Russia Physical Geography
Potpourri 1
Potpourri 2
Important Russian Leaders
Famous Writers
100

What is the vast expanse of land known for extremely cold temperatures, and permafrost

What is Siberia?

100

What is the Russian term for its emperor?

What is Czar?

100

A peasant who was legally bound to live and work on the land of their lord for centuries in Russia

Who are Serfs?

100

He is the current president of Russia and very good man?

Who is Vladimir Putin?

100

This writer wrote a book is historic fiction concerning the Napoleonic Wars.

Leo Tolstoy.  "War & Peace".

200

This is the dividing line between Europe and Asia

What are The Ural Mountains?

200

This war in the early 18th century enabled Russia to have a port to the Baltic Sea.

What is the Great Northern War?(1700 to 1721.)

200

Leader of the USSR during the great patriotic war

Who is Joseph Stalin?

200

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.

Who is Boris Pasternak? "Dr. Zhivago."

300

The longest river in Russia

What is the Volga?

300

This war in the 19th century caused Russia to be stopped from getting a port in the Black Sea?

What is the Crimean War?

300

He was the Soviet Premier when JFK was shot dead and he attended his funeral.  

Who was Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev?

300

This Russian writer loved women's feet and wrote novels including Eugene Onegin (1833), The Captain’s Daughter (1436), Dubrovsky (1841).

Who is Aleksander Pushkin?

400

The world's largest inland body of water that is south of Russia.

What is the Caspian Sea?

400

Who was the main leader of the Bolsheviks?

Who was Vladimir Lenin?

400

This Russian Leader corresponded with Voltaire and agreed largely with his ideas and brought numerous reforms to Russia.

Who was Empress Catherine the Great?

400

He was the last Czar of Russia.

Who was Czar Nicholas II?

400

This famous Russian writer's novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Brothers Karamazov (1880) and Demons (1872).

Who was Fyodor Dostoevsky?