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The Duchy of __________ served as the center for the liberation effort beginning in the fourteenth century against Mongol domination of Russia.
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Under __________, who claimed succession from the old Rurik dynasty and the old Kievan days, a large part of Russia was freed from the Mongols after 1462.
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Russian tsars insisted that Russia had succeeded Byzantium as a "__________" with all that this implied in terms of grandeur and expansionist potential.
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__________, called the Terrible, continued the policy of Russian expansion with emphasis on confirming the power of the tsarist autocracy.
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Russian nobles were called __________.
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Peasants, called __________, were recruited to migrate to uninhabited lands in southern Russia where they combined agriculture with daring military feats on horseback.
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The tsars imported Italian artists and craftsmen to design church buildings and the magnificent royal palace in the __________ in Moscow.
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Following the death of Tsar Ivan IV, Russia entered a politically disturbed era known as the __________.
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In 1613 an assembly of Russian nobles chose a member of the __________ family as tsar.
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The first Romanov tsar, __________, established internal order following the era of political disturbance.
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__________ Romanov abolished the assemblies of nobles and gained new powers over the Russian church.
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The tsarist government exiled thousands of the "__________" attached to the former rituals and beliefs of the Orthodox Church to Siberia or southern Russia.
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Tsar __________, son of Alexis, added a more definite interest in changing selected aspects of Russian economy and culture through imitation of Western forms.
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Peter the Great moved his capital from Moscow to a new Baltic city that he named __________.
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The eighteenth-century female ruler of Russia, __________, flirted vigorously with the ideas of the French Enlightenment and invited French philosophers for visits.
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Three __________ in 1772, 1793, and 1795 eliminated Poland as an independent state and gave Russia the lion's share of the spoils.
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Russian peasants owed extensive labor service or __________ to landlords or to the government.
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__________, a Cossack chieftain who claimed to be the legitimate tsar, launched a rebellion against tsarist authority and promised to abolish serfdom, taxation, and military conscription.
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In 1500, __________, formed by a union with Lithuania, was the largest state in Eastern Europe aside from Russia.
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