russia, Poland & Denmark oppose Sweden in the Baltic |
| 1787 | Catherine II the Great |  |
| Turkey declares War against Russia over its interference in the Khanite of Georgia |
| 1853 | Nicholas I |  |
| 4th Oct River Danube Turkey declares war on Russia & crosses the Danube under Michael Lattas |
| 1854 | Nicholas I |  |
| 28th Mar After Russia ignores an Anglo-French ultimatum to withdraw from the Danubian Principalities, Great Britain and France formally declare war |
| 1877 | Alexander II |  |
| Russia declares war on Turkey |
| 1903 | Nicholas II |  |
| Dec Japan decides to go to war with Russia |
| 1914 | Nicholas II |  |
| 1st Aug Germany declares war on Russia |
| 6th Aug Russia & Austria-Hungary are at War |
| 2nd Nov Russia declares war on Turkey |
| 1914 | Sazonov, Sergey Dmitriyevich |  |
| 1st Aug Moscow Handed a written declaration of war from the German Ambassador Count Portales |
| 1915 | Nicholas II |  |
| 19th Oct Russia and Italy declare war on Bulgaria |
| 1917 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov |  |
| Attacks the War as an "Imperialist struggle" |
| 9th Dec The Soviet Commissars declare war on the Cossack chiefs |
| 1917 | Martov, Yuly Osipovich |  |
| Heads group of Menshevik-Internationalists opposed to the war |
| 1917 | Miliukov, Paul |  |
| 22nd Mar Moscow Defines Russia's war aims |
| 1918 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov |  |
| 29th July Declares a de facto state of war against the Allies |
| 1919 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov |  |
| 6th June Karelia The beginning of a Russo-Finnish war over Karelia |
| 1939 | Stalin, Joseph |  |
| May Russia mobilizes against Japan on the border between Manchuria & Outer Mongolia |
| 1941 | Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich |  |
| 22nd June Berlin Schulenberg delivers Germany's declaration of war to Molotov |
| 1941 | Stalin, Joseph |  |
| 21st June Germany declares war on Russia shortly after the invasion |
| 1944 | Stalin, Joseph |  |
| 5th Sep Bulgaria declares war on Germany then declares an armistice with Russia |
| 5th Sep Russia declares war on Bulgaria |
| 1945 | Stalin, Joseph |  |
| 8th Aug Rusiia declares war on Japan |
| 8th Aug Russia declares war on Japan |
| 1961 | Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich |  |
| Moscow Announces he intends to support "wars of national liberation" |