Which period from 1598 to 1613, marked by famine, civil war, and foreign intervention, ended when a national assembly elected a new dynasty?

• A The Mongol Yoke
• B The Pugachev Rebellion
• C The Time of Troubles ✓
• D The Stenka Razin Uprising

The Time of Troubles (Смутное время) followed the extinction of the Rurikid dynasty; it ended with the election of Mikhail Romanov as tsar by the Zemsky Sobor in 1613.