The origins of Russia - Summary on a Map

Shooting the ashes of the false Tsar out of a cannon in the direction of the country that supported him is one of the most Russian things imaginable 😄

I love seeing borders moving. Ps: ok it is really moving now...

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"He was assassinated and his ashes were then shot out from a cannon towards Poland" 😂

So this is what the Meet Arnold guy is doing now?

Me : "Oh nice a new video" "The impostor" Me : "Oh"

One thing to note, Rurik is a leader, who has been invited. Every single country forms itself trough thousands of years of developing.

It was never called "Kievan Rus" until 18th century. Russian historians retroactively named it that.

i find the history of eastern europe and the baltic area very interesting, because it's something we never learn in school in italy

"so it's all trade routes?" "Always have been"

Poland: Damn i could've rule the half of the Asia

There was a fierce stubborn resistance of the Russian Slavs to the Mongol hordes. A lot of examples, incl a town of Koselsk (near modern Ryazan), that had been called The Fierce Town by the Mongols with all of its people incl women fighting to the end. But the forces were clearly unequal. It was a giant Horde and if not for the total Russian resistance that had depleted its initial punch, all of the Europe would have been conquered. You can see it from the sheer size of the Mongol empire set up by Genghis Khan who had subdued the China in the first place

Plot twist: russians are vikings who didn't like boats

Rurik not founded Novgorod,Novgorod already was by that time.Rurik was invited to rule on Novgorod

Some people fail to understand that Kievan Rus was a mix of modern day Russia, Ukraine and Belarus TOGETHER.

As an American we never learned about this. In school we learn about fifty states and history for half of our school career.

"And his ashes are fired from a cannon in the direction of Poland" Metal.

I took a Russian history class in undergrad about 20 years ago, and I really, REALLY wish that they would have used the map visuals that you did, because holy shiz this was WAY more interesting now than reading it in text and listening to lectures back then. A monk became tsar by bullshitting...unreal.

Very well done, thank you!

Oleg didn't 'found the Kievan Rus'. Kievan Rus isn't a historical term, it's one created by 18th-century Russian historians to refer to the part of Russia's history that was centred around Kiev. In its day, Kievan Rus' were just called "the lands of Rus", which means "the lands of Russia" - "Russia" is the Latin phrasing of Rus. And what's retroactively called "Kievan Rus" didn't originate and wasn't founded in Kiev, but began in Novgorod, which was the first capital of "Kievan Rus". When Oleg conquered Kiev, he expanded the lands of Rus to include Kiev, and then he moved Rus' captial from Novgorod to Kiev. The conquering and capitalising of Kiev wasn't the founding of Oleg's kingdom or a historical state, it was the expanding of one that already existed.