Russia Physical Geography
What is the vast expanse of land known for extremely cold temperatures, and permafrost
Siberia
What is the Russian term for its emperor?
Czar
A peasant who was legally bound to live and work on the land of their lord for centuries in Russia
Serfs
He is the current president of Russia.
Vladimir Putin
This writer wrote a book is historic fiction concerning the Napoleonic Wars.
Leo Tolstoy "War & Peace".
This is the dividing line between Europe and Asia
The Ural Mountains
This czar had the black secret police and was a very harsh ruler.
Ivan the Terrible
This war in the early 18th century enabled Russia to have a port to the Baltic Sea.
The Great Northern War (1700 to 1721.)
He is man who killed 20 million Russians.
Joseph Stalin
This Russian writer wrote a book on the Russian revolution about a romance between a doctor and a mysterious woman named Lara, that led to a movie starring Omar Sharif in 1965.
Boris Pasternak "Dr. Zhivago."
The longest river in Russia
The Volga?
The radical Communist group that took over Russia in the Russian Revolution.
The Bolsheviks
This war in the 19th century caused Russia to be stopped from getting a port in the Black Sea?
The Crimean War
He was the Soviet Premier when Jhon Kennedy was shot dead and he attended his funeral.
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
This Russian writer loved women's feet and wrote novels including Eugene Onegin (1833), The Captain’s Daughter (1436), Dubrovsky (1841).
Aleksander Pushkin
The world's largest inland body of water that is south of Russia.
The Caspian Sea
Who was the main leader of the Bolsheviks?
Vladimir Lenin
This Russian Leader corresponded with Voltaire and agreed largely with his ideas and brought numerous reforms to Russia.
Empress Catherine the Great
He was the last Czar of Russia.
Czar Nicholas II
This famous Russian writer's novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Brothers Karamazov (1880) and Demons (1872).
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The highest peak in Russia and is an extinct volcano
Mountain Elbrus
The letters USSR stand for what?
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The Original Capital of Russia
Kiev
He was the last leader of the Soviet Union, allowing for a peaceful transition from USSR to Russia.
Gorbachev
This Russian writer defected to the USA in 1976 and wrote extensively against Communism during the Cold War especially against Joseph Stalin.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn