Tsars

Question 0

The Terrible, ambiguously literate, reforms, zemskii sobor, cruel, Time of Troubles

Answer 0

Ivan IV

Question 1

Westernization, boisterous, Grand Embassy, worked in Dutch shipyard, shaved beards, invited Westerners, Table of Ranks, violent

Answer 1

Peter I

Question 2

The Great, female, not Russian, born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, bride and deposer of Peter III, crushed peasant uprising, Enlightenment, partition of Poland, 21 lovers

Answer 2

Catherine II

Question 3

Last Romanov, overthrown in Feburary Revolution of 1917, kind but incapable, helped end tsarist state, ruled through disastrous Russo-Japanese War and WWI, married Alexandra, crazed monk Grigorii Rasputin, shot in 1918

Answer 3

Nicholas II

Question 4

Great Reforms, Crimean War, 1861 serf emancipation, zemstvos, eased censorship, assassinated 1881

Answer 4

Alexander II

Question 5

Took throne 1801, wars with Napoleon, Holy Alliance, eccentric, probably died in 1825

Answer 5

Alexander I

Question 6

Decembrist Uprising, Crimean War, embodiment of Russian autocracy, Official Nationality, Third Section secret police, Gendarme of Europe

Answer 6

Nicholas I

Question 7

counter-reforms, Temporary Regulations, increased censorship, tightened universitu control, land captain, anti-Jewish pogroms

Answer 7

Alexander III

Question 8

Boyar under Ivan the Terrible, married daughter of one of Iviv’s court favorites, arranges murdet of Dmitrii, attacked by False Dmitriis, Pushkin play

Answer 8

Borus Godunov

Question 9

Time of Troubles, elected at 16, related to Iviv, son of powerful churchman, dominated by relatives, stabilized Romanov dynasty

Answer 9

Michael