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Russian Tsars
YGK These Russians Tsars
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The first Romanov ruler, known in the West as “Ivan the Terrible” | Ivan IV |
| The Russian nickname for Ivan IV, more accurately translated as “awe-inspiring” or “menacing” | Groznyi |
| Ivan IV was proclaimed Grand Prince of Muscovy in this year | 1533 |
| Ivan IV was proclaimed tsar in this year | 1547 |
| The assembly of the land called by Ivan IV early in his reign | zemskii sobor |
| The state-within-the-state created by Ivan IV to wage war on the boyars | oprichnina |
| The period of civil strife that followed Ivan IV's reign | Time of Troubles |
| The boyar in Ivan the Terrible’s oprichnina who eventually became tsar himself | Boris Godunov |
| The person Boris Godunov was rumored to have arranged the murder of | Fyodor's brother Dmitrii |
| The person known as the subject of a Pushkin play and a Mussorgsky opera | Boris Godunov |
| The 16-year-old elected as the new tsar by a zemskii sobor in 1613 | Michael Romanov |
| Michael Romanov was a grandnephew of Ivan the Terrible’s “good” wife | Anastasia |
| Michael Romanov's father, a powerful churchman who soon became patriarch | Filaret |
| The return of relative stability and the succession of this dynasty was marked by Michael's election | Romanov dynasty |
| The ruler famous both for his push for Westernization and for his boisterous personality | Peter I (Peter the Great) |
| The event that enabled Peter I to learn about Western life and work in a Dutch shipyard | Grand Embassy to Europe |
| The group required by Peter I to shave their beards and wear Western clothing | Boyars (aristocrats) |
| The new capital founded by Peter I, his “window on the West” | St. Petersburg |
| The war in which Charles XII of Sweden was defeated at Poltava by Peter I's forces | Great Northern War |
| The system created by Peter I for the nobility | Table of Ranks |
| The group (musketeers) whose torture Peter I personally participated in after they rebelled | Streltsy |
| The ruler who had his own son executed | Peter I (Peter the Great) |
| The ruler born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst (a minor German principality) who became the future Peter III's bride | Catherine II (Catherine the Great) |
| The ruler who had her husband Peter III deposed | Catherine II (Catherine the Great) |
| The leader of the peasant uprising crushed by Catherine II | Emilian Pugachev |
| The group with whom Catherine II corresponded with about Enlightenment philosophy | Enlightenment philosophes |
| The ruler who granted charters of rights and obligations to the nobility and the towns, oversaw the partition of Poland, and expanded the empire | Catherine II (Catherine the Great) |
| The ruler known for her extravagant love life and 21 acknowledged lovers | Catherine II (Catherine the Great) |
| Catherine the Great’s lover who constructed the famous Potemkin village on an imperial inspection tour | Grigorii Potemkin |
| The ruler who took the throne in 1801 when his repressive father Paul was assassinated | Alexander I |
| The ruler known for his wars with Napoleon (first as an ally and then as an enemy) and for seeking to establish a Holy Alliance | Alexander I |
| The eccentric and religious mystic ruler who some say faked his own death and became a hermit | Alexander I |
| The ruler during the failure of the Decembrist Uprising and the middle of the Crimean War | Nicholas I |
| The policy pursued by Nicholas I's government, defending “Autocracy, Orthodoxy, and Nationality” | Official Nationality |
| The repressive secret police force established by Nicholas I | Third Section |
| The ruler referred to as the “Gendarme of Europe” after helping the Habsburgs squelch the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 | Nicholas I |
| The ruler who embarked on a program of Great Reforms near the end of the Crimean War | Alexander II |
| The most famous part of Alexander II's program, occurring in 1861 | Serf emancipation |
| The system of local governing bodies introduced by Alexander II | zemstvos |
| The ruler who became more reactionary after an attempted assassination in 1866 and was successfully assassinated in 1881 | Alexander II |
| The ruler who launched a program of “counter-reforms” after the assassination of Alexander II | Alexander III |
| The regulations enacted by Alexander III giving the state the power to crack down on terrorism | Temporary Regulations |
| The position created by Alexander III to exert state control in the countryside | Land captain |
| The ruler who either encouraged or ignored the first anti-Jewish pogroms | Alexander III |
| The last of the Romanovs who ruled until his overthrow in the February Revolution of 1917 | Nicholas II |
| The ruler seen as an incapable monarch who helped bring about the end of the tsarist state | Nicholas II |
| The ruler who led his country through two disastrous wars, the Russo-Japanese War and World War I | Nicholas II |
| The ruler who was known for his loving marriage to Alexandra and for allowing the “mad monk” Grigori Rasputin to influence court politics | Nicholas II |
| The heir to the throne whose hemophilia was treated by Grigori Rasputin | Alexei |
| The year Nicholas II abdicated | 1917 |
| The year Nicholas II was shot | 1918 |
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