There seems to be some mistakes in mapping as Lithuanian commonwealth as never had covered the territory of Latvia nowdays. There German Livonia, Polish dependent Herzogtum Kurland, other powers depending on the time you look at but at no point after year 1200 (A.D) have Lithuanians ruled in areas to the North (Latvia). They have had territory stretching to Black sea, but not really Northern part.
eurosensazion Yes! I used to love the History channel although even when they actually had History on some of it was still very bias but now it's just reality TV nonsense. It's sickening.
Watching this video took me like 2 hours, every time you mentioned something I would run to internet and read about it. Thank you for this kind of content, greetings from Spain.
@5:38 Ivan IV was no more _terrible_ than other monarchs in Europe. in fact in Russia he's known as Ivan Grozni, which means Ivan the Formidable or Redoutable, formidable/redoutable opponent. The German writer who _translated_ to Terrible was either an ignorant or an agent of propaganda for the Pope, I thing it was Pope Gregory XIII who could not wait to see Orthodox Russia under his papal authority. Ivan IV has always politely turned down the Pope's _offer._ Ivan IV was the most educated of all the European monarchs of his time. Also his main internal enemies were the Boyards ==> Russian aristocrats.
@ludwig amadeus Any proof of that aside from politically charged pamphlets? "Grozny" means "the terrifying" or "the dangerous", of course you'll be perceived as terrifying when most of the western royalty preferred sweet courtesy over direct expression of their motives.
@@KyleNike84 I think "Grozny" means "intimidating". It should be the closest translation. Literally it means "like a storm". Also he was kinda like Vlad Cepesh, cause he adored to impale people. I'm russian by the way.)
hey guys I am from India. I love the history of Russia. it's very interesting. from the duchy of muscovite to a grand empire. ultimately it became a giant. then the giant falls at the hand of flock of sheep called revolution. which end monarchy and gave birth to U.S.S.R. Russia produced some fascinating stories like war and peace, mother, Dr. zhivago etc. It's monarchs like Ivan the terrible, Peter the great , chatrine the great were famous still today. In the end I want to say I love you Russia.
Pity you, Giuseppe, if your "source" of Any information is "Game of Thrones. I am a 70 year old Russian history scholar-specialist, and can confirm the veracity of this "shit" that happened.
Dear Roman, am unable to give an adequate answer to this loaded question. May I recommend Wikipedia or some fine, related you-tube videos. Thanks for your interest.
Not at all "barbaric" - there are no bad questions, only (sometimes) inadequate answers. May I recommend: Epic History: Russia Part 1-& on. (You-tube). Very well done, researched - not taxing. Also: Where did Russia come from ? Ted-Ed - Short and good. And, again: Wikipedia - Slavic tribes: origins etc. Excellent overall. Numerous links will come-up as you get into these. Good luck & let me know. Always impressed by sincere seekers. YY.
+Bryant Miano Toby(the guy behind the Epic History TV channel) mentioned on one blog (which featured this channel) that the History Channel went downhill(he was a former collaborator with them aswel).
Bryant Miano , Russia did NOT even exist until 1721 when Peter 1st renamed Moscow Kingdom into Russia. Kievan Rus’ and Russian are NOT the same thing. This channel is BS.
Also, Ivan the "terrible" was not actually called so in Russian. Westerners probably call him terrible because he wanted to spread Russian civilization. He was known as Ivan the Grozny (Grozny meaning fearsome)
Great job guys.I admire your work.And not to mention that your channel has the best narrator,whose voice is by far more engaging than other's youtoube history channel voices and this is very important because the description of history becomes more thrilling.Thank you and keep going!!!
Suibhne , Bryant Miano , Russia did NOT even exist until 1721 when Peter 1st renamed Moscow Kingdom into Russia. Kievan Rus’ and Russia are NOT the same thing. This channel is BS.
Caped Crusader u forgot the us. It's politics r imperialistic therefore it is an empire but for brainwashing reasons they're not calling themselves like that
Yes man. In my opinion, The surrender of Constantinople to turks its the worst event in worlds history. I know, I maybe did a lot of mistakes. But I leave in Ukraine, and my English on a very low level. So, dont write me bad comments, please. Besides, I love videos of these channel too much and learning English with its support at this moment.
This is so interesting! I was sad when I looked at the date and saw how new the video was :( hopefully that doesn't mean the wait for the rest of the series will be super long. These videos definitely do make history epic. Thank you and I can't wait for more! I'm subscribing
I agree, but it would take something closer to 100 feature-length movies to do it justice. I myself would pay money to see them all on the big screen in 3D for sure. I hope to see it someday, and I hope it comes from Russia and not from Hollywood. Peace!🙋
As long as it's not a bunch of British and American actors doing bad Russian accents... "It's: THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA!", staring: Tom Hanks as Ivan the Terrible and Nicholas Cage as Peter the Great ... With: Jennifer Aniston as Catherine..." etc
Absolutely fantastic ... and the way you have replied reasonably and fairly to heated commenters speaks to your rational mind. I hope you make as many of these videos as possible.
Amazing, I'm so glad you picked Russia, one of my favorite countries. History is such an interesting subject, too bad studying it would lead me nowhere. Anyway, can't wait for the next videos, your channel rocks!
Иван 4 записывал всех кого приказывал казнить, чтобы молится за их души, и таких в его списке было 3 000. А в тоже время во Франции Карл 9 приказал за одну ночь убить 30 000. В Англии практиковали так называемое огораживание, истребляли крестьян, сложно даже посчитать скольких убили.
@@Пескарь91 Кхм. Средневековье. Совсем другая мораль. Но да, для интереса рекомендую погуглить, что делали просвещённые европейские правители в это же время. Иван Грозный прям зайка окажется. Поменьше вестись на стереотипы и побольше читать самостоятельно. История вообще такая штука. Переписывается многократно, хрен потом концы найдёшь. Источники уничтожаются, архивы сжигаются, школьная программа редактируется (а дальше никто не читает) и т.д. и т.п. Тем ни менее чёрно-бело редко бывает. У всех рыльце в пуху. Если кого-то конкретно смешивают с говном, то наверняка есть причина. Обелить себя и переложить на других. Очень много нестыковок вылазит в официальной истории в общем. Грозный нормальный монарх своей эпохи, не сильно выбивался из среды конкурентов. Ну и да. Наследие холодной войны, да и исторически выгоднобыло несколько передёргивать. С самими европейцами и прочими иностранцами интересно пообщаться про историю, как одни и те же события в разных странах освещаются. Очень сильно стимулирует думание своей головой. Я вот будучи в Китае сильно удивился. Портрет Чингис хана на стене в ресторанчике. Переводчик спрашивает - знаешь, кто это такой? Я говорю - да, Чингиз хан. Да, да. Великий китаец! Зашибись :) При том, что он кагбэ знатно китайцев нагнул в своё время. С европейцами тоже занятные разговоры выходят.И с турками, канадцами, американцами, афганцами, иранцами и прочими. Промывка мозгов штука такая. Но умные есть везде. В общем сейчас сильно остерегаюсь громких штампов - этот злодей-психопат, а этот прям красавчик...
@@step670 Твои возмущения обоснованы, но есть выбор или изучать историю по переписанным но стандартизированным канонам, или читать ахинею про то, что на самом деле когда-то была ядерная война, а нам просто об этом не сказали и т.д и т.п))
Thank you so much for this video! I study History at the University of Antwerp and I follow classes about the Russian history, so this is really helpfull to visualise it :) Keep up the good work!
Very nice....and remarkably free of historical revisionism. Except as this is a history of Russia, the correct characterization of Ivan IV assuming the title 'Tsar of Russia" would be the *restoration* of the Russian state. The first Russian state in the Russian view was "Kiev Rus" -- which was a loose confederacy of princes, not a centralized state. "Kiev Rus" is of course, a historical anachronism just like "Byzantine Empire." To the people at the time, they were simply Rus. Many (or most) princes of Kiev were born in Novgorod.
No he is not, he was tsar of Moscow, Russia is how East Romans called Rus, and Peter the first named his country like that to justify concuring the capital of old Rus - Kiev.
