Russian Society and Culture Final Test

Moscow was founded in

• 1140

• 1147

• 1177

What Russian tsar built up the first Russian navy using his own first-hand knowledge of ship-building?

• Ivan the Terrible

• Peter the Great

• Nikolay II

Everyone knows Alexander Pushkin. Who are other Russian poets?

• Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy

• Balmont, Mayakovsky, Esenin

• Chekhov, Pasternak, Bulgakov

What is the name of main bell tower at the territory of the Moscow Kremlin?

• Spasskaya Tower

• The Bell Tower of Ivan III

• Nabatnaya Tower

Which Russian tsar established the order to celebrate the new year on January 1 in Russia?

• Ivan the Great

• Peter the Great

• Ivan IV

This novel is usually called "the War and Peace of the 20th century’". The author of this novel won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965.

• Mikhail Sholokhov's "The Silent Don"

• Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita"

• Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago"

These mountains separate Europe from Asia.

• The Altay

• The Urals

• The Caucasus

Who is the greatest Soviet comedy film director?

• Eldar Ryazanov

• Leonid Gaidai

• Andrey Tarkovsky

“The Cherry Orchard” play is written by

• Alexander Ostrovsky

• Nikolai Gogol

• Anton Chekhov

A talented Russian actor, theater director and actor’s trainer, who developed his own dramatic training method and founded the new acting school.

• Sergey Diagilev

• Konstantin Stanislavsky