A-Level History - Russia Characters

Given a description of their role(s), name the person. Goes up to 1917 in the course.

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Hint	Answer
Tsar from 1855-1881	Alexander II
Tsar from 1881-1894	Alexander III
Tsar from 1894-1917	Nicholas II
Finance Minister 1862-1878	Michael von Reutern
Liberal advisor and aunt of Alexander II	Grand Duchess Elena Pavlova
Minister of War 1861-1881	Dmitry Milyutin
Attempted to assassinate the Governor of St Petersburg in 1878	Vera Zasulich
Governor of St Petersburg in the above	General Trepov
Minister of Education 1861-1866	Alexandr Golovnin
Minister of Education 1866-1880	Dmitry Tolstoy
Minister of the Interior 1861-1868	Pyotr Valuev
Attempted to assassinate the Tsar in 1866	Dmitry Karakozov
Minister of Justice 1867-1878	Konstantin Pahlen
Appointed as Head of the Third Section in 1866	Pyotr Shuvalov
Minister of the Interior 1868-1878	Alexander Timashev
Russian Revolutionary; described as the 'First Bolshevik'	Tkachev
Russian Revolutionary; founder of Narodism	Chernyshevsky
Leader of Polish Government before 1863 rebellion	Marquis Wielopolski
Liberal advisor and brother of Alexander II	Grand Duke Konstantin
Alexander II's mistress	Catherine Dolgorukova
Chief architect of Emancipation, described by conservatives as 'one of the reds'	Nikolai Milyutin
Russian revolutionary; published his Historical Letters	Lavrov
Russian anarchist; participated in 1848 liberal revolutions	Bakunin
Russian revolutionary; created the Free Russian Press	Herzen
Russian nihilist and anarchist; wrote 'Catechism of a Revolutionary'	Nechayev
Minister of the Interior 1880-1881; made some liberal reforms	Mikhail Loris-Melikov
Finance Minister from 1881-1887	Nikolai Bunge
Finance Minister from 1887-1892	Ivan Vyshnegradsky
Finance Minister from 1892-1903, Prime Minister 1905	Sergei Witte
Tutor of Alexander III and Nicholas II	Konstantin Pobedonostsev
Conservative journalist under Alexander III who ran PR for his regime	Mikhail Katkov
Minister of the Interior 1881-1882	Nikolai Ignatiev
Minister of Education 1882-1897	Ivan Delyanov
Led Department of Police 1881-1884	Vyachelsav von Plehve
Led Department of Police 1884-1893	Pyotr Durnovo
Plotted to kill Alexander III; executed by the Okhrana	Alexander Ulyanov
Most influential Russian Marxist during the reign of Alexander III?	Georgi Plekhanov

Hint	Answer
Leader of the Bolsheviks	Vladimir Lenin
Leader of the Mensheviks	Julius Martov
Russian Slavophile, believed Pale of Settlement was 'a state within a state'	Ivan Aksakov
Established the Naphtha Extraction Company	Robert and Ludvig Nobel
Prime Minister 1906-1911; reformed agriculture	Pyotr Stolypin
Moscow Chief of Okhrana; internally exiled in 1903	Sergei Zubatov
Governor-General of Moscow contemporary with above	Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich
Governor-General of Finland 1898-1904	Nikolai Bobrikov
Tsarina of Nicholas II, staunchly conservative	Alexandra Feodorovna
Siberian folk healer; assassinated in 1916	Grigori Rasputin
Priest who led marchers on 'Bloody Sunday'	Father Gapon
Assassinated by SRs February 1905	Grand Duke Sergei
Prime Minister 1906	Ivan Goremykin
Prime Minister 1911-1914	Vladimir Kokovtsov
Tsarevich; suffered from haemophilia	Alexei
Russian socialist; 'dwellings for a prehistoric people'	Maxim Gorky
Russian playwright; realism	Anton Chekhov
Experimented with modernism in music	Ivan Stravinsky
Menshevik then Bolshevik; organised October Revolution	Leon Trotsky
Leader of the SRs	Victor Chernov
Russian general; launched 1916 offensive	Aleksei Brusilov
Leader of Kadets; 'is this stupidity or treason'	Pavel Milyukov
Killer of Rasputin	Prince Yusupov
Popular WW1 Minister of War 1915-1916	Alexei Polivanov
After Nicholas' abdication rejected Tsardom	Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich
Leading Bolshevik in Petrograd during Feb. Revolution	Alexander Shliapnikov
Leader of Petrograd Garrison during Feb. Revolution	Sergei Khabalov
President of Duma during Feb. Revolution	Mikhail Rodzianko
Nicholas' second-in-command in the army during Feb. Revolution	Mikhail Alekseev
Kadet, First Minister of Provisional Government	Prince Lvov
SR, later First Minister of Provisional Government	Alexander Kerensky
War Minister of Provisional Government	Alexander Guchkov
Army general, attempted to coup the Provisional Government	Lavr Kornilov
One of the Troika of MRC, first leader of the CHEKA	Felix Dzherzhinksy
Member of Bolshevik Central Committee, voted against October Revolution	Lev Kamenev/Grigory Zinoviev
Only female Commissar in Sovnarkom	Alexandra Kollontai

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