The Russian Revolution

Complete reading pages 225-227.  Answer the questions below about The Russian Revolution.  Also, be sure to check out the point of interest related to our lesson at the end of the questions!

1) What were the two reasons why so many Russians were angry with the Romanovs?
2) Why did the Romanovs invite Rasputin to court?
3) What happened when three noblemen decided to kill Rasputin?
4) What war did the Russian army join in 1914?
5) What was wrong with the six and a half million soldiers of the Russian army?
6) Why did Nichoolas II fire his cousin, the Grand Duke Nicolai?
7) Did Nicholas II do a better job as commander?
8) What was Nicholas II forced to do?
9) Why did the leader of the Provisional Governement, Aleksandr Kerensky, order the Romanovs taken to Siberia?
10) How did the army react when Kerensky ordered them to fight?
11) What group of leaders then seized control of the government?
12) Who was their leader?
13) Lenin wanted the land in Russia to be used by whom?
14) Why was the Bolshevik party renamed the "Communist Party"?
15) Why did the Communist Party change the names of St. Petersburg and other cities?
16) How did Lenin get Russia out of the war?
17) How did Lenin deal with the problem of the Romanovs?
18) How did Lenin deal with the problem of poverty?
19) What was this new way of living called?

Alexander III in 1885 commissioned the creation of a decorative Faberge Egg for him to be able to give it to his wife as an Easter gift.  (Faberge was the last name of the man who created it, and his company was named after him.)  Alexander's wife was so pleased, he continued the tradition every year.  After Alexander died, Nicholas II continued the tradition for his wife and for his mother, which I think is really nice!  So, the Faberge company made a total of 50 of these special eggs between 1885 and 1917.  Each egg always contained some sort of hidden surprise in it.  Some of those very eggs are in museums around the world, but some were lost through the years.  View one of these eggs here, and notice that the little gold statue on the inside is an image of Alexander III, although this egg was from Nicholas II to his mother in the year 1910.  It is now inside the Kremlin.



Here is another one that is amazing!  Read what all it is made of and what it contains - wow!, right?



The "Moscow Kremlin Egg" of 1904. An enameled gold composition centered on the egg-shaped (removable) dome of the Cathedral of the Assumption in the Moscow Kremlin, in white opalescent enamel, the interior of the church with its carpets, tiny enameled icons and High Altar made visible through four triple windows, surmounted by a gold cupola; flanked by two square and two circular stylized turrets, the former based on the Spassky Tower, bearing the coat-of-arms of the Russian Empire and Moscow and inset with chiming clocks. Standing on a crenelated gold base and octagonal onyx plinth - signed Fabergé, dated 1904, height 14 1/4 inches (36.1 cm). A clockwork music box (with original key) plays Izhe Khveruviny (Cherubim hymn), a favorite hymn of Tsar Nicholas.
Provenance: Presented by Tsar Nicholas II to his wife Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, Easter 1906

Kremlin Armory Museum