The House of Rurik.
The period of the Kievan Russian Empire, destroyed by the Mongol-Tatars,
and the rise of Moscovy to recentralize the demolished empire.

The House of Romanov.
Peter's Westernization of Russia culminated in the destruction of the autocracy by the Socialist Revolution of 1917.

The Communist Party maintained the Empire as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The USSR fell in 1991 and dissolved into 15 nations.

With the disintergration of the USSR in Decemeber of 1991
Russia has set out on a new road to democracy and a market economy.