Background information

Question 1

What calendar was. Used until 1918

Answer 1

The Julian calendar

Question 2

Less than half of the Russian population were

Answer 2

Russian by birth

Question 3

List 5 ethnic groups in Russia

Answer 3

Baltic Germans

Lithuanians

Poles

Ukranians

Orthodox Greeks

Question 4

Between ____ and ____, the Russian Empire was ruled by _____, a member of the ______ dynasty.

Answer 4

1825 - 1855

Tsar Nicholas 1st

Romanov

Question 5

In 1855 the Russian empire was reliant on _____, a system whereby the majority of people were ____ or ____ ‘owned’ by wealthy _____.They made up __% of the population.

Answer 5

Serfdom
Serfs
Peasants
Landowners
90%

Question 6

Serfs were forced to be _____ and had to serve in the army for ___ years. There were regular _____.

Answer 6

Conscripted
25
Uprisings

Question 7

What was tsardom based on?

Answer 7

‘Autocracy, Orthodoxy and Nationality’

• said by Sergei Uvarov

Question 8

When did Nicholas re-establish the secret police?

Answer 8

1826

Question 9

What was the system of government?

Answer 9

Autocratic delegation of ministers

Question 10

The army consumer _% of the governments budget

Answer 10

45%

Question 11

Serfdom prevented Russia from experiencing an…

Answer 11

Industrial revolution

Question 12

There was no ______ but was later created by the ______. The nobles enforce the _____.

Answer 12

Middle class
Children of nobles
Tsar’s decree