| WARANDPEACE | Leo Tolstoy's blockbuster account of Russia in the time of Napoleon's expansion through Europe (3,3, |
| NEMEROV | Alexander ___ (president of Russia in "The Sum of All Fears") |
| HOULT | Nicholas ___, actor who played Peter III of Russia in The Great |
| UKRAINE | This country faces extremes of Russia in the east (7) |
| TSARS | Leaders of Russia in the 1800s |
| OCTOBER | ___ Revolution, another name for the Bolshevik uprising in Russia in the autumn of 1917 (7) |
| QATAR | A member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century. |
| IVANIV | Grand Prince of Moscow, known 'the Terrible,' who became the first Tsar of Russia in 1547 |
| ALASKA | What the U.S. purchased from Russia in the 1867 Treaty of Cession |
| INGUSHETIA | The ongoing Chechnyan conflict has spilled into this adjoining republic taken over by Russia in the |
| TETRIS | Tile-matching video game originating in Russia in the 1980s (6) |
| IVAN | ___ The Terrible, first to be proclaimed Tsar of Russia in 1547 (4) |
| RHINE | Euros exchanged for last of old money flowing through Europe (5) |
| ANTISTHENES | Athenian philosopher in the time of Socrates regarded as the founder of the Cynic school (11) |
| TRIPLEENTENTE | What informal alliance existed between Britain, France and Russia in the early twentieth century as a counterbalance to the alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy? (6.7) |
| RURAL | Right by river in Russia in the country (5) |
| BORIS | First post-Soviet president of Russia, in office from 1990 to 1999 (5,7) |
| YELTSIN | First post-Soviet president of Russia, in office from 1990 to 1999 (5,7) |
| VLADIMIRPUTIN | Politician who won a fourth term as President of Russia in 2018 (8,5) |
| USSR | Russ moved around Russia in the eighties (1,1,1,1) |
