Why Alexander Nevsky Is the Most Important Man in Russian History | Tooky History
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- Alexander Nevsky, a 13th-century prince of Novgorod, was chosen as the most influential personality in Russian history, by the Russians themselves.
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Alexander Yaroslavich was son of the Grand Prince of Vladimir, which was the highest title among the 13th-century Rus tribes. Novgorod, one of the most important Russian states at the time, chose Alexander to be its prince.
The prince was in charge of the battle against the invading Swedish. He won the battle at the river Neva, which earned him the name Alexander Nevsky.
The Pope decided to call a crusade into Russian territories in order to stop the expansion of the Mongolian Golden Horde. However, Novgorod, not willing to allow the Teutonic Knights to take away Russian lands, called upon Alexander Nevsky to defend them.
In the famous Battle on the Ice, Nevsky defeated the Germanic knights and today symbolizes Russian fight for their homeland and the defiance to the West.
Alexander Nevsky, who ended up being the Grand Prince of Vladimir himself, was canonized as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Can you please do Otto von Bismarck the iron chancellor who unified the German empire
Please can you do Sylvester II?
Alexander Nevsky died in Gorodets in 14 November 1263
GHENGHIS KHAN!
"The only interest of the Golden Horde was hoarding gold."
Genius!
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True🤣
I just read the comment as he says it on the video, same seconds
You forgot to mention that his son went on to create Moscow duchy and the dynasty which unified Russia and kicked Mongols out of it. Also he wasn't just paying the Golden Horde. He got "yarlik" - he was in charge of collection all the gold from Rus and shipping it to the Horde (which allowed him to take something for himself, a strategy used by Moscow later on). He also was in charge of putting down anti-mongol rebellions which he did several times. I would argue that he's the most important, but surely on of the most.
*А ты забыл, что он чуть ли не первый на Руси коллаборационист.*
@@daniil_monakhovОчевидно же что это была вынужденная мера можно было бы выступить в открытое противостояние но Невский понимал( и любой человек сейчас), что шансов было никаких.
И это закончилось бы только полным уничтожением города и смертью всех его жителей.
Точно так же поступило и Московское княжество оно играло верного вассала для того чтобы накопить силы и объединив усилия дать бой.
@@TIMviser совершенно верно)
Moscow was determined to expands
I lost it at the pope sending the Tectonic knights out flying like the evil witch lol.
I just wanted to stop the pagans okay
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Wow, thank you, dude! :)
@@TookyHistory Did you die?
Fun fact, he actually allied with the Lithuanian pagans (another target of the crusade) against the crusaders
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Fun fact that he defeated Lithuanians later in 1245.
@@MrRobaut its politics of feudal era
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Tomorrow we foes
And yesterday, we were drunk :D
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Beautiful
The play of the slav in the.end is ...
Marvelous!
Well done. 👏👏👏 Brief but factual. 👍👍👍
My Patron Saint 🔥❤️☦️🇷🇺
Love your channel, keep up the great work, informative and packed with lulz
Another great video, thanks Tooky
Love this animation!
The only thing that interests the golden horde is hoarding gold
BEST LINE EVERRRRR
Great choice, guys!!!
SAINT Alexander Nevsky.
Please do Helmuth von Moltke
Jk. Studios Otto von Bismarck would be better :)
I fucking love you soo much Tooky Tooky.
The best part about this man was the sick movie we got out of it.
“Those who come to us in peace will be welcome as a guest. But those who come to us sword in hand will die by the sword.”
People who are fans of Eisenstein and Prokofiev tend to know who Alexander Nevsky is. I take it he was the most important prince among the Rus before Moscow became a power center, but that's probably another video.
2:44 jeez they evolve
The patron saint of Gopniks.
@Kuznetsov ))
I lolled at the Russians in track suits squatting in the snow.
It's a funny stereotype, but all Slavs have that thug type called "gopnik" in Russian. Slovakia, Croatia, Poland, etc., they all have them. Tracksuits and squatting and all
@@vuhdeem so what you're saying is "it's funny because it's true." :D
@@merpius Absolutely!
Good job.Can you make episode about T E Lawrence next time ?
The most important figure in Russian History is not Alexander Nevsky but Babushka!
That was a wild ride.
Kind of late, but Novgorod is not tribe but duchy/principality, and russian, but rus (russland did not exist back then as a federal state)
they chose stalin originally
Owen Stevens Stalin is the modern Nevsky, he defeated the Germans just like Nevsky did.
Earth Space without interference stalin would have won the competition
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But how well did Eisenstein’s film rally the emotions of the people within the Soviet Union? Did people all see it as propaganda? Did they feel like taking revenge on the modern day “Germans” ?
"Rise of kingdoms"
I'll just put it here
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I remember this guy only from the movie
Hope you enjoy it, thanks for watching! :)
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What does it take to ally oneself to the might of the Tooky Empire?
Good details but the most important person in Russian history is actually Tsar Peter the Great.
