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When Peter I died, his grandson Peter, son of Alexis, failed to find sufficient support because
b. he was the candidate of the old nobility, other reactionary elements, and the masses.
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The Supreme Secret Council [Verkhovnyi Tainyi Sovet] was created in order to
a. make the real policy decisions for Empress Catherine.
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To control Catherine's picked successor, 11-year-old Petr Alekseevich, Menshikov
b. took the young tsar home and engaged him to his daughter.
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Peter II is not buried in the Peter and Paul church in St. Petersburg, because
a. he died of smallpox in Moscow, which was once again the national capital.
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Empress Anne agreed to enjoy the honor of being Russia's first constitutional monarch, because she
c. had nothing to lose by honoring the Supreme Secret Council's conditions.
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Empress Anne owed her throne to the
b. Supreme Secret Council.
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Anne's reign was remembered as the Birenovshchina, because Biren, her chief advisor
a. was also her lover.
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Empress Anne's picked successor, two-month-old Ivan VI,
a. reigned for less than a year and spent the rest of his short life in prison.
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The Empress Elizabeth owed her throne to the
c. Guards Regiments.
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Elizabeth was related to Peter the Great in this way:
a. his daughter by Catherine I.
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The reign of Empress Elizabeth could be described as
a. a sincere attempt to revive the spirit and vigor of her father's reign.
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The coup that put Elizabeth on the throne
- a. was funded in part by the French Embassy.
- b. represented the culmination of her ambition and power-lust.
- c. succeeded because the Senate backed it.
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Ambassadors desirous of an audience with Elizabeth were advised to
- a. first meet with her morganatic husband, Alexis Razumovsky.
- b. sign her dance card.
- c. refrain from interrupting her heavy work schedule.
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The first Russian ruler seriously to consider establishing a university in Russia was
b. Elizabeth.
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14-year-old Peter of Holstein-Gottorp was related to Peter I in the following way:
b. grandson by way of Elizabeth's sister, Anne
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In the period from 1725 to 1762, Russia's most reliable ally proved to be
a. Austria.
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Visitors to Peter III's home observed a bust of _____ in the entryway:
- a. Maria Theresa of Austria
- b. Peter the Great
- c. Frederick II of Prussia
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During his brief (6-month) reign, this reform was perhaps Peter III' looniest:
a. release of the gentry from obligatory state service [Decree of 18 February 1762].
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Peter III's most outlandish foreign policy initiative:
a. switching sides in a war Russia was winning.
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The pattern of social development from Peter I to Catherine II:
b. as the gentry rose, the serfs fell into greater misery.
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Old Muscovy concluded its first commercial treaty with England, and Imperial Russia, its, with
c. Great Britain.
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In 1732, Russian explorers discovered
c. Alaska.
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In 1755, The University of Moscow (the first in Russia) was founded by
c. Ivan Shuvalov and Michael Lomonosov.
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The architect of the Winter Palace, the great palace at Tsarskoe Selo, and the Smolny Institute:
a. Bartolomeo Rastrelli.
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Russian literary culture, prior to the reign of Catherine II, might be likened to
- a. a great birch tree, standing on its own.
- b. a potted plant in a government greenhouse.
- c. a fungus eating away at the palace carpet.
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Peter the Great liked the persona of the god Mars, but Catherine II chose to be seen as
b. the wise goddess Minerva.
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Upper-class Russian culture of 1800
- a. bore little resemblance to that of 1700.
- b. bore little resemblance to that of Europe.
- c. remained distinctly "russkii," despite the efforts of the monarchs.
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