Across
- 2. a port free of ice year round (no hyphen)
- 5. to make a specific demand (no "d")
- 6. Russian landowning nobles
- 8. adopting western ideas
- 9. ruling with unlimited authority
- 10. Peter the Great's "Window to the West"
- 11. wanted to bring Russia out of the "dark ages" and more in-line with European modernization
Down
- 1. German princess by birth; led Russia to greatness and its own "Enlightenment"
- 3. country divided among Russia, Austria and Prussia
- 4. to divide something
- 7. waged against the Ottoman Empire; gained surria a warm-water port on the Black Sea (no hyphen)