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