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Russian Empire Quiz - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 158 times
- The average score is 16 of 24
Answer Stats
| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What was the capital of the Russian Empire, named after its first emperor? | St. Petersburg | 94%
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| What branch of Christianity became the state religion of the Russian Empire, being practiced by around 70% of the population? | Orthodox | 93%
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| What country was repeatedly partitioned between Russia, Prussia, and Austria between 1772 and 1795? | Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | 90%
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| What Russian colony in the Americas was sold to the United States in 1867? | Alaska | 89%
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| What military leader briefly captured Moscow in 1812, only to find it abandoned? | Napoleon | 88%
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| Who was the last tsar of the Russian Empire, who served from 1894 to 1917? | Nicholas II | 87%
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| What country lost significant amounts of territory to Russia in the Great Northern War, allowing Russia to expand around the Baltic Sea and become a European power? | Sweden | 87%
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| Who ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796 and was considered an "enlightened despot" for her modernization of Russia and patronage of the arts? | Catherine the Great | 85%
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| What was the name of the dynasty that ruled the Russian Empire? | Romanov | 85%
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| What Asian country did Russia fight in a 1904-1905 war, resulting in a string of embarrassing military defeats? | Japan | 83%
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| What event, during which peaceful protesters were killed by military officers outside the Winter Palace, directly led to the Revolution of 1905? | {Bloody} Sunday | 80%
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| What nation in the Balkans did Russia strongly support during the July Crisis of 1914, leading to the start of World War 1? | Serbia | 75%
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| What conflict did Russia lose to a coalition consisting of France, the United Kingdom, and the Ottoman Empire in the 1850s? | Crimean War | 73%
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| What group of people, peasants held in involuntary servitude, was freed by Tsar Alexander II in 1861? | Serfs | 70%
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| What Russian author wrote extensively in the 1860s and 1870s and today is best known for his novels "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina"? | Leo Tolstoy | 69%
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| What group of people, initially from the steppes of Ukraine, were incorporated into the Russian military as elite soldiers? | Cossacks | 68%
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| What was the name of the last tsar's daughter, whose was rumored to have survived the execution of the Royal Family for decades after her death? | Anastasia | 54%
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| Which event resulted in the abdication of Nicholas II and the replacement of the Russian Empire with the Russian Provisional Government? | {February} Revolution | 50%
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| What disease did the tsar's son have that Grigori Rasputin was initially hired to treat? | Hemophilia | 46%
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| What general, at one point a lover of the Empress, set up elaborate villages to impress the Empress and eventually had a famous battleship named in his honor? | Grigory Potemkin | 39%
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| What group of people attempted a coup in 1825 to replace Tsar Nicholas I with his older brother? | Decembrists | 29%
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| What Muslim ethnic group was forcibly removed from their homeland in the Caucuses in the 1860s by the Russian military, in what is now largely considered a genocide? | Circassians | 28%
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| What Russian playwright wrote "The Cherry Orchard" and "The Seagull" in the 1890s and is also known for a literary principle involving a gun? | Anton Chekov | 27%
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| What philosophy became widespread among young Russians in the late 1800s as a reaction against the prevailing social norms of the Russian government and church? | Nihilism | 17%
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