I find the 17th and 18th Centuries to be often the most under looked, when it comes to history. So many great conflicts and leaders that show us how Europe evolved from the Renaissance period to the Napoleonic Era.
@@ThisNinjaSays_ "History favors the victors and the powerful" which explains why the Byzantine Empire (later Roman Empire) was almost unknown to most people until recent years with the rise of youtube bringing attention to those that eventually lost. What hurt the populuarity of the Byzantine Empire is that the world became dominated by France and England so in the west we heard mostly their stories. At the same time, Byzantine was defeated by the Muslim Ottomans so the Islamic world wasn't as interested in continuing the stories of Byzantine Empire. And most of Eastern Europe pivoted to Russia in terms of carrying on the orthodox Christian history. And the US would later become the country that joined and surpassed England and France. But since US history comes from England, the US teaching of history was somewhat aligned with England. And English & Americans have always been fascinated by French due to the many ways and later alliances so that helps in terms of French history popularity in US and UK.
@@alansokelisatruehero8520 yeah, that was what I was getting at. Nobody to tell their story. The ottomans replaced the culture and thus Byzantine history doesn’t really belong to ottoman / Turkic / Turkish history. Add to it that there was a split in the church and culture during Byzantium era so Western Europe had less reason to continue the story Byzantine empire but did continue the story of the Roman Empire (western Roman).
Don't forget about human sufferings For instance, actions, like were in Battle of Stavishche, in which completely burned the town, murdering all its residents, weren't singe event. After the battle of Berestechko, as a result of the punitive campaign of the Poles to the east, there were huge losses of the Ukrainian population. In the 1650s, the population of Ukraine became smaller than at the end of the 16th century. Bratslavshchina, Volyn and Galicia lost about 40-50% of the population. In 1654/55, the Tatars took the side of the crown army and devastated 270 villages and towns in Podolia alone, burned at least a thousand churches, and killed 10 thousand children. Report of a Polish officer of the time, describing the devastation: " I estimate that the number of infants alone who were found dead along the roads and in the castles reached 10,000. I ordered them to be buried in the fields and one grave alone contained over 270 bodies... All the infants were less than a year old since the older ones were driven off into captivity. The surviving peasants wander about in groups, bewailing their misfortune" In the autumn of 1655, the Swedish army, moving to Lviv, burned down all the villages and towns along the road of movement in a strip of 30-60 km. In parallel, there was a corps of Crimean, Nogai, Belgorod and Budzhatsk Tatars, which devastated the lands from Kyiv to Kamenets-Podolsk.
@@alansokelisatruehero8520 yeah I agree it basically disappeared, and there's no one left to speak for it now, since Greece and Turkey have their own cultures anyway, it was no longer a state
Unfortunately only two Total War games go out that far and that's where most of the footage doe the videos come from. Creative Assembly! Put a pause on Total Warhammer and Three Kingdoms and give us Empire 2 already!
Unfortunately, it is true that the Swedish army was demoralized, lacked provisions and even ammunition before the Poltava battle. This is well described by Peter England in his book Poltava. The Swedes were simply too weak and Charlse was too ambitious. Peter England writes that large reinforcements of men, food and ammunition from Sweeden were defeated somewhere in Ukraine by Russians and and small Cossack allied army didn't reached Charlse before the decisive Poltava battle.
@@Nechay. absolutely not. Without Ukraine Moscowy is not a super power but simply poor outdated country, with bad government system and not educated people. That's why Ukraine is so important even now
@@AndriiF I mean you are not wrong here, but Charles was doomed because you know russians love use scorge earth tactics and eventually he would lose, because he basically have no logistics Ukraine was already destroyed by russians and not to forget his neighbors like poles were watching them and could attack him to finish the job that Petr don't do
The lesson for us is that in this part of Europe being neutral is not going to get you far as a country. The constant balancing between Tsardom of Russia, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottomans slowly sapped the Hetmanate whose independence was ended by the Empire of Russia. Playing all sides in international relations only works for a limited time.
@@vasylgorodyskyi1020 Ivan, by the Grace of God, the *Sovereign of all Russia* and the Grand Prince of Vladimir, and Moscow, and Novgorod, and Pskov, and Tver, and Yugorsk, and Perm, and Bulgar and others. -The full title of Ivan III.
@@vasylgorodyskyi1020 1649 год Великому Государю нашему, Царю и Великому Князю Михаилу Феодоровичу, всея Руссiи Самодержцу, и Его Царскаго Величества Наследикамъ и потомъ буду- щимъ Россiйскимъ Великимъ Государемъ, Царëмъ и Великимъ Князем и Россiйскому Царствiю, тако жъ и ихъ Царскихъ Величествъ Новгородскихъ и иныхъ городов Воеводамъ и Наместникамъ в Россiйскаго Государства всякимъ лядямъ Полное собрание законов Российской Империи. Собрание Первое. Том I. 1649 - 1675 гг. Ст 215
@@vasylgorodyskyi1020 1649 год. Великому Государю нашему, Царю и Великому Князю Михаилу Феодоровичу, всея Руссiи Самодержцу, и Его Царскаго Величества Наследикамъ и потомъ буду- щимъ Россiйскимъ Великимъ Государемъ, Царëмъ и Великимъ Князем и Россiйскому Царствiю, тако жъ и ихъ Царскихъ Величествъ Новгородскихъ и иныхъ городов Воеводамъ и Наместникамъ в Россiйскаго Государства всякимъ лядямъ
While Catherine the Great was partially known for Russification, there is an interesting history of an influx of Germans into the area as well. While Crimean-Goths had lingered on the peninsula for centuries, partially integrating into the Tatars & Pontic Greeks, those new west-germanic settlers would found dozens of towns that would exist until this day even with historical events in between that would see Germans either flee or actively being ethnically purged & deported to Siberia.
@ninja forcing the Russian language onto Ukraine is the easiest example of it. But her russification was not to the extend of some later Czars, that much is true.
@@ThisNinjaSays_ her most major sin in regards to Ukraine that she wanted to glorify the history of Ruzzian empire, so her people stole all the archives from Ukraine and rewrite the history of our people in their own way. Those true archives were either destroyed or still somewhere in Moscow
@@ThisNinjaSays_ You're writing "who brought German settlers to Ukraine and South Russia" as if the fact that it was Germans was offensive. If it's not that & you instead are cirtical of colonial hierarchies I can relief you in saying those weren't created here. Germans mostly founded cities & farming estates in low-population areas of the Pontic Steppes. While it happened during the general period of Russian & Ukrainian settler colonialism removing Crimean Tatars from their homelands, Germans usually acted on the periphery. The "I'm taking your house for myself" style happened in already established historical cities like the port nowadays known as Sevastopol or Perekop.
The interesting part about such power vacuums are the multiple scenarios of the ultimate outcome, If not Russia it would've been Cossacks, Tatars, or Poles getting the whole chunk of territory
I agree, the narrative of villains and heroes is unrealistic when it comes to countries. And in general, great leaders like Peter the Great, Julio Cesar, Alexander the Great etc committed morally reprehensible acts, it is not exclusive to one or the other.
@@troller8680 Poland's treatment was not the best, but they never performed something similar to Sack of Baturyn (mentioned here in the video). It happened more than 300 years back but Ruzzians still do the same atrocities now.
No matter whet else comes up on alerts I always rewatch my favorite videos on Kings and General's over and over every night. Guess you might say it's an addiction. But a very good one. LOL. Thank you all.
It was so amazing how crimean khanate, polish Lithuanian Commonwealth and cossack Hetmanate all were annexed one by one by Russia . Cossack Ukraine in 1775 AD and Crimean khanate in 1782 AD and polish Lithuanian commonwealth in 1792 AD .
