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Mongol rulers modeled absolute power for later Russian rulers. Ivan the Great started the autocrat style of ruling in Russia when he tried to limit the power of the boyars (great landowning nobles).
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The chronological order of the empires is:RomanMongolRussianSoviet
Mayo
Moscow
Alexander Nevsky
Al Quida
Ivan III of Moscow finally broke Mongol rule over Russia in 1480
Lenin was part Mongol, Jewish, Swedish and German. He was not Russian at all as far as ancestry goes.