THE WHOLE HISTORY OF RUSSIA 
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Welcome to Countries Facts so Today in this Article I will show you the whole history of Russia is the largest country on earth spanning an incredible 17 million square kilometers but if you're anything like me you're probably wondering how it got so big and how it has become such a powerful political and social entity in our modern world it not only takes the title of largest and most popular country and city in Europe but also stretches far beyond Europe across the euro mountain range into Asia taking up the largest portion of the continent principle history of Eastern Europe begins with the people the Greek writers called Slavs the first Russian state was formed when a group of Eastern Slavs later known as the roots elected a Viking chieftain to be their prince in 882 in the area between the Volga and near Pearl River Basins the state was soon expanded into the lands the ones held by the nomadic step peoples from Asia the most important city they captured was Kiev which is why historians refer to this part of Russia's history as the kiev in ruse the ruse spoke a language called proto-indo-european root state adopted Christianity in 988 when Vladimir the first introduced the religion from the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire this is also why the russians used the Cyrillic rather than the Latin alphabet common in most Catholic nations the ruse states slowly fragmented into competing princedoms largely aided by the death of Yaroslav the wise in the 11th century the ruse were often at war with the nomadic tribes we will just call for simplicity sake Steff peoples these steppe peoples are integral to much of the history of Asia and you'll see various factions of them popping up all over the place most steppe people's originated from the Eurasian steps go figure and were very good at horse riding in archery such as the Volga bull gars Casas and Kip chucks so with that out of the way we can talk about the Mongols who the ruse called Tatars under Genghis and Batu Khan they invaded all the way into western Kiev in ruse and established a state called the Golden Horde with the ruse Princeton's as their vassals the mongol empire quickly factored into smaller khanates allowing for the growth of more powerful states such as Poland Lithuania and the Grand Duchy of Moscow by 1480 both States absorbed much of the Golden Horde becoming more rivals with each other than with the Tatas by 1547 Moscow had become a regional power with Ivan the Terrible being crowned the first Tsar the Russian word for Caesar after all they did see themselves as the spiritual successors of the Romans and the last remnant of Orthodox Christianity debatable Ivan also renamed the State Russia after the ruse who inhabited it in 1580 Russia conquered the car native Sabir marking the first time Russia had expanded east of the Ural Mountains into Asia the russians renamed the mysterious new land siberia after the car nated conquered and do you think they stopped there while spoiler alert no in 1601 the Russians faced a succession crisis as the beginning of the Time of Troubles the country was in anarchy and in danger of being absorbed by Poland up to 1 in 3 of the population died either due to war famine or plagued by 1613 the Russians elected Mikhail Romanov as the nudes are establishing the Romanov dynasty for the rest of the country's history Michael ended the wars and began the slow process of rebuilding the fragmented country from this point until the 19th century Russia's economy was propped up by serfdom effectively protecting Russia's rich and powerful by turning all their peasants into hereditary slaves yeah history sucks sometimes by 1667 Russia had become powerful enough to win the rooster polish war with the help of the subjugated steppe peoples called Cossacks expanded their territory into southeastern part of Poland the poles and the Russians had informally nicknamed the area ook Rania derive from an old Slavic word for borderland get it because it was the border between Russia Poland and the Cossacks very creative anyway one of Russia's most famous czars was Peter the Great Peter was a reformer he modernized the army built the Empire's first Navy traveled west and brought back ideas and technology of the Enlightenment and also fashionable French clothing he also expanded Russia's influence in the black and Baltic seas the guy was basically in love with the West after capturing a Baltic Sea port from the swedish empire and the great northern war peter built a new city and founded it as the country's new capital st. Petersburg Russia also fought in a Seven Years War vying for power with the European neighbors another formidable Russian ruler was Catherine the Great who was well not really Russian at all she was born in Germany and she killed her husband and seized the throne for herself her reign was one of reform and domination of the Crimean Khanate as well as openly embracing the Enlightenment in the mid 18th century the Polish government collapsed due to a parliamentary limber and the surrounding Austria Prussia and Russia split the country in three during the polish partitions effectively wiping the country off the map for the next century just in time for the Napoleonic Wars rush just like the other European monarchies of the time fear the repercussions of the French Revolution and join the second third and fourth coalition's against Napoleon but they usually lost pretty badly the French army captured the abandoned Moscow in 1812 however the Russians would not surrender preferring to burn the fields that the French hoped to live off after waiting a few months Napoleon retreated from Russia due to lack of supplies before conceding a Russian surrender and when the snow set in and killed most of the French army the tide was turned in Russia's favor Russia's territorial gains had become so ambitious that had triggered a war with France in England who helped the Ottomans in the Crimean War in 1861 Russia abolished serfdom in an event now known as the Emancipation also in the period between Napoleon and the Emancipation it is worthwhile to note that Russia expanded her territory into Turkestan China the southern caucuses Finland and Russian America and were not for the Crimean War they almost certainly would have won the entire Black Sea they really loved land in 1894 tsar nicholas ii and the mystic Rasputin who people thought secretly controlled him became the last emperor of russia there were revolts against the political system for many decades and the monarchy was slowly losing its power as an ally of Serbia Russia aimed to protect the Baltic Slavs from the austro-hungarian invasion during World War one the chaos and famine of the war led to the - Russian revolutions the first opposed the Tsar and set up the provincial government highly influenced by the Soviets the Soviets were basically workers unions inspired by Marxism Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party came to power in the Soviets and seized power in the October Revolution creating the rsfsr and the russian civil war between the reds and the whites the civil war led to the breakaway of Poland the Baltic States and Finland in 1922 the r SF s r was renamed the USSR a much catchier name after the death of lenin russia's most famous communist era dictator came to power josef stalin born in the old russian empire now modern-day Georgia Stalin was an aggressive expansionist go figure he had aims of spreading communism throughout the world he also resented Russia's territorial losses during the Civil War he killed an exiled millions of people he deemed anti-revolutionary with failed diplomacy with the Western European nations Stalin entered into the non-aggression pact with not Germany hoping to regain much of the land lost during the first world war in Poland in the Baltic Sea on the 1st and 17th of September Germany and Russia invaded and divided Poland into beginning the Second World War originally in an uneasy alliance with Hitler the tide of war turned with Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union the invasion killed more troops than any other theater of battle and the German armies came just 24 kilometers from Moscow however the winter blizzard set in turning the battle and the Soviets favored after the defeat of Nazi Germany Stalin held on to the Soviet occupied territories enveloping them into the USSR or creating communist puppet States the Western Allies treated the Soviet bloc with suspicion in which the Soviets developed nuclear weapons and became one of the most powerful nations in history the USSR was the first nation to put a man in space during the American Soviet space race after decades of poverty and political unrest as well as involvement in numerous proxy wars with the United States the USSR finally collapsed under the weight of the one-party communist state the Russian Federation was formed as a newly democratic republic the two most important Eastern Bloc States Poland and East Germany broke away from Russian control and the eastern parts of Russia also broke away to form two new countries Belarus or white Russia and Ukraine the rise of Vladimir Putin a former KGB officer into the prime ministry and presidency of Russia brought with it renewed foreign policy Putin became involved in the Syrian civil war the East Russian separatist movements in Ukraine and the politics of many Eastern European countries modern-day Russia's future is uncertain as is the motives of its leader however the nation is in a state of peace will be hosting the football World Cup in 2018 and is emerging once again as a world superpower thanks for watching everyone please like and subscribe the website going remember to always be on the lookout for step people on the horizon until next time guys God Bless You.
