Tsarist Russia - Quiz
A) A council of merchants and boyars B) Extraordinary dominance of the central Russian monarch C) A decentralized feudal confederation D) A democratic parliamentary system
A) Only during the 19th century B) It was never an autocratic monarchy in theory C) Only during the final decade of its existence D) For most of its history
A) Ivan the Great B) Peter the Great C) Catherine the Great D) Vasily III
A) Dyaki B) Boyars C) Serfs D) Chinovniki
A) Chinovniki B) Boyars C) Appanages D) Dyaki
A) Alexander Herzen B) Ivan the Great C) Peter the Great D) Vasily III
A) 1728 B) 1505 C) 1762 D) 1712
A) Winter Palace B) Grand Kremlin Palace C) Nyenschantz D) The Kremlin
A) Peter II B) Anna C) Ivan the Great D) Peter the Great
A) 200,000 B) 100,000 C) 500,000 D) 50,000
A) Rapid industrial expansion B) A romantic narrative of a state oriented around its people C) The complete abolition of the monarchy D) Democratic liberalism
A) House of Windsor B) House of Habsburg C) House of Rurik D) House of Romanov
A) The gradual liberation of the individual B) The introduction of parliamentarianism C) Modernization meant to serve the existing structure D) The total rejection of technology
A) 1849 B) 1730 C) 1712 D) 1722
A) The Gulf of Finland B) The Neva C) Moscow D) Nyenschantz
A) Russo-Japanese War B) The Russian Civil War C) World War I D) The February Revolution
A) A strike by female workers B) The coronation of Michael C) The assassination of Nicholas II D) An invasion by Germany
A) Vladimir Lenin B) His brother Michael C) His son Alexei D) Alexander Kerensky
A) The Bolsheviks blocked the succession B) Alexei refused the throne C) Alexei had haemophilia D) Alexei was not his heir
A) The Soviet Union B) A constitutional monarchy C) The Russian Empire D) A liberal republic
A) Michael B) Alexander Kerensky C) Nicholas II D) Vladimir Lenin
A) November 1917 B) September 1916 C) March 1917 D) July 1918
A) The liberals B) The Whites C) The Bolsheviks D) The monarchists
A) If his brother abdicated properly B) If offered by a constitutional assembly C) If the war ended D) If the Bolsheviks were defeated
A) Japan B) France C) Germany D) Britain
A) 1712 B) 1721 C) 1696 D) 1682
A) Decembrist revolt and French Revolution B) Narodnaya Volya uprising and the Seven Years' War C) Bulavin Rebellion and Streltsy uprising D) Crimean revolt and Spring of Nations
A) Poltava B) Narva C) Saint Petersburg D) Nyenschantz
A) May 27, 1703 B) 1712 C) 1696 D) 1721
A) Imperator B) Sovereign C) Rex D) Emperor of the West
A) 1762 B) 1848 C) 1812 D) 1815
A) Nihilism and Anarchism B) Marxism and Socialism C) Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality D) Westernization and Liberalism
A) The Russian nobility B) French revolutionaries C) Slavophiles D) Narodnaya Volya
A) Finland and Poland B) Estonia and Livonia C) Crimea and the Caucasus D) Sweden and Denmark
A) South Slavs B) East Slavs C) West Slavs D) Germanic tribes
A) Yaroslav the Wise B) Oleg C) Rurik D) Ivan III
A) Yaroslav the Wise B) Vasily II C) Rurik D) Oleg
A) Byzantine Empire B) Ottoman Empire C) Roman Empire D) Mongol Empire
A) Kievan Rus B) Golden Horde C) Siberian Khanate D) Tatar Yoke
A) 1478 B) 1480 C) 1462 D) 1448
A) 1478 B) 1547 C) 1471 D) 1480
A) Fall of the Byzantine Empire B) Battle of Shelon C) Coronation of Ivan IV D) Standoff at the Ugra River
A) Autocracy B) Third Rome C) Slavophilism D) Tatar Yoke
A) Astrakhan B) Golden Horde C) Siberia D) Kazan
A) Zemsky Sobor B) Cossacks C) Oprichniki D) Streltsy
A) Moscow B) Novgorod C) Astrakhan D) Kazan
A) Cossacks B) Boyars C) Oprichniki D) Streltsy
A) 1472–1922 B) 1453–1917 C) 1547–1917 D) 1500–1900
A) Kaiser B) Princeps C) Imperator D) Caesar
A) Constantine the Great B) Julius Caesar C) Thomas of Morea D) Augustus
