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Who was the was of 1812 fought against?
What is the French
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Stanislavski's student, a famous actor and theater director, in whose honor the Moscow Art Theater was renamed in 1926.
What is Vakhtangov (Вахтангов)
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Pushkin's short story "The Station Master" (Станционный смотритель) is part of what cycle of stories?
Повести покойного Ивана Петровича Белкина (The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin)
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Who won Eurovision in 2008?
What is Dima Bilan?
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This bearlike critter (who is very friendly with a certain alligator) is a popular Russian children's character
What is Cheburashka
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Who was Russia's first emperor?
What is Peter I?
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Who composed the ballet "Romeo and Juliet"?
What is Prokofiev?
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Who was Poligraph Poligraphovich (Полиграф Полиграфович Шариков) before his first operation?
A nice stray dog named Sharik. (Шарик)
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A current reality TV show about Russian woman on Brighton Beach.
What is Russian Dolls.
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This Russian composer is famous for works such as "The Rite of Spring" and "The Firebird"
Who is Igor Stravinsky
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Who were the two people arguing (with the help of interpreters) during the Kitchen Debates?
US President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev (Хрущёв)
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It is like no other Russian building. Nothing similar can be found in the entire millennium of Byzantine tradition from the fifth to fifteenth century ... a strangeness that astonishes by its unexpectedness, complexity and dazzling interleaving of the manifold details of its design.
What is Saint Basil's Cathedral? (Собор Василия Блаженного)
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1) "Где это видано, где это слыхано/ папа решает а Вася сдает": стихи из какого рассказа? 2) Where is Koschei's soul hidden? (Кощей) 3) By the end of the Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (by Pushkin), what does the old woman end up with?
1) Денискины рассказы, сам рассказ так и называется 2) His soul is hidden separate from his body inside a needle, which is in an egg, which is in a duck, which is in a hare, which is in an iron chest, which is buried under a green oak tree, which is on the island of Buyan, in the ocean. 3) Nothing, her old cracked washboard.
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Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1994?
Burnt by the Sun Утомленные солнцем
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This Russian soccer player is captain of the Russian national team and currently plays for Arsenal in the English Premier League
Who is Andrei Arshavin
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Dostoevsky supported the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 because of his belief in?
What is Slavophilism? (почвенничество)
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1) Morning in a Pine Forest (Утро в сосновом бору), which you can see on Russian chocolates called Clubfooted bear (Косолапый мишка), is painted by whom? 2) Who are the three bogatyr's depicted on Vasnetsov's painting? (Кто три богатыря?)
1) Shishkin! (Шишкин) 2) Ilya Muromets, Dobrynya Nikitich, Alyosha Popovich Добрыня Никитич, Илья Муромец и Алёша Попович
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What do the three sisters, (Masha, Olga and Irina) dream of?
Going to Moscow.
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A social media site, whose developers seem to be very much in touch with facebook's design
What is Vkontakte
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This railroad system is the longest in the world and links Moscow (in the western part of Russia) to Vladivostok (which is on the Sea of Japan)
What is the Trans-Siberian Railway
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How many republics were in the Soviet Union in 1930?
7. (РСФСР, УССР, БССР, ЗСФСР, Туркменская ССР, Узбекская ССР, Таджикская ССР)
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What are Hotel Ukraina, Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Apartments, the Kudrinskaya Square Building, the Hotel Leningradskaya, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the main building of the Moscow State University, and the Red Gates Administrative Building? (Гостиница Украина, МГУ, Здание Министерства иностранных дел, и тд.)
The Seven Sisters. Сталинские Высотки.
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What is the second sentence in Anna Karenina?
Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. Все смешалось в доме Облонских
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When will Russia be hosting the World Cup?
2018
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International Women's Day is held on this day of the year
What is March 8
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