История
These were the two famous economic policies introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev.
Glasnost' & perestroika
This mountain range separates Europe from Asia.
Ural Mountains
In this 1866 Dostoevsky novel, a student named Raskolnikov murders an old woman pawnbroker and her sister.
Crime and Punishment
Russian belongs to this language group.
Slavic
Russians love to spend their summers here.
Дача (на даче)
In 1240 his grandson Batu invaded Kyiv and Russia became part of the Mongol Empire.
Genghis Khan
This lake is the deepest in the world and holds 20% of the world’s fresh water.
Lake Baikal
This Taras Bulba author wrote his masterpiece Dead Souls while living in Rome.
Nikolay Vasilevich Gogol
This is a traditional pot for delivering and serving tea and coffee.
Самовар (Samovar)
In Russia, Christmas is celebrated on this date.
Boris Godunov’s death in 1605 brought on the age in Russian history known as the Time of these.
Troubles
This geographic feature separates Russia from the United States.
Bering Strait
This 1957 Pasternak novel was finally published in the USSR in 1987.
Dr. Zhivago
Russian is written in this alphabet.
Cyrillic
A traditional fermented beverage made from rye or barley.
Квас (Kvas)
After marrying Peter III, the German princess Sophie Friederike Auguste took this Russian name.
Екатерина Великая (Catherine the Great)
Russia crosses this many time zones.
11
As this Chekhov play ends, trees on the Ranevskaya estate are being cut down to build a housing development.
The Cherry Orchard
Спасибо (Spasibo) is a contraction of these words.
Спаси Бог (Spasi Bog)
Russians celebrate this on April 12.
Cosmonautics Day
The serfs were formally freed in … and/or by….
1861 by Alexander II
The Trans-Siberian railway starts in this city and ends in this city.
Moscow-Vladivostok
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” is the opening of this Russian novel.
Anna Karenina
When someone says Ни пуха ни пера, you respond this.
К чёрту!
Black, Red, and White Russian Squares are iconic paintings of this Russian artist.
Kazimir Malevich