@@doriangray7129 Russia named themselves Russia all the time. in 1721 the Russian Kingdom became the Russian Empire, a tsar(czar) is a king, It has the same root as a kaiser. the Novgorod dialect is 50% of Russian language (listen to liguists, the other half is the main language of Rus(sia)). This already was Rus without Novgorod or something else. krivichi, vyatichi, radimichi, sloveni, severiani were (east slavic) tribes of the East Russian lands. Ukraina means borderlands (only that), look еthymological polish dictionaries for example. the Suzdal, Vladimir, Ryazan, Smolensk, Toropets, Chernigov and Novgorod-Seversk principalities and the Novgorod land are (modern) Russia. If you look at the Birch bark manuscripts (the real spoken and written language) you will see that modern Russian is very close to it, so called Ukrainian is only a Russian dialect with Polish amixture. There were invaded lands of Rus or Russia by Poland and Lithuania and the locals rose to fight against them. In Novgorod there were killed a few traitors the few who wanted to sell themselves to the west invaders. Russia originally means Rus' and rusyn initially is a synonym of russian (look at the polish wiki for instance), and there was the ethnonym rusky (russian) in the Ukraine as well. If you look the english articles (about genetics) of research institutes you will see that absolute majority of russians are genеtically the same as ukranians and belorussians. In fact if you look at their old documents and folklore they all are russians. and the minority (very small part of the whole population) have some finno-baltic admixture. Truely Russian historically, lexically and grammatically is much more close to Polish and Czechoslovakian than to any south slavic language (see, let us say, the Swadesh List), There are many turkic words in Ukrainian, "maidan" is one of them. There are no almost any finno-ugric words or something in Russian. really I know only one-two such words, and There are a lot of ugric words in the west Ukrainian dialects because hungarians live there and nearby. And In Ukrainian actually There are enaugh of old bulgarian words as All Rus was baptized and took old church slavonic. And if you remove all polonisms and polish germanisms from Ukranian (I always look in polish, polish ethymological and old polish, slovakian, czech and etс. dictionaries) you will get Russian with small dialectical pronunciation differences. the fact is that even slovakians can't understand czechs well without special practice, and czechs speak with poles in English. And of Course russians don't get bulgarian (and also church slavonic ~ old bulgarian) in most of the cases because of the very different grammar and large difference in vocabulary, And nearly all of the words I understand in bulgarian there are in Ukranian and besides Ukrainian grammar are almost identical to Russian that's why they both are called the East Slavic Language.
It is not correct. Even the grandfather of Ivan IV - Ivan III was called in the Royal title "sovereign of all Russia." The name Rus appeared simultaneously with the creation of a centralized state. The Russian state was formed along the Dnieper river, which was the flow of goods from the Black sea and further from the East to Europe. The first capital of Russia was the city of Staraya Ladoga - it was there that Varyag Rurik came after the invitation. Then the capital was moved to Novgorod (to be exact near modern Novgorod there are remains of the old settlement, Rurik Settlement"). Then Rurik United the Slavic tribes downstream of the Dnieper, and his heirs Oleg (Helg) and reached a small fortress Samvatas, which belonged to the Khazar Kaganate and had a Jewish population. Capturing the fortress (and the land around), he appreciated its favorable geographical location and moved the capital to it, now this fortress is known as Kiev. Shortly before the Mongol invasion of Russia was crushed into many parts - each of which sat his Prince. As a result, the capital of Bia moved to the city of Vladimir, the capital of the strongest Vladimir-Suzdal Principality, Kiev by that time remained an important cultural city, but lost the status of leader, especially after the internecine war it was captured several times by the princes. Near Vladimir was founded a small town - Moscow, which gradually, for a number of reasons, began to grow and develop, and very soon became more and more important than Vladimir. Since then Moscow is the capital of Russia. However, Peter the Great moved the capital to St. Petersburg built by him, but after 1917 the capital returned to Moscow.
@@igroteka90 There was no Russia. The kingdom of Rus was the kingdom of Kyiv and its states. Russian empire came out of Moscow principalities. Ruskij has no connection to modern Russian. THe main language of Rus was closer to Belarus language than modern Russian.
@@igroteka90As someone that has studied slavic languages at length I can easily destroy every one of ur arguments. Rus did not have a single Slavic language, it had many close but different Slavic tongues and eventhough both Novgorodian and Kievan Manuscripts were written in old Church Slavonic, linguists can see clear differences between them, as each of these manuscripts had certain amount of live spoken language in them. The language spoken in Southern Rus, that is Chernigov, Perejaslav, Kiev, Vladimir and Galician principialities is direct predecessor to the modern Ukrainian language. Graffitti on the walls of St.Sophia in Kiev prove this, and here are examples. " "Мати не хотячи детичя бжа геть", another one " О горе тобі Андрониче, ох тобі небоже! Чему єсі зло створіл, то не відає нікто же. Толі тє звілі Кузма". These were written on the Walls of St.Sophia in late 11th, early 12th centuries. I have posted the link below. So you see, Ukrainian steams back from the times of Rus, just as Belarusian and Russian. Was there Polish influence? Sure there was..But languages of Southern and Central Rus (Ukraine, Belarus) were already fairly close to Polish from the beginning. As for pronounciation, Ukrainian is much closer to Serbo-Croatian then either Polish or Russian. This is due to the fact that Croatians came from Western Ukraine..So everything u claimed is absolute baloney friend. redchenko.com/?p=175 ukrainianpeople.us/українська-мова-на-стінах-софії-київс/
A great work! Fascinating! Please continue, working in this direction, I'm looking forward to watching Part 2. As a Russian I can say that this is a very good storytelling of my country's history :) Good luck!
+Felix Magpie Very good and useful graphics, but very politicized version of history. Rus was never called Kievan Rus. Read any ancient document. Rus was called Rus. Kievan Rus is the term historians use to describe the history of Russia, when Kiev was its capital, same as Moscovian Rus when capital was Moscow. Ukraine as country or nation never existed till XX century. Term «Украйна» (Ukrayna) first time appeared in XVII century. Term was created from ancient slavic word «оукраина» and meant borderland. Complete lie about Ivan the Terrible (Иван Грозный). «Грозный» better translates from russian as redoubtable and had much more positive meaning, than terrible. Violent paranoia is another lie. Of course, Ivan IV was violent compare to our time, but he was not any more violent than any other European kings of that time. It is still a historical debate about death of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia, son of Ivan IV. But there are no debate that Ivan IV did not killed any of his 7 wives, but for example Henry VIII of England killed 2 of his 6 wives as well as 20 peers, 4 leading public servants, 6 close attendants and friends, 1 cardinal and numerous abbots. During whole time of Ivan IV were killed no more than 5 000 people. For example, in one St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in France were killed 30 000 people. Battle on the Ice was not actually at Ice. It was a myth. Proven by archaeology and Livonian Chronicle (defeated soldiers were falling on the grass). Some part of the battle could happened on the coast of a lake and some knight could get killed on a lake after defeat while retreating, but the main battle was not there. Finally, Battle on the Ice could not happen on the ice, because it was April 5, 1242. April is middle of the spring. Of course Ice could still be on a lake, but it would be pretty thin too handle whole battle with knights in full armor.
+41Dragon I absolutely agree with you that some facts were not presented correctly, but I think it is possible to make a discount to such little issues thus a great work has been done. And talking about Ivan the Terrible, I'm really sick and tired that he is translated like the terrible, it's absolutely not true, and we both know that originally his name has a different meaning. You gave a good example. But, I'm a bit worried about the second chapter of the film, as it's going to be extremely controversial 20th century and even more controversial WW2 and the Great Patriotic War. I only hope the creator of this great work will not make mistakes in giving the wrong analysis to different historical events. I really don't want to be dissapointed, because I like the way he presents history.
+Felix Magpie Yeah, I agree that amount of work was great and visual presentation is very good. I just complained about politicized version of the history. It maybe minor, but very important facts. Also, since it was already some mistakes, I too share the doubts that next chapter could be even more away from the truth. But I hope author will take this into account and will do next part much less politicized, without judgmental statements and distortion of facts. Because these graphic representation is well done and that would be to terrible if it would get destroyed by these mistakes.
Ivan IV was one of the greatest Russian rulers of all time. He is only called 'Terrible' in the west. In Russia he is called Grozny - meaning Formidable.
What perversion of human mind can lead to statements like that? Is this the new russian political noodles you get hanged on your ears - to praise Stalin and Ivan IV, both bloody butchers, differing only in victims' number? Is Peter I not enough?
Konoron British historians are especially biased against Russia in general and Ivan Grozny in particular. Why would they not use all the political propaganda they could to smear one of the greatest leaders of their geopolitical opponent?
That's quite an accurate explanation of Russian history. Really good job. Also the voice acting is amazing. The part with the Horde conquering Rus is epic.
@@piligrimm2 it was Tartarian invasion probably. And Migration Period against roman empire was also Tartarian attack probably. It was a great war between Romans and Tartarians and judish historians say it was just migration of many tribes for no reason.
I never thought that one documentary can be good as reading a book, this is wonderful, please make one video for all this parts, like you did for the world war one. Greetings from south slav countrie Montenegro.
i am currently revising for russian history exam on monday and yourpart one on early russian history made more sense than days of reading - so thank you - when i am financial i will support your work
The history of Russia is more interesting than it may seem from this video. It is also interesting in that it was repeatedly rewritten to please and with the intervention of Europe, therefore, in the process of in-depth study of the history of Eurasia, you can find a lot of contradictory facts.
@@CyberDulya "It is also interesting in that it was repeatedly rewritten to please" - dude, you just described the history of *every* country in a nutshell 😂
Different territories controled by one state. The lands of Kyiv, Chernihiv and Pereyaslav were the only one officially called Rus. Russian territories were called "trans forest colonies". Everything else was called with its own names.
basically a dynasty called Romanov comes to power and restore order and continue expanding, they hold power until the revolution (the one that eventually led to the formation of the USSR). In 1721 a person known as Perter the Great came into power. Until Peter the great came along Russia was a relatively backward country, Peter liked western European clothing and culture and eventually integrated aspects of western European nations into Russia, he even made a beard tax because before having a beard was normal/expected of people in Russia. Peter then started a war with sweeden (who then had most the baltic lands) he gained land and build a city on the newly conquered land, this city became known as st petersburg and was a more western style city and was made the new capital of russian. Peter essentially brought russia from being a backward eastern land that no one in western europe payed much attention to, into a superpower. All this time until 1861 russia still had a fuedal society where there where boyars (lords) and serfs, the serfs where essentially the property of their masters and where tied to their land. In the 1800s the discontent with this was higher than ever esspecialy after Russian soldiers (who where conscripted serfs) saw the relative freedom in western Europe while in the Napoleonic wars. In 1861 serdom was abolished but the former serfs still had a bad time as they did not really have anywhere to go. During the industrial revelution these former serfs started becoming factory workers and conditions and pay these factories was terrible even compared to other countries. This eventualy led to the febuary revelution in 1917 which resulted in the revocation of power from tsar nicholas II. Russia became more similar to a republic. This new government did not want to stop the war (WW1) with germany which was going terribly for Russia resulting in many deaths and starvation. The Germans eventually funded a person called Vladimir Lenin to go to russia to start a new revelution to stop the war. Due to the war exaustion the people supported it and the October revelution happend (1917) this is the one that formed the USSR (union of soviet socialist republics). Lennin killed many who opposed him (mostly nobilty and other wealthy people) including the russian royal family. Lennin died shortly after (1924) and was succeded by Stalin aginst Lennins will. Stalin had a plan for rapid indusrilisation (5 year plan) this involved using forced labour (gulags) and also resulted in famines and many deaths. Stalins rule was cruel but without the rapid industrilisation germany would have walked over them in WW2, it was all the tanks and weapons made from this that won the war eventualy. After stalin the age of gulags and holodomor (a man made famine) was over and it became more similar to other countries. People often think that life in the soviet union was terrible but they though the soviets though the same about the US, its all propoganda. Post stalin USSR was very different to the USSR before. Public services like schools where very good, food was made to a good quality but the whole system collapsed due to corruption and bankruptcy and the USSR collapsed in 1991. From there its has been the russia we know today. Sorry if this is a little long but i missed out alot of details. Also sorry for spelling mistakes.
Hope west Europeans see this, and understand why East Europe had such a difficult time ,they stop ugly invasion while west Europeans conquer other continents and get rich
Shut up man western europe has always been better then the East adn Russians didnt hold back anything, Tamerlane absolutly wrecked the golden horde and sacked astrakhan and sarai 2 major cities in the horde they never recovered Plus their Khan tokhtamysh died in exile which left multiple claimants fighting for control theres alot more to the story of the decline of the Tatars they didnt collapse fast aswell crimean khanate held out for nearly 500 more years even taking the ruthenian region from lithuania and sacking kiev
@John Brooks Invaded by who? OH your so called "refugee invasion" huh? the FACT is that western european nations are trillion dollar economies top of the world in various sectors like education and healthcare the only thing eastern europe is kn own for is ethnic violence, dictators and intense racism there are 9 million polish immigrants in UK alone largest immigrant group explain that shit bruh!!! why arent they in poland if its so great?
@@Eabokor1 You know nothing. Russians had to fight invasion from southern hordes throughout it's history, and due to flat terrain of Rus, there was no place to stop them.
@@Eabokor1 is everything in the money How about you look at crime levels of Eastern European countries like Poland Czechia Croatia or Slovenia and compare them to the West and the US Human Life and morals are more important than stupid money
Amazing documentary, it is the best I have seen so far ! Thank you so much for contributing to true facts and unbiased point of view. This documentary shows even the Crimea history and to who it always belonged to.
+Dhwani Bhadoria Thank you for recommending me Dhwani. Of course, please so make requests. But I must warn you that each video takes quite a long time to make, so it may be some time before I can get round to them all!
+Epic History TV Please make a video about the Finno-Ugris. Its quite a mistery how we got here in the first place. We also had settlements before the supposed language came so people lived here before a culture wave came. WIth your sort of voice and animation it would be awesome.
Thanks to your videos, I can understand Russian history very clearly and come to love it. Thank you very much. I am a Japense. For us, Japanese, Russo-Japanese war is a great victory and we can read lots of books about it from the Japanese point of view. If possible, please describe Russo-Japanese war from the Russian side. After your video, Russia Part4, Russo-Japanese war is approaching.
Wow, very good! I read the comments before, and thought "Nah, it won't be as good as what they say", but I was wrong, it was great! Watching 2nd part now! Awesome!
Thanks also for clarifying that Mongol Golden Horde became Tatar. Many people would say Mongols ruled until Golden Horde's end, but actually the empire became Tatarified.
No, Kievan Rus was different from Moscow, Moscow in the 12th century as part of the Golden Horde was created to rule the principalities! Then after the collapse of the "Golden Horde" at the hands of"Amir Temur"! In the 14th century the Principality of Moscow until the 15th century was still under the control of the "Crimean khanate" and then in the Kiev Principality was created by "Cossack army" tradition" of the Golden Horde Nogai Code-cumaná", then in the 15th century began the dawn of Muscovy as an independent state from the" Crimean khanate", and in the 16th century Russian people was formed as the titular people of Moscow, and then in the 18th century was established The Russian Empire! Russian Russians were serfs until the 19th century, and when the Russians killed the Germanized "Romanov" dynasty, they began to rewrite their history as the "Battle of Kulikovo", but, the "Battle of Kulikovo" in the 14th century was a war between the "Nogai Mamai " and the" Genghisids " of the Golden Horde for power!!
Kieven Rus is the history of all slavs not just Ukrainians because there was no such thing as russian, Ukrainian, Estonian, polish, Serbian etc. Just because Kieven Rus geographical location was in Ukraine doesn't mean it was full of Ukrainians. Both Putin and Zelenski are wrong. Some people in comment section are arguing without any reasoning.
sophia cathedral in kiev graffiti with russian language on it, ivan 3 coin has "tsar of rus" on it, and ivan 3 is moscow tsar, that means that moscow is rus
The state as a whole wasn't ever officially called "Rus". Only the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Pereyaslav were considered as Rus and their people as rusyns. Everything else was called with its own name. Russia was called as trans "trans forest colonies" at that time, and they weren't even slavs at that time.
Just found this channel and holy shit, it's amazing! Please keep them coming and any spare money I have will be launched towards your patreon! Please keep this coming, I love these videos
+Dreamwar Thank you! That's what I like to hear! I'll be spending Christmas making a video about 1915, so all my Patreon supporters know they're getting full value..
+Epic History TV Love it. Keep it up, the narrator is great, while the text written is very interesting too, glad to know you already have some loyal patreon supporters!
hello. will you dare and make a series for Danu river Bulgaria ? and Great Bulgaria and Volga Bulgaria that will be interesting to see since not alot of people talk about those empires ( they all have pretty interesting stuff to show like Volga Bulgaria defeating genghis Khan army and samara bend and then trading his warrior`s for goat`s 1 worrior for 1 goat in history that`s know as the Goat Battle ) also keep up the good work ! :D
Great idea to show a successful country of Volga Bulgaria that saved Russia from a famine multiple time, getting invasions in return !Otherwise this brief history of Russia just a copy of the Soviet school history books
Thank you for a great job! As a Russian I aprecciate your video, don't mind the haters who skipped history classes at school. The design of your video is marvelous. The only questionable thing is about Novgorod submitting to mongols bc it was a far away area for mongols to reach and they were subjected to mongol rule only in 1259 during Alexander Nevsky's reign. Thanks again, looking forward to seeng more!
Just to add.. I'll be 50 years old in July and now a stroke and cardiac arrest and now a colon cancer survivor and glad that I'm still living eventough I'm alone and Glad that someone of my ancestors survived too :-)
Currently taking Russian History class. This helps a lot!!! Love the visual, time clock and the voice. Thank You. Hope part 2 comes out before my semester ends lol
Thanks Adam! Really appreciate it. Recently TH-cam decided my military history videos are too 'violent' to carry advertising, so Patreon pledges will become increasingly vital if Epic History TV is to continue.
3:05 partly true. The terrain made mongol's horse adv useless and the city itself was fully prepared for long, mostly endless siege, so mongols would never be able to capture it by direct assault; however, mongols could cut off the food supplies from Novgorod's southern territory, which will make Novgorod depend on trade with European kingdoms (transporting food through sea), which wouldn't last long, since scandinavian kingdoms + teutonic order were more interested in capturing Novgorod, than in trading with it.
There is so much epic value packed into this video. We definitely watched this before travelling to Russia and honestly, with this historical context, everything felt so much more meaningful. Anyway, if any of you out there are history junkies and metalheads like us (there has to be some on this channel, right?), we've written an epic metal ballad of Ivan the Terrible's life on our channel. The song is called "Ivan the Terrible," and the music video is pretty epic. If you are interested in this kind of thing, give us a view - we'd really appreciate it! Anyways, keep up the great work!!
+Epic History TV i love your channel man, im a history freak, and cant get enough! Im willing to donate to you if you can make a video about a sertain topic, it would benefit us both. I love your story telling and grapichs.
Very great episodes ! I love the precisions, animation and the voice of the narrator is verry interesting ! Can you , one day , make an episode about Morocco ? It will be fabulous ! Keep making beautiful videos !
6:40 This is a questionable episode of russian history. There is no clear evidence, that Ivan killed his son, you should name other versions, when you are talking about this topic.
@@ЮрийХатунцев-н9л Chronicle isn't a reliable source of information, unless there is a way to prove it via expertise or other type of research. The analysis (1963) showed, that son's body contained a critical amount of toxic metals, so he might have died because of poisoning. Maybe the expertise was false, or the poisoning wasn't the cause of death, but that's the reason I called the whole situation questionable.
@@ЮрийХатунцев-н9л Russian chronicles aren't afraid, they are released and told by Russia but the west has a habit of twisting every fact and history about Russia so that they always look like the bad guy. Who tf cares about those foreign authors, where did they get their source from?
I think split between people living in modern russia and modern ukraine happened after tatar invasion. Kiev for 1 centrury was devastated by tatars and was released from the yoke in 14 century and Moscow actually joined the yoke for 3 centuries and tried to leverage from its union with the yoke to conquest the west (and Kiev). But faced Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth (and population of ukraine represented 40-60% of commonwealth population), which actually stopped for 4-5 centuries Moscow's attempts to conquest west. But the history of same people living in two different worlds (in commonwealt and in the yoke) changed the mentality of one great slavic tribe. And today the mentalities of russians and ukrainians are opposite.
Смотреть по русски: th-cam.com/video/bqTSZ-qiwd8/w-d-xo.html
Prince Vladimir brought Christianity to RUSSIA!!! (Ukraine -fake-appeared in 1919!!!)
Mate, right to say “смотреть на русском”.
@@Vagabond-cg2bq правильно, смотреть по-руски через бутилку бояришника ))
@@Vagabond-cg2bq обе формы правильны, не доебывайся
It might be good to start epic history Chinese since it is the most spoken language
No politics, no agenda, simply a history as it should be.
Thank you very much.
TheGuillotinecutter
There is still some inconsistencies and сommon misconceptions
There seems to be some mistakes in mapping as Lithuanian commonwealth as never had covered the territory of Latvia nowdays. There German Livonia, Polish dependent Herzogtum Kurland, other powers depending on the time you look at but at no point after year 1200 (A.D) have Lithuanians ruled in areas to the North (Latvia). They have had territory stretching to Black sea, but not really Northern part.
TheGuillotinecutter this is not hystorical. This mess
This is a simplified version that doesn't teach much.
Dude, it's history. There's usually things that are left out or distorted. Hopefully this is as accurate as possible.
not many history channels dared to explore russia, thanks for doing it in an amazing way
Agreed
eurosensazion Yes! I used to love the History channel although even when they actually had History on some of it was still very bias but now it's just reality TV nonsense. It's sickening.
eurosensazion the History Channel mostly talks about UFO's 😷
@@rolandboss9045 Itd be yreat if they talk abiut the history of Russia, and not the history of Ukraine and Belarus made to look as if its Russian.
Morpheus Taboo? It’s history
Watching this video took me like 2 hours, every time you mentioned something I would run to internet and read about it. Thank you for this kind of content, greetings from Spain.
Haven't you see a lot of mistakes?
@5:38 Ivan IV was no more _terrible_ than other monarchs in Europe. in fact in Russia he's known as Ivan Grozni, which means Ivan the Formidable or Redoutable, formidable/redoutable opponent. The German writer who _translated_ to Terrible was either an ignorant or an agent of propaganda for the Pope, I thing it was Pope Gregory XIII who could not wait to see Orthodox Russia under his papal authority. Ivan IV has always politely turned down the Pope's _offer._ Ivan IV was the most educated of all the European monarchs of his time. Also his main internal enemies were the Boyards ==> Russian aristocrats.
@ludwig amadeus Any proof of that aside from politically charged pamphlets? "Grozny" means "the terrifying" or "the dangerous", of course you'll be perceived as terrifying when most of the western royalty preferred sweet courtesy over direct expression of their motives.
But which one Ivan IV you mean: the genuine one, or the impostor putted on the throne by the Muscovy Company?
But he had increased territory of Russia. He was very strong warror and leader.
@@damianb8322Hi. I am studying in Russian school, and i remember, in histiry lessons i hear about it. We always think, that it is a legend
@@KyleNike84 I think "Grozny" means "intimidating". It should be the closest translation. Literally it means "like a storm". Also he was kinda like Vlad Cepesh, cause he adored to impale people. I'm russian by the way.)
hey guys I am from India. I love the history of Russia. it's very interesting. from the duchy of muscovite to a grand empire. ultimately it became a giant. then the giant falls at the hand of flock of sheep called revolution. which end monarchy and gave birth to U.S.S.R. Russia produced some fascinating stories like war and peace, mother, Dr. zhivago etc. It's monarchs like Ivan the terrible, Peter the great , chatrine the great were famous still today. In the end I want to say I love you Russia.
it has some really interesting science history as well. should probably get around to ream more about it someday,
***** thanks and greetings from India also.please visit India I hope you will like it.
Quo Vadis I am sorry
greetings from russian Crimea, we have many indians in our city, they study in university - very polite and good people =)
+Роман Роман greeting from India. Please visit india. I hope you will like it.
"Game of Thrones" ain't got nothing on Russian history... this shit really happened!
Ivan the Terrible was probably the inspiration for King Areys the 2nd
Giuseppe LoGiurato Russia - House Stark and Ukraine - House Bolton
Pity you, Giuseppe, if your "source" of Any information is "Game of Thrones.
I am a 70 year old Russian history scholar-specialist, and can confirm the veracity of this "shit" that happened.
Dear Roman, am unable to give an adequate answer to this loaded question. May I recommend Wikipedia or some fine, related you-tube videos. Thanks for your interest.
Not at all "barbaric" - there are no bad questions, only (sometimes) inadequate answers. May I recommend: Epic History: Russia Part 1-& on.
(You-tube). Very well done, researched - not taxing.
Also: Where did Russia come from ? Ted-Ed - Short and good.
And, again: Wikipedia - Slavic tribes: origins etc. Excellent overall.
Numerous links will come-up as you get into these.
Good luck & let me know. Always impressed by sincere seekers. YY.
Your channel is what the history channel should've been. Educational, informative, yet presented in a captivating way. Keep up the great work!
+Bryant Miano instead of ... Ancient Alens... And Pawn Stars
+Bryant Miano
It used to be like that....seems like a millennium since they've been watchable...
+Bryant Miano Toby(the guy behind the Epic History TV channel) mentioned on one blog (which featured this channel) that the History Channel went downhill(he was a former collaborator with them aswel).
Bryant Miano , Russia did NOT even exist until 1721 when Peter 1st renamed Moscow Kingdom into Russia.
Kievan Rus’ and Russian are NOT the same thing.
This channel is BS.
You're welcome and Thank you Bryant
Ivan IV's title wasn't the "Terrible". The Russian word "Грозный" means "Fearsome"
Это синонимы в английском языке, умник.
The rest of the world aside from Russians who look back favorably know him as Ivan the Terrible
Yall dont seem to have a big problem with your leaders killing your own people
@@rhumandlove393 It looks like ha has no problem at all :D
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki I read word terrible used to mean something different
Also, Ivan the "terrible" was not actually called so in Russian. Westerners probably call him terrible because he wanted to spread Russian civilization. He was known as Ivan the Grozny (Grozny meaning fearsome)
His reign was probably the first reign , where we can describe the politic of the king , or "tsar" as terror. So he was terrible.
@@mykhailos6no
@@ngolorg yes.
Fearsome 😂😂 Stefan bathory offered him to fight he ran away like a rat
Is grozny in Chechen where he was from?
Great job guys.I admire your work.And not to mention that your channel has the best narrator,whose voice is by far more engaging than other's youtoube history channel voices and this is very important because the description of history becomes more thrilling.Thank you and keep going!!!
Your videos have incredibly high production value, can't wait for future episodes!
+xMartyZz Thanks Marty!
wow this channel is amazing
Suibhne the videos are absolutely beautiful. I watch a lot of history videos and I would say this channel is the best
Suibhne , Bryant Miano , Russia did NOT even exist until 1721 when Peter 1st renamed Moscow Kingdom into Russia.
Kievan Rus’ and Russia are NOT the same thing.
This channel is BS.
Publius Quinctilius Varus , I read it and information in this video is wrong.
Publius Quinctilius Varus , and what my other comment is about?
Is it about your inability to read and comprehend? lol
@@_FireHeart благодаря таким как вы скоро весь запад будет в курсе что Украина -страна древнейших шумеров-сказочников)))
1453 AD, worst year of my life.
+Joakim D Thats a year not a day
Caped Crusader u forgot the us. It's politics r imperialistic therefore it is an empire but for brainwashing reasons they're not calling themselves like that
Yes man. In my opinion, The surrender of Constantinople to turks its the worst event in worlds history. I know, I maybe did a lot of mistakes. But I leave in Ukraine, and my English on a very low level. So, dont write me bad comments, please. Besides, I love videos of these channel too much and learning English with its support at this moment.
And it is best year for us
@@Arsen-i8m I live in ukraine. Live not leave живу не так как уйду
This is so interesting! I was sad when I looked at the date and saw how new the video was :( hopefully that doesn't mean the wait for the rest of the series will be super long. These videos definitely do make history epic. Thank you and I can't wait for more! I'm subscribing
This is so far the best history channel I have watched! Great works. Thank you
Great summary of a long and complicated history, supplemented with nice animations and narration. I look forward to more!
On the history of Russia it is possible to make a feature movie
I agree, but it would take something closer to 100 feature-length movies to do it justice.
I myself would pay money to see them all on the big screen in 3D for sure. I hope to see it someday, and I hope it comes from Russia and not from Hollywood. Peace!🙋
How about a great multi-season series like Game of Thrones? With all these waring factions and families, it would be awesome.
As long as it's not a bunch of British and American actors doing bad Russian accents...
"It's: THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA!", staring: Tom Hanks as Ivan the Terrible and Nicholas Cage as Peter the Great ... With: Jennifer Aniston as Catherine..." etc
That should go without saying!
that would be some banter to watch and laugh at tho
You guys deserve more subscribers than pewdiepie
seriously, here's a medal for you.
+Worthless_ Guy Thanks, it's a humbling moment to receive this award etc.
Absolutely fantastic ... and the way you have replied reasonably and fairly to heated commenters speaks to your rational mind. I hope you make as many of these videos as possible.
+stuckupcurlyguy Thank you, appreciate it!
Amazing, I'm so glad you picked Russia, one of my favorite countries. History is such an interesting subject, too bad studying it would lead me nowhere. Anyway, can't wait for the next videos, your channel rocks!
what a brutal timeline. no wonder these people are so tough.
Very fuckn brutal bro.
I've talked to so many people on vk. They are pussies and complain too much.
@@mrmcboomboom you should come here and talk say that to the people on the street) not just vk and youtube
Иван 4 записывал всех кого приказывал казнить, чтобы молится за их души, и таких в его списке было 3 000. А в тоже время во Франции Карл 9 приказал за одну ночь убить 30 000. В Англии практиковали так называемое огораживание, истребляли крестьян, сложно даже посчитать скольких убили.
@@Пескарь91 Кхм. Средневековье. Совсем другая мораль. Но да, для интереса рекомендую погуглить, что делали просвещённые европейские правители в это же время. Иван Грозный прям зайка окажется. Поменьше вестись на стереотипы и побольше читать самостоятельно.
История вообще такая штука. Переписывается многократно, хрен потом концы найдёшь. Источники уничтожаются, архивы сжигаются, школьная программа редактируется (а дальше никто не читает) и т.д. и т.п. Тем ни менее чёрно-бело редко бывает. У всех рыльце в пуху. Если кого-то конкретно смешивают с говном, то наверняка есть причина. Обелить себя и переложить на других.
Очень много нестыковок вылазит в официальной истории в общем.
Грозный нормальный монарх своей эпохи, не сильно выбивался из среды конкурентов. Ну и да. Наследие холодной войны, да и исторически выгоднобыло несколько передёргивать. С самими европейцами и прочими иностранцами интересно пообщаться про историю, как одни и те же события в разных странах освещаются. Очень сильно стимулирует думание своей головой.
Я вот будучи в Китае сильно удивился. Портрет Чингис хана на стене в ресторанчике. Переводчик спрашивает - знаешь, кто это такой? Я говорю - да, Чингиз хан. Да, да. Великий китаец! Зашибись :) При том, что он кагбэ знатно китайцев нагнул в своё время.
С европейцами тоже занятные разговоры выходят.И с турками, канадцами, американцами, афганцами, иранцами и прочими. Промывка мозгов штука такая. Но умные есть везде.
В общем сейчас сильно остерегаюсь громких штампов - этот злодей-психопат, а этот прям красавчик...
@@step670 Твои возмущения обоснованы, но есть выбор или изучать историю по переписанным но стандартизированным канонам, или читать ахинею про то, что на самом деле когда-то была ядерная война, а нам просто об этом не сказали и т.д и т.п))
Nikolay Skvotsov эээ, Нерон вообще-то вместо евреев христиан выбрал как козлов отпущения и казнил
@@alicek.4714 рекомендую изучить вопрос взаимотношений Нерона и евреев.
Где?
Just like how Putin told this story to Tucker explaining how the Russians and Ukraine came to this point in time of history.
This is what i'd imagine the history channel would be like if it was good.
+Idi Was still good. It was like this once. A long time ago in a land far far away...
It used to be like this in the 90s. Now it's about hillbillies and swamp people.
@@adeel-eh7xq Imbecilisation of the new generation: succeeded.
Absolutely amazing content, much appreciation from Australia!
Aaaahhh a country with no history.. how does it feel 😉😉🤣
@@singharpan9859 they did have it,not against humans but Emu's LOL!!!
Wow great video!
This channel is going to be big.
lies mixed with the truth, that's how it shapes public opinion in the West.
Thank you so much for this video! I study History at the University of Antwerp and I follow classes about the Russian history, so this is really helpfull to visualise it :) Keep up the good work!
Very nice....and remarkably free of historical revisionism. Except as this is a history of Russia, the correct characterization of Ivan IV assuming the title 'Tsar of Russia" would be the *restoration* of the Russian state. The first Russian state in the Russian view was "Kiev Rus" -- which was a loose confederacy of princes, not a centralized state.
"Kiev Rus" is of course, a historical anachronism just like "Byzantine Empire." To the people at the time, they were simply Rus. Many (or most) princes of Kiev were born in Novgorod.
No he is not, he was tsar of Moscow, Russia is how East Romans called Rus, and Peter the first named his country like that to justify concuring the capital of old Rus - Kiev.
@@doriangray7129 Russia named themselves Russia all the time. in 1721 the Russian Kingdom became the Russian Empire, a tsar(czar) is a king, It has the same root as a kaiser. the Novgorod dialect is 50% of Russian language (listen to liguists, the other half is the main language of Rus(sia)). This already was Rus without Novgorod or something else. krivichi, vyatichi, radimichi, sloveni, severiani were (east slavic) tribes of the East Russian lands. Ukraina means borderlands (only that), look еthymological polish dictionaries for example. the Suzdal, Vladimir, Ryazan, Smolensk, Toropets, Chernigov and Novgorod-Seversk principalities and the Novgorod land are (modern) Russia. If you look at the Birch bark manuscripts (the real spoken and written language) you will see that modern Russian is very close to it, so called Ukrainian is only a Russian dialect with Polish amixture. There were invaded lands of Rus or Russia by Poland and Lithuania and the locals rose to fight against them. In Novgorod there were killed a few traitors the few who wanted to sell themselves to the west invaders. Russia originally means Rus' and rusyn initially is a synonym of russian (look at the polish wiki for instance), and there was the ethnonym rusky (russian) in the Ukraine as well. If you look the english articles (about genetics) of research institutes you will see that absolute majority of russians are genеtically the same as ukranians and belorussians. In fact if you look at their old documents and folklore they all are russians. and the minority (very small part of the whole population) have some finno-baltic admixture. Truely Russian historically, lexically and grammatically is much more close to Polish and Czechoslovakian than to any south slavic language (see, let us say, the Swadesh List), There are many turkic words in Ukrainian, "maidan" is one of them. There are no almost any finno-ugric words or something in Russian. really I know only one-two such words, and There are a lot of ugric words in the west Ukrainian dialects because hungarians live there and nearby. And In Ukrainian actually There are enaugh of old bulgarian words as All Rus was baptized and took old church slavonic. And if you remove all polonisms and polish germanisms from Ukranian (I always look in polish, polish ethymological and old polish, slovakian, czech and etс. dictionaries) you will get Russian with small dialectical pronunciation differences. the fact is that even slovakians can't understand czechs well without special practice, and czechs speak with poles in English. And of Course russians don't get bulgarian (and also church slavonic ~ old bulgarian) in most of the cases because of the very different grammar and large difference in vocabulary, And nearly all of the words I understand in bulgarian there are in Ukranian and besides Ukrainian grammar are almost identical to Russian that's why they both are called the East Slavic Language.
It is not correct. Even the grandfather of Ivan IV - Ivan III was called in the Royal title "sovereign of all Russia."
The name Rus appeared simultaneously with the creation of a centralized state. The Russian state was formed along the Dnieper river, which was the flow of goods from the Black sea and further from the East to Europe.
The first capital of Russia was the city of Staraya Ladoga - it was there that Varyag Rurik came after the invitation. Then the capital was moved to Novgorod (to be exact near modern Novgorod there are remains of the old settlement, Rurik Settlement"). Then Rurik United the Slavic tribes downstream of the Dnieper, and his heirs Oleg (Helg) and reached a small fortress Samvatas, which belonged to the Khazar Kaganate and had a Jewish population. Capturing the fortress (and the land around), he appreciated its favorable geographical location and moved the capital to it, now this fortress is known as Kiev.
Shortly before the Mongol invasion of Russia was crushed into many parts - each of which sat his Prince. As a result, the capital of Bia moved to the city of Vladimir, the capital of the strongest Vladimir-Suzdal Principality, Kiev by that time remained an important cultural city, but lost the status of leader, especially after the internecine war it was captured several times by the princes.
Near Vladimir was founded a small town - Moscow, which gradually, for a number of reasons, began to grow and develop, and very soon became more and more important than Vladimir. Since then Moscow is the capital of Russia. However, Peter the Great moved the capital to St. Petersburg built by him, but after 1917 the capital returned to Moscow.
@@igroteka90 There was no Russia. The kingdom of Rus was the kingdom of Kyiv and its states. Russian empire came out of Moscow principalities. Ruskij has no connection to modern Russian. THe main language of Rus was closer to Belarus language than modern Russian.
@@igroteka90As someone that has studied slavic languages at length I can easily destroy every one of ur arguments. Rus did not have a single Slavic language, it had many close but different Slavic tongues and eventhough both Novgorodian and Kievan Manuscripts were written in old Church Slavonic, linguists can see clear differences between them, as each of these manuscripts had certain amount of live spoken language in them. The language spoken in Southern Rus, that is Chernigov, Perejaslav, Kiev, Vladimir and Galician principialities is direct predecessor to the modern Ukrainian language. Graffitti on the walls of St.Sophia in Kiev prove this, and here are examples. " "Мати не хотячи детичя бжа геть", another one " О горе тобі Андрониче, ох тобі небоже! Чему єсі зло створіл, то не відає нікто же. Толі тє звілі Кузма". These were written on the Walls of St.Sophia in late 11th, early 12th centuries. I have posted the link below.
So you see, Ukrainian steams back from the times of Rus, just as Belarusian and Russian. Was there Polish influence? Sure there was..But languages of Southern and Central Rus (Ukraine, Belarus) were already fairly close to Polish from the beginning. As for pronounciation, Ukrainian is much closer to Serbo-Croatian then either Polish or Russian. This is due to the fact that Croatians came from Western Ukraine..So everything u claimed is absolute baloney friend.
redchenko.com/?p=175
ukrainianpeople.us/українська-мова-на-стінах-софії-київс/
This is without exaggeration the best TH-cam channel.
Can't wait for the second part, this is great!
YES! ANOTHER ONE! THANKS!!! Keep up the good work!
A great work! Fascinating! Please continue, working in this direction, I'm looking forward to watching Part 2. As a Russian I can say that this is a very good storytelling of my country's history :) Good luck!
+Felix Magpie Thank you Felix, extra nice to get that feedback from a Russian!
+Felix Magpie Very good and useful graphics, but very politicized version of history. Rus was never called Kievan Rus. Read any ancient document. Rus was called Rus. Kievan Rus is the term historians use to describe the history of Russia, when Kiev was its capital, same as Moscovian Rus when capital was Moscow. Ukraine as country or nation never existed till XX century. Term «Украйна» (Ukrayna) first time appeared in XVII century. Term was created from ancient slavic word «оукраина» and meant borderland.
Complete lie about Ivan the Terrible (Иван Грозный). «Грозный» better translates from russian as redoubtable and had much more positive meaning, than terrible. Violent paranoia is another lie. Of course, Ivan IV was violent compare to our time, but he was not any more violent than any other European kings of that time. It is still a historical debate about death of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia, son of Ivan IV. But there are no debate that Ivan IV did not killed any of his 7 wives, but for example Henry VIII of England killed 2 of his 6 wives as well as 20 peers, 4 leading public servants, 6 close attendants and friends, 1 cardinal and numerous abbots. During whole time of Ivan IV were killed no more than 5 000 people. For example, in one St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in France were killed 30 000 people.
Battle on the Ice was not actually at Ice. It was a myth. Proven by archaeology and Livonian Chronicle (defeated soldiers were falling on the grass). Some part of the battle could happened on the coast of a lake and some knight could get killed on a lake after defeat while retreating, but the main battle was not there. Finally, Battle on the Ice could not happen on the ice, because it was April 5, 1242. April is middle of the spring. Of course Ice could still be on a lake, but it would be pretty thin too handle whole battle with knights in full armor.
+41Dragon I absolutely agree with you that some facts were not presented correctly, but I think it is possible to make a discount to such little issues thus a great work has been done. And talking about Ivan the Terrible, I'm really sick and tired that he is translated like the terrible, it's absolutely not true, and we both know that originally his name has a different meaning. You gave a good example.
But, I'm a bit worried about the second chapter of the film, as it's going to be extremely controversial 20th century and even more controversial WW2 and the Great Patriotic War. I only hope the creator of this great work will not make mistakes in giving the wrong analysis to different historical events. I really don't want to be dissapointed, because I like the way he presents history.
+Felix Magpie Yeah, I agree that amount of work was great and visual presentation is very good. I just complained about politicized version of the history. It maybe minor, but very important facts. Also, since it was already some mistakes, I too share the doubts that next chapter could be even more away from the truth. But I hope author will take this into account and will do next part much less politicized, without judgmental statements and distortion of facts. Because these graphic representation is well done and that would be to terrible if it would get destroyed by these mistakes.
+41Dragon I agree with you and hope our thoughts won't be ignored :)
Ivan IV was one of the greatest Russian rulers of all time. He is only called 'Terrible' in the west. In Russia he is called Grozny - meaning Formidable.
What perversion of human mind can lead to statements like that? Is this the new russian political noodles you get hanged on your ears - to praise Stalin and Ivan IV, both bloody butchers, differing only in victims' number? Is Peter I not enough?
Didn't he like to throw dogs from the top of towers?
Konoron No. Literally polish propaganda.
@@lite4998 I read that in a book written by a British historian. I'm not sure why they would follow Polish propaganda.
Konoron British historians are especially biased against Russia in general and Ivan Grozny in particular. Why would they not use all the political propaganda they could to smear one of the greatest leaders of their geopolitical opponent?
That's quite an accurate explanation of Russian history. Really good job. Also the voice acting is amazing. The part with the Horde conquering Rus is epic.
Thanks Skarn, that's my favourite bit too.
yeah , you were there and witnesed it, true ? there was neither invasion, neither Horde
@@piligrimm2 it was Tartarian invasion probably. And Migration Period against roman empire was also Tartarian attack probably. It was a great war between Romans and Tartarians and judish historians say it was just migration of many tribes for no reason.
I never thought that one documentary can be good as reading a book, this is wonderful, please make one video for all this parts, like you did for the world war one. Greetings from south slav countrie Montenegro.
