Statistics for Historical Russians

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Known as a "terrible" tsar who subordinated nobles to his will	Ivan IV	99%
Revolutionary founder of the Soviet Union	Vladimir Lenin	97%
The last emperor of Russia	Nicholas II	96%
Longest running ruler of the Soviet Union	Joseph Stalin	95%
Last president of the USSR known for his glasnost policies and negotiating the end of the Cold War	Mikhail Gorbachev	92%
Wrote "War and Peace"	Leo Tolstoy	91%
Former peasant and healer for Alexei Nikolaevich	Grigori Rasputin	87%
First man to go into Outer Space	Yuri Gagarin	83%
The first emperor of Russia that led a cultural and scientific revolution	Peter I	80%
Novelist and philosopher who wrote "Crime and Punishment" and "Demons"	Fyodor Dostoevsky	73%
Composed "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker"	Pyotr Tchaikovsky	71%
Grand Duchess who was claimed by many people to be alive after her death in 1918	Anastasia Nikolaevna	69%
Chemist who invented the Periodic Table	Dmitri Mendeleev	67%
Known as the Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland	Alexander II	51%
Considered to be the greatest poet and founder of modern Russian literature	Alexander Pushkin	36%
This empress expanded the borders, founded many cities and continued to modernized Russia	Catherine II	24%
Served an important role in Kievan Rus' history by stopping Swedish and German invaders	Alexander Nevsky	17%
Scientist and writer who influenced the formation of the modern Russian language	Mikhail Lomonosov	6%