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Which ruler, the first crowned "Tsar of All Russia" in 1547, is remembered as "the Terrible"? | 100%/1 |
Which tsar founded St. Petersburg and dragged Russia toward Western modernity? | 100%/1 |
Which German-born empress expanded Russia and corresponded with Enlightenment philosophers? | 0%/1 |
Which tsar was the last emperor of Russia, abdicating during the 1917 Revolution? | 100%/1 |
Which tsar emancipated Russia's serfs in 1861? | 100%/1 |
Which tsar led Russia to victory over Napoleon's invasion in 1812? | 100%/1 |
Which dynasty ruled Russia from 1613 until the monarchy's fall in 1917? | 100%/1 |
Which tsar moved Russia's capital from Moscow to his new city on the Baltic? | 100%/1 |
Which empress, a daughter of Peter the Great, reigned over a glittering court in the mid-18th century? | 100%/1 |
Which first Romanov tsar was elected in 1613, ending the Time of Troubles? | 100%/1 |
Whose royal family fell under the sway of the mystic Grigori Rasputin before the Revolution? | 100%/1 |
Which tsar decisively defeated Sweden's Charles XII at the Battle of Poltava in 1709? | 100%/1 |
Which reactionary tsar succeeded Alexander II and pursued repression and "Russification"? | 100%/1 |
Which tsar's reign was rocked by the failed Decembrist Revolt of 1825 at its very outset? | 0%/1 |
Which Russian ruler greatly expanded the realm eastward and was the father of Peter the Great? | 100%/1 |
Which empress, the wife of the murdered Peter III, ruled for over three decades? | 100%/1 |
Which tsar was overthrown and killed in a 1762 coup that placed his wife on the throne? | 0%/1 |
Which tsar, "the Liberator," was killed by a bomb thrown by the revolutionary group People's Will in 1881? | 100%/1 |
Which infant emperor was deposed in 1741 and spent his life imprisoned before being killed? | 100%/1 |
Which tsar created the dreaded Oprichnina, a private corps that terrorized the Russian nobility? | 100%/1 |
Which former adviser was elected tsar in 1598 but whose death plunged Russia into the Time of Troubles? | 100%/1 |
Which eccentric tsar, son of Catherine the Great, was assassinated by his own officers in 1801? | 100%/1 |
Which empress, niece of Peter the Great, ruled Russia from 1730 to 1740 under heavy German influence? | 100%/1 |
Which tsar waged the long Great Northern War to win Russia an outlet on the Baltic Sea? | 100%/1 |
Which boy-tsar, grandson of Peter the Great, died of smallpox in 1730, ending the direct male Romanov line? | 100%/1 |
Russia's humiliating defeat in which 1850s war spurred Alexander II's "Great Reforms"? | 100%/1 |
Which tsar was the last of the Rurik dynasty, dying childless in 1598? | 100%/1 |
The crushing 1905 defeat in which war helped spark Russia's first revolution under Nicholas II? | 100%/1 |
Which grand prince, "the Great," threw off Mongol overlordship and was the grandfather of Ivan the Terrible? | 100%/1 |
Which short-lived empress, a former servant who became Peter the Great's wife, ruled briefly after his death? | 100%/1 |
The Russian title "Tsar" is a Slavic derivation of which Roman title? | 100%/1 |
Which fortified complex in Moscow was the primary residence of the tsars before the capital moved to St. Petersburg? | 100%/1 |
What was the name of Nicholas II's only son and heir, whose hemophilia was a major concern for the royal family? | 100%/1 |
Standing well over two metres, Peter the Great was famous among monarchs for which physical trait? | 100%/1 |
Who was Catherine the Great's most famous lover and a powerful statesman who helped govern the empire? | 100%/1 |
In a famous episode of rage, Ivan the Terrible struck and killed which of his sons? | 100%/1 |
Who succeeded Catherine the Great as ruler of Russia? | 100%/1 |
The Rurik dynasty, which ruled before the Romanovs, traditionally claimed descent from which people? | 100%/1 |
What symbol, adopted from the Byzantine Empire, appeared on the coat of arms of the Russian Empire? | 100%/1 |
What is the traditional branch of Christianity long associated with the Russian state and monarchy? | 100%/1 |
What was the title of the hereditary high nobility in Russia, whose power Ivan the Terrible sought to crush? | 100%/1 |
What doctrine held that Moscow was the rightful successor to Rome and Constantinople? | 100%/1 |
Peter the Great's "Table of Ranks" was a formal list of positions in the military and government based on what? | 100%/1 |
The great schism in the Russian Orthodox Church, creating the "Old Believers," occurred during the reign of which tsar? | 100%/1 |
Catherine the Great conspired with Prussia and Austria to annex the territory of which other European state? | 100%/1 |
The largest peasant uprising in Russian history, led by Yemelyan Pugachev, threatened the reign of which ruler? | 100%/1 |
To bring the church under state control, Peter the Great abolished the patriarchate and replaced it with what body? | 100%/1 |
Upon returning from his tour of Europe, Peter the Great brutally crushed a rebellion by which elite military corps? | 100%/1 |
In 1783, Catherine the Great's forces annexed what powerful Khanate on the Black Sea coast? | 100%/1 |
After defeating Napoleon, Alexander I formed the "Holy Alliance" with Austria and Prussia to promote what? | 100%/1 |
Nicholas I's official state ideology rested on the three pillars of "Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and..."? | 100%/1 |
Ivan the Terrible fought the long and costly Livonian War in an attempt to gain access to which sea? | 100%/1 |
Who served as regent of Russia for her young half-brothers Ivan V and the future Peter the Great? | 100%/1 |
Peter the Great's own son and heir, Alexei Petrovich, was tried and condemned to death for allegedly doing what? | 100%/1 |
Which liberal reformer, who proposed constitutional limits on the autocracy, was Alexander I's chief advisor before being dismissed in 1812? | 100%/1 |
The brief reign of Feodor III, Peter the Great's older half-brother, saw the abolition of what system of noble precedence? | 100%/1 |
The first Russo-Turkish War under Catherine the Great ended with which highly advantageous 1774 treaty? | 100%/1 |
Who was the powerful and arch-conservative head of the Holy Synod who was the tutor and chief ideologue for both Alexander III and Nicholas II? | 0%/1 |
The early, reformist period of Ivan the Terrible's reign was guided by a small group of advisors known as what? | 100%/1 |
At which 1770 naval battle did a Russian fleet under Alexei Orlov annihilate the Ottoman navy in the Aegean Sea? | 100%/1 |
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