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100
This is the deepest lake in the world.
What is Lake Baikal?
100
This early leader introduced Christianity to Russia.
Who is Vladimir?
100
This fairy tale is about a young girl named Marushka.
What is "Tale of the Firebird"?
100
This is the name of land that remains frozen all year long.
What is permafrost?
100
This is the year the East and West branches of the Christian Church split.
What is 1054?
200
This river runs through St. Petersburg.
What is the Neva River?
200
This leader is famous for having westernized Russia.
Who is Peter the Great?
200
This technological achievement is praised in a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
200
This is what prevented the Mongols from taking Novgorod.
What is an early thaw?
200
This is the wall that is located in front of the icon in Orthodox churches.
What is an iconostasis?
300
This mountain range separates Europe from Asia.
What are the Urals?
300
This tsar emancipated the serfs.
Who is Alexander II?
300
This writer tells the story of a man who dies out of shame for sneezing on an official.
Who is Anton Chekhov?
300
This is the biome that covers most of Russia.
What is the taiga?
300
This calendar is still used by the Orthodox church.
What is the Julian calendar?
400
This was the second largest Soviet republic.
What is Kazakhstan?
400
A famous portrait of this leader shows her in a park with a dog.
Who is Catherine the Great?
400
The hero of this fairy tale begins his life as a cripple.
Who is Ilya Muromets?
400
These geographical features, common on Kamchatka, are studied by scientists like Sergei of our Discovery Channel video.
What are volcanoes?
400
This ruler made Christianity legal in the Roman Empire.
Who is Constantine?
500
This city was recently hit by a meteor.
What is Chelyabinsk?
500
This leader, the last son of Ivan the Terrible, was called 'the Feebleminded.'
Who is Fyodor?
500
These are the instruments played by members of the Russian group 'Crystal Harmony.'
What are wine glasses?
500
This biome, found in Northern Russia, is characterized by lichens and moss, or no vegetation at all.
What is the tundra?
500
This church in Constantinople inspired the architecture of many Russian churches.
What is St. Sophia?