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How did razin die?

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Taken to Russia tortured then beheaded

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Who was more brutal razing forces or the Russian army?

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The Russian army

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Who did pugachev claim to be? Who was he really?

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Petter 3, ex soldier and old believer

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What year did napoleons army invade?

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1812

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What happened after Napoleon took Moscow?

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Waited for surrender and then burned it

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What Russian general was instrumental in the defeat of napoleons army?

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Kutuzov

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What do those who believe that Alexander 1 died in 1825 think really happened?

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Death was staged left to live in solitude

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Name three works written by Alexander Pushkin

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Ode to freedom, Eugene onegin, and the bronze horseman

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What three cards are supposed to make Herman a rich man?

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3,7, and ace

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Who reveals the secret of the cards to Herman?

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The countess

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How did Pushkin die

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Shot in a duel died 2 days later at house

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What major event in Russian history occurred in December of 1825? Why didn’t Pushkin participate in this event?

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Uprising occurred in 1825, Pushkin still under house arrest

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What natural disaster is the setting for the bronze horseman?

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Flood

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What were the 3 pillars of official nationality as declared by Nicholas 1?

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Orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationality

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In what year were the serfs emancipated?

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1861

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What tsar was assassinated in 1881?

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Alexander 2

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What two schools of thought about Russia’s future and role in the world were opposed to one another throughout most of the 19th century?

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Slavophiles and westernizers

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For what major contribution in the field of chemistry is dimtry Mendeleev best known?

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Understanding of the properties of atoms and created a table

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What was nikolai lobachevskiis most significant contribution in the field of mathematics

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Published work on non-Euclidean geometry, the first account of the subject to appear in print.

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Name three works by Nikolai Gogol

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The overcoat, inspector general, and dead souls

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Where was Gogol born?

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Ukraine

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Who steals the important personages overcoat?????

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Akakiis ghost

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What is the name of the hero of the overcoat?

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Akakii

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What is the plot of dead souls and who have Gogol the idea for this plot?

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Tchitchikov goes around buying dead souls people spread rumors about him and he’s put in jail. Pushkin

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What are some tricks used by Gogol to become friends with Pushkin?

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Always walked where Pushkin liked to walk, had his mail delivered to his house so he saw him

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What are some characteristics of Gogols writing?

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Non- descriptive, metaphors, hyperboles, numbers

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Name three works by Mikhail lermontov

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The poets death
Borodino
The demon

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Name the occupation of two of Lermontovs Scottish ancestors

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Prophets/ WRITERS

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28
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How did lermontov die?

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In a duel

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What are some characteristics of Lermontovs writing?

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Satirical

30
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What poem was the reason for Lermontovs arrest in 1838?

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The poets death

31
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Name two operas by Mikhail Glinka

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A life for the tsar

Ruskin and Liudmilla

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What conclusions did Glinka draw from the time spent in Italy?

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He wanted to write in a Russian manner, desired to return to Russia to write Russian music

33
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Name three works by Tchaikovsky

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Sleeping beauty
The nutcracker
Swan lake

34
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Name three works by modest Mussorgsky

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Boris Godunov
Khovanshchina
The fair at sorochyntsi

35
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Name three works by rimsky- korsakov

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The snow maiden
Sadly
Tsar saiyan

36
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Which member of the five suffered from severe alcoholism

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Modest Mussorgsky

37
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Where did the members of the five turn in search of a truly Russian music?

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Moscow

38
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Name three works by Leo Tolstoy

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War and peace
Anna Karenina
Three deaths

39
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What is yasnaya polyana?

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Leo tolstoys house

40
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Which French writer and philosopher had an enormous impact on tolstoys views

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Jean- Jacques Rousseau

41
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What occurred in tolstoys life in 1878?

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Experienced time of doubt which he called conversion to teachings of Jesus

42
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What are some characteristics of tolstoys post 1878 philosophy?

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Eating meat wrong, smoking drinking sinful, religion wrong, private property theft, death penalty wrong

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What event in Russia serves as the setting of war and peace?

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Decemberist uprising

44
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Name two works by Ivan Turgenev

A

Fathers and sons

A sport and sketches

45
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With what literary style is Turgenev most often associated?

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Objective realism

46
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What was turgenevs mother like?

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Arrogant and overbearing

47
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Which great Russian writer challenges Turgenev to a duel?

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Leo Tolstoy

48
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Name three works by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Crime and punishment
The brothers karamazov
Poor folk

49
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What did dostoevsky believe about his fathers death? Was he right?

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Believed his father was murdered by serfs, was wrong died of stroke

50
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What was dostoevskys original sentence after his arrest? How was this sentence changed?

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Sentenced to death. Changed to ten years in prison and exile in Siberia

51
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What are some of Ivan karamazovs arguments against God in rebellion?

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????

52
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How does dostoevskys Christ respond to the grand inquisitors argument?

A

Look at John the Baptist

53
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Name three works by Anton Chekhov

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The cherry orchard
Uncle vanyana
The chameleon

54
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What was chekhovs childhood like?

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Worked hard to keep his fathers shop running

55
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Other than writing what other profession did Chekhov practice?

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Doctor

56
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Name the two genres in which Chekhov was the most influential

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Theater and plays

57
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Why did Chekhov die so young?

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Tuberculosis

58
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Dead run the character openly from chekhovs the darling

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Beautiful, emotional, soft hearted , milf and tender eyes

59
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What holiday do Russians celebrate on March 8?

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International women’s day

60
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Who were the peredvizhniki?

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Group of Russian realists who formed an artists cooperative

61
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Who was the last of Russia’s tsars?

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Nicholas 2

62
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Who was the first leader of the Soviet Union?

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Joseph Stalin

63
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Who was the first head of the red army?

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Leon Trotsky

64
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With what country was Russia at war with in 1904-1905?

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Japan

65
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What event in 1905 caused many workers and peasants to lose faith in the goodness and kindness of the tsar?

A

Bloody Sunday in which tsar troops fired on peaceful demonstrations in st. Petersburg

66
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What major event in European history may have been the final factor in destabilizing the tsar government, making it susceptible to revolution?

A

World war 1

67
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What Russian philosopher had a great influence on the symbolists? Please give a brief description of his philosophy

A

Vladimir solovyov

68
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Name three works by Alexander blok

A

The stranger
The twelve
Scythians

69
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Who is carrying the red banner ahead of the revolutionaries in the poem the twelve?

A

Jesus Christ

70
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What did Andrew belt consider to be the highest form of art?

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Music

71
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Upon what did Zinaida hippius think that art should focus?

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Spiritual side of things

72
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What literary movement represented by Akhmatova, Mandelshtam, and Gumilev arose as a response to what its adherents considered to be the excessive mysticism of symbolism?

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The Acmeists movement

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