| A | B |
|---|
| Mongols | they cut Russia off from the world - prevented a Renaissance from occuring |
| Ivan the Terrible | he expanded Russia to Siberia - built St. Basel's & went mad when his wife died |
| Romanov | the ruling royal family of Russia from 1600 - 1917 AD |
| Peter the Great | he westernized/modernized Russia - moved the capital to St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea |
| Catherine the Great | she expanded Russia to the Black Sea & gained a "warm-water port" |
| russification | to force other people to adopt the Russian language, customs & Russian Orthodoxy |
| pogroms | deliberate attacks/persecution of Jews by Russians in the 1800s |
| Tsar/Czar | a russian word meaning king/monarch/ruler |
| Alexander II | he freed the serfs in Russia in the 1860s |
| serfs | poor Russian farmers tied to the land - slaves |
| Nicholas II | the last Tsar to rule Russia |
| Rasputin | a Russian monk with hypnotic healing powers |
| Bloody Sunday | when the Tsar turned the Russian Army on people asking him for help |
