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The Intercession Between the
“Greats”
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CUPID’S ARROW
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SMART and
NOT-SO-SMART
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Team OneTeam One
Team TwoTeam Two
Team ThreeTeam Three
Team FourTeam Four
Team FiveTeam Five
Team SixTeam Six
Stability in leadership
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What Russia lacked/
needed most in this period
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During it, this GAP increased
and this INSTITUTION was
solidified.Show Answer
1.Gap between rich and poor
2.SERFDOMBack to Board
# of decades between
“GREATS”Show Answer
4Back to Board
During the intercession, Russia was plagued by almost constant
warfare.
JEOPARDY: # of wars between 1733 and 1763
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: arrange them in chronological order
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5 Wars:1.1733-35: w/ Austria vs. France
2.1736-39: w/Austria vs. Turkey
3. 1741-43: against Sweden
4. 1746-48: the War of Austrian Succession
5.1756-63: the Seven Yrs. War
w/ Austria, Sweden, & Saxony
vs. Prussia, Britain, & HanoverBack to Board
JEOPARDY: # of rulers Russia had
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: List them in order
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6 Rulers:1.Catherine I (1725-27) Peter’s wife
2. Peter II (1727-30) Peter’s grandson
3. Anne (1730-40) Peter’s niece
4. Ivan VI (1740-41) jailed as infant ; died in prison
5. Elizabeth (1741-62) Peter’s daughter
6. Peter III (1762) grandson of namesake,
Peter II
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Not struck by Cupid’s arrow, he preferred
PRUSSIA to RUSSIA and passion was for his TOY SOLDIERS rather
than his GERMAN WIFE. Show Answer
Peter III
(of
Holstein-Gottorp)
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Adultery was dangerous, but childlessness was more dangerous for Sophie of
Anhalt-Zerbst. Although it took her eight years, she finally produced this son, possibly with a little help
from her friends.Show Answer
PAUL
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He and his bros assisted Cathy with her coup and slew the “Monster” who
threatened her.
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Grigory
ORLOVBack to Board
The HERO OF THE CRIMEA, he was the
great love of Catherine II’s life and one of Russia’s greatest
statesmen.Show Answer
Grigory
POTEMKIN
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The lover whom Catherine made Prince of Poland
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Stanislaw
PONIATOWSKI
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WHO, WHY, &
SMART or NOT-SO-SMART:
Although she subscribed to some radical ideas, she began her rule with a couple of non-threatening of governmental
reforms
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Catherine I
SMART to avoid controversial &
radicalism because initially she faced
palpable opposition & questions of legitimacy
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FROM, TO, and SMART oR
NOT-SO-SMART :
color change Peter III ordered for the Russian
militaryShow Answer
from GREEN to
PRUSSIAN BLUE
NOT-SO-SMART because Prussia = the
enemy of RUSSIABack to Board
WHO, WHY, &
SMART or NOT-SO-SMART:
He stripped icons out of the Russian Orthodox Church and
made priests dress like Lutheran ministers, she joined
Russian Orthodox Church in holy baptism and herself re-
Christened.Show Answer
Peter III: offending your country’s official church =
not-so-smart
His German wife (Sophie) honored the church and took the
name Catherine, Russia’s first official TSARINA = SMART because it points to the
precedent
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WHAT, WHY, &
SMART or NOT-SO-SMART:
It was Catherine’s response to the offer of the title “the Great” early in
her rule.
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No, that’s for posterity to decide
SMART
Avoided offense
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WHO, WHAT, WHY, &
SMART or NOT-SO-SMART:
He danced at Elizabeth’s funeral, and then did this as his first official act as
TSAR. Show Answer
Peter IIIDeclared peace with Prussia,
saving Frederick the Great from imminent defeat, because he
adored Freddie
NOT-SO-SMARTReally ticked off the Russian
militaryBack to Board
50/50:
Catherine II’s response to the Pugachev rebellion --
REACTIONARY or REFORM?
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REFORM
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What Pugachev promised in order to secure support
of the peasants
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emancipation
of the serfsBack to Board
River valley which was the
site of the Pugachev Rebellion
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VOLGA
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Name & ethnicity of the
leader of Russia’s most visible and
briefly successful peasant revolt to date
(1773)Show Answer
EMILIAN PUGACHEV
was a
COSSSACK
from the URALSBack to Board
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It was the most visible and briefly successful
peasant revolt in Russian history up to
that point (1773).
PUGACHEV’S REBELLION
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Three basic problems of the______:
1. Military weakness
2. Disorganization
3. Logistical issues
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The REBELS
in
Pugachev’s Rebellion
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CURIOUS or SPURIOUS:
Catherine the Great’s (II) reform of local governance hinged on the geographic restructuring of the empire based on population.
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CURIOUS
Attempted to establish some semblanace of equality
between and among Russia’s many ethnic groups, but
things will get worse when people focus on their
differences!Back to Board
If you control this peninsula, you control the
Black Sea.
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The CRIMEA
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TRANSLATION: Instruction
It was a liberal document that emphasized secular
political institutions operating within legal
parameters.
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The
NAKAZBack to Board
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Established by Catherine the Great in 1767 to serve as a putative legislative
body that could address local and regional issues while providing
information regarding the proper course of action, it proved unwieldy
in the face of the controversial issues of class, ethnicity, religion, and nationality and was eventually
disbanded in 1768.
The Legislative
CommissionBack to Board
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JEOPARDY: Who’s on horseback and why?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: name the sculptor
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JEOPARDY: Catherine and Peter because “man on horseback” = symbol of dictatorial power; Catherine the Great (II) ordered both to make the connection between herself and Peter the Great (I)
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:, Étienne-Maurice Falconet, completed 1782; St. Petersburg Back to Board
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