A) Italian B) Spanish C) French D) German
A) Norman gallicization B) Roman influence C) German migration D) Byzantine trade
A) 1453 B) 1547 C) 1721 D) 1472
A) Constantine XI B) A Tatar princess C) Sophia Palaiologina D) Catherine the Great
A) 1484 B) 1547 C) 1453 D) 1472
A) Shaving their beards B) Wearing traditional tunics C) Cutting their hair short D) Speaking French only
A) 1721 B) 1547 C) 1800 D) 1742
A) Higher than an emperor B) Equal to an emperor C) A religious title only D) Lower than an emperor
A) Eastwards into Siberia B) Westwards into Germany C) Southwards into India D) Northwards into the Arctic
A) Kiev B) Saint Petersburg C) Novgorod D) Moscow
A) Crimean War B) Napoleonic Wars C) Great Northern War D) Russo-Japanese War
A) Petrograd B) Leningrad C) Moscow D) Kiev
A) October Revolution B) Great Northern War C) Crimean War D) 1905 Revolution
A) Imperators B) Sovereigns C) Tsars D) Boyars
A) The Crown of the Tsars B) Imperial crown of Russia C) Monomakh's Cap D) Byzantine Diadem
A) The Byzantine Empire B) The Bulgarians C) The Mongols D) The Swiss
A) Duma Constitution B) Pauline Laws C) Petrine Reforms D) Byzantine Succession Acts
A) State Duma B) Zemsky Sobor C) Most Holy Synod D) Governing Senate
A) Pyotr Stolypin B) Nicholas II C) Alexander Kerensky D) Mikhail Speransky
A) Tsarevich B) Autocrat C) Tsesarevich D) Grand Prince
A) Theodora B) Catherine the Great C) Maria Temryukovna D) Eudoxia Lopukhina
A) Voevody B) Zemsky Sobor C) Prikazy D) Oprichnina
A) Nine collegia B) The Holy Synod C) The Senate D) Provincial assemblies
A) 20 B) 105 C) 81 D) 9
A) The nomadic Tatar tribes B) The Eastern Orthodox Church C) The merchant guild D) The military elite
A) The Russian Empire of 1914 B) Kievan Rus C) The Tsardom of Russia D) The Grand Principality
A) 1.38% B) 0.5% C) 5.5% D) 10%
A) Table of Ranks B) Velvet Book C) Boyar Duma D) Charter to the Gentry
A) Peter the Great B) Ivan the Terrible C) Ivan the Great D) Feodor III
A) Petty nobility B) The boyars C) Provincial gentry D) Wealthy magnate families
A) The merchant class B) Service noblemen C) Foreign advisors D) The priesthood
A) gosudarstvennye krestiane B) krepostnye krestiane C) tsarevichs D) boyars
A) serfs of the nobility B) krepostnye krestiane C) urban laborers D) gosudarstvennye krestiane
A) The Emancipation Edict B) Sobornoye Ulozheniye C) The Code of the Boyars D) The Statute of the Tsars
A) serfdom B) barshchina C) obrok D) tributary system
A) tithe B) barshchina C) obrok D) corvée
A) Dmitry of Uglich B) Yemelyan Pugachev C) Alexander II D) Bolotnikov
A) 14th century B) 18th century C) 16th century D) 19th century
A) The Industrial Revolution B) The Russian Revolution C) The Mongol Conquest D) The Black Death
A) Monastic clergy B) The Bishop class C) The Holy Synod D) Parish clergy
A) It was expanded B) It remained unchanged C) It was granted to the nobility D) It was terminated
A) The Intelligentsia B) The Monastic Council C) The Duma D) The Holy Synod
A) Peter the Great B) A representative of the Kadets C) Catherine the Great D) Metropolitan Tikhon
A) Kupechestvo B) Raznochintsy C) Octobrists D) Kadets
A) The factory owners B) The raznochintsy C) The kupechestvo D) The parish clergy
A) Marxists B) Monarchists C) Liberal capitalists D) Religious extremists
A) Land owner B) Servant of the state C) Warrior of the steppe D) Free man
A) Rada B) Zemstvo C) Duma D) Soviet
A) The Treaty of the Wild Fields B) The Treaty of Moscow C) The Pereiaslav Agreement D) The Cossack Charter
A) They forced the Tsar to flee to Siberia B) They led to the overthrow of the Tsar C) They established a new democratic republic D) They were brutally crushed |
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