Ivan III/Ivan IV
Ivan III is often described as Imperial Russia's first ______.
What is Czar?
What is he demanded men shave their beards or pay a tax?
Name for Russian nobles.
Who are boyars?
Catherine the Great was not Russian by birth. She came from this location in Central/Eastern Europe.
What is Prussia?
Central Asian grasslands that were populated by Cossacks.
What are steppes?
Ivan III referred to this Russian city as the "Third Rome."
What is Moscow?
Who did Peter's Russian military fight in the Great Northern War?
Who is Sweden?
Christian faith of most Russians.
What is Orthodox?
Catherine the Great was often referred to being a great example of this.
What is an enlightened despot?
Religion practiced by Turco-Mongol groups, it was a constant source of irritation for Christian Russia.
What is Islam?
Ivan III won Moscow's independence by standing up to this Central Asian ethnic group.
Who are the Mongols?
Peter desperately wanted this for trade and for his Russian navy.
What is a warm weather port?
Two Parts:
Ivan III's code of law, introduced in 1497.
Why it was a big deal.
What is the Sudebnik?
What is the first time a code of law was written down in Russia?
Catherine's grandson, who becomes Russian czar after the death of his father, Paul I, in 1801.
Who is Alexander I?
Who was Ivan IV's first and (possibly favorite) wife?
Who is Anastasia Romanovna?
Ivan III married the last princess from this empire.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Part of the world that Peter was obsessed in learning more about.
What is Western Europe?
In 1861, this group received their freedom because of the Emancipation Edict.
Who are serfs?
While Ivan III might have referred to himself as this, Ivan IV was the real first _______ of all Russia.
What is czar?
This was the name of Ivan IV's secret police.
What is the Oprichniki?
Area that had mostly been settled by Cossacks during the reign of Peter the Great.
What is Siberia?
Name of the Mongolian khanate from which Russia declared its independence under Ivan III.
What is the Golden Horde?
What type of Government did Catherine the Great lead?
What is an absolute monarchy?
Two groups that argue over Russia's cultural direction.
Who are Slavophiles and westerners?