| 1. Early History | |
| Novgorod | Volga |
| 2. Peter the Great (d. 1725) | ||
| boyars | streltsy | Nystad |
| Nerchinsk |
| 3. Catherine the Great | ||
| Pugachev | Cossack | Crimea |
B. Brandenburg/Prussia - Hohenzollerns
| Junkers | Potsdam | Silesia |
C. Austria - Habsburgs
| Wenceslas | Bohemia | Czechoslovakia |
| Croatia | Transylvania | Magyars |
| Aix-la-Chapelle | Pragmatic Sanction | |
| wheelock | Stradivarius | spinet |
| clavichord | virginal | Hitchcock |
| Stehlin | Moravia |