Russian History Flashcards
How many times zones are in Russia
11
What’s the capital of Russia
Moscow
How do you say yes in Russian
Duh
1st president of Russia
Yeltsin
988
Russia adopts Christianity
Peter the great
A Russian czar of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries who tried to transform Russia from a backward nation into a progressive one by introducing customs and ideas from western European countries.
Catherine the great
An empress of Russia in the late eighteenth century who encouraged the cultural influences of western Europe in Russia and extended Russian territory toward the Black Sea. She is also known for her amorous intrigues, including affairs with members of her government.
Decembrist revolt
December 26, 1825 to protest the ascension of Tsar Nicholas I to the throne after the death of his father Alexander I.
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.He … Wikipedia
Died: February 10, 1837, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nikolai Gogol
Author of The Overcoat
Although Gogol was considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in his work a fundamentally romantic sensibility
Akaky akakievich bashmachkin
Man I’m the story The Overcoat
“The Overcoat” (Russian: Шинель, translit. Shinel; sometimes translated as “The Cloak”) is a short story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to Fyodor Dostoyevsky: “We all come out from Gogol’s ‘Overcoat’.” The story has been adapted into a variety of stage and film interpretations.
Petrovich
was a Russian Tsarevich. He was born in Moscow, the son of Tsar Peter I and the Tsar’s first wife, Eudoxia Lopukhina.
Important person
An anonymous, high-ranking official in the Russian government. Akaky Akakievich appeals to him when his overcoat is stolen. While the Important Person used to be kind at heart (when he was an “insignificant person” not so long ago), his important status in the bureaucracy has inflated his ego. He enjoys enforcing a rigid hierarchical process, in which information has to be passed from the lowest to highest officials in his department before reaching him. The Important Person treats Akaky poorly in order to show off his importance to a friend, but then feels guilty about it later.
1848
The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations, People’s Spring, Springtime of the Peoples,[3] or the Year of Revolution, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe in 1848. It remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in European history.The revolutions were essentially democratic in nature, with the aim of removing the old feudal structures and creating independent national states.
Orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationality
Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality (Russian: Правосла́вие, самодержа́вие, наро́дность, Pravoslaviye, Samoderzhaviye, Narodnost′), also known as Official Nationality,[1][2] was the dominant ideological doctrine of Russian emperor Nicholas I. It was “the Russian version of a general European ideology of restoration and reaction” that followed the Napoleonic Wars.[3]
