This quiz on Tsarist Russia explores key historical events and figures from the Romanov Dynasty's end in 1917 to the establishment of the Tsarist secret police, The Okhrana. Assess your knowledge on pivotal moments like Bloody Sunday and the assassination of Alexander II.
They became frustrated with the cars they bought
Nobles lost some of their power to the new industrial entrepreneurs
Had difficulty learning how to drive cars
Boycotted anything produced in the new industrial factories
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The Okhrana
The NKVD
The Kadets
The Octobrists
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1869
1885
1890
1917
1920
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Ivan the Terrible
Alexander II
Alexander III
Peter the Great
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Drew many peasants to the cities seeking work
Improved their living conditions
Made farming easier for the peasants due to the new farm machinery being produced in the factories
They had electricity in their homes for the first time
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The Cheka
The Mensheviks
The People's Will
The Bolsheviks
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Leon Trotsky
Vladimir Lenin
Josef Stalin
Father Gapon
Father Grigori Rasputin
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The group of people who led the Russian Orthodox church
A local council
An elected parliament
The name given to the Tsar's advisers
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When the Romoanov Family first came to power
In 1913 just prior to World War I
Under Sergei Witte - 1892-1903
Under Stalin with his 5 Year Plans
When Lenin came to power
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Rasputin's minder from 1906 to 1912
Prime Minister of Russia from 1906 to 1911
President of Russia from 1904 to 1910
Tsaravich Alexei's minder from 1905 to 1910
Minister of Interior from 1904 to 1913
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Huge foreign loans
Increased taxes on nobles
Sold off some of therir territory to the Japanese
Sold Alasaka to United Staes of America
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He thought it was good time to start reform
He was pressured into it by Sergei Witte
Rasputin suggested it as a means to hold off revolution
To appease the liberals by offering civil liberties and a state duma
To stop the people of Russia thinking about the defeat in the Russo-Japanese war of 1905
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Leningrad
Stalingrad
Moscow
St Petersburg
Petrograd
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January 22, 1905
January 22, 1906
January 12, 1905
January 12, 1906
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At the Bolshei ballet performance of Swan Lake on 29th February 1911
At the Kiev Opera house on 1st Septemebr 1911
At the Winter Palace on Bloody Sunday 1905
He was not assassinated
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Led the Bloody Sunday march on the Winter Palace
Leader of the first St Petersburg Soviet formed in 1905
Led an assassination attempt on Nicholas II
Created the separation between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks
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Ivan Vyshnegradsky
Mikhail Reytern
Count Sergei Witte
Nikolay Bunge
Count Vladimir Kokovtsov
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Mensheviks
Kadets
Trudoviki
Bolsheviks
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The Most Holy Synod
The Imperial Council
Council of Ministers
The Cabinet of Ministers
The Senate
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