No not really. He could also say Ruthenian but it would be the same. Ruthenian in the early modern time no longer refered to all former Rus' but specifically to what we now know as Ukrainians. So it would be the same as saying Ukrainian. The Cossacks saw themselves and the people they ruled as distinct from the Russians (Moscovites). What term do you want them to use? The Imperial Russian (which we now also see more and more return in nationalist Russian circles) of "Little Russians" ? Which is considered highly offensive by those called a such.
@VividChi 12 "Ruthenia" in the 17th century referred to what is now Ukraine and "Ruthenians" to what are now Ukrainians and Rusyn. This would be the case until the 20th century after which the term would mean only Rusyn. This is in contrast to the use of the term in the centuries before that where it meant all of the Rus'. The time period where it meant all Rus' is were the terms White Ruthenia / White Rus' (Belarus / Беларусь), Red Ruthernia and Carpathian Ruthenia come from. Ironically the only people nowadays called Ruthenians are those from Zakarpattia/Carpathian Ruthenia, the Rusyn. During the 17th century people already differentiate between the White Ruthenians (Belarusians) and the other Ruthenians, there was no differentiation between the Rusyn and Ukrainians at that time yet.
of course they are they are defaming russia in this two years I hope you people dont destroy the russian federation since they are kinda the precursor to one world government anyhow dont forget to give them the " million dollar"
Great video! You revealed one of the most difficult periods of Ukrainian history very well. Additionally, I'd like to thank you for mentioning Ukrainian/Cossack Baroque, I personally love this style, as is the story of the cultural renaissance of the time in contrast to imperial myths about a "culturally backward" peasant country with cossack outlaws. Lest we forget that it was the professors and graduates of the Kyiv Mohyla academie and other collegiums of Ukraine who brought European education to Moscow, which in principle made reforms and modernization possible.
This is typical for Russia and russian, or should I say RuZZia and ruZZians. They never ever made their own changes or reforms, never had any modern ideas, lived as a barbarians for centuries and they still are barbarians today, just have a look at them outside of Moscow, how they live. If that is not barbarism, then what is! I pray they all will be gone soon, ALL!
This architecture and culture was brought by Poland when these land were technically Polish, before and until 1648/1676 and 1772. Polish renaissance and Poland’s Golden Age greatly influenced Ukraina, especially the Golden Liberties inspired the Cossacks.
@@WangAiHua This must be a joke, it is, right, right? That was more than 6 centuries prior to the hetmanate, and she was a princess of the Rus, not Ukraine in particular
@@Thinking_Substance That is entirely correct!---At that time Kyivan Rus' was a important and wealthy capital!---The Ukrainian language is almost 100% phonetic making literacy very easy---it is no wonder that Ukraine today has one of the highest literacy rates in the World. When Anna arrived in Paris she was shocked how less developed it was compared to Kyiv! You call her Princess of "the Rus"---You do understand that the relatively few Viking Rulers in the 9th century assimilated into Ukrainian (then called Rus') society! Ihor and Olha (9th century) had Viking derived names while their son---Sviatoslav already had a Ukrainian name---Anna was from the 12th century--3 centuries later! Muscovy was still a swamp---first mentioned only in 1147!
I explain this video for my war buddies. They like your videos about our war. I'm the only one in the battalion who knows English and it's not perfect.😄 Hello from Ukraine. Sometimes I think that I would like to see this video with ukrainian translation or subtitles so that more ukrainians can see it. We dont have such quality content from our bloggers and it is always interesting to listen history of your country from foreigners.
your English is good already, by the way most Americans can figure out imperfect sentences, this is the best history channel I've found on UA-cam with the map animations
An good idea for video: How a certain general named David Bek led Armenians resistance against Ottomans and Safavids and won one of the greatest battle of whole history - Battle of Halidzor, 300 Armenians against 70000 Ottomans, and of course talk about his tragedic death
@@cetus4449 I totally agree ypu for but what you said is more about the second half of the 18th century. What I mean for 1700 is actually the period, which is spoken in the video. Roughly 1680-1720. Russia was not at its peak, nor the Ottoman and Commonwelath. But Russian and ottoman empires could still make feel their influence to rest of the continent.
@@cetus4449 The ottomans lost their first devastating war against the Venice-Cw-Austriah.-Russian alliance in year 1683-1699. But they were capable to fight back the russians in the 1720s and ca 1747 twice. Moreover they also won almost every war against Austriahungary. Thus can be said that they were still a great power. Can be considered as top3 or 4. Honestly I dont know much about the Swedes. But what I remember they were strong between 1650 and 1720 (roughly) till they lose their war against Russia. I suppose you know better about them.
I hope so. And, if they tell about the defence of Warsaw from the Red Army, told about the role of the French "saviour" of Warsaw. No spoilers, please.
@@dylanvogler2165 The entire video + previous videos say that while Russia ended it on the eastern bank, the PLC ended he cossacks on the western bank.
Don cossacks were originally from Dnieper ones, but had to migrate due to what Katherine II did to Sich. Pity that Don cossacks forgot their roots and became loyal to empire with time
@Oksana No. Majority of the Don Cossacks were Russians, just as majority of the Zaporozhian Cossacks were Ukrainians. The Don Cossacks themselves distinguished themselves from living nearby, on the Don, Tatars and Cherkases (as the Russians called Ukrainians at that time)
@@jailedtwice735 It is not true. The Don Cossacks were also ethnic Ukrainians. Even according to the population census that was already conducted in the USSR. And the attitude towards them was really the same. The Don Cossacks also constantly rebelling. It's just that the Don Cossacks were never part of the Hetmanate. Therefore, over time, their paths began to diverge. It's just that the Don Cossacks, unlike the Zaporozhians, never had a choice with whom to interact (war, alliances, diplomacy). There were Poles and Tatars near the Zaporozhians, and the Don was completely under Moscow.
@@tatarcavalry2342 Perhaps, but the Swedes then weren't the friendly people who brought easy to assemble furniture to the world and even if turning sooner would have worked, even if Sweden could have won, that's no guarantee things work out for the Cossacks.
Very interesting series. It would be also interesting another one about the territories of current Ukraine that were not part of the Hetmanate. Which states existed on them? Which peoples inhabited them? How were their culture(s)?
The same Ruthenians/Ukrainians inhabited those lands to the west of Hetmanate. After the truce of Andrusovo their land became part of Poland without any autonomy. They rebelled several times but were suppressed by both Poland and Russia. Later Poland was partitioned and Russia took most of Ukrainian ethnic territory except for the western one that became part of Austro-Hungary. In XIX century both Russian-controlled and Austrian-controlled parts of Ukraine faced Ukrainian cultural revival. But Russia quickly suppressed it and banned Ukrainian language - they planned to assimilate Ukrainians into Russians. Later after WWI Ukrainian states declared independence in both Russian-controlled and Austrian-controlled parts of Ukraine but were defeated and suppressed by Russians and Poles and divided between USSR and Poland. Later USSR capture most of Polish-controlled part of Ukraine, while westernmost regions remained in Poland and Ukrainians were deported from there. As for lands of Southern Ukraine they were sparsely populated and inhabited by Cossacks, Nogays and Crimean Tatars. Northern part of that region was controlled by Zaporizhian Cossacks, while southern part was controlled by Crimean khanate - the Ottoman vassal. In XVIII-XIX centuries Ukrainian peasants resettled there in big numbers and by the end of XIX century those lands became Ukrainian ethnic lands. Russia tried to resettle other people to those lands (Germans, Serbs, Romanians) in order to decrease Cossack influence but they were mostly assimilated by Ukrainians. Russia "founded" new big cities on the place of captured/destroyed Cossack/Tatar/Ottoman settlements and resettled Russians there.
He didn’t cover the Sloboda Ukraine, the region of Kharkiv, Sumy and Luhansk, which were as well as Hetmanate the autonomous part of Russia. Sloboda Ukraine was settled by people who fleed Ukraine during the Khmelnytsky uprising.
@@ChillDudelD and it was still ruthenian (ukrainian) before the Mongols have destroyed Kyiv state in 1240, and the Poland annexed this land which was weakened by mongols
@@lifeisfakinawesome4386 But which lands specifically are we talking about? Because Czerwień aka Red Ruthenia belonged to Poland first, before it belonged to Rus.
Especially relevant to today's fight for Ukrainian independence. This isn't their first rodeo with Muscovy. It's the price of being the geographic crossroads of Europe and Asia
This can be summarized as the period in which Russia's position as the strongest Slavic nation was affirmed, having outpaced the PLC by most parameters
That's sadly because the PLC has failed to modernize and the central authority was so week that even trying to change that state of things would only result in a discontent among the nobility that often has had much more power and authority than the king. The state just simply stopped to exit not primarly because of it's aggresive neighbours but because of the anarchy, lack of central power and it's backwardness in contrast to it's neigbours...if there would be a strong prosperous PLC then the balance of powee would be different and everyone would think twice before making moves
@@diabelgrogaty1963 I only add one thing to your comment. I am sure that if it could be commonwealth of three nations (as it was in fact), with equal rights of ukrainian nobility and orthodox church as it was planned in so called "Gadiach's agreements", it could be strongest state in Europe
@@diabelgrogaty1963 btw I find it's funny that one trait in one period of time (strong central rule) is good but after industrialization it's rather bad.
Any plans to make a history of the USSR? There are plenty of videos on the Russian empire but much less content on the USSR. I understand it is a big topic and probably cannot be covered in one single video but any content on it would be much appreciated. Thank you
They did a few videos two years ago - 'Seminoles - Native Americans Who Never Surrendered' and 'Tecumseh and the Native American Resistance'. They're still in the video archive.
Thank you for making this historical content about our country and ukrainian nation! I hope this will help other nations to understand our relations with Russia deeply
I'm certain Mazepa would be quite proud of the Ukrainians of today. Pushing back the Russians from their territory. And also possibly a little jealous.
Thank you for covering one of the most interesting periods of Ukrainian history. I as Ukrainian appreciate the effort to share and populate the knowledge about this period of Ukrainian history to the rest of the world, as it only proves that Ukraine has a lot deeper history, than most of the people think.
A great story with a sad ending, as in many real life heroic historical tales. The Ukrainians will continue to fight to exist. It's such a shame that such a beautiful country with all those resources are caught between larger, hostile nations. Slava Ukraine
So proud to be Ukrainian and continue the fight of my ancestors for the Independence of this country and the Ukrainian nation as a member of the Armed Forces. Thank you for sharing our history and supporting our fight!
Here's another story that goes like that - Golitsyn started to hate Ivan Samoylovych after Golitsyn's disastrous campaign against Crimean Tartars. Samoylovych was not very willing to help the Moscovite army but he kinda had to (no one knew southern Ukraine better than Cossack rangers). The straw that broke the camel's back was when Tartars set the steppe on fire and the attacking army literally got lost and choking in the solid scorching summer smoke. Samylovych somehow lost or hurt his sight and was very pissed so Golitsyn who had being bragging he would conquer Crimea needed a scapegoat to blame for his failure. So he took care of Samoylovych and after some intrigues got him exiled to Tobolsk.
Great documentary! After what I have recently been aware of the histories of the national identities kept under the Holy Roman Empire, primarily Magyar, I think that the world has much to put up to cherish the colors representented by various nationalities, in our way to the harmonious peaceful world.
Український народ, як почесний хоробрий шляхетний народ як османської історії, так і сьогодення, буде переможцем наприкінці цієї війни. Хай живе Україна!! 🇹🇷🇦🇿🇺🇦❤️✊
Glory to Ukraine. Crimea is Ukraine, and Cyprus is Greece.Of course, we are a noble people, but the letter of the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks to the Turkic Sultan Mahmed 4 is worth it😂
Great work, Author. I am suspicious it should be prepared by some Ukrainian because it contains very precise historical data about Mazepa motivation to break protectorate with Moscovian monarch which is not well known even in Ukraine nowadays. Bravo!
It's really striking how the cold, corporate art belonging to the sponsor collides with an artistically rich artwork made for the episode. This is not a criticism, or praise, just an observation of how corporate art subtlety reveals a lot about them.
Watching you from Ukraine, great job! Many THX! To us Mazepa is positive character and good ruler, Peter is despot and oppressor. Like and Catherine II, and all next rulers of Moscowia. Слава Україні!
@@SeekerOfKnowledge87 equal scrutiny is applied to equal events. US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were wrong, but in neither event did the US attempt to annex territory or eradicate the Iraqis or Afghans as a people. Russia is trying to do both.
Most of modern-day East Turkestan was annexed by the Qing dynasty in 1756 with the fall of the Dzungar Khanate, the last traditional Uyghur entity, the Kumul Khanate, was abolished in 1930, and the last Uyghur republic was finished off in 1949.
Thanks for the video and all the materials you have made so far, I really like your channel! However, amongst other accents carefully placed in this series with the purpose of slightly (or sometimes not) overemphasizing the Ukrainian cause, all the while forgetting about the Russian one and additionally demonizing Russia, the usage of the word Novorussia you have presented in the video is incorrect: actually, Novorussia is the primarily steppe territory to the south of Ukraine and Zaporizhia stretching from Moldova to Don. Until the second half of 18th century it belonged to the Crimean Tatars and Turks and then was conquered by Russia and colonised primarily by Russians with the participation of Ukrainians, Serbs, Germans, Cossacks and Armenians, never being part of Ukraine both culturally and administratively until the creation of the German Empire's Ukrainian puppet state in 1918. Meanwhile, Ukraine's name in Russian Empire and before was Malorussia, with no intentions of thinking of Ukraine as "New Russia", but "Small Russia".
Насправді найбільша помилка ототожнювати Російську імперію з Росією,яка лиш була вигадана пізніше,як грецький переклад Русі,який греки застосовували стосовно держави Русь,з якою вони спілкувались виключно через Київ.Але ще більшим безглуздям є називати мешканців тої імперії росіянами,бо насправді то були лиш піддані царя,суміш фіноугорських і тюркських народів,який імперська канцелярія з ідеологічних міркувань визнала як великоросів й з тих же ідей вигадала концепцію "триєдиного народу",до якого наче входили великороси,малороси і білоруси.Новоросія,насправді завоювувалась здебільшого запорізькими козаками з тих же малоросів,як пізніше і заселялась ними,що підтверджують переписи населення Російської імперії і СРСР.Кількість вигаданих Сталіном "русскіх" там збільшувалась вже в СРСР завдяки політиці національної і мовної сегрегації.Політика нинішього фюрера РФ лиш тому підтвердження.
ну ну, будешь тут рассказывать. Вот тебе перепись конца 19го века в моем родном городе Измаиле Родной язык населения по данным переписи 1897 года[24]: Язык Численность, чел. Доля Украинский («малорусский») 8 271 37,10 % Русский («великорусский») 7 797 34,97 % Еврейский 2 736 12,27 % Румынский и молдавский 1 589 7,13 % Болгарский 936 4,20 % Греческий 503 2,26 % Другие 463 2,07 % Итого 22 295 100,00 % Где украинский был в большинстве и уже в Советское время русский стал повсеместным здесь)
Well done! It's quite correct, Mazepa was an extraordinary person indeed. Btw, you mentioned the year when Moscowy announced itself 'Russia' but on your map that territory is marked as 'Russia' well before that. This is exactly they want - call Moscowy 'Russia' and so legitimize stolen.
@@Iv4Bez Dear Vanja, as a typical moscovite you're making a muddle of history and kremlin propaganda. In the civilized and literate world words 'united' and 'occupied' have a different meaning. This is not relevant to Moscovy, though. Besides, Rome didn't rename itself after Greece occupation and Spain didn't do that after getting control over Inca Empire. If Moscovy do not like its own name that much and prefer stealing it from others, why wouldn't you call yourself Siberian Federation? The are way more 'united' lands and the name is vacant. It's a win-win :)
Keep up the outstanding work regarding the current Ukraine war, and past Ukraine history. Getting to know more about Ukraine, and how awesome the Ukrainian people are has been a delight. They seem like such amazing people, and should never have been illegally, invaded by a fascist authoritarian Russian dictatorship. I support Ukraine’s continued existence as a sovereign, independent democratic nation. I look forward to your future videos on the current illegal Russian occupation and war. Really hoping that the counteroffensive starting in spring and moving through summer and potentially even fall will take back their entire country, including the stolen Crimea. Although I am worried how Russia will react if they begin losing the war or after they’ve lost the war. They tend to behave similar to some countries in the Middle East (such as Iran), or like North Korea… They seem like little children, trying to act like adults. And we all know that children can lash out when they don’t get their way.
@@oksanamazur2123 always! I want to go there and help rebuild after Ukraine. Drives Russia out. Ukrainians just seem like the nicest funniest people. As an American, I just want to hang out with them, help them, clean up, and help them rebuild.
Like the Americans in Vietnam. When they were unable to defeat the Vietcong in the south, they responded like angry children by massively bombing North Vietnam and Laos, killing hundreds of thousands of people. And in the end, after ten years of war, they withdrew anyway, so the result was the same.
Why is there no name Ukraine anywhere on the maps back then ? Do any of these Cossacks or people of those areas call themselves Ukrainian back in those days ?
Thanks for your kind popularization the history of my country. It's so sad that people start interesting of it and try to see differences only after this terrible russian invasion started😟
Excellent documentary! Please, also do documentaries on the Russian conquest of Tatarstan, Chuvashia, Udmurtia, Siberia and subsequent atrocities committed by Russian Empire.
Shouldn't Kyiv be called Kiev in this video? As far as I'm aware Ukraine renamed Kiev into Kyiv in last decade. Was it called that way during Hetmanate in 17 century?
Both are English transliterations. At that point, Russians used Киев or Киевъ, Ukrainians Київ. The word probably comes from Кий - the name of the legendary founder of the city, and both versions of the name probably mean "belonging to Кий", "of Кий".
No, the name was and is still Київ (Kyiv--is the Ukrainian transliteration, Kiev ---is from the RuZZian transliteration, 基輔 in Chinese transliteration).
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Unless Mazepa was a thief, the parallel between him and that scamming company is inadequate.
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Зробіть будь ласка ролик про походи Отамана Івана Сірка на Крим і Османів він був дуже легендарною людиної у нашій славні історії
I find the 17th and 18th Centuries to be often the most under looked, when it comes to history. So many great conflicts and leaders that show us how Europe evolved from the Renaissance period to the Napoleonic Era.
@@ThisNinjaSays_ "History favors the victors and the powerful" which explains why the Byzantine Empire (later Roman Empire) was almost unknown to most people until recent years with the rise of youtube bringing attention to those that eventually lost. What hurt the populuarity of the Byzantine Empire is that the world became dominated by France and England so in the west we heard mostly their stories. At the same time, Byzantine was defeated by the Muslim Ottomans so the Islamic world wasn't as interested in continuing the stories of Byzantine Empire. And most of Eastern Europe pivoted to Russia in terms of carrying on the orthodox Christian history.
And the US would later become the country that joined and surpassed England and France. But since US history comes from England, the US teaching of history was somewhat aligned with England. And English & Americans have always been fascinated by French due to the many ways and later alliances so that helps in terms of French history popularity in US and UK.
@@alansokelisatruehero8520 yeah, that was what I was getting at. Nobody to tell their story. The ottomans replaced the culture and thus Byzantine history doesn’t really belong to ottoman / Turkic / Turkish history. Add to it that there was a split in the church and culture during Byzantium era so Western Europe had less reason to continue the story Byzantine empire but did continue the story of the Roman Empire (western Roman).
Don't forget about human sufferings
For instance, actions, like were in Battle of Stavishche, in which completely burned the town, murdering all its residents, weren't singe event.
After the battle of Berestechko, as a result of the punitive campaign of the Poles to the east, there were huge losses of the Ukrainian population. In the 1650s, the population of Ukraine became smaller than at the end of the 16th century. Bratslavshchina, Volyn and Galicia lost about 40-50% of the population.
In 1654/55, the Tatars took the side of the crown army and devastated 270 villages and towns in Podolia alone, burned at least a thousand churches, and killed 10 thousand children.
Report of a Polish officer of the time, describing the devastation: " I estimate that the number of infants alone who were found dead along the roads and in the castles reached 10,000. I ordered them to be buried in the fields and one grave alone contained over 270 bodies... All the infants were less than a year old since the older ones were driven off into captivity. The surviving peasants wander about in groups, bewailing their misfortune"
In the autumn of 1655, the Swedish army, moving to Lviv, burned down all the villages and towns along the road of movement in a strip of 30-60 km. In parallel, there was a corps of Crimean, Nogai, Belgorod and Budzhatsk Tatars, which devastated the lands from Kyiv to Kamenets-Podolsk.
@@alansokelisatruehero8520 yeah I agree it basically disappeared, and there's no one left to speak for it now, since Greece and Turkey have their own cultures anyway, it was no longer a state
Unfortunately only two Total War games go out that far and that's where most of the footage doe the videos come from. Creative Assembly! Put a pause on Total Warhammer and Three Kingdoms and give us Empire 2 already!
Unfortunately, it is true that the Swedish army was demoralized, lacked provisions and even ammunition before the Poltava battle. This is well described by Peter England in his book Poltava. The Swedes were simply too weak and Charlse was too ambitious. Peter England writes that large reinforcements of men, food and ammunition from Sweeden were defeated somewhere in Ukraine by Russians and and small Cossack allied army didn't reached Charlse before the decisive Poltava battle.
I think they would not consider the fact they did a whole one hour video. 02 hours on the great Northern more.
I think even if Charles win in Poltava he would still be doomed... only if he could capture Petr but chances of that were very small
@@Nechay. absolutely not. Without Ukraine Moscowy is not a super power but simply poor outdated country, with bad government system and not educated people. That's why Ukraine is so important even now
@@AndriiF I mean you are not wrong here, but Charles was doomed because you know russians love use scorge earth tactics and eventually he would lose, because he basically have no logistics Ukraine was already destroyed by russians and not to forget his neighbors like poles were watching them and could attack him to finish the job that Petr don't do
The Cossacks half defected to Peter the Great
The lesson for us is that in this part of Europe being neutral is not going to get you far as a country. The constant balancing between Tsardom of Russia, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottomans slowly sapped the Hetmanate whose independence was ended by the Empire of Russia. Playing all sides in international relations only works for a limited time.
or if you make sure everyone keeps their riches in your castle. Suddenly nobody wants to cut of their own nose by attacking. Those wily Swiss …
There was not russia and no empire at that time before 1701. It was moscow tsardom
@@vasylgorodyskyi1020
Ivan, by the Grace of God, the *Sovereign of all Russia* and the Grand Prince of Vladimir, and Moscow, and Novgorod, and Pskov, and Tver, and Yugorsk, and Perm, and Bulgar and others.
-The full title of Ivan III.
