Russia Physical Geography
What is the vast expanse of land known for extremely cold temperatures, and permafrost
What is Siberia?
What is the Russian term for its emperor?
What is Czar?
A peasant who was legally bound to live and work on the land of their lord for centuries in Russia
Who are Serfs?
He is the current president of Russia.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
This writer wrote a book is historic fiction concerning the Napoleonic Wars.
Leo Tolstoy. "War & Peace".
This is the dividing line between Europe and Asia
What are The Ural Mountains?
This czar had the black secret police and was a very harsh ruler.
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
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.)
He is man who killed 20 million Russians.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
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."
The longest river in Russia
What is the Volga?
The radical Communist group that took over Russia in the Russian Revolution.
Who were the Bolsheviks?
This war in the 19th century caused Russia to be stopped from getting a port in the Black Sea?
What is the Crimean War?
He was the Soviet Premier when JFK was shot dead and he attended his funeral.
Who was Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev?
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?
What is the Caspian Sea?
Who was the main leader of the Bolsheviks?
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
This Russian Leader corresponded with Voltaire and agreed largely with his ideas and brought numerous reforms to Russia.
Who was Empress Catherine the Great?
He was the last Czar of Russia.
Who was Czar Nicholas II?
This famous Russian writer's novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Brothers Karamazov (1880) and Demons (1872).
Who was Fyodor Dostoevsky?
The highest peak in Russia and is an extinct volcanon
What is Mt. Elbrus?
The letters USSR stand for what?
What is The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
The Original Capital of Russia
What is Kiev?
He was the last leader of the Soviet Union, allowing for a peaceful transition from USSR to Russia.
Who was Gorbachev?
This Russian writer defected to the USA in 1976 and wrote extensively against Communism during the Cold War especially against Joseph Stalin.
Who was Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn?