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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| First Romanov Tsar | Mikhail Romanov |
| Catastrophe that Muscovy endured in the two decades or so before the election of the first Romanov tsar. | the Time of Troubles |
| Russia's first national opera | composed by Mikhail Glinka |
| Ivan the Terrible's son who apparently died in an accident in Uglich in 1591 but then was miraculously "resurrected" and claimed the tsar's throne in 1605 | Dmitrii |
| The country whose king attempted to place his son Wladyslaw on the Muscovite throne in 1610 | Poland |
| The country that deized Novgorod during the Time of Troubles but returned it after a treaty with Muscovy in 1617 | Sweden |
| The institution or labor system that was introduced gradually in Muscovy from the 1580s and was fully established in the Law Code of 1649 | Serfdom |
| Nicholas II's father | Alexander III |
| The German territory (state) from which the empress Alexandra came to Russia | Hesse |
| The denomination of Christianity from which Nicholas's future wife | Alix |
| City where Nicholas II was crowned in 1896 (all Russian rulers were crowned there). | Moscow |
| Tsarevich Alexander Nikolaevich takes a 20 | 000km trip in Russia during which year? |
| Th nobility is freed from mandatory service--a first step towards ser emancipation in what year? | 1762 |
| Nicholas marries Alexandra and becomes tsar & emperor in what year? | 1894 |
| Revolutionaries known as "Decembrists" unsuccessfully attempt revolution in which year? | 1825 |
| The Romanov dynasty begins to rule Russia in which year? | 1613 |
| Russia receives a national representative assembly | the Duma |
| When were serfs are formally emancipated | even though redemption payments remained? |
| Nicholas II abdicates and ended the Romanov dynasty in which year? | 1917 |
| The Siberian village in which Grigory Rasputin was born in 1869 and to which he returned frequently during his wandering stage. | Pokrovskoe |
| The city in the north Urals where the Bolsheviks executed the Romanov family in 1918 | Yekaterinburg |
| The surname of a peasant who | according to legend and in Glinka's opera |
| The surname of the famous poet (first name Vasilii) | who accompanied the heir Alexander Nikolaevich on his trip through Russia |
| The town with the monastery at which the first Romanov was proclaimed tsar (and which was thus an important site for the heir | Alexander Nikolaevich |
| The dynasty that ruled Rus and then Muscovy from ca. 862 until 1598 | Rurikid |
| The name | in a remarkable coincidence |
| A member of the highest nobility or aristocracy in Muscovite Russia | in contrast to lower nobility or service gentry. |
| The Frenchman who claimed rare healing powers and preceded Rasputin as "Our Friend" for Nicholas & Alexandra | Philippe Nazier-Vachod |
| Russia's capital before it was St Petersburg | and also the place of Alexander Nikolaevich's birth in 1818 |
| The boyar (first name Boris) who effectively ruled on behalf of the last Rurikid | Feodor |
| The syllabus for this course states that by discharging al assignments and applying the instructor's advice | students may be "certifiably bad-ass." (T/F) |
| Nicholas and Alexandra corresponded with one another | and generally spoke with one another |
| When sending his son on a grand tour | Nicholas I was eager to have local governors and mayors spruce up their towns and villages |
| Although newspapers and propaganda presented the people's reaction to the heir in terms of "rapture | ""endearment |
| Though outwardly religious | both Nicholas & Alexandra had by 1905 become |
| Nicholas II had decidedly greater love for medieval Moscow and for Tsarskoe Selo (a settlement on the outskirts of the capital) than for modern Petersburg itself. (T/F) | True |
| Name the year in which the Romanovs became Russia's ruling dynasty. | 1613 |
| Name the town with the monastery at which the first Romanov was proclaimed tsar (the coronation was in Moscow). | Kostroma |
| Name the city whose incorporation into Muscovy in 1654 represented a key moment in the country's growing (if still cautious) embrace of things western. | Kiev |
| Name the Romanov ruler who declared Russia to be an "empire" and accordingly took the title "emperor" in 1721. | Peter I |
| Name the country whose defeat at the hands of Russia in 1721 provided the occasion to rename the country "the Russian Empire." | Sweden |
| Name the ruler who decreed that the tsar/emperor should choose his own successor—and then failed to do so. | Peter I |
| Name the ruler who | before perishing in the last palace coup |
| Name the country from which Nicholas II's mother hailed. | Denmark |
| Name the country in which a crazed man attacked the future 1% Nicholas II during his trip to the east and nearly killed him. | Japan |
| Name the German territory (or state) from which the empress Alexandra came to Russia. | Hesse |
| Name the year in which Nicholas Aleksandrovich began his reign as Nicholas II (the same year he was married). | 1894 |
| Name the early-modern Muscovite century that Nicholas I idealized politically and even aesthetically (e.g. | in architecture). |
| Provide the name given to the killing of over 100 workers who came to the Winter Palace to petition Nicholas II in January 1905. | Bloody Sunday |
| Name the room (hall) where Nicholas formally opened the first session of the first Duma. | The Throne Room |
| Name the year in which Peter Stolypin dissolved the Duma and changed the electoral law before the next election. | 1907 (June 3) |
| Name the core legal enactment that appeared in Russia originally in 1832 and then was modified in 1906 to reflect the October Manifesto and the appearance of a new Duma. | Fundamental Laws |
| Name the institution | originally created in 1810 |
| Name the first phase of the revolutionary movement (1860s-70s) that featured advocacy of peasant socialism and eventually terrorism. | Populism/Populist-Socialism |
| The prince and companion (first name Esper) of the future Nicholas II's journey to the East who emphasized Russia's affinities with "Asians" | Ukhtomskii |
| The Constitutional Democratic party in the Duma area | oppositional liberals |
| The world-be revolutionaries who attempted | unsuccessfully |
| The more moderate branch of the RSDRP that split from Lenin's faction in 1903. | Mensheviks |
| The name of the palace where the State Duma actually convened | Tauride |
| The Orthodox cleric who led petitioning workers to the Winter Palace in Khodynka 1905 | only to see more than a hundred of them gunned down by troops. |
| The moderate liberal political party that embraced the October Manifesto was one of the largest parties in the 3rd Duma | Octobrists |
| The tsarist minister of finance in 1892-1903 (first name Sergei) who later induced Nicholas to issue the October Manifesto and was its principal author | Witte |
| The location near Moscow of the tragedy of 1896 | in connection with Nicholas II's coronation |
| The man who became interior minister and then prime minister and combined reform & repression in response to the Revolution of 1905 | Stolypin |
| Although propaganda presented the people's reaction to the heir Alexander Nikolaevich on his long trip across Russia in terms of "rapture" & "endearment | " by their documented behavior ordinary subjects were clearly indifferent or even hostile to the monarchy. (T/F) |
| Nicholas and Alexandra had four daughters before their first son was finally born. (T/F) | True |
| The only Duma to have lasted its entire five-year term was the second one | after the first was dissolved in 1906. (T/F) |
| After 1906 | the emperor's veto of provisions passed by both houses of the new parliament could be overridden with a 2/3 vote in each of them. (T/F) |
| After 1906 | the government could legally enact laws when the Duma was out session if there were "extraordinary circumstances" and if the government introduced the same measure to the Duma within two months of its next convening. (T/F) |
| After a local investigation in 1907-08 in Tobolsk province | Rasputin was imprisoned for belonging to a strange religious sect known as the khlysty. (T/F) |
| Despite rumors to the contrary | Nicholas & Alexandra first met Rasputin only in 1910. (T/F) |
| Russia's government began aggressively promotion industrialization as soon as the serf emancipation had occurred in 1861. (T/F) | False |
| People inhabiting Central Asia had no representation in the Duma after 1907. (T/F) | True |
| People's Will succeeded in assassinating Alexander I on March 1, 1893. (T/F) | False |
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