Where did Russia come from? – Alex Gendler
Where did Russia come from? – Alex Gendler
Trace the evolution of Russia, from Kievan Rus to present day, and find out how it became the biggest country in the world.
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Russia is the biggest country in the world, spanning one-eighth of the Earthβs landmass. But where did it all begin? Alex Gendler explores the epic history of the Kievan Rus, where characters ranging from Viking…
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Inzest
The illustration here is awesome and makes me so happy. Well done
ΠΠ»Ρ ΡΠΎΠ³ΠΎ ΡΠΎΠ·ΠΏΠΎΠ²ΡΡΠ΄ΠΆΡΠ²Π°ΡΠΈ ΡΠΎΡΡΠΉΡΡΠΊΡ ΠΏΡΠΎΠΏΠ°Π³Π°Π½Π΄Ρ. ΠΠΈΡΠ²ΡΡΠΊΠ° Π ΡΡΡ Ρ ΠΠΎΡΠΊΠΎΠ²ΡΡ (ΡΠΎΡΡΡ) ΡΠ΅ ΡΡΠ·Π½Ρ ΠΊΡΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΈ ΡΡΡΠΎΡΡΡ ΡΠΊΠΈΡ Π±ΡΠ»Π° Π½Π°ΡΠΈΠ»ΡΠ½ΠΎ ΠΎΠ±'ΡΠ΄Π½Π°Π½Π° Π»ΠΈΡΠ΅ Π² ΠΌΠΈΠ½ΡΠ»ΠΎΠΌΡ ΡΡΠΎΠ»ΡΡΡΡ ΡΠΎΠ²ΡΡΡΠΊΠΈΠΌ ΡΠΎΡΠ·ΠΎΠΌ
Your saying most of ancient russia history was recorded by a guy named "Nester" π
Dough the bounty hunter
Viking πbarbaros
Good animation. Although "the history" is a fragmented version of normanism. Modern day Russia appeared about 15-16 century around Moscow Principality. Her connection with 8th century Kievan Rus is a vague story, more a legend than a truth.
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Geography
Low population: In the past, nations could just claim large tracts of land if no one challenged their claims. Vast tracts of what Russia holds are unpopulated or barely populated due to the high latitude [to give a context, the entire population of Russia is far less than the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh]. Thus, the Russians had little challenge in claiming lands all the way to the Pacific.
Mostly nomads: The people who occupied these vast plains were mostly nomads and cattle herders. They didn't have a major empire or a substantial settlement to challenge the invading Europeans.
Mostly flat: If you look at the elevation map of Russia you can notice that it is practically two pancakes – first the Russian plains and then the Siberian plateau. Other than the Ural mountains that don't climb too high there are no major natural features that would impede an ambitious emperor from running his horse to capture the whole thing.
Same for Canada that holds a huge area with a very tiny population. And for the same reason how Genghiz Khan was able to hold such as huge empire.
History
Founding of the nation: A sizable chunk of Central Asia was united by the Golden Horde (the Mongols). The Mongols dislodged a slowly evolving state of Kievan Rus – a federation of Slavic people. Moscow started becoming a center by allying with the Mongols. The Mongols brought a lot of military tech and ideas of the east to Russia.
Expansion north: In the 15th century, a Moscow prince named Ivan III started consolidating the various nomadic lands and extended the reach of Moscow all the way to the Arctic. It was at this time the Turks captured Constantinople and Ivan wanted to be the new Constantine and his kingdom to be the new Rome.
Expansion south: The good work of Ivan III was somewhat undone by Ivan the Terrible and Russia fell to Polish-Lithuanian and Swedish empire. However, before he died, he expanded the kingdom well in the south through the Russo-Kazan Wars and by aligning with the powerful Nogai Horde.
After Ivan the Terrible, there was a brutal period of civil wars, famines and anarchy – Time of Troubles that plagued the country from the late 16th century.
Siberian takeover: In the late 16th century, Russia started expanding into Siberia and was able to win over the Siberian Khanate in 1598. By 1633, Russia had already extended to the Pacific ocean. Russian conquest of Siberia
Takeover of Ottoman's territories: After the Turks got too much into Europe, the various European kingdoms like Austria started fighting them back. Russia used this opportunity to fight 11 wars with the Ottoman Turks (over 300 years) – History of the Russo-Turkish wars – absorbing a lot of the territory of the Ottoman Empire.
Takeovers in Eastern Europe: During the reign of Peter the Great, Russia won the Swedish forces in the Great Northern War in 1721 and got access to the sea through St. Petersburg. They also won parts of Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine and became the dominant force in Eastern Europe.
Massive expansion in all directions: In the late 18th century, Catherine the Great brought the golden age for Russia and kind of the equivalent of the Queen Victoria of England. She won over vast territories of Poland – Partitions of Poland, consolidated control over Novorossiya and took over Crimea by winning the Khanate. She also took over Alaska (Russian colonization of the Americas ) that was later sold to the Americans.
