Ivan the terrible attacked this group as a means of furthering tsarist autocracy
Who are the boyars?
100
Labor obligations of Russian peasants to either their aristocratic landlords or to the state; typical of increased labor burdens placed on Russian peasantry during the 18th century
What are Obroks?
100
Son of Alexis, changed selected aspects of Russian economy and culture through imitation of Western forms
Who was Peter I?
100
In 1500, this Eastern European state was the largest aside from Russia
What is Poland?
100
Russian tsar most known for traveling "incognito" through Europe in order to aquaint himself with western culture
Who was Peter I (the Great)?
200
Ivan III was responsible for military campaigns that freed much of Russia from these overlords
Who are the Mongols?
200
The system of agricultural labor popular in eastern Europe in which peasants had no rights or freedoms and were bound to the land
What are serfdom?
200
The first Romanov Tsar, established internal order following the era of political disturbance
Who was Michael?
200
Cossacks helped to expand Russia into an empire in this way
What is by migrating to newly seized lands and establishing a new nobility?
200
Peter the Great's policy of cultural westernization was directed primarily at this group
What is the nobility?
300
Ivan the Great's claim that Russia was the successor of the Byzantine Empire implied that Russia was this
What is the "Third Rome"?
300
Peter the Great's program of economic development centered in this industry
What are mining and metallurgical industries?
300
Wife of Ivan IV, from whom the first Romanov tsar inherited claim to throne
Who was Anastasia Romanov?
300
One motivation for Russian expansion was payback toward this group of people
Who were the Mongols?
300
Peter the Great moved his captial from Moscow to this Baltic city
What is St. Petersburg?
400
The Time of Troubles followed the death of which Russian Tsar?
Who was Ivan IV?
400
Change in Russian serfdom in 1649
What is it became hereditary?
400
Russia secured part of the Ukraine and pushed is southern border to Ottoman lands under this Russian tsar
Who was Michael?
400
Division of territory among Russia, Prussia, and Austria in 1772, 1793, and 1795; elminated this state; part of expansion of Russian influence in Eastern Europe
What is the division of Poland?
400
18th century ruler of Russia who flirted vigorously with the ideas of the French Enlightenment and invited French philosophers for visits
Who was Catherine the Great?
500
Ivan III was a noble in this Russian duchy which would become the first capital of the Russian empire
What is Moscow?
500
A Cossack chieftain who claimed to be the legitimate tsar and launched a rebellion against tsarist authority, promising to abolish serfdom, taxation, and military conscription
Who was Pugachev?
500
This Russian tsar increased state control over the church and abolished the assemblies of nobles
Who was Alexis?
500
Russian colonization was often aided by the exhile of these Russians who refused to accept the ecclesiastical reforms of the Romanovs
Who are the Old believers?
500
The location of Peter the Great's new capital along the river was significant in his creation of this