| RUBLE | Monetary unit of Russia |
| KOPECK | A monetary unit of Russia that is equivalent to one hundredth of a rouble (6) |
| ROUBLE | Name a monetary unit of Russia (6) |
| GOURDE | What is the chief monetary unit of Russia? (6) |
| KIEV | What was once the capital of Russia and is now the capital of the Ukraine and one of the oldest citi |
| DAKAR | Capital of Denmark, alias that of Russia and that of Senegal (5) |
| ANASTASIA | Name of the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (9) |
| BOYAR | Member of the old aristocracy of Russia ranking just below a prince, abolished by the reforms of Peter the Great (1672-1725) |
| ALEXANDRA | Wife of Nicholas II of Russia (9) |
| CAUCUS | Party when out of range of Russia |
| WRANGEL | ___ Island, area of land between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea off the NE coast of Russia (7 |
| SOVIET | Confused vote is but a memory of Russia of old (6) |
| TSARINA | The title for the wife of an Emperor of Russia |
| WRITING | Undoing wrong, so to speak, in second of three capitals of Russia (7) |
| WARANDPEACE | Leo Tolstoy's blockbuster account of Russia in the time of Napoleon's expansion through Europe (3,3, |
| WHITESEA | Almost landlocked inlet of the Barents Sea on the northwest coast of Russia (5,3) |
| ROSTOV | Ancient city of Russia (or the family name of Nikolai in War And Peace) (6) |
| CRIMEA | Part of Russia the subject of many a novel article |
| INGUSHETIA | Federal subject of Russia, this area lies close to the troubled region of Chechnya |
| NORTHERNLIGHTS | Source of luminance interrupting darkness between Norway, the tip of Russia and Sweden? (8,6) |