@@vasylgorodyskyi1020
1649 год
Великому Государю нашему, Царю
и Великому Князю Михаилу Феодоровичу,
всея Руссiи Самодержцу, и Его Царскаго
Величества Наследикамъ и потомъ буду-
щимъ Россiйскимъ Великимъ Государемъ,
Царëмъ и Великимъ Князем и Россiйскому
Царствiю, тако жъ и ихъ Царскихъ Величествъ Новгородскихъ и иныхъ городов
Воеводамъ и Наместникамъ в Россiйскаго
Государства всякимъ лядямъ
Полное собрание законов Российской Империи. Собрание Первое. Том I. 1649 - 1675 гг.
Ст 215
@@vasylgorodyskyi1020
1649 год.
Великому Государю нашему, Царю
и Великому Князю Михаилу Феодоровичу,
всея Руссiи Самодержцу, и Его Царскаго
Величества Наследикамъ и потомъ буду-
щимъ Россiйскимъ Великимъ Государемъ,
Царëмъ и Великимъ Князем и Россiйскому
Царствiю, тако жъ и ихъ Царскихъ Величествъ Новгородскихъ и иныхъ городов
Воеводамъ и Наместникамъ в Россiйскаго
Государства всякимъ лядямъ
While Catherine the Great was partially known for Russification, there is an interesting history of an influx of Germans into the area as well. While Crimean-Goths had lingered on the peninsula for centuries, partially integrating into the Tatars & Pontic Greeks, those new west-germanic settlers would found dozens of towns that would exist until this day even with historical events in between that would see Germans either flee or actively being ethnically purged & deported to Siberia.
@ninja it isn't. But she did many other policies she did which was russification.
@ninja forcing the Russian language onto Ukraine is the easiest example of it. But her russification was not to the extend of some later Czars, that much is true.
@@ThisNinjaSays_ her most major sin in regards to Ukraine that she wanted to glorify the history of Ruzzian empire, so her people stole all the archives from Ukraine and rewrite the history of our people in their own way. Those true archives were either destroyed or still somewhere in Moscow
@@oksanamazur2123 yes that's correct
@@ThisNinjaSays_ You're writing "who brought German settlers to Ukraine and South Russia" as if the fact that it was Germans was offensive. If it's not that & you instead are cirtical of colonial hierarchies I can relief you in saying those weren't created here. Germans mostly founded cities & farming estates in low-population areas of the Pontic Steppes. While it happened during the general period of Russian & Ukrainian settler colonialism removing Crimean Tatars from their homelands, Germans usually acted on the periphery. The "I'm taking your house for myself" style happened in already established historical cities like the port nowadays known as Sevastopol or Perekop.
The interesting part about such power vacuums are the multiple scenarios of the ultimate outcome, If not Russia it would've been Cossacks, Tatars, or Poles getting the whole chunk of territory
Yes people forget that if not Russia then someone else would have been the threat!
@@samanyupalthi Ukraine was divided between different empires for ages and Ruzzia's treatment of people was always the worst
@@oksanamazur2123 The poles treated Ukrainians just as bad, Polification was policy, orthodoxy was discriminated against in favour of Catholicism.
I agree, the narrative of villains and heroes is unrealistic when it comes to countries. And in general, great leaders like Peter the Great, Julio Cesar, Alexander the Great etc committed morally reprehensible acts, it is not exclusive to one or the other.
@@troller8680 Poland's treatment was not the best, but they never performed something similar to Sack of Baturyn (mentioned here in the video). It happened more than 300 years back but Ruzzians still do the same atrocities now.
No matter whet else comes up on alerts I always rewatch my favorite videos on Kings and General's over and over every night. Guess you might say it's an addiction.
But a very good one. LOL.
Thank you all.
As Ukrainian historian, I must to admit that you did a great video! Definitely would recommend it to students
It was so amazing how crimean khanate, polish Lithuanian Commonwealth and cossack Hetmanate all were annexed one by one by Russia . Cossack Ukraine in 1775 AD and Crimean khanate in 1782 AD and polish Lithuanian commonwealth in 1792 AD .
Thanks!
Been watching for many years but these titles are very anachronistic
In what way?
No not really. He could also say Ruthenian but it would be the same. Ruthenian in the early modern time no longer refered to all former Rus' but specifically to what we now know as Ukrainians. So it would be the same as saying Ukrainian. The Cossacks saw themselves and the people they ruled as distinct from the Russians (Moscovites).
What term do you want them to use? The Imperial Russian (which we now also see more and more return in nationalist Russian circles) of "Little Russians" ? Which is considered highly offensive by those called a such.
Ruthenian would be accurate, but it would simply refer to what we now call Ukrainian.
@@philipmorrone5717 exactly
@VividChi 12 "Ruthenia" in the 17th century referred to what is now Ukraine and "Ruthenians" to what are now Ukrainians and Rusyn. This would be the case until the 20th century after which the term would mean only Rusyn. This is in contrast to the use of the term in the centuries before that where it meant all of the Rus'. The time period where it meant all Rus' is were the terms White Ruthenia / White Rus' (Belarus / Беларусь), Red Ruthernia and Carpathian Ruthenia come from. Ironically the only people nowadays called Ruthenians are those from Zakarpattia/Carpathian Ruthenia, the Rusyn. During the 17th century people already differentiate between the White Ruthenians (Belarusians) and the other Ruthenians, there was no differentiation between the Rusyn and Ukrainians at that time yet.
Your work is peerless
You're doing a million dollar job. Keep it up. This is the way
of course they are they are defaming russia in this two years I hope you people dont destroy the russian federation since they are kinda the precursor to one world government anyhow dont forget to give them the " million dollar"
Russia Never change no matter what time in history it is
great video
Thank you)
Great video! You revealed one of the most difficult periods of Ukrainian history very well.
Additionally, I'd like to thank you for mentioning Ukrainian/Cossack Baroque, I personally love this style, as is the story of the cultural renaissance of the time in contrast to imperial myths about a "culturally backward" peasant country with cossack outlaws. Lest we forget that it was the professors and graduates of the Kyiv Mohyla academie and other collegiums of Ukraine who brought European education to Moscow, which in principle made reforms and modernization possible.
This is typical for Russia and russian, or should I say RuZZia and ruZZians. They never ever made their own changes or reforms, never had any modern ideas, lived as a barbarians for centuries and they still are barbarians today, just have a look at them outside of Moscow, how they live. If that is not barbarism, then what is!
I pray they all will be gone soon, ALL!
This architecture and culture was brought by Poland when these land were technically Polish, before and until 1648/1676 and 1772. Polish renaissance and Poland’s Golden Age greatly influenced Ukraina, especially the Golden Liberties inspired the Cossacks.
@@ChillDudelD после русского национализма самый худший в Европе это национализм польский
Thank you for doing these series!
80% towns with primary schools in towns is not 80% literacy at all.
Could be,---but what are you trying to saying?
Still for Europe of that time pretty significant
Anna, daughter of the Prince of Kyiv, who became regent of France was one of the few literate people in Paris at the time!
@@WangAiHua This must be a joke, it is, right, right? That was more than 6 centuries prior to the hetmanate, and she was a princess of the Rus, not Ukraine in particular
@@Thinking_Substance
That is entirely correct!---At that time Kyivan Rus' was a important and wealthy capital!---The Ukrainian language is almost 100% phonetic making literacy very easy---it is no wonder that Ukraine today has one of the highest literacy rates in the World.
When Anna arrived in Paris she was shocked how less developed it was compared to Kyiv!
You call her Princess of "the Rus"---You do understand that the relatively few Viking Rulers in the 9th century assimilated into Ukrainian (then called Rus') society!
Ihor and Olha (9th century) had Viking derived names while their son---Sviatoslav already had a Ukrainian name---Anna was from the 12th century--3 centuries later!
Muscovy was still a swamp---first mentioned only in 1147!
