Question
Painter Viktor Vasnetsov was inspired by the outfits of bogatyrs when designing one of these objects for the Russian army in the late 1800s. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these objects, which include the budenovka. A fur kind of these objects called the ushanka has thick flaps to cover the ears that provide greater protection against the cold.
ANSWER: hats [or caps; or headgear; or headwear; or headdress]
[10m] Another popular Soviet hat was the karakul, also named for this city. This city’s namesake khanate fell to Ivan the Terrible shortly after he captured Kazan, and it was later the center of a Cossack republic led by Stenka Razin.
ANSWER: Astrakhan
[10h] Russian monarchs used to be crowned with the sable fur “cap” of a ruler with this epithet. The cap was apocryphally gifted by a Byzantine emperor with the same epithet, who came to power thanks to his wife Zoe Porphyrogenita.
ANSWER: Monomakh [or Monomachus; accept Monomakh’s Cap; accept Constantine IX Monomachus]
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