After Reading the Article on Ivan III and the Maker of the Russian Kremlin Answer the Following

After reading the article on Ivan III and the maker of the Russian Kremlin answer the following questions:
1.) What was the Kremlin? What was it’s purpose?

2.) What building projects did Ivan III plan and execute for Russia and the Kremlin. Hint – Test Questions will be about this so the more thorough you answer the better off you will be come test time. Describe the projects in detail.

3.) What was the name of the first church built in stone in the Kremlin? What type of stone was it built from? Why was this important?

4.) What happened at the battle of Ugra? Why was this odd?

5.) Who was Sofiya Palaeologue? Describe her – what is her importance to the Byzantine empire?

6.) After Ivan ascended to the throne and the Byzantine Empire failed what evidence do we have that he was trying to make Moscow a new Constantinople? Essentially, Moscow as ‘third rome.’

7.) What is significant about the Dormition Cathedral?

8.) Who was Aristotele Fioravanti? Why was his significant to Moscow? What impacts did he make? Why did he come to Moscow?

9.) What was the Cathedral of Archangel Michael? Who did Ivan III get to build it? What is significant about this Cathedral?

10.) What was the Cathedral of Annunciation? What was significant about it?

11.) What is the name of the white bell tower in the Kremlin? What is significant about this building?

12.) Describe the secular (non-religious) buildings Ivan III commissioned. How did he change the royal lodging? What is the faceted palace?

13.) Describe the walls of the Kremlin. What was the savior gate? What is significant about it?

14.) What impacts did Ivan III’s building program have on the 16th and 17th centuries?

15.) How did Ivan III’s building program impact the rule of Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, The Bolsheviks and Stalin?