Thank you! Greetings back from UK.
i am currently revising for russian history exam on monday and yourpart one on early russian history made more sense than days of reading - so thank you - when i am financial i will support your work
+Lorna Findlay Glad to hear it Lorna, good luck in the exam!
The history of Russia is more interesting than it may seem from this video. It is also interesting in that it was repeatedly rewritten to please and with the intervention of Europe, therefore, in the process of in-depth study of the history of Eurasia, you can find a lot of contradictory facts.
@@CyberDulya "It is also interesting in that it was repeatedly rewritten to please" - dude, you just described the history of *every* country in a nutshell 😂
It was not Ukraine in Russia at the beginning, it was full one state, not Russia and Ukraine separately.
Different territories controled by one state. The lands of Kyiv, Chernihiv and Pereyaslav were the only one officially called Rus. Russian territories were called "trans forest colonies". Everything else was called with its own names.
You animations and narrative really make your videos special... MORE MORE MORE
I am impatiently waiting for part 2.
+Rey Mysterio not yet release ?
well me too !
basically a dynasty called Romanov comes to power and restore order and continue expanding, they hold power until the revolution (the one that eventually led to the formation of the USSR). In 1721 a person known as Perter the Great came into power. Until Peter the great came along Russia was a relatively backward country, Peter liked western European clothing and culture and eventually integrated aspects of western European nations into Russia, he even made a beard tax because before having a beard was normal/expected of people in Russia. Peter then started a war with sweeden (who then had most the baltic lands) he gained land and build a city on the newly conquered land, this city became known as st petersburg and was a more western style city and was made the new capital of russian. Peter essentially brought russia from being a backward eastern land that no one in western europe payed much attention to, into a superpower. All this time until 1861 russia still had a fuedal society where there where boyars (lords) and serfs, the serfs where essentially the property of their masters and where tied to their land. In the 1800s the discontent with this was higher than ever esspecialy after Russian soldiers (who where conscripted serfs) saw the relative freedom in western Europe while in the Napoleonic wars. In 1861 serdom was abolished but the former serfs still had a bad time as they did not really have anywhere to go. During the industrial revelution these former serfs started becoming factory workers and conditions and pay these factories was terrible even compared to other countries. This eventualy led to the febuary revelution in 1917 which resulted in the revocation of power from tsar nicholas II. Russia became more similar to a republic. This new government did not want to stop the war (WW1) with germany which was going terribly for Russia resulting in many deaths and starvation. The Germans eventually funded a person called Vladimir Lenin to go to russia to start a new revelution to stop the war. Due to the war exaustion the people supported it and the October revelution happend (1917) this is the one that formed the USSR (union of soviet socialist republics). Lennin killed many who opposed him (mostly nobilty and other wealthy people) including the russian royal family. Lennin died shortly after (1924) and was succeded by Stalin aginst Lennins will. Stalin had a plan for rapid indusrilisation (5 year plan) this involved using forced labour (gulags) and also resulted in famines and many deaths. Stalins rule was cruel but without the rapid industrilisation germany would have walked over them in WW2, it was all the tanks and weapons made from this that won the war eventualy. After stalin the age of gulags and holodomor (a man made famine) was over and it became more similar to other countries. People often think that life in the soviet union was terrible but they though the soviets though the same about the US, its all propoganda. Post stalin USSR was very different to the USSR before. Public services like schools where very good, food was made to a good quality but the whole system collapsed due to corruption and bankruptcy and the USSR collapsed in 1991. From there its has been the russia we know today. Sorry if this is a little long but i missed out alot of details. Also sorry for spelling mistakes.
Here's Part 2... th-cam.com/video/HNfSBCygXTg/w-d-xo.html
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viewed so many historic vidoes and channels
but satisfied at reaching here
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what a great style of presenting.
That cliffhanger. Great episode.
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This is very informative! Please do make a part 2. It'll be very helpful. Thanks! :)
Even tho I watch every video in this channel I just can't get enough please keep uploading more history videos.
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+MultiSciGeek Thanks!
Hope west Europeans see this, and understand why East Europe had such a difficult time ,they stop ugly invasion while west Europeans conquer other continents and get rich
Shut up man western europe has always been better then the East
adn Russians didnt hold back anything, Tamerlane absolutly wrecked the golden horde and sacked astrakhan and sarai 2 major cities in the horde
they never recovered Plus their Khan tokhtamysh died in exile which left multiple claimants fighting for control
theres alot more to the story of the decline of the Tatars they didnt collapse fast aswell crimean khanate held out for nearly 500 more years even taking the ruthenian region from lithuania and sacking kiev
Funny how you have a western name then and speak the western language. On western invinted things.
@John Brooks
Invaded by who? OH your so called "refugee invasion" huh?
the FACT is that western european nations are trillion dollar economies
top of the world in various sectors like education and healthcare
the only thing eastern europe is kn own for is ethnic violence, dictators and intense racism
there are 9 million polish immigrants in UK alone
largest immigrant group explain that shit bruh!!!
why arent they in poland if its so great?
@@Eabokor1 You know nothing. Russians had to fight invasion from southern hordes throughout it's history, and due to flat terrain of Rus, there was no place to stop them.
@@Eabokor1 is everything in the money
How about you look at crime levels of Eastern European countries like Poland Czechia Croatia or Slovenia and compare them to the West and the US
Human Life and morals are more important than stupid money
We're learning Ivan The terrible in schools. This helps me to make the Image of how the russia looked at that time. Please continue I love it
This is a great show,thank you for making this episode it is really interesting.
that was really cool and awesome
I'm a big history nerd and I'm LOVIN THIS!
lies mixed with the truth, that's how it shapes public opinion in the West.
Amazing documentary, it is the best I have seen so far ! Thank you so much for contributing to true facts and unbiased point of view. This documentary shows even the Crimea history and to who it always belonged to.
and who is that? Because is see the whole land we know as Russia historically belonging to many people
To the tatars?
I am looking forward for the other parts too...please continue.
Amazing work!!
+Dhwani Bhadoria Thanks Dhwani!
+Epic History TV I have suggested your channel to my friends interested in history and they liked it very much.
Can we also make requests?
+Dhwani Bhadoria Thank you for recommending me Dhwani. Of course, please so make requests. But I must warn you that each video takes quite a long time to make, so it may be some time before I can get round to them all!
+Epic History TV No problem.
+Epic History TV Please make a video about the Finno-Ugris. Its quite a mistery how we got here in the first place. We also had settlements before the supposed language came so people lived here before a culture wave came.
WIth your sort of voice and animation it would be awesome.
that was a remarkable experience, I actually had goosebumps. I subscribed!
Thanks to your videos, I can understand Russian history very clearly and come to love it. Thank you very much.
I am a Japense. For us, Japanese, Russo-Japanese war is a great victory and we can read lots of books about it from the Japanese point of view. If possible, please describe Russo-Japanese war from the Russian side. After your video, Russia Part4, Russo-Japanese war is approaching.
Thank you! Part 5 is out now, which cover the Russo-Japanese War.
konan keisetsu u know how we say? Only Russians and Japanese can love truly
Wow, very good! I read the comments before, and thought "Nah, it won't be as good as what they say", but I was wrong, it was great! Watching 2nd part now! Awesome!
LOTS OF MISTAKES
Amazing ! This channel is a class by itself. Respects. 🤘
Thanks also for clarifying that Mongol Golden Horde became Tatar. Many people would say Mongols ruled until Golden Horde's end, but actually the empire became Tatarified.
@Mustafa Alam Yeah it's confusing. The Turks and Mongols are both called Tatars sometimes, but they're ethnically different.
The term Kievan Rus was coined in the 19th century in Russian historiography to refer to the period when the centre was in Kiev.
No, Kievan Rus was different from Moscow, Moscow in the 12th century as part of the Golden Horde was created to rule the principalities!
Then after the collapse of the "Golden Horde" at the hands of"Amir Temur"!
In the 14th century the Principality of Moscow until the 15th century was still under the control of the "Crimean khanate" and then in the Kiev Principality was created by "Cossack army" tradition" of the Golden Horde Nogai Code-cumaná", then in the 15th century began the dawn of Muscovy as an independent state from the" Crimean khanate", and in the 16th century Russian people was formed as the titular people of Moscow, and then in the 18th century was established
The Russian Empire!
Russian Russians were serfs until the 19th century, and when the Russians killed the Germanized "Romanov" dynasty, they began to rewrite their history as the "Battle of Kulikovo", but, the "Battle of Kulikovo" in the 14th century was a war between the "Nogai Mamai " and the" Genghisids " of the Golden Horde for power!!
