“Russian history for literature fans”would be a great book to write

980 Volodymyr the Great ruled Kievan Rus
13th Mongol Invasion by Batu Khan  / Tartars / the Golden Horde
1480 Mongol rule ended with the Great Stand of Ivan III the Great
17th "the Raskol" Schism of the Russian church between old and new believers
1703 Peter the Great founded St Petersburg, modernised Russia
1812 Napoleon invades Russia
1825 Decembrist revolt (wanted constitutional monarchy)
1853-56 Crimean war (Russian vs Ottoman empire)
1861 Emancipation of the serfs
1905 political unrest forced transition to constitutional Monarchy
1917 Bolshevik revolution

Soviet-era history books (roughly 1922–1991) were often written under strict government oversight.

Surprised this doesn’t have more views, was super helpful thanks 🙌.

Wow...this was fabulous

what about for economic and warfare purporses

I am just diving into Russian literature with some of the most famous works, having this context is so helpful! I didn’t know the history Petersburg.

13:22 I had never thought of it that way. So insightful, thank you

omg I NEED your perspective of soviet history pleaseeee

Thanks for all this very relevant information 😊

You should put a video course about russian literature. Paid, of course, either with Patreon or some other way. I would certainly go for it!

I love Russian literature. It’s quite extraordinary. I am desperate to visit St Petersburg and Moscow, not to mention Kiev and Belarus. Given the fact I am Irish, these plans have to be postponed. One day though. I will walk around hallucinating in a nostalgic fever and saying ‘как дела’ to my brothers and sisters

Thank you for tis video! It was wondeful!

988 what kinda Ukraine and Belarus were existing at that period of time???

so informative !!

1904. On August 24, 1904, corporal punishment (flogging with rods or whips) was abolished in Russia for peasants, who by then remained the only social class to whom this form of punishment was applied. The Tsar granted this favor in honor of the birth of his heir. In 1915, flogging was reinstated for lower ranks in the army, and under Kolchak, flogging would once again become a universal punishment for peasants. The ties and traditional values ​​of "lost" Russia clearly demonstrate why the country experienced three revolutions in less than 15 years, and why the Bolsheviks ultimately prevailed.

Super informative, thank you!

This is so helpful thank you!!

I love learning about Russian history and literature.  Thank you.

Ну, если быть полностью честным, то мнение об "огромных жертвах" при строительстве Петербурга скорее нарративное и не подтверждается современными историками. Т.е. жертв было столько, сколько примерно их было при любом глобальном строительстве в то время, где бы то ни было. Этот нарратив был закреплён гуманистами 19 века и впоследствии подхвачен советской интеллигенцией в плохом смысле этого слова.