Literature/Art
Film/Music
History
Cartoons
Language
100
This novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn chronicled a single day of an ordinary inmate of the Soviet Union's Gulag prison system.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
100
This theory of film is a Russian creation, and relies on editing to create psychological meaning in a series of shots.
What is Soviet Montage?
100
This man is well known for his distinct birthmark on his head and his warm relationship with Ronald Reagan
What is Mikhail Gorbachev?
100
This famous Russian cartoon character looks like a small bear, and is very popular outside of Russia.
What is Cheburashka
100
This word means love, but can also be a person's name.
What is lubov
200
This poet and prose writer is considered Russia's national Poet.
What is Aleksandr Pushkin
200
This iconic Soviet era rock band abruptly lost their frontman, Viktor Tsoi, who was killed in a car accident in 1990.
What is Kino?
200
Stalin is originally from this country.
What is Georgia
200
Who is Cheburashka's best friend?
What is crocodile
200
The famous phrase pronounced during a Russian toast
What is na zdoroviye
300
Name this painting's composer.
What is Wassily Kandinsky
300
Russia’s most famous director, influential to the rest of cinema, responsible for films such as Battleship Potemkin and Alexander Nevsky.
What is Sergei Eisenstein?
300
This man was a Russian peasant, mystic, faith healer and private adviser to the Romanovs. His cause of death has been widely disputed.
What is Grigori Rasputin
300
This cartoon is a famous adaptation of a classic children's book and cartoon.
What is Winnie the pooh
300
In Russian, this word means peace as well as "world"
What is Mir
400
Which famous Russian novel starts with this quote: "Happy families are alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
What is Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
400
This composer revolutionized the face of contemporary 20th century music and even incited a riot with his 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring.
What is Igor Stravinsky?
400
This was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s.
What is Perestroika
400
The main character rabbit is chased by which creature?
What is a wolf
400
The word for friends
What is druz'ya
500
Name this painting's artist
What is Ilya Repin
500
The most iconic Russian composer, who gave us works like Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, and Eugene Onegin.
Who is Pyotr Tchaikovsky?
500
This is the commonly known name for the Great October Socialist Revolution (1917).
What is Bolshevik Revolution
500
This cartoon character lives on top of a roof of a building, has a propeller on his back, and is best friends with a lonely boy.
What is Carlson
500
The endearing Russian word for teddy bear
What is mishka
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