Origins Of RUSSIA
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- A brief look at the origins and history of Russia and the Russian people and the complexity of the region due to its common origins but rich history. My compassion goes out to all those affected by the situation in the region.
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That whole line about choosing Christianity over Islam because he can't give up the pleasure of drink cracked me up.
Islamic culture does not support feasting as a ritual sharing of alcoholic beverages between the king and his retinue. The king could not afford to commit such a stupidity - to quarrel with the army as a result of a change in religious beliefs.
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Now your talking lol.
As a russian, I can say it’s the most accurate video in youtube about our history and origin, just reminded to me school history lesson in Russia. Cool, thank you, author. Non-biased and non-propoganded, best video in youtube about Russia’s origin.
О происхождении слова немец - от русского слова немой является устаревшей чушью! Потому что слово немец есть у всех славян, а вот понятие немого у всех славян разное! Например у сербов немой - глупо, это вообще другой корень! При этом у южных соседей славян итальянцев иной романской языковой группы тоже есть подобное слово в словаре итальянского языка из древней латыни "nemico", которое на итальянском языке означает - враг - происходит из древней латыни "inimicus" - враг, недруг, как противоположность слову друг - латинскому "amicus" (испанское амиго) 2) О происхождении имени Русь якобы от шведов такое же вранье, начиная с неправды про Ибн Фадлана, который нигде в своих записях не связывал Русь со скандинавсими народами! Почитайте Ибн Фадлана! Которые не является первым арабом встретившим народ Русь! Задолго до Ибн Фадлана, другой арабский географ Ибн Хордада Бех написал дословно в своей "Книге Путей и Стран" 840 года, цитирую: "Что могу сказать о купцах Руси - так эти из славян" - Обратите внимание на дату 840 год это задолго до призвания Рюрика
Если ты думаешь что урок истории в школе рф это не искаженная информация и не пропаганда то о чем тут вообще говорить
@@vedser искажение информации это урок истории в школах для детей стран НАТО - ликбез лохам.
@@rodjarrow6575как же без поехавших турбопатриотов и заговоров рептилоидов против руси-матушки
@@rodjarrow6575ты в школе НАТО учился?
In the Swedish language, Russia is called Ryssland. Greetings from Sweden.
It's okay, soon the ukrainians will teach you that you can't say that, and they will come up with a new your word for Russia.
Brothers by blood
Hello my Viking friend
And in Russian language Russia till the Moscow Czardom period had name Rus' Land - the Land of Rus People. Русская Земля
Скандинавы всегда с нами дружили и жили с нами их называли Воряги в честь их назван флагман тихо оканского флота который в одиночку сражался против 15 японских кораблей и нездался после японци поставили с него штурвал на свой самый главный корабль они были восхищены его отвагой. С Викингами издревли мы ездили друг к другу в гости и плавали по общим путям в плоть до Персии.
Пусть вымпилы вются пусть цепи звенят врагу нездается наш гордый Воряг.
Pozdrav bratski Rusiji iz Slovenije🇸🇮❤🇷🇺
И тебе большой привет из России! 🇷🇺🤝🏻🇸🇮
Pozdrav bratski Sloveniji iz Rusije, Slovani smo bratje že stoletja
❤❤❤привет из России
Toj Pan-slavisam go korista protiv vas 400 godini i pak ne vi teknuva deka ste samo ruska alatka i nisto drugo, ako mislis deka rusi vi misla dobro samo pogledni so znacelo to niz istorija i vidi so praj Rusija vo Ukraijna sega, dali ukraincite ne se prvoslavni sloveni? ili samo rusi se?
@@Petreski447 Bela Rasa je slovenska arijska Rasa tako kot beli Rusi, beli Makedonci, Slovenci,... vsi slovenski, alatka me ne zanima!
What I love most about this video is the heavy use of maps, so helpful.
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Yes!!! 👍😃👍
Yes! The maps are what makes it so easily comprehensible to me... Also, good solid factual historical info presented with clinical neutrality makes Lugh's videos so great.
Stop the colonization of siberia and Urals NOW
I'm one of those weirdos that loves maps too. Not sure of the real term so I'll say I'm a mapophile
The further back into the centuries, the less reliable the history of the Russians. Because there are too few documentary sources. Because of fires, wars...
So now in the ancient history of Russians there can be a lot of fiction. At least I have not heard that the Russians had admixtures of the Swedish haplogroup. Nevertheless, the ancient Russian warriors are very reminiscent of the Vikings. But even if the Russians came from the north, they may have been some kind of separate tribe. In addition, the Slavs have a legend about three brothers divided into Lyakh, Rus and Czech (Pole, Russian and Czech).
