How Russia Got So Big
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- Опубліковано 25 січ 2020
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Russia is a big country, but how (and why) did this particular East Slavic principality come to conquer North and Central Asia?
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New history channel? Subbed. Been watching KhAnubis for a while but I am all about adding more history channels. :D
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Dude u painted prussia in moment about Polish particions
I love the various history channel collabs all of you do.
Mongols: *Conquers Russia*
Russians: *Uno reverse card*
Russia dont conquer Mongol
@@orrismate139Basically became a vassal of ussr.
@@orrismate139 Emm, Novgorod also was not conquered, so you're wrong. Some Russians never were under control of Genghis khan Empire.
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@Decarabian russia was the one pulling the strings
The next thing on Russia's to do list is to get bigger.
Grow☑️
Expand in size☑️
Get larger☑️
Get bigger ☑️
*ERECT*
*ERECT*
killing people and anexing lands? no thx
Well shit I’m in
B I L L W U R T Z
1:18 Khanubis: "It's pretty goddamm flat out here."
Any Dutch person: "Hold my Heineken"
Heineken is dutch good beer, I have drank vodka and heineken, and like euro 90s music.
I love flat I want to see the Netherlands AND Russia! Reminds me of the American Midwest that I love so much
@@Tethloach1 Belgian here. Heineken is not good beer.
@@jonaw.2153 the beer I drank the most ever is coors banquet.
@@jonaw.2153 *zuidnederland
Russia looks at Portugal, Spain and England.
Russia: "We need to do the same."
Advisor: "But we don't have ships and access to Atlantic..."
Russia: " DA!!!!"
Screams for district attorney or what?
When you exclude France from largest empire
Sad french noises:
Привет
.....more fun... #homeanimations
He is Russian people....
Because it's mostly trees, swamps and arctic desert.
Source: I live in Siberia.
But what about arctic swamps?
@@gododoof during winter it's desert. During summer it's hotbed for mosquito which will suck dry anything which moves alive. It's hellish place to live. However in winter you can do things which are impossible to do elsewhere.. have you tried to use bananas as a hammer? Sounds crazy, but it's legit. Watch from 6:40 in this video ua-cam.com/video/gMweF2A7w-g/v-deo.html
@@Nikola95inYT neat
"It's hellish place to live"
"BuT Do YoU lIkE iT"
And this is the place Putin goes hunting right? Sounds nice
“I’m bi-continental now”
*Trans*
-Siberian Railway
Lol gottem
it was tri-continental at once
Europe/Asia/North America = Russian Empire
Europe/Asia/Africa/North America/Pacific/ Caribbean/ Ant-Arctic= British empire
Europe/Asia/South America/North America/ Africa = Spanish Empire
Global super power= USA/USSR
@@Tethloach1 the British were also in South America. British Guiana or Falkland Islands or South Georgia
Moscow is so vulnerable that it had to expand to Asia and Siberia just to secure itself
That covers the east side. The west side is trickier to conquer, because all these perceived threats keep defending themselves.
because there is almost no population at all.......only some nomads hunting and keep moving ...since no one settled there....
@@uplink-on-yt not really lol
@@jeanssold2131 Oh boy you were so wrong
@@scythal true, didn't expect Putin to be a lunatic
You forgot about California. Russia also owned a part of California until 1841. The most famous Russian settlement in California is Fort Ross.
CALIFORNIA was always Spanish. Alaska was Spanish first.
@@adrianalainez8499 russians had land in California, they harvesting fur from there, but sold when all fur-animals are disapeared(interesting why)
@@otpezdal Not true.
@@adrianalainez8499 What wrong with you? You can't even check it in internet? Here's link to wiki about russian fort Ross: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ross,_California
@@otpezdal Having a village or two that was not populated very long doesn't make you own something. Russia has 3 ports in Hawaii but it didn't own the islands. Big difference. Spain owned all of the Californias.
Your channel is like Russia, it keeps growing.
Coincidentally, Russia is also what helps my videos grow the most (seriously though, most of my videos pertaining to Russia tend to get very popular)
KhAnubis тут с иглы
and yet it totally sucks, just like Russia
louis the cow but actually in the last 100 years Russia kept shrinking in size, loosing Poland, Finland, Alaska, than Central Asia, Ukraine, Caucasus, Moldova, the Baltic states and Belarus'.
Joe I personally find Russia beautiful and this channel nice too your attitude though... more like Stalin during the Great Purge...
Russia started as a city
But ended with an empire
Russia isn’t an empire now
Just like Rome
@@neoarmstrongcyclonejetarms9326 It kinda is, though.
@@neoarmstrongcyclonejetarms9326 i liked this comment because of the Gintama reference in your name
@@srash8854 Russia is the third Rome for a reason though
When you give up Alaska so you can concur Turkmenistan
Keep in mind Alaska borders with Canada a British Territory, had they went to war again Russia would’ve easily lose it to the British especially after how disastrous the Crimea war was. So they might as well make money off it when they can rather then lose it for nothing.
I am pretty sure Russia won't mind reconquering it again, just as China is very willing to conquer hong kong completely
@@brandonlyon730 that's a smart point. At the time, they didn't know Alaska was the goldmine of resources that it turned out to be anyway.
Rico No it isn’t
Yes it was for oil
Lots of traveling to the east and executing the /f claim command
@@Reichsritter Minecraft multiplayer plugin joke
@@DragonActual - Oddly specific... What plugin?
Phrenotopia In Java Edition Minecraft, there are a lot of factions servers. You use “/f claim” to add the land you’re standing on to your faction
Random Cossack: "Hey soo... we're pretty far away lol. How much more do we have left?"
Russia: "When you reach the ocean"
Random Cossack: "Oh, the Atlantic?"
Russia: "No, the Pacific..."
@ボイス the cossacks were not the pinnacle of cavalry. They actually proved themselves way better at exploring frontiers and conquering natives, then in actual wars with other major empires.
@ボイス yea and at most times Russia had good regular heavy cavarly
Exactly! Poutanas Malakopoulos, even joking you've written true in fact:) Being ethnic Cossack from Pacific coast I confirm it: my ancestors promoted absolutely that way
They were pretty good cavalry, they were cheap, garrisoned and colonised at the same time and there were lots of them. They obviously didn't make good heavy cavalry, but they didn't need to. They performed extremely well in colonisation, border guarding, internal policing, irregular warfare, regular warfare and there were hundreds of thousands who could be called up for service. The performed well both in WW1 and the civil war and continued combat activities in WW2. So yeah pretty fantastic cavalry, not prefect, but what is.
Imagine a country bordering countries like Finland AND North Korea.
and USA too
From Europe, Asia to North America
Having Hikma History make an appearance was a nice surprise
I agree :)
1:20 Im Polish and this joke... Nice one
What was the joke?
@@mikespearwood3914 *sad polska noises*
@Quarel 22 No he says: "Moscow was in a vulnerable position however, since it sits in the widest part of the North European Plain, a massive expanse of flatland extending all across the northern half of Europe from France to (modern day) Russia [...] As Poland knows all too well, this leaves any city or nation situated here critically vulnerable to attack"
Google:
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Mongol_invasion_of_Poland and 2nd and 3rd
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_(history) -- For centuries, Swedes have been described as inhumane trash. Only when the Hitler came were they received less negative reception. Because he did the same -- but times are more modern.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna - we consider this battle important - because what would stop the flood of the Ottoman Empire from the south of Poland?
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon_Line
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oder%E2%80%93Neisse_line
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
Poland is in the center of Europe and don't have the privilege of the mountains like eg. Czechia or any political neutrality like probably any other nation in the world:
- if there are f*rs on the North that want to go South -- they go through Poland -- destroying cities and killing a large part of our population.
- if there are f*rs on the South that want to go North -- they go through Poland -- destroying cities and killing a large part of our population.
- if there are f*rs on the West that want to go East -- they go through Poland -- destroying cities and killing a large part of our population.
- if there are f*rs on the East that want to go West -- they go through Poland -- destroying cities and killing a large part of our population.
What we learn about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation : heavy weapons still offer a real advantage, so we cannot dream that technology will make our vulnerable geographical position no longer an obstacle ;(
We are seen as en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_state - the place where the f*rs will play with their toys... or want take as vestibule so others will destroy it as first reducing the power of attacks on deeper parts of "an imperium"
sad polska noises
*sad polska noises*
At least someone used the right name
Is there any literature that goes into detail about each part of Russia’s expansion? I’m particularly interested in the expansion through siberia
You can find information about Ermak and his trips to exploration to the east
The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk
*insert slavic joke here*
In Soviet Russia, jokes make you!
