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History 377: RUSSIA to 1900

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WORKSHEET 2: The Novgorod Chronicle

Please type your responses to these questions to turn in. 

1. What are some of the important features of life in Novgorod?

2. What are Novgorod’s foreign relations like and how are they described?

3. According to the Chronicle, what happened in the year 1136 and why?

4. What concerns and problems did the people of Novgorod have as spelled out in the Chronicle?

5. How do you account for the description of Muscovy’s conquest of Novgorod?