The missing library of Ivan the Formidable could shed light on the true history of Russians. But perhaps it is lost forever. Only in Novgorod are many birch bark letters found because of the swampy, anoxic soil, which could preserve birch bark for centuries. Perhaps there was a lot of correspondence in other places, but birch bark is extremely short-lived in the air.
The birch-bark letters of the ancient Novgorodians are amazing. There was an active correspondence. One gets the feeling that the Novgorodians were all literate. Because they find letters and even children and women. I remember the text of the birch-bark letter, where the brother demanded that his brother repay the debt. He took the goat from him and does not return it. The text is in Old Slavonic, but the curses are quite modern Russian. 😉
His brother was like chill down mate
Брат, еби лëжа (не выпендривайся)
Russian curses have Turkic roots. "Мат" was brought by Turkic tribes from the east. Among the Turkic-speaking people, curses have replaced the norms of Islam from the language.
@@mellon3743 This is another myth. In Novgorod, many letters on birch bark from the pre-Mongol period are found. This is the correspondence of local residents among themselves. It is written in Old Slavonic, but there are many Russian swear words in a modern form. Russian swear words were used even before the Russians learned about the mythical "Mongols".
Btw, the abundant correspondence on birch bark letters speaks to the fact that many Russians could write and read. Children's letters and letters from women are also found. These documents have been preserved only thanks to the swampy soil. In other places, such documents have long since decayed.
@@colmcmillan173 Can I get specific. Uh, not, uh, out there.
outstanding! thank you for this.. its the first time im getting a sense of a the history of this region
Valdemaar the Great was a Danish king, the first person with the name Valdemar. He was born in Rus, he got a tranditional Rus' royal name. Since he was a son of a Danish prince (and a princess of Rus's Kiev) he came back to his father's land and became a scandinavian ruler after a civil war. That's how the name Vladimir turns to the name Valdemar.
From Bulgaria. The name Vladimir consists of two Russian words "rule" and "world" - ruler of the world!
There was no word “vlad” in old Russian at the moment the name has formed. The root “vlad” came from the Church Slavonic (aka old Bulgarian). The old Russian root for “rule” would be “volod” @@ivanbg9694
@@ivanbg9694 Not the "ruler of the world", but the "Owner of the world". Vladi- (owner) mir (world).
No need to invent. Vladimir the saint was the son of Svyatoslav and his mother was a simple servant (under Princess Olga) Malusha (the youngest). Malusha was the sister of Dobrynya, who later baptized Novgorod with "fire and sword". Better study the material part of the question.
Back in the 18th century, the Russian fleet saved Copenhagen from the British. The British Fleet bombed Copenhagen. And today the sanctions from the Danes are their thanks)))
How can an avid youtube historybuff guy like me only now stumble upon this gem of a history channel? Only 57.3K subscribers since 2013 yet having such good material? Your being held back... Algorithim may be doing you wrong, my new friend.
Most of what I'm familiar with from the channel is mythology related. Perhaps it has to do with the limited appeal of the primary subjects covered?
@@NoNamesLeft0102 Trust me - this so called “history” is Mythology too. Russian propagandist mythology.
@@shaunnashandro by all means then, point out one factual error. Timestamp, lines of inquiry if you can. Always interesting to see what people use to conclude that something is propaganda.
@@NoNamesLeft0102 ok, I’ll give you a few examples, and check around 13:00 for the time stamp. First of all, Rus is spelled “Pyc” in Cyrillic and is an English transliteration. Russia is named Rossiya and spelled “Poc” in Cyrillic, and is not the same stem at all. He claims that Russians were also called Rusyn and equates them all - Rus = Rusyn = Russian. If you Google it, you will see that the Rusyns still exist today as an independent language, culture, and people. They are not Russia and don’t even live in Russia. Many ethnic origins came from the Rus (such as Ukrainians, Rusyns, Belorussians), and they were absolutely not “Russians” at that point. You cannot use the term “Rus” as synonymous and interchangeable with “Russian”.
He is also calling Kyiv “The Kingdom of Russia by AD 900”. Russians are not the only “Slavs”. No country or territory or region with the name “Russia” in it existed until 1547, when the Tsardom of Russia was named. The Russian Empire was founded in 1721. And those came out of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, or Muscovy, founded in 1263. Muscovites are definitely Russian, so finally we can pinpoint an ethnicity and culture to a place definitely at this point. Prior to that, there is no specifically “Russian” country. If you want to suggest a population might have had some origins in a particular location, fine, but it’s ridiculous to say that a location that they do not exist in currently is entirely of their origin. Especially when many other cultures came from that region, and when the country making the claims has oppressed and colonized those cultures inside that territory they’re making claims towards for centuries. This version of history written by Russias is the Russian mythologizing their great origins to justify oppressing and exterminating cultures and annexing territory that does not belong to them. We need to straighten out and untangle it.