Communism jokes aren't funny unless everyone gets it
Comunism Jones aren't for everyone just like the food
CHEEKI BREEKIIIIIIIIIIIIII
*S U K A B L Y A T*
I scared to blink and miss a whole conquest.
You missed Kaliningrad in the map in the opener. Also at this point we can basically say right of conquest exists on Crimea. No I'm not Russian.
**happy russian noises**
The issue is Russia (not USSR) agreed to exchange Crimea in 1991 for Ukraine's nuclear weapons, that was the agreement.
We give you this land, we take our weapons back.
@@LancesArmorStriking
Even if Russia decides to return nuclear weapons to Ukraine, Ukraine will refuse. In Ukraine, now there is no infrastructure and no money for its maintenance.
@@agring8391
That's true, but I believe the larger issue comes not from the Budapest Accords (what I mentioned before), but from the 1994 Crimean referendum.
Crimea declared itself independent on 9 May 1992, and Ukraine declared it illegal, after that the declaration was retracted. But, Crimea held the referendum anyway.
It was at this point that Russia should have brought up Ukraine's refusal to give Crimea self-determination.
Even if Russia gave back the nuclear weapons, it wouldn't change Ukraine's mind, they'd still want Crimea and there would still be sanctions.
While I don't think what Russia did was legal, it was strategically very smart. The Black Sea is Russia's only western seaport.
@@LancesArmorStriking Yeltsin was too busy drinking himself drunk and shaking hands with Clinton to do anything about his neighbours.
Prior to Russia's dramatic expansion from about the mid 1600's onwards it was often the victim of aggression from Poland,Sweden,Lithuania,the Teutonic Knights,the Ottoman Empire,the Muslim Tartars and Golden Horde Mongols.How the tables were turned on these later when the Russian Empire just annihilated most of its former enemies.The orthodox cross superimposed on a star and crescent moon which you see on some Moscow and other city churches symbolizes the victory of Orthodox Christianity over Islam.
Yeah, they did it like a boss
They made the church Virgin of Kazan to celebrate.
Ottoman empire never attacked russia. They clashed and became enemies when russia targeted black sea and expanded to south.
Amen Brother 🙏 Orthodox Christianity is true Church of Christ ☦
@@basil2946 yes they did attack russia as well
4:07 Prussia is marked as part of Russia.
/internal screaming/
Con7ra Prussia? You mean north Poland?
The maps were a bit off...
@@rna1025 I mean Prussia. Historical region of Prussia (not to be confused with country of Prussia) nowadays is split between Poland (Voivodeships Pomorskie and Warmińsko-Mazurskie), Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast) and Lithuania (Parts of Klaipėda County and Tauragė County).
Poland? Lithuania? Prussia? You mean western Russia?
@@rna1025 poland you mean mother russia right?
Thanks for the video, I've been curious about this.
but what about the many many Turkish-Russian Wars?
Great video!
Very Good topic video, awsome never stop
As a swede, the conquests of Finland brings me great pain.
As a Finn the conquests of Finland bring me even greater pain.
@@jessez_fin5971 I don't doubt that
I barely woke up and you already uploded bruh
This guy needs way more views and subscribers, like really does.
ScottishMeetBall with so many inaccuracies?why?
China and India people : we need more land to live
Russia : Yes, We have
China is a huge country tho only 1.7x smaller than Russia
Always wondered how it got so big. Whenever I learn about Russian history it's mostly the Soviet era so to me they've always been a wicked big nation. Nice to know how they got from tiny Muscovy to BIG MOTHER RUSSIA
That's because Russia is a little Mongolian style empire. If you join and stay loyal nobody gives a fuck about your business (of course nations didn't always join voluntarily :) If you're smart enough, and want to serve Mother Russia - you're welcome, nobody cares about your ethnicity. That's why Russia has a lot of famous people of not Russian origin faith.
@@Scorp_2 just like america. or another multcultural countries
Thanks for an interesting video! However, you were wrong in saying that Russia "almost" bordered the UK. They actually did border each other shortly in Asia. However, in what is part of the "Great Game", UK and Russia agreed on creating a buffer zone, the Wakhan Corridor, 1873 in neutral Afghanistan in order to keep Russia on distance from UKs crown jewel, India. That is why Afghanistan is still, until this day, bordering China and has a quite an odd shape in its north-east.