I explain this video for my war buddies. They like your videos about our war. I'm the only one in the battalion who knows English and it's not perfect.😄
Hello from Ukraine. Sometimes I think that I would like to see this video with ukrainian translation or subtitles so that more ukrainians can see it. We dont have such quality content from our bloggers and it is always interesting to listen history of your country from foreigners.
I recommend Історія без Міфів and Історія для Дорослих.
@@vitaliytereshchenko5722 Історія без Міфів is one of the bests!
Ще Реальна Історія
бережи себе друже, привіт з міста Запоріжжя)
your English is good already, by the way most Americans can figure out imperfect sentences, this is the best history channel I've found on UA-cam with the map animations
4:52 worst mistake Sobieski ever made
Maybe.But Sobieski's brother has been murdered on Chmielnicki's order,after the battle of Batoh.Both sides were to blame.
Hard to say. Cossacks were not very reliable.
Thank you for that video!
An good idea for video: How a certain general named David Bek led Armenians resistance against Ottomans and Safavids and won one of the greatest battle of whole history - Battle of Halidzor, 300 Armenians against 70000 Ottomans, and of course talk about his tragedic death
Interesting how all the superpowers cumulated in eastern Europe in the 1700s: Russia Sweden Ottomans and Commonwealth.
@@cetus4449 I totally agree ypu for but what you said is more about the second half of the 18th century. What I mean for 1700 is actually the period, which is spoken in the video. Roughly 1680-1720. Russia was not at its peak, nor the Ottoman and Commonwelath. But Russian and ottoman empires could still make feel their influence to rest of the continent.
@@cetus4449 The ottomans lost their first devastating war against the Venice-Cw-Austriah.-Russian alliance in year 1683-1699. But they were capable to fight back the russians in the 1720s and ca 1747 twice. Moreover they also won almost every war against Austriahungary. Thus can be said that they were still a great power. Can be considered as top3 or 4. Honestly I dont know much about the Swedes. But what I remember they were strong between 1650 and 1720 (roughly) till they lose their war against Russia. I suppose you know better about them.
@@cetus4449 what do you mean with new powers? Prussia and Russia? Or western Europe
Great work, enjoyed watching it :)
Will you be doing a episode on Ukraines first independence in 1918 and to a extent the Polish-Soviet War?
I hope so.
And, if they tell about the defence of Warsaw from the Red Army, told about the role of the French "saviour" of Warsaw.
No spoilers, please.
these episodes are awesome
History repeats itself
It is a bit weird for the title to mention Russia, but the video to then also cover how Poland ended Ukrainian independence alongside Russia.
Because Catherine betrayed her deal with the Cossacks
@@dylanvogler2165 That happens towards the end of the video, there's an entire video going on before Catherine comes up at the end.
@@Argacyan yes but it was her who ended the Cossack independence. Together with the actions of Peter I. Not the actions of the PLC.
@@dylanvogler2165 The entire video + previous videos say that while Russia ended it on the eastern bank, the PLC ended he cossacks on the western bank.
@@Argacyan the Cossack independence *as a whole* was ended by Russia.
Whooooo that title 👀👀👀
Can you do a video about the reason why Russia treated so differently the Don cossacks from the Dnieper cossacks ?
Don cossacks were originally from Dnieper ones, but had to migrate due to what Katherine II did to Sich. Pity that Don cossacks forgot their roots and became loyal to empire with time
In short - they were successfully assimilated. And later extensively used for Caucasus wars and Circassian genocide
@Oksana No. Majority of the Don Cossacks were Russians, just as majority of the Zaporozhian Cossacks were Ukrainians. The Don Cossacks themselves distinguished themselves from living nearby, on the Don, Tatars and Cherkases (as the Russians called Ukrainians at that time)
Don Cossacks happily simped for Russia, the Dnieper Cossacks didn't.
@@jailedtwice735 It is not true. The Don Cossacks were also ethnic Ukrainians. Even according to the population census that was already conducted in the USSR. And the attitude towards them was really the same. The Don Cossacks also constantly rebelling. It's just that the Don Cossacks were never part of the Hetmanate. Therefore, over time, their paths began to diverge. It's just that the Don Cossacks, unlike the Zaporozhians, never had a choice with whom to interact (war, alliances, diplomacy). There were Poles and Tatars near the Zaporozhians, and the Don was completely under Moscow.
Zaporozhian cossacs state also included Starodub region - hetman Skoropadskyi was born there and many others. Russia has annexed it only on 1919
Thank you for such a wonderful and informative video
Great video, could we ever get Crimean Tatars history and battles by any chance. They seem to have an integral role in early Ukraine
Thank you for making this!
@KINGS&GENERALS , thanks very much for continuing covering Ruthenia-Ukraine's history. Glory to Ukraine!
You ignored the Sloboda Ukraine autonomy on the map :-(
We must learn from history. Only then will history not repeat itself.
I've heard this before, but reality is another thing.
History doesn't repeat itself. It rhymes.
@@dylanvogler2165 Fair point. Marx is perceptive as always.
Можу сказати шо росіяни не знають що таке історія, у них тільки "можем повторить" - а у нас в українців - Ніколи Знову.
Glad I have seen all your videos about Ukraine! Keep it up.
Waited too long to betray Peter.
should have sided with the Swedes
@@tatarcavalry2342 Perhaps, but the Swedes then weren't the friendly people who brought easy to assemble furniture to the world and even if turning sooner would have worked, even if Sweden could have won, that's no guarantee things work out for the Cossacks.
@@tremedar far away to sweden it's not easy to control your vassals back in days when they are away they could have better conditions
@@tatarcavalry2342 cave dwellers cant be trusted
If choosing between two evils.. Sweden are the lesser one
Very interesting series.
It would be also interesting another one about the territories of current Ukraine that were not part of the Hetmanate.
Which states existed on them? Which peoples inhabited them? How were their culture(s)?
The same Ruthenians/Ukrainians inhabited those lands to the west of Hetmanate. After the truce of Andrusovo their land became part of Poland without any autonomy. They rebelled several times but were suppressed by both Poland and Russia. Later Poland was partitioned and Russia took most of Ukrainian ethnic territory except for the western one that became part of Austro-Hungary. In XIX century both Russian-controlled and Austrian-controlled parts of Ukraine faced Ukrainian cultural revival. But Russia quickly suppressed it and banned Ukrainian language - they planned to assimilate Ukrainians into Russians. Later after WWI Ukrainian states declared independence in both Russian-controlled and Austrian-controlled parts of Ukraine but were defeated and suppressed by Russians and Poles and divided between USSR and Poland. Later USSR capture most of Polish-controlled part of Ukraine, while westernmost regions remained in Poland and Ukrainians were deported from there.
As for lands of Southern Ukraine they were sparsely populated and inhabited by Cossacks, Nogays and Crimean Tatars. Northern part of that region was controlled by Zaporizhian Cossacks, while southern part was controlled by Crimean khanate - the Ottoman vassal. In XVIII-XIX centuries Ukrainian peasants resettled there in big numbers and by the end of XIX century those lands became Ukrainian ethnic lands. Russia tried to resettle other people to those lands (Germans, Serbs, Romanians) in order to decrease Cossack influence but they were mostly assimilated by Ukrainians. Russia "founded" new big cities on the place of captured/destroyed Cossack/Tatar/Ottoman settlements and resettled Russians there.
He didn’t cover the Sloboda Ukraine, the region of Kharkiv, Sumy and Luhansk, which were as well as Hetmanate the autonomous part of Russia.
Sloboda Ukraine was settled by people who fleed Ukraine during the Khmelnytsky uprising.
It was Poland, even the “Hetmanate” was Poland before the Chmielnicki rebellion of 1648.
@@ChillDudelD and it was still ruthenian (ukrainian) before the Mongols have destroyed Kyiv state in 1240, and the Poland annexed this land which was weakened by mongols
@@lifeisfakinawesome4386 But which lands specifically are we talking about? Because Czerwień aka Red Ruthenia belonged to Poland first, before it belonged to Rus.
