Russian Dates

Question 0

1237

Answer 0

Bantu Khan’s full-scale Mongol invasion of Rus begins and lasts until 1240

Question 1

988

Answer 1

Vladimir the Great converts Kievan Rus to Christianity

Question 2

1380

Answer 2

Battle of Kulikovo - Dmitri of Moscow fends off the Golden Horde under Mamai, Russia emerges as nation

Question 3

1598

Answer 3

Time of troubles begins, lasts until 1613

Question 4

1613

Answer 4

House of Romanov takes power over Russia, Time of Troubles ends

Question 5

1725

Answer 5

Peter (I) the Great dies, Catherine I takes power

Question 6

1801

Answer 6

Alexander I takes power

Question 7

1812

Answer 7

War of 1812’ Napoleon holds Moscow for a whopping 1 month

Question 8

1861

Answer 8

Emancipation of Serfdom by Alexander II

Question 9

1881

Answer 9

Alexander II assassinated, Alexander III takes power

Question 10

1905

Answer 10

Russo-Japanese war, also the Revolution of 1905

Question 11

1914

Answer 11

A young Serbian student affiliated with the Black Hand assassinates the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, plunging the entire world into its first war.

Question 12

1917

Answer 12

The Oktyabrya Revolution: Lenin and the Bolshevik party overthrow the Provisional Government in Petrograd