Brilliant video
5:54 I know the age of Vladivostok here is relative to the age of Russia, but Portland Oregon is pretty old, ~1845
3:40 didn't know that Russia had Kaleningrad before WW2
FYI The map is wrong
HAHAHAHAH BEFORE WW2 SURE
They did, but in Seven Years' war, between 1758 and 1762
@@roflanrofler7956 but that was only as occupation
@@Ma_ksi true, and kaliningrad didnt exist yet, except king's city
Easy, they just went with admin tech 5, Expansion ideas and additional colonists.
ofc in ironman mode
Nah, Siberian Frontier colony growth doesn't get affected by colony ideas and policies. But, having grabbed a colonist idea will allow colony events to happen
"Queen" Catherine the Great? More like Czarina & Empress Catherine the Great (who was born Princess Sophia zu Anhalt-Zerbst, the daughter of The Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst)
And she basically became Empress after she forced her own husband to abdicate from the throne.
@@brandonlyon730 yep she overthrew her husband, Czar Peter III in a palace coup
Literally "tomato, tomato"
The map of Russia is sometimes very inaccurate, but I still thnik that this is a good video.
KhAnubis: Russian Alaska
Subtitles: Russian America
Same thing.
It's just the same
They talked to Gaston and followed his thicc way
0:01 why is Kaliningrad left out?
3:41 lol didn't know that Russia already had Kaleningrad before WW2
@@Ma_ksi kaliningrad is part of modern Russia. A map of which is seen at 0:01
@@aneesh2115 I know
Because it was a German city until the Soviets brutally expelled ALL the Germans after WWII when they redrew the borders of Eastern Europe. I don't think they ever quite reached it before WWII. This basically ended East Prussia forever and forced the Germans across the Oder River. They named the city after a Bolshevik revolutionary and turned it Russian. Then as everyone here probably knows, Poland shifted west into German lands and Ukraine shifted west into Polish lands, and Russia dominated over them all.
awakeningspirit20 Cool story. Doesn‘t relate to the question though.
0:12 - "Uninhabitable" lands? Like really? Well, as far as I know, lots of people, like tens of millions, live and thrive in those so-called uninhabitable lands.
Since when everGREEN coniferous forests, in this particular case 'Taiga', began being classified as "uninhabitable"?
Only tens of millions in an area the size of China. I'd call that pretty empty.
Make a video like that about Brazil territorial expansion!
*+*
3:33 when you tell Iedisan you paint Bassarabia while latter when you tell Basarabia you paint Moldova proper.But I am sure the Russian Tsars appreciate that you support their theory that Basarabia is from Siret to Nister(rivers).
0:17 It's not a car number. This is the name of the model VL-10 or VL some other.
A lot of geographic mistakes was made during the video, but anyway that's great that someone made a video about that
Ending was my favorite part lol
There's a map mistake right at the beginning of the video: You highlighted the Caucus states as being part of modern-day Russia, when they left during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
I’m sorry, QUEEN Catherine the Great?
I don't understand your question
@@rwepnca7424 She is the empress
@@user-zp7eu2jf7j логично
@@rwepnca7424 ну, скорее всего он это имел ввиду
У нас нет феминизма расизма и прочей хрени которая творится в Америке
Didn’t Russia almost gain Kauai at one point too? Or am I just imagining that? I’m certain they at least had an ambassador to the Kingdom of Hawaii and invested interest in the islands
Yes, Hawaii (without a cutback in rights) could once become part of the Russian Empire by marriage between royal families. But something went wrong.
You missed Kaliningrad on the first map.
My paternal grandparents visited Russia several years ago and gave me a pocket watch with the imperial iconography on it. Some of my ancestors came from the Polish and Ukrainian territories that were under Russian control.
Everyone:how did russia got so big?
Russia:Man,last night was rough.....I think I drank too much
moment when you realize current Russia is live example of Alive Empire
@2:56 the "_?_" khanate?
I've replayed it 100 times and still can't figure it out?
Qasim Khanate
It is practically midnight in Germany why are you uploading now
hayden3112 Because the vast majority of Internet users are American. The rest of the world lacks the US Constitution so their freedom to access the internet is restricted.
Megaball Powerball wat
@@MegaBallPowerBall What a load of crap!
@@MegaBallPowerBall no?But if all Americans think like this you are getting brainwashed.China,NK and poor African countries can not look at internet,you just insulted other half of the world.
Because Germany is not the only country in the world.
i do not understand how a channel as informative and well researched as KHAnubis cant make/find an accurate map of The Russian Empire
What’s inaccurate about it?