Further gains in Europe: In the early 19th century, Finland was stolen from the Swedes, Moldova was taken from the Ottomans and Georgia from the Persians.
Takeover of Persian territories: In 1828, Russia won its war against Persia – Russo-Persian Wars . This gave it a lot of territory – Armenia, Azerbaijan. During this period they also expanded into Uzbekistan, Kazhakstan, Turkmenistan etc in its attempt to reach India. The Great Game
Takeover of Chinese territories: In 1860 Russians won the Qing empire and took over Manchuria – Amur Annexation
Expansion of Russia 1500β1800
The current nations of Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, Turkey and Crimea were once powerful powers in Medieval Europe. However, through Peter and Catherine, Russia was able to win them all and reduce them to tiny states. There were cunning military alliances involved in all of these. However, those old issues are still running as an intense Russophobia runs in all these regions.
Turkey and Russia were in a state of a shadow war as there is an intense hatred of Russia among Turks. They were involved in starting the first world war. US placing of nuclear weapons in Turkey in 1960s led to the Cuban Missile crisis that almost destroyed the world. However, after the breakup of the USSR in 1991 and the loss of all major territories taken from the Ottomans, the relationship has improved.
Poland attempted to take some of its past territories back. This led to an USSR's relationship with the Nazis and led to the Second World War. Until 3 decades ago, Poland fought hard to get the Russians out.
Sweden & Finland have a very tense relationship with Russia due to the 11 wars that Sweden fought that led to the eventual fall of Sweden as a major power.
(Swedish Vikings)
Primary Chronicle feels somewhat fictional … like the Secret History of the Mongols.
Excellent Narration and animation. Hope you post more videos with such animations.
That's not true 1:12 ! Because the Nestor's story not goes that the Varangians were called from the north! It is written that they called the Varangians, who are called Rus. Alas, in the Nestor's story there is no geographical indication of where these Varangians of Rus came from! In addition, the Nestor's story does not establish an identity between the term "Varangians" and the peoples of Scandinavia! In the Nestor's story, in the list of the peoples of Europe with the name "Japheth's knee", alas, the Varangians and Scandinavians are different concepts.
Sorry, but GREEKS DOES NOT EXIST THAT TIME. Be FAIR AND CALL THEM MACEDONIANS.
Ah whoβs here after Putins fan fiction history
twisted version of the real history! The main mistake here is to mix Kievan Rus with today's Russia. Those are two different political and historic entities. They are divided by hundreds of years, different historical events and different territories! Moscow never was part of Rus it appears much later on the map and it was under Mongols khan rule not resisted it! Moscow tzar only adopted Greek version name of Rus in 17th century to claim territories of Rus, that didn't historically belong to Moscowits!
Putin explaining why ukraine is russian be like:
Islam doesnβt like alcohol was the sign? Hahaha. I figured itβs incessant bloodthirsty obsession for hatred and oppression would have been the signal.
so many simple mistakes…
I got shocked from this history. Stop it, please.
The problem is that RusΚΌ is not Russia. Itβs not the same. These are different cultures and different countries
Unfortunately, Ukraine was never mentioned in this video. The capital of Kyivan Rus was Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The mentioned princes operated on the territory of modern Ukraine. You continue to ignore the enormous influence of Ukraine on the formation of russia (not vice versa!). Kyiv was founded in 482, and moscow only in 1147. The conclusion is obvious: first understand the history and all aspects, and only then create such videos!
In addition, you misspelled the name of the capital of Kyivan Rus (Ukraine!): not Kiev, but Kyiv!!!
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history left chat.
there were no country "kievan rus". this is a time period, the definition was invented by Russian historians in 19th century. the state called just Rus. first capital of Rus is Ladoga. Then it was Novgorod. And later russians moved the capital to Kiev (until it was destroyed by mongols)
I still think this is so cool
From Ukraine obviously
The video needs a bit more detail, and some important parts aren't mentioned.
russia was formed not only from Slavs, many other tribes lived there, for example, Finno-Ugric. As a result of falsifications, on October 22, 1721, Muscovy declared itself the Russian Empire, and Muscovites became known as Russians. Consequently, the historical name of Rus was taken from the legal heirs of Kyivan Rus – the Ukrainians – in an attempt to lay claim to the heritage of Rus as their own. stolen basically.
Russia stole its name and history from Ukraine. Kyivan Rus and Moskovia are different
Russians have very strong people, mixed breed of barbarians, vikings, tatars, mongolians, ottomans and slavs also had brutal climate, brutal animals, brutal rulers, brutal enemies but still win. pride of being largest of country and richest natural resources. Thats why RUSSIA IS TERRIBLE to be an enemy π·πΊπ·πΊπ·πΊπ·πΊπ·πΊ
Glory to Russia, you russophobs
4:45 Seems Latvia too me