Payment made by the Slavs to the Mongol overlords.
What is tribute?
100
St. Basil's cathedral was built in commemoration of Russia regaining the cities of Kazan and Astrakhan from them.
Who are the Mongols?
100
The current capital city of Russia.
What is Moscow?
100
The sea which separates Russia from Alaska.
What is the Bering Sea?
200
These mountains mark the boundary between Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
200
The alphabet of the Russian language.
What is cyrillic?
200
Ivan III was the first to call himself this.
What is tsar?
200
The system of government which states: "from each according the their ability, to each according to their need."
What is communism?
200
One country that borders Russia.
What is China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Finland, others.
300
The large, flat, grassland, which makes Russia vulnerable to invaders from the west.
What is the Steppe?
300
The major city of the early Russian state. Legend has it that St. Andrew visited here and predicted it would become an important Christian city with many churches.
What is Kiev?
300
He was responsible for westernizing Russia and building a new capital at St. Petersburg
Who is Peter the Great?
300
The name of Russia after the communist revolution.
What is USSR or Soviet Union?
300
The current president of Russia.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
400
Russia is so large that it is divided up into 11 of these, therefore, when it is noon in Moscow, it is 11:00 am in Kamchatka
What are time zones?
400
What the Russians called their version of Christianity.
What is orthodox?
400
They had little control over their lives and worked the land of the nobles.
Who are the serfs?
400
The term used for when Nicholas II gave up his crown.
What is to abdicate?
400
Rome was the first, Moscow was the third, this was the second.
What is Constantinople?
500
The largest freshwater lake in the world.
What is Lake Baikal?
500
The name of the Rus viking who came to rule over Russia.
Who is Rurik?
500
The death of his son brought in the "Time of Troubles.".
Who is Ivan IV?
500
One of the communist leaders of Russia between 1920-1990.
Who is Lenin or Stalin?
500
The name of the source from which historians get much of the information about early Russian history.