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Every visitor to any of the 'world capitals' carries home his own memories of such a city. What facts must be considered 'basic'is to some extent a matter of taste. This quiz deals with such a 'subjective' choice of 'essentials'.

A multiple-choice quiz by flem-ish. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
flem-ish

Time
4 mins

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Multiple Choice

Quiz #
54,393

Updated
Oct 09 24

# Qns
10

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Question 1 of 10

1. There is no doubt that St Basil's Cathedral is one of the 'musts' for any tourist visiting Moscow. It was built in the sixteenth century when Ivan the Terrible ruled Russia. What happened to Ivan's architect , when the building was completed in 1561? Hint

was made Plenipotentiary Minister of Fine Arts

he was blinded so that he would never be able to build anything of the same splendour

got a statue in front of the Cathedral

was banished to Siberia because Ivan was jealous of his popularity

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Question 2 of 10

2. The Romanov Czars are said to descend from Boyars. What were Boyars? Hint

servants in rich families

a Siberian tribe

top ranking administrators

slaves

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Question 3 of 10

3. When the Metro was laid out some of its stations got typically 'ideological' names. One of the stations was dedicated to a famous Russian anarchist. Which of these? Hint

Mayakovskaya

Komsomolskaya

Arbatskaya

Kropotkinskaya

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Question 4 of 10

4. Many of the tourist attractions are quite near to the Red Square. Which of these is not however? Hint

Tolstoy Museum

Lenin Mausoleum

Mayakovsky Museum

House of the Romanovs

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Question 5 of 10

5. All of these gentlemen can be linked to literature or to the theatre. One of them however is not really an author, but rather a theoretician. Which one? Hint

Pushkin

Chekhov

Lermontov

Stanislavsky

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Question 6 of 10

6. Not only Joseph Stalin but also most of the Czars were very autocratic and ruled with a steely fist. The worst terror practices however are definitely linked to Stalin's Secret Police. What was the name of their infamous prison and interrogation centre? Hint

Lubianka

Dzerzhinsky House

GUM

the Arbat

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which Soviet author was given the honour to be buried inside the Lenin Mausoleum and now shares that burial place which such celebrities as Yury Gagarin, Yury Andropov, Leonid Brezhnev and Joseph Stalin? Hint

Mikhail Bulgakov

Vladimir Majakovsky

Alexandr Menshikov

Maksim Gorky

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Question 8 of 10

8. One of the most typical examples of the so-called 'Stalin-Gothic' architecture is the high-rise building of the University of Moscow. How many floors has it got? Hint

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Question 9 of 10

9. After the Communist take-over the Kremlin area had to be adapted to the needs of the communist party and of the new bureaucracy. Even after Stalin the area underwent modernisations that art lovers may regret. Who added the modern 'Congress Palace' to the Kremlin buildings? Hint

Nikita Khrushchev

Yury Andropov

Mikhail Gorbachev

Boris Yelstin

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Question 10 of 10

10. In Russian-orthodox churches the iconostases (screens with icons) are among the top attractions to the tourist.During Czarists times the top icon makers were even obliged the work within the Kremlin walls. Which of the following is probably Russia's best-known icon painter? Hint

Mikhail Kutuzov

Andrei Rublev

Saint Sergey

Jasnaya Polyana

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: he was blinded so that he would never be able to build anything of the same splendour

It may be legend , but the rumour persists.- The identity of the architect is not very clear. Some suppose he was Italian. There having been two architects: Posnik and Barma, is another hypothesis.

2. The Romanov Czars are said to descend from Boyars. What were Boyars?

Answer: top ranking administrators

There also was a Council of Boyars for some time. Boyars had high ranks in the administration but also in the army.Mikhail Romanov became Czar in 1613. The House of the Romanovs on Ulitska Varvarko 10, had been built by an ancestor of his.

3. When the Metro was laid out some of its stations got typically 'ideological' names. One of the stations was dedicated to a famous Russian anarchist. Which of these?

Answer: Kropotkinskaya

Komsomol was the communist youth organisation.It was mainly communist youngsters who built this station - Mayakovsky was a favourite poet of Joseph Stalin's. Mayakofsky himself was not so happy with Uncle Joe and in 1930 he committed suicide , allegedly because of his disappointment with the Soviet system. -Arbat is a popular area of Moscow , and is NOT an ideological name.

4. Many of the tourist attractions are quite near to the Red Square. Which of these is not however?

Answer: Tolstoy Museum

There is the Literary Tolstoy Museum in Ulitsa Ptretsjistenka , in the Abratskaya. There is also the Tolstoy Museum in Ulitsa Lva Tolstogo, which is outside the City Centre. Janaya Polyana , where Tolstoy spent his last years is not even within Moscow but at some 180 kms from the Russian capital.

5. All of these gentlemen can be linked to literature or to the theatre. One of them however is not really an author, but rather a theoretician. Which one?

Answer: Stanislavsky

Stanislavsky is the 'inventor' of so-called 'method acting'.- All these gentlemen have museums dedicated to their life and works.-Lermontov is the author of 'A Hero of Our Times' 1840. - Anton Chekhov is famous for plays such as the Cherry Garden ,The Seagull etc.(1860-1904).Pushkin(1799-1830) is famous for his poem Jevgeni Onegin(1823-1830) and for a novel called the Queen of Spades.(1834).

He is also famous for dying in a duel , in which he had challenged the supposed lover of his wife Nathalia Gontcharova.

Answer: Lubianka

GUM= State Department Store on northeast side of Red Square. - The Arbat is a popular area in the SW of Moscow , which at a given moment had developed from an area with plenty of craftsmen into a haven for artists and intellectuals. --Feliks Dzerzhinsky(1877-1926) was the chief of the hated Tcheka , the precursor of the KGB.

Answer: Maksim Gorky

Bulgakov wrote 'The Master and Margarita', which was published posthumously.-Gorky was popular with the Soviet authorities. Stalin later accused one of his KGB chiefs of assassinating the author of such works as 'My Childhood 1913-1914' {;'In} the World 1915-1916' and 'My Universities 1923'. - Menshikov was a prominent politician during and after the reign of Peter the Great.

8. One of the most typical examples of the so-called 'Stalin-Gothic' architecture is the high-rise building of the University of Moscow. How many floors has it got?

Answer: 36

Has also been classified as wedding-cake style.

Answer: Nikita Khrushchev

Congress Palace was built during Nikita Chrutshev's rule.1959.-Andropov ruled for 15 months from November 1982 on. - Yeltsin became President of Russia after winning the first presidential elections in post-communist Russia.(1990)-Khrushchev managed to eliminate Beria and Malenkov, and slightly softened the hard Stalinist style of communism.

Answer: Andrei Rublev

Jasnaya Polyana is a village outside Moscow where Lev Tolstoy spent the last years of his life. - Saint Sergey is linked to the famous Trinity Monastery south of Moscow ,but was not an icon painter himself. - Mikhail Kutuzov is the Russian general who invented the tactics of the 'scorched earth' and ordered the fire of Moscow as a strategy to cut Napoleon off from all food supplies and accomodation during the winter of 1812.

Source: Author flem-ish

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