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Attemp #2
i don't agree on Alexander being the most important figure in the history of Rus State. If we are talking about the medieval Rus, i would say Yaroslav the Great was the most influential, or Vladimir the Saint as the one who brought Orthodoxy to Rus. if we are talking later periods, then it is Peter the Great, who brought Naval Sciences and Architecture to Rus, connecting it to the West. Or Catherine the Great, who conquered the whole south of Ukraine, founding such important cities as Odessa, Mariupol, Simpheropol, Sevastopol. Ivan The Terrible could also be called the most important man in establishing Russia as we now know it, crushing the democratic Novgorod Republic, conquering Livonia and Kazan. Alexander Nevsky is reverred so much purely because of ideological reasons. For russian church he is a Saint, a leader who resisted the Catholics and succumbed to more tolerant Mongols. Danilo Galitsky is a MUCH MORE prominent figure of the same time period.
Ivan the terrible opened the gates to Russia becoming an empire when he conquered Kazan, as one of the rivers who had its confluence there was navigable and one could go there straight to Siberia where no civilization had arrived yet.
No.
1. Alexander Nevsky for preserving Russia
2. Ivan the Terrible for turning Russia into empire
Peter I went to destroy real Russia. He also abolished the Patriarchate and made priests spy on their flock. The House of Holstein-Gottorp and the communists elevated Peter I to his present status.
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You ernd a sub from me. You realy need more subs-ps- vary good content
Isnt It Nicholas II? Who was weak enought to lose his massive Empire?
Oh no no
Its famous russian loser
Ha loved it
Josip Broz Tito, please
Tito me daddy.
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This is downright insulting that You call Kievan Rus' successor-states "tribes"! They aren't tribes! They are just medieval duchies or "Principalities" who broke up with Kiev
where are your from your accent is slav i think :)
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For me the most important is the lady ruler of russia which have germanic blood. forgot her name it must be catherine or what.
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Laff levull 5.34 (god why).
Even more than Rurik?
Basil II
I am from Bulgaria
*NO, NO, NO, VERY MUCH LIE, I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. I AM RUSSIAN, WE KNOW OUR HISTORY VERY Well*
I think, that this information about the most popular person in Russia is from TV show "The Name of Russia" ("Имя России"), but it isn't true. In this show was the first vote reset, because the first place went to J. V. Stalin...End in modern Russia it isn't correct for government 😁...Sorry for my English.
Who is here because of rise of kingdoms
2:43 im rolling 🤣
2:42 bwahahahaha xD
@@jewelbennett7325 oh yeah?
Dammit I lost
Hoarding Gold 😂😂😂😂
Whats a russia?
All these lazy looking history animation are making me sick
At the expense of rUssiA ???
Wut?
But Adidas is German...so the tuetons did succeed in Germanising Russia!!
You're pretty funny
Ukrainians will say he also stole their name Rus 😂
Nah they will most likely say that to Belarus, after all they’re called BelaRUS
@ Maybe, but they say it to the Russians as well. I've seen them. They have some palianian theory stating - the tribe was the only one that called themselves Rus and all others were only their subjects, paying tribune to the Rus who were slavs but lived in Kiev. They use for this purpose some world play in the Primary Chronicles written in 1110 Kiev. Because the author does not specifically call the other slavs Rus, but mentions that the Polianians were calling themselves Rus, hence, they believe their lands were inhabited by special kind of slavs. Master Slavs. However this i a wishful thinking.
@@atanasvasilev3228 this is something I saw from a Russian country balls/Poland ball video about Russia and Ukraine arguing over who is the true heir of Keiven Rus and Belarus steps in and claims that he is true heir because his name is Bela-RUS and then Russia and Ukraine get lose their minds lol
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Wow, this video is so wrong and badly made.
H0w about you do kolokotronis.
I believe that Lord Tachanka is the most important in Russian history
He didn’t defeat Germans so no, he doesn’t count
All Christians are saints, no earthy authority necessary.
I do not know English, so I write through a translator. Nevsky was not a Christian, he was a pagan about this mentioned in the annals, but they hide it.
Is that a Tagalog accent I hear?
I do not like how you delivered this story. No respect . No reverence to an Orthodox Saints. Shameful!
Im 31st comment
Ya but He was Ukrainian. Born in Kyiv of Ruthenian and Swedish ancestry (The deffinition of modern Ukrainian)
He was a Rus' Ukraine didn't exist, Russia didn't exist at that time
Nevsky was a stepson and a sworn brother to khans of the Golden Horde, part Ossetian and part Kipchak turk by his blood. He looked nothing like a guy in Eisenstein's movie, for example. Most Nevsky image today is a myth created during USSR to increase patriotism and quasi-russian ethnos. Plus a myth the communists created of the "Mongol yoke". Lol and it is not Nevsky who "allowed Russians to stay Russian", everyone who was a vassal of the horde was allowed to keep their religion and ways, that is what the Russians used to enhance their Byzantine culture and then Ivan III cleverly cheated khans and bought yarlyks for ruling russian kingdoms (yes, there were many at that point) from the money that he was collecting from other Russian dukes "for the khan".
Learn real history before you make "educational " videos.
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