RIP Kobe
Alexander III: Sells Alaska to the U.S.
The oil hidden there: *laughs in Inupiaq*
Russian generals: so where are we going to conquer next?
Russian kings: yes
*tsars. Russia never had kings.
@@teadrinkingkris9466 tell me any relevant difference between a czar and a king aside for czars being Russian and I give you a cookie lol
@@23AlexandreJ simple. Only the name is different, abything else is same between tsars and kings
@@teadrinkingkris9466 aaand you don't win the cookie.
@@23AlexandreJ Technically Tsar is more equal to Emperor then King, an Emperor is the ruler of multiple kingdoms rather then just one and Russia ruled over multiple kingdom's they conquered or through personal Union. It was the Empire of Russia after all not the kingdom of Russia.
Man....congrats on the pronunciation!! For a non-russian speaker that was quite good! 👌
Damn the cameo was incredibly sudden
Nice video, although those borders gave me hearth attack from the beginning till the end
You should do one with Geography Now
The Russian Empire never controlled Königsberg (modern day Kaliningrad). The modern Russian Federation does control it but only after WW2.
They did temporarily occupied it during the 7 years war.
@Brandon Lyon Occupying and owning land are 2 different things.
I watched how Russia became bigger in 8:34 time ....
At about the 6:00 minute mark and onwards the conquests are getting a bit ambiguous. From who did Russia conquer these lands?
@yaboi from literal nomads and tribes. All of Central Asia was just this at that time. Conquering people who mostly use swords and bows isn’t too hard for an empire that has guns and cannons
Then Russia lost The baltics, Berlarus, Ukriane all of the stans apart from pakistan and afganistan and it's claim in poland in 1991.
I think some know why this happend.
Simply, the Russians used the communist Soviet Union to maintain their territory in the Tsarist era. However, the population growth of those USSR republics after World War II made it difficult for the Russians to control ethnic nationalism and separatism on minority. Gorbachev could not stop them from leaving, until Yeltin and Putin came to power then they used tough methods against others remaining separatism such as Chechnya.
So, starting from 0:00, you already messed up, showing pretty wrong map - you included all of Transcaucasia, border between Black and Caspian seas is much to the north, and border between Baltic and Black seas - completely wrong shape. Also you forgot Kaliningrad region
You live in berlin?
First oh and keep up the hard work
That looks much more like Novgorod
You forgot Tuva and Kaliningrad after WWII...
0:00 wtf are those borders in europe
Rafael Raymundo really raw ones
Your awsome
Good
1:14
Welcome to Berlin!
By the way, Catherine 2 was an ethnic German. And one of her generals was a Scot.
Где субтитры?
Age of civilization 2 feelings 😋
The pronunciation of "Arkhangelsk" was on point!
4:00 mistake, because Prussia had come to Russia in 1945
great video, but the beginning really ticked me off. You highlighted the entire caucasus as being part of russia in the modern day, which is untrue and pretty offensive. It only controls northern caucasus. You also forgot kaliningrad
What nation he live in ?
I love Russia, Daddy Putin is awesome
Supreme leader, please never refer to him as daddy ever again, he’s more like a step bro
@@yousmeel9127 _Step daddy_
Yup me too
@@biliminsrlar5752 thats *_hot_*
You forgot to mention the annexion of Kuril Islands and Crimea
Wow
Hi
a venda do Alasca foi mais para evitar uma guerras loucas com as variações de ingleses
Could you please make a video why USA did not integrate with Canada
3:38
Galicia? Masovia? whaaaaaat?
Russia at its smallest was still huge.
@ボイス Sadly it still is.
@ボイス jokes on you, i liv ein Ukraine
No one:
Subtitres: "best Arabia" 3:55
33:06
You have little problems with region naming
Map Accuracy 4/10
Finnougric lands north to Novgorod (literally "new town" ) were not initially or historically Russian.
It's completely and historically Russian lands, Novgorod even build a church in Pechenega(Petsamo)
Finno-Ugric peoples have lived there possibly for over 7000 years but most of them now have been either genocided by the USSR or slowly Russified by the Russian Empire
Ugro-finic people were part of Russia. It is written, that their tribes voted for Rurik as well as first conflict with the western knights happen due to their activity in western ugro-finic lands
Ah, I see that the UA-cam algorithm has quite the sense of humor.
Hello
Me play EU 4 - yep I know how Russia started
Wait..I didn’t know Alaska were once a Russian colony..?