1. Mikhail Gorbachev was Russia’s first elected president.

2. Nikita Khrushchev was a leader of the Soviet Union.

3. The last Russian tsar ruled until 1945.

4. The grand duchess Anastasia was the only member of Nicholas II’s immediate family to avoid execution by the Bolsheviks.

5. St. Petersburg, Russia, is older than New York City.

6. Russia defeated Japan in the Russo-Japanese War.

7. The Soviet Union was created after the Russian Revolution.

8. Vladimir Putin was the last tsar of Russia.