| A | B |
|---|
| horse-riding warriors who conquered Kiev in AD 800 | Mongols |
| the majority culture in Russia | Slavs |
| ethnic group seeking independence from Russia | Chechens |
| composed the 1812 Overture and Nutcracker Suite | Peter Tchaikovsky |
| first president of Russia after fall of communism | Boris Yeltsin |
| "Father of Soviet Union" who led Russian Revolution and set up communist state | Vladimir Lenin |
| Emperor who led failed French invasion of Russia in 1812 | Napolean Bonaparte |
| "Man of Steel" brutal Soviet leader responsible for "Great Purge" | Joseph Stalin |
| Russian Count who wrote epic novels "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" | Leo Tolstoy |
| last Soviet leader who led glasnost and perestroika (reform efforts) | Mikhail Gorbachev |