@@armangolden-adam1548
There was no Golden Horde in 12th century 🤡
@@KIRILL-fl7cp it is only you, according to the concepts of the Russians, the "Golden Horde" did not exist, Lol
@@armangolden-adam1548
Do really think that Golden Horde existed in 1100-s?🤣
@@KIRILL-fl7cp If the Mongol Empire existed, then there was the Golden Horde, especially since this is world history, dumbass, Lol
Kieven Rus is the history of all slavs not just Ukrainians because there was no such thing as russian, Ukrainian, Estonian, polish, Serbian etc.
Just because Kieven Rus geographical location was in Ukraine doesn't mean it was full of Ukrainians.
Both Putin and Zelenski are wrong.
Some people in comment section are arguing without any reasoning.
Well put.
sophia cathedral in kiev graffiti with russian language on it, ivan 3 coin has "tsar of rus" on it, and ivan 3 is moscow tsar, that means that moscow is rus
The state as a whole wasn't ever officially called "Rus". Only the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Pereyaslav were considered as Rus and their people as rusyns. Everything else was called with its own name. Russia was called as trans "trans forest colonies" at that time, and they weren't even slavs at that time.
Dude please dont stop making these, I rather watch this than the Discovery Channel, you have talent!
Thank you!
Great video, you have made. Cant wait for another upload! Keep on the good work, lads!
Cool. Great presentation on this very interesting topic.
Amazing, thank you for this fascinating journey into one off the most diverse an complex countries in the world.
Love Eastern Europe History!!
From distance.
this will get the best and most viewed hist channel on youtube
good job. continue ^^
This is awesome! This is what History Channel used to be like.
This is really Great!
I love your videos!
Ого, ещё один маппер, на которого я ещё не подписался. Надо бы исправить эту ошибку.
this channel is one of my favorite youtube channels
+ridge knepp Thank you Ridge!
+Epic History TV are you guys going to do one on the ottoman empire
This is very nicely made, looking forward to part 2 !! Thanks a lot :)
Just found this channel and holy shit, it's amazing! Please keep them coming and any spare money I have will be launched towards your patreon! Please keep this coming, I love these videos
+Dreamwar Thank you! That's what I like to hear! I'll be spending Christmas making a video about 1915, so all my Patreon supporters know they're getting full value..
+Epic History TV Love it. Keep it up, the narrator is great, while the text written is very interesting too, glad to know you already have some loyal patreon supporters!
It teaches that complex history most clearly, thank you so much for uploading this valuable doc here!
These videos are amazing, I wish more people would watch them
hello. will you dare and make a series for Danu river Bulgaria ? and Great Bulgaria and Volga Bulgaria that will be interesting to see since not alot of people talk about those empires ( they all have pretty interesting stuff to show like Volga Bulgaria defeating genghis Khan army and samara bend and then trading his warrior`s for goat`s 1 worrior for 1 goat in history that`s know as the Goat Battle ) also keep up the good work ! :D
+NormalFrequency Thank you! Very interesting idea, one for the future perhaps.
Great idea to show a successful country of Volga Bulgaria that saved Russia from a famine multiple time, getting invasions in return !Otherwise this brief history of Russia just a copy of the Soviet school history books
Не убивал Иван Грозный своего сына!!! Это всего лишь картина художника Репина
Да и со всеми кто написал эту картину случилось плохое . Его и его сына травили
Более того, картина называется "Иван Грозный и сын его Иван 16 ноября 1581 года". Про убийство уже кто то домыслил.
how u talk with the map is fkin awesome bro, keep doing this
Thank you for a great job! As a Russian I aprecciate your video, don't mind the haters who skipped history classes at school. The design of your video is marvelous. The only questionable thing is about Novgorod submitting to mongols bc it was a far away area for mongols to reach and they were subjected to mongol rule only in 1259 during Alexander Nevsky's reign.
Thanks again, looking forward to seeng more!
+Polina Pleskun Thank you, appreciate it!
It was very interesting, thank you for this video!
Greetings from Moscow
+Мария Дектянникова Thank you!
Just to add.. I'll be 50 years old in July and now a stroke and cardiac arrest and now a colon cancer survivor and glad that I'm still living eventough I'm alone and Glad that someone of my ancestors survived too :-)
awesome, fantastic, wonderful -- keep it going!!
Great Work ty For Your Time , keep them coming 😀!!!!.
the best videos so far of waterloo and ww1 that I have seen on youtube.
amazing!!, voice + presentation = 10/10
Currently taking Russian History class. This helps a lot!!!
Love the visual, time clock and the voice. Thank You.
Hope part 2 comes out before my semester ends lol
Nice to grow the knowledge about the epic history of Russia.
These videos are awesome! I'm going to donate some money. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Adam! Really appreciate it. Recently TH-cam decided my military history videos are too 'violent' to carry advertising, so Patreon pledges will become increasingly vital if Epic History TV is to continue.
Wow,I never new TH-cam was THAT censored.
Super awesome video, waiting for the next...
3:05
partly true.
The terrain made mongol's horse adv useless and the city itself was fully prepared for long, mostly endless siege, so mongols would never be able to capture it by direct assault; however, mongols could cut off the food supplies from Novgorod's southern territory, which will make Novgorod depend on trade with European kingdoms (transporting food through sea), which wouldn't last long, since scandinavian kingdoms + teutonic order were more interested in capturing Novgorod, than in trading with it.
There is so much epic value packed into this video. We definitely watched this before travelling to Russia and honestly, with this historical context, everything felt so much more meaningful. Anyway, if any of you out there are history junkies and metalheads like us (there has to be some on this channel, right?), we've written an epic metal ballad of Ivan the Terrible's life on our channel. The song is called "Ivan the Terrible," and the music video is pretty epic. If you are interested in this kind of thing, give us a view - we'd really appreciate it! Anyways, keep up the great work!!
Alexander Nevsky looks a lot like Jesus. Like a lot. Look him up.
He was made a saint, that's probably why
Except Jesus wasn't white.
You mean, Jesus wasn't real.
Jesus looks a lot like Alexander Nevsky. Happy now?
Israelites aren't white? The more you know...
THIS WAS AWESOME, PLEASE POST PART 2!!
Outstanding work! Congratulations!
+André Vieira Thank you!
Hey, I love your channel! Are you guys planning on making World War 2?
+Nah Bsh Thanks! Yes I hope to make some WW2 videos next year..
+Epic History TV i love your channel man, im a history freak, and cant get enough! Im willing to donate to you if you can make a video about a sertain topic, it would benefit us both. I love your story telling and grapichs.
+Rasmus Bak Frederiksen Thanks Rasmus! What's the topic?
can you guys continue ? making videos please :D i like your videos
+Albert Aguilar Thanks Albert, working on World War One: 1915 at the moment, should be ready soon.
+Epic History TV thx :D
Excellent, absolutely great narrative. Most of the time Russian history gets butchered. This video gets it just right. Subscribed!
+Pavel Razuvayev Thanks Pavel, glad you like!
Holy shit this channel is great. I'm a huge history nerd. Instantly subscribed!
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Very great episodes ! I love the precisions, animation and the voice of the narrator is verry interesting !
Can you , one day , make an episode about Morocco ? It will be fabulous !
Keep making beautiful videos !
+Mostafa Bellabiad Thank you Mostafa!
6:40
This is a questionable episode of russian history. There is no clear evidence, that Ivan killed his son, you should name other versions, when you are talking about this topic.
Several foreign authors affirm he did. Russian chronniclers are as usually afraid of telling truth.
@@ЮрийХатунцев-н9л
Chronicle isn't a reliable source of information, unless there is a way to prove it via expertise or other type of research. The analysis (1963) showed, that son's body contained a critical amount of toxic metals, so he might have died because of poisoning. Maybe the expertise was false, or the poisoning wasn't the cause of death, but that's the reason I called the whole situation questionable.
I believe it
@@ЮрийХатунцев-н9л Russian chronicles aren't afraid, they are released and told by Russia but the west has a habit of twisting every fact and history about Russia so that they always look like the bad guy. Who tf cares about those foreign authors, where did they get their source from?
I think split between people living in modern russia and modern ukraine happened after tatar invasion. Kiev for 1 centrury was devastated by tatars and was released from the yoke in 14 century and Moscow actually joined the yoke for 3 centuries and tried to leverage from its union with the yoke to conquest the west (and Kiev). But faced Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth (and population of ukraine represented 40-60% of commonwealth population), which actually stopped for 4-5 centuries Moscow's attempts to conquest west. But the history of same people living in two different worlds (in commonwealt and in the yoke) changed the mentality of one great slavic tribe. And today the mentalities of russians and ukrainians are opposite.
Украинский историк) английские ученые в шоке
у украинцев видение истории от всего мира отличается
And I think you write nonsense because you absolutely do not know the subject about which undertook to talk
Imagine finishing your game at EU4 and this guy narrates your country's history... SO EPIC! :) You should work at paradox :D
This channel is amazing