| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Tsar from 1894-1917 | Nicholas II | 100%
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| Tsar from 1855-1881 | Alexander II | 90%
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| Tsar from 1881-1894 | Alexander III | 90%
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| Leader of the Bolsheviks | Vladimir Lenin | 81%
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| Menshevik then Bolshevik; organised October Revolution | Leon Trotsky | 57%
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| Finance Minister from 1892-1903, Prime Minister 1905 | Sergei Witte | 57%
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| Siberian folk healer; assassinated in 1916 | Grigori Rasputin | 48%
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| Prime Minister 1906-1911; reformed agriculture | Pyotr Stolypin | 48%
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| SR, later First Minister of Provisional Government | Alexander Kerensky | 43%
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| Kadet, First Minister of Provisional Government | Prince Lvov | 38%
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| Minister of Education 1866-1880 | Dmitry Tolstoy | 33%
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| Priest who led marchers on 'Bloody Sunday' | Father Gapon | 33%
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| Finance Minister 1862-1878 | Michael von Reutern | 33%
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| Tsarevich; suffered from haemophilia | Alexei | 29%
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| Finance Minister from 1887-1892 | Ivan Vyshnegradsky | 29%
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| Russian general; launched 1916 offensive | Aleksei Brusilov | 24%
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| Army general, attempted to coup the Provisional Government | Lavr Kornilov | 24%
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| Minister of War 1861-1881 | Dmitry Milyutin | 19%
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| Tutor of Alexander III and Nicholas II | Konstantin Pobedonostsev | 19%
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| Finance Minister from 1881-1887 | Nikolai Bunge | 19%
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| Chief architect of Emancipation, described by conservatives as 'one of the reds' | Nikolai Milyutin | 19%
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| Leader of Kadets; 'is this stupidity or treason' | Pavel Milyukov | 19%
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| Attempted to assassinate the Governor of St Petersburg in 1878 | Vera Zasulich | 19%
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| Plotted to kill Alexander III; executed by the Okhrana | Alexander Ulyanov | 14%
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| Attempted to assassinate the Tsar in 1866 | Dmitry Karakozov | 14%
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| Most influential Russian Marxist during the reign of Alexander III? | Georgi Plekhanov | 14%
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| Liberal advisor and brother of Alexander II | Grand Duke Konstantin | 14%
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| Leader of the Mensheviks | Julius Martov | 14%
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| Russian revolutionary; published his Historical Letters | Lavrov | 14%
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| Appointed as Head of the Third Section in 1866 | Pyotr Shuvalov | 14%
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| Led Department of Police 1881-1884 | Vyachelsav von Plehve | 14%
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| Only female Commissar in Sovnarkom | Alexandra Kollontai | 10%
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| Russian anarchist; participated in 1848 liberal revolutions | Bakunin | 10%
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| Russian Revolutionary; founder of Narodism | Chernyshevsky | 10%
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| Russian revolutionary; created the Free Russian Press | Herzen | 10%
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| Experimented with modernism in music | Ivan Stravinsky | 10%
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| Russian socialist; 'dwellings for a prehistoric people' | Maxim Gorky | 10%
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| Established the Naphtha Extraction Company | Robert and Ludvig Nobel | 10%
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| Tsarina of Nicholas II, staunchly conservative | Alexandra Feodorovna | 5%
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| Minister of Education 1861-1866 | Alexandr Golovnin | 5%
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| Alexander II's mistress | Catherine Dolgorukova | 5%
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| Member of Bolshevik Central Committee, voted against October Revolution | Lev Kamenev/Grigory Zinoviev | 5%
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| Leader of Polish Government before 1863 rebellion | Marquis Wielopolski | 5%
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| Russian nihilist and anarchist; wrote 'Catechism of a Revolutionary' | Nechayev | 5%
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| Governor-General of Finland 1898-1904 | Nikolai Bobrikov | 5%
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| Killer of Rasputin | Prince Yusupov | 5%
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| Led Department of Police 1884-1893 | Pyotr Durnovo | 5%
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| Moscow Chief of Okhrana; internally exiled in 1903 | Sergei Zubatov | 5%
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| Russian Revolutionary; described as the 'First Bolshevik' | Tkachev | 5%
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| Leader of the SRs | Victor Chernov | 5%
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| War Minister of Provisional Government | Alexander Guchkov | 0%
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| Leading Bolshevik in Petrograd during Feb. Revolution | Alexander Shliapnikov | 0%
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| Minister of the Interior 1868-1878 | Alexander Timashev | 0%
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| Popular WW1 Minister of War 1915-1916 | Alexei Polivanov | 0%
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| Russian playwright; realism | Anton Chekhov | 0%
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| One of the Troika of MRC, first leader of the CHEKA | Felix Dzherzhinksy | 0%
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| Governor of St Petersburg in the above | General Trepov | 0%
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| Liberal advisor and aunt of Alexander II | Grand Duchess Elena Pavlova | 0%
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| After Nicholas' abdication rejected Tsardom | Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich | 0%
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| Assassinated by SRs February 1905 | Grand Duke Sergei | 0%
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| Governor-General of Moscow contemporary with above | Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich | 0%
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| Russian Slavophile, believed Pale of Settlement was 'a state within a state' | Ivan Aksakov | 0%
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| Minister of Education 1882-1897 | Ivan Delyanov | 0%
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| Prime Minister 1906 | Ivan Goremykin | 0%
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| Minister of Justice 1867-1878 | Konstantin Pahlen | 0%
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| Nicholas' second-in-command in the army during Feb. Revolution | Mikhail Alekseev | 0%
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| Conservative journalist under Alexander III who ran PR for his regime | Mikhail Katkov | 0%
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| Minister of the Interior 1880-1881; made some liberal reforms | Mikhail Loris-Melikov | 0%
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| President of Duma during Feb. Revolution | Mikhail Rodzianko | 0%
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| Minister of the Interior 1881-1882 | Nikolai Ignatiev | 0%
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| Minister of the Interior 1861-1868 | Pyotr Valuev | 0%
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| Leader of Petrograd Garrison during Feb. Revolution | Sergei Khabalov | 0%
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| Prime Minister 1911-1914 | Vladimir Kokovtsov | 0%
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