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Team SixTeam Six

This elite corps of musketeers was a bunch of diehard

conservatives who, along with Peter’s

half-sister, were a real pain in Peter’s

patootieShow Answer

The STRELTSY

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Peter’s sassy half-sister who served as regent

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SOPHIABack to Board

JEOPARDY: Half brother who climbed up on the two-seater throne designed by

his sassy sister and sat right next to Pete

DOUBLE JEOPARDY: in the year ?????

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Ivan V

in 1689Back to Board

JEOPARDY: Half-brother who was the first to warm the throne

after Tsar Alexis died

DOUBLE JEOPARDY: He sat there from ____ to _____

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Theodore

1676-1682

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Maria Miloslavskaia and Natalie Naryshkina

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Tsar Alexis’s two wives through

whom he established two

possible bloodlines for succession

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Peter the planner, Mr. Hands-on Organizer of Everything – like

the Russian Table of Ranks – died with out

an heir.Show Answer

curious

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Peter exempted landed gentry from military

service, but everybody else’s name went into

the pot for his draft lottery.

Show Answer

Spurious

Landed gentry were exempted only if they

served in the civil service or were physically unfit

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The Petrine military swore allegiance to

the state rather than the tsar.

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curious

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The overall impact Table of Ranks was to improve the lives of Russian peasants through reforms like this

one: nobles are henceforward prohibited from just killing peasants

with no penalty. Show Answer

Spurious

While the isolated fact of this one human

concession is curious, the overall effect is

spurious.

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Peter built the first institution of higher learning in

Russia.

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Spurious

It was built by his half-sister, the regent

SOPHIABack to Board

Peter’s nickname = the __________

KING

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The BARBER King because he made

his nobles cut their traditional

beards

JEOPARDY: He died while awaiting execution in 1718 from

complications due to “interrogation.”

DOUBLE JEOPARDY: painter of Peter I’s interrogation

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Tsarevich Alexei

xx

Nikolai GeBack to Board

Ferociously Foreheaded Warrior king of

_______who was a pain in Peter’s patootie for

twenty some odd years during the Great

Northern War Show Answer

Charles XII

of Sweden

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This Lithuanian camp-follower “rang Peter’s bell” so well that he

made her his peasant queen and, after his

death she ruled Russia as ________ __. Show Answer

Catherine I

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Peter the Great was succeeded by his wife and then his grandson, Peter II,

who was succeeded by ANOTHER woman, Peter’s niece. Name the woman who assumed the crown

upon the death of Peter II.Show Answer

ANNE was

“anne”-other

woman!Back to Board

Built in a bog on the Gulf of Finland, it was Peter’s great “WINDOW ON THE

WEST.”Show Answer

St. Petersburg

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Where Peter studied ship-

building, entomology, and

dentistryShow Answer

Holland

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Where Peter studied shipbuilding, city

planning, and creative methods for destroying his host’s

homeShow Answer

England

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After a successful maritime blockade that led to the capture of this Tatar stronghold in 1696, Peter could at last wade in the

WARM WATERS of a Russian port!

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AZOV

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The first time Petey tried to grab a bit of the Baltic, Charlie Dozen of Sweden, though outnumbered 5 to 1, kicked all those Russian butts at this BIG BATTLE in

1700

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Battle of Narva

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“Burn, baby! Burn” those fields and crops

TACTIC Russians used against Charles XII of Sweden and later

Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolph Hitler

Show Answer

Scorched earth

policy

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Foreign policy episode which

preoccupied Peter from 1700-1721

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The Great Northern War

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Russia experienced nearly constant warfare during the

intercession between Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. Name the war fought from 1756-1763 which we like to call “The

French and Indian War.”

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The Seven Years War

Fought with Austria, France, Sweden, & Saxony

Against Prussia, Britain, & Hanover

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1709 battle where Peter and the Russians make their “comeback” in the

Ukraine and beat Charlie and his Swedes

backShow Answer

Battle of

PoltavaBack to Board

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Spuriously named treaty brokered by Sophia in 1686, it secured the left bank of the Ukraine and

Kiev for Russia and unified Eastern Europeans against

Turkish aggression

The Treaty

of

Eternal PeaceBack to Board

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JEOPARDY: 1721 treaty which marks the end of the Great Northern War with Sweden

DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What Russia gave up

TRIPLE JEOPARDY: What Russia got

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302928272625242322212019181716151413121110987654321

Treaty of Nystadt

Most of Finland and 2 million Swedish $$

Estonia, Ingria, Livonia, and part of Karelia

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