Especially relevant to today's fight for Ukrainian independence. This isn't their first rodeo with Muscovy. It's the price of being the geographic crossroads of Europe and Asia
This can be summarized as the period in which Russia's position as the strongest Slavic nation was affirmed, having outpaced the PLC by most parameters
That's sadly because the PLC has failed to modernize and the central authority was so week that even trying to change that state of things would only result in a discontent among the nobility that often has had much more power and authority than the king.
The state just simply stopped to exit not primarly because of it's aggresive neighbours but because of the anarchy, lack of central power and it's backwardness in contrast to it's neigbours...if there would be a strong prosperous PLC then the balance of powee would be different and everyone would think twice before making moves
@@diabelgrogaty1963 I only add one thing to your comment. I am sure that if it could be commonwealth of three nations (as it was in fact), with equal rights of ukrainian nobility and orthodox church as it was planned in so called "Gadiach's agreements", it could be strongest state in Europe
@@joachimaszkenazi can you prove your incredible claim?
@@diabelgrogaty1963 btw I find it's funny that one trait in one period of time (strong central rule) is good but after industrialization it's rather bad.
1. ruzzia is not a nation
2. moscovians(so called ruzzians) are not slavs
Any plans to make a history of the USSR? There are plenty of videos on the Russian empire but much less content on the USSR. I understand it is a big topic and probably cannot be covered in one single video but any content on it would be much appreciated. Thank you
You should do history on PLC
Make a video on how USA ended Native Americans independence.
I believe they made a series on Tecumseh a while back.
They did a few videos two years ago - 'Seminoles - Native Americans Who Never Surrendered' and 'Tecumseh and the Native American Resistance'. They're still in the video archive.
Typical whataboutism of a state-sponsored Kremlin troll. Go to hell.
Great ad mash up with Nord vpn :D
Very informative, but why didn’t you cover Sloboda Ukraine?
And also Pylyp Orlyk?
Sloboda Ukraine was a russian (moscow) lands. The kind russian czars allowed orthodox people to settle there. Now they say it's always was they lands😂
@@МихаилНаумов-ч3ъ it was as russian as moon is american or antarctica was british…
Thank you for making this historical content about our country and ukrainian nation! I hope this will help other nations to understand our relations with Russia deeply
In the US, we only learned about Kyivan Rus vaguely, and then Soviet times, not much else sadly
Will you do a similar series on the catalan nation? Seeing this, the two stories are almost the same
Pls, make a vedio on BATTLE OF LONGEWALA
russians: We have no troops to defend Ukraine!
Also russians: Menshikov`s army magically appears!
Me watching the mayhem in the comments:
what is the mess in the comments?
Little not correct borders. Mazepa controlled both sides of Hetmanat, not just left bank Hetmamat.
I'm certain Mazepa would be quite proud of the Ukrainians of today. Pushing back the Russians from their territory. And also possibly a little jealous.
he didn't have a modern army that had 8 years to prepare, and aid from other countries
@@danielzhang1916---That is irrelevant. He would likely be proud of the Ukrainians of today. And that is what matters.
@@brokenbridge6316 yes, my point was addressing the difference today vs then
@@danielzhang1916---And I'm still saying that this guy would be proud of his people today.
@@brokenbridge6316 wasn't trying to argue but okay, whatever
Thank you for covering one of the most interesting periods of Ukrainian history. I as Ukrainian appreciate the effort to share and populate the knowledge about this period of Ukrainian history to the rest of the world, as it only proves that Ukraine has a lot deeper history, than most of the people think.
A great story with a sad ending, as in many real life heroic historical tales. The Ukrainians will continue to fight to exist. It's such a shame that such a beautiful country with all those resources are caught between larger, hostile nations. Slava Ukraine
Great channel.!!
Lots of easily converted to paper birch trees helped literacy quite a bit too.
So proud to be Ukrainian and continue the fight of my ancestors for the Independence of this country and the Ukrainian nation as a member of the Armed Forces. Thank you for sharing our history and supporting our fight!
Слава Україні!
Here's another story that goes like that - Golitsyn started to hate Ivan Samoylovych after Golitsyn's disastrous campaign against Crimean Tartars. Samoylovych was not very willing to help the Moscovite army but he kinda had to (no one knew southern Ukraine better than Cossack rangers). The straw that broke the camel's back was when Tartars set the steppe on fire and the attacking army literally got lost and choking in the solid scorching summer smoke. Samylovych somehow lost or hurt his sight and was very pissed so Golitsyn who had being bragging he would conquer Crimea needed a scapegoat to blame for his failure. So he took care of Samoylovych and after some intrigues got him exiled to Tobolsk.
Дуже класне відео, що однозначно заслуговує на вподобайку! Thank you for your documentary! Hello from Ukraine!
So cool and interesting video! As Ukrainian I thank You for your work in this topic! Great!
Great video
I think you should change your titles a bit..
*early ukraine history?
I think most people will get it…
Why? What other title do you want? Ruthenian? It would mean exactly the same. The name of the people changed but it is the same people.
yes i also think muscovia would be better than russia which never existed before 1721
Great documentary! After what I have recently been aware of the histories of the national identities kept under the Holy Roman Empire, primarily Magyar, I think that the world has much to put up to cherish the colors representented by various nationalities, in our way to the harmonious peaceful world.
Thia period deserves a movie
Make videos on his father, Philip
Could you please make a video on the events leading upto 2014 ?
There's so much disinfo spread by RT and Russia adjacent commentators.
We will eventually
Thank you again Kings and Generals for another great video. And I personally stand with the Ukrainian people!
Український народ, як почесний хоробрий шляхетний народ як османської історії, так і сьогодення, буде переможцем наприкінці цієї війни. Хай живе Україна!! 🇹🇷🇦🇿🇺🇦❤️✊
Thanks for supporting Ukraine
Glory to Ukraine. Crimea is Ukraine, and Cyprus is Greece.Of course, we are a noble people, but the letter of the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks to the Turkic Sultan Mahmed 4 is worth it😂
Great work, Author. I am suspicious it should be prepared by some Ukrainian because it contains very precise historical data about Mazepa motivation to break protectorate with Moscovian monarch which is not well known even in Ukraine nowadays. Bravo!
That vpn Segway was flawless.
*Segue
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It's really striking how the cold, corporate art belonging to the sponsor collides with an artistically rich artwork made for the episode. This is not a criticism, or praise, just an observation of how corporate art subtlety reveals a lot about them.
history repeats itself 😅
Not. This time Moscow will fall
Not even close. I would say it's more like in 1917-1922
19:00 explains everything Ukraine faces today !
Great video. Thanks for good job.
thank you for destroying the Russians
More plz
Thank you for a good content. Waiting for a new video about 🇺🇦
Watching you from Ukraine, great job! Many THX! To us Mazepa is positive character and good ruler, Peter is despot and oppressor. Like and Catherine II, and all next rulers of Moscowia. Слава Україні!
honestly the title seems a little biased don't you thinks ?
Well obviously. But we are at war with Russia rn. Just natural
Explain how the title is biased?
I hear you actually the title should say the russians are cunts
I don't think it is. There are interpretations for every historical event, and this interpretation is accepted by many historians.
@@SeekerOfKnowledge87 equal scrutiny is applied to equal events. US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were wrong, but in neither event did the US attempt to annex territory or eradicate the Iraqis or Afghans as a people. Russia is trying to do both.
Thank you for sharing Ukrainian history
It would be interesting to watch the history of Uyghurs nation and how they became a part of China
Most of modern-day East Turkestan was annexed by the Qing dynasty in 1756 with the fall of the Dzungar Khanate, the last traditional Uyghur entity, the Kumul Khanate, was abolished in 1930, and the last Uyghur republic was finished off in 1949.
