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He was responsible for "westernizing" Russia.
Who is Peter the Great?
100
Absolute ruler with total power.
What is an autocrat?
100
Russia is located on these two continents.
What is Europe and Asia?
100
Russia was once a part of this world super-power.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
100
The most common language in Russia.
What is Russian?
200
This man solidified the position of Czar as an autocrat.
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
200
The type of alphabet used in Russia.
What is Cyrillic?
200
These mountains split Russia between two continents.
What are the Ural Mountains?
200
Russia owes its survival to this infamous general.
What is general winter?
200
This religion is most commonly practiced in Russia.
What is Christianity?
300
She encouraged French learning and enlightened thinking throughout Russia, much to her detriment.
Who is Catherine the Great?
300
This group represented the elite, land owning class of Russian society.
What is the nobles?
300
This is a large mass of arctic tundra and forest located in central Russia.
What is Siberia?
300
A political ideology that became very popular amond the serfs due to their poverty.
What is marxism?
300
He is the first Russian born NHL player to win that league's scoring title?
Who is Alexander Ovechkin?
400
He united all of Russia and became the first Czar?
Who is Ivan III (the great)?
400
This group of people lived to serve the upper class of Russian society.
Who are the serfs?
400
For most of the year thsi causes Russian ports to be blocked.
What is ice?
400
He invaded Russia and nearly conquered it during the 1800's.
Who is Napoleon?
400
The Soviet Union played and was defeated by this nation in the 1980 Winter Olympic hockey championship game.
Who is the USA!!!???
500
He was the last Czar of Russia.
Who is Nicholas II?
500
These people invaded and conquered the slavs, forcing them to pay tribute for hundred of years.
Who are the mongols?
500
This is a persistent problem with much of the Russian soil virtually all year.
What is permafrost?
500
This nation invaded Russia during WWII and nearly took over the entire country.
What is Germany?
500
Russia's most valuable resource.
What is oil?