Glory to Ukraine.
Glory to heroes
Copied comment.
Glory to the Heroes!
Thanks for very interesting content about Ukraine!
thank you so much for another great video on history of Ukraine!
Mayb this wouldn't have happened if Mzepa and the rest of the Ukrainians used NORDVPN, the premium v...
Thanks a lot for another entry on Ukrainian history ❤❤
I see some contradiction here. Cossacs were drunk warmongers, but at same time 80% of ukrainians were educated.
That's why author says that first part of your sentence is far from truth
@@oksanamazur2123 якщо я правильно зрозумів, то там було сказано щоо це не далеко від істини.
@@UserUser-kz4fq this could not be further from the truth це якраз далеко від правди 😊
@@oksanamazur2123 отже в мене погана англійська. Дякую за пояснення.
Maybe stop listening to propaganda about Cossacks?
Thanks for the video and all the materials you have made so far, I really like your channel! However, amongst other accents carefully placed in this series with the purpose of slightly (or sometimes not) overemphasizing the Ukrainian cause, all the while forgetting about the Russian one and additionally demonizing Russia, the usage of the word Novorussia you have presented in the video is incorrect: actually, Novorussia is the primarily steppe territory to the south of Ukraine and Zaporizhia stretching from Moldova to Don. Until the second half of 18th century it belonged to the Crimean Tatars and Turks and then was conquered by Russia and colonised primarily by Russians with the participation of Ukrainians, Serbs, Germans, Cossacks and Armenians, never being part of Ukraine both culturally and administratively until the creation of the German Empire's Ukrainian puppet state in 1918. Meanwhile, Ukraine's name in Russian Empire and before was Malorussia, with no intentions of thinking of Ukraine as "New Russia", but "Small Russia".
Насправді найбільша помилка ототожнювати Російську імперію з Росією,яка лиш була вигадана пізніше,як грецький переклад Русі,який греки застосовували стосовно держави Русь,з якою вони спілкувались виключно через Київ.Але ще більшим безглуздям є називати мешканців тої імперії росіянами,бо насправді то були лиш піддані царя,суміш фіноугорських і тюркських народів,який імперська канцелярія з ідеологічних міркувань визнала як великоросів й з тих же ідей вигадала концепцію "триєдиного народу",до якого наче входили великороси,малороси і білоруси.Новоросія,насправді завоювувалась здебільшого запорізькими козаками з тих же малоросів,як пізніше і заселялась ними,що підтверджують переписи населення Російської імперії і СРСР.Кількість вигаданих Сталіном "русскіх" там збільшувалась вже в СРСР завдяки політиці національної і мовної сегрегації.Політика нинішього фюрера РФ лиш тому підтвердження.
ну ну, будешь тут рассказывать. Вот тебе перепись конца 19го века в моем родном городе Измаиле
Родной язык населения по данным переписи 1897 года[24]:
Язык Численность, чел. Доля
Украинский («малорусский») 8 271 37,10 %
Русский («великорусский») 7 797 34,97 %
Еврейский 2 736 12,27 %
Румынский и молдавский 1 589 7,13 %
Болгарский 936 4,20 %
Греческий 503 2,26 %
Другие 463 2,07 %
Итого 22 295 100,00 %
Где украинский был в большинстве и уже в Советское время русский стал повсеместным здесь)
Well done! It's quite correct, Mazepa was an extraordinary person indeed. Btw, you mentioned the year when Moscowy announced itself 'Russia' but on your map that territory is marked as 'Russia' well before that. This is exactly they want - call Moscowy 'Russia' and so legitimize stolen.
Yes it is the fake RuZZian time warp!
@@YayaToure1247 Prefer laughing at pathetic "Second Army of the World"
@@YayaToure1247 oh yes. And graves, and "Kyiv in 3 days", and "Kherson is with Russia forever" and all other your sick dreams from a parallel reality.
because they united the land of Russia/Rus. Just as Kiev before that, they just failed. I may argue mongols ruined it for everyone xd.
@@Iv4Bez Dear Vanja, as a typical moscovite you're making a muddle of history and kremlin propaganda. In the civilized and literate world words 'united' and 'occupied' have a different meaning. This is not relevant to Moscovy, though. Besides, Rome didn't rename itself after Greece occupation and Spain didn't do that after getting control over Inca Empire. If Moscovy do not like its own name that much and prefer stealing it from others, why wouldn't you call yourself Siberian Federation? The are way more 'united' lands and the name is vacant. It's a win-win :)
Keep up the outstanding work regarding the current Ukraine war, and past Ukraine history. Getting to know more about Ukraine, and how awesome the Ukrainian people are has been a delight. They seem like such amazing people, and should never have been illegally, invaded by a fascist authoritarian Russian dictatorship. I support Ukraine’s continued existence as a sovereign, independent democratic nation. I look forward to your future videos on the current illegal Russian occupation and war. Really hoping that the counteroffensive starting in spring and moving through summer and potentially even fall will take back their entire country, including the stolen Crimea. Although I am worried how Russia will react if they begin losing the war or after they’ve lost the war. They tend to behave similar to some countries in the Middle East (such as Iran), or like North Korea… They seem like little children, trying to act like adults. And we all know that children can lash out when they don’t get their way.
❤ thanks for supporting Ukraine!
@@oksanamazur2123 always! I want to go there and help rebuild after Ukraine. Drives Russia out. Ukrainians just seem like the nicest funniest people. As an American, I just want to hang out with them, help them, clean up, and help them rebuild.
Like the Americans in Vietnam. When they were unable to defeat the Vietcong in the south, they responded like angry children by massively bombing North Vietnam and Laos, killing hundreds of thousands of people. And in the end, after ten years of war, they withdrew anyway, so the result was the same.
@@davids5126 whaaat? A conservative using whataboutism fallacious arguments? I’ve never heard of such a thing! 🤣🤦🏻♂️ You’d be a great Trump cultist.
Crimea isn't ukranian though so it is not stolen.
Why is there no name Ukraine anywhere on the maps back then ? Do any of these Cossacks or people of those areas call themselves Ukrainian back in those days ?
Thanks for your kind popularization the history of my country. It's so sad that people start interesting of it and try to see differences only after this terrible russian invasion started😟
It is indeed sad, but know that a lot of people support you.
It is a tragedy what this nation has gone through and still does today !
Excellent documentary! Please, also do documentaries on the Russian conquest of Tatarstan, Chuvashia, Udmurtia, Siberia and subsequent atrocities committed by Russian Empire.
They already did a video on the Circassian genocide if you're interested in checking it out, ironically aided by the Cossacks.
Next video on the Kalmyk migration to Russia
I feel for the Ukrainians. History keeps repeating, yet Ukrainian stay strong no matter the period.
Shouldn't Kyiv be called Kiev in this video?
As far as I'm aware Ukraine renamed Kiev into Kyiv in last decade. Was it called that way during Hetmanate in 17 century?
Both are English transliterations. At that point, Russians used Киев or Киевъ, Ukrainians Київ. The word probably comes from Кий - the name of the legendary founder of the city, and both versions of the name probably mean "belonging to Кий", "of Кий".
No, the name was and is still Київ (Kyiv--is the Ukrainian transliteration, Kiev ---is from the RuZZian transliteration, 基輔 in Chinese transliteration).
In the 17th century the Polish word Kijów was used.
It has never been called Kiev in Ukrainian, always been Kyiv, since the first mention of the founder is Kyi, so it's the city of Kyi - Kyiv
@@mesofius the question wasn't about that. Russia is also not 'Rossiya' in english.
...until 2022 that is.
lol
1669: Petro Doroshenko
2014: Petro Poroshenko
any relations?
lmao
same guy
He's been alive for 400 years