@@NoNamesLeft0102 Basically, to sum up the propaganda thing, the Russians have written their own history that is not entirely accurate, in a way for them to claim greatness and the entire territory that they wish to possess. They have suppressed and oppressed all other cultures and ethnicities in the area to the point that westerners actually believe the entire area is one culture and language and ethnicity. Westerners have just accepted it, but started to untangle it more recently with some effort, after the fall of the Soviets and the release of previously inaccessible information. Putin has closed off that information stream again, unfortunately, so it’s a bit harder now, but there have been some recent historical works written that have been well done.
There's a mountain range named after Saint Elias in Alaska, as well as a lot more Russian influence. Colonizing part of the American continent is an interesting bit of Russian history.
There are a lot of Russians still living here. I have nothing but respect for them. I hope Alaskans don't see them differently for what's happening in the Mother Land.
а ещё в битве наций есть американская команда которая использует старый флаг аляски(насколько мне извество).
Fort Ross in California was a Russian colony, they brought some Alaska Natives with them and to this day there are some words of these languages in the local Native lexicon. I got to go there in High School while in the Native American program, I am Yosemite Valley Miwok.
They do it right. When we take Alaska home, to Russia, we will not take revenge on them, because they did no harm to us ...
@@user-ld9hx7eh8b а кому там мстить и за что?
@@user-ld9hx7eh8b You will never have Alaska. You'll be lucky to survive this year at the rate you're going.
Remember, NATO is a nuclear alliance.
Greetings Kevin, I happily stumbled upon this very informative video, the music, maps, et all, gives me nothing but joy in my heart. I live on the southern tip of India, of Jewish Portuguese descent.When i watched this video, I had gone back in time, understood about Slavic historical facts and just had nothing but love for this beautiful country, Russia. Congratulations on this great piece of history, am happy that someone had taken so much effort to put this video out, just when the world is at war, WW3. This video will be sent to my friends and family for sure. Wishing you well, Kevin. Kudos! Love from Kerala, subcontinent.
This is false history, Kremlin Nazi propaganda
Приезжай в Россию, здесь ты будешь человеком второго сорта, как и все мигранты. Коренное население считает себя избранным и великим, и поэтому очень развит шовинизм и расизм. А ты далеко не умный, раз любишь страну, о которой ничего не знаешь.
Спасибо вам за любовь к России!
In this video very much incorrect facts
@@Aqquuaaи не только мигранты. Эти нацисты так же ненавидят кореннеые народы этой страны, чьи земли грабят для своих братьев еврейских олигархов
Very good summary of very complex history, thank you ❤️🌞
Very interesting. In the last century because of the super power friction this interesting history has been quashed and by revealing this fascinating saga you have helped me to understand the region better. Thank you.
BALTICS AND GERMANICS HAVE NO THE SAME D.N.A
@@rosamariajimenezaguilar4652Baltics were kind of colonized by German states, so while not originally sharing DNA (not more than with any other Indo-European nation), after Christianisation they mixed in a lot of German DNA.
what do you mean by quashed? how can history get quashed?
@@TheBinaryHappinessThe definition of the word Quash is to reject as invalid, especially by legal procedure. Maybe a more appropriate term would be the common vernacular deliberately hidden hoping that no one will discover the truth.
Thank you for a great video! The most unbiased history video of the matter I've seen on TH-cam
Thanks,
Very informative and comprehensive. And unbiased.
You´ve explained in half an hour what scholars, drowning in details, couldn´t in half a century.
Phenomenal video and perfect conclusion. Bravo👏
Great vid covering up to about 1600. Would be nice to see followup vids covering in detail 1600 to present.
Thank you, very informative and well presented
Russian history is fascinating 🏵️
Thank you, greetings from Russia.
@@-Egor-
Greetings :)
This is false history, Kremlin propaganda
Fascinating and timely release. I learned more and enjoyed this far more than a lecture I watched on Slavic origins not too long ago.
This is false history, Kremlin propaganda
Ok, good to know, moscovite. Hope you all stop being slaves to vlad "the mighty midget", and go back to your swamps and take care of your people and country, rather than try to bring your "help" and "liberation" to other countries.
Very informative! Thank you.
Another awesome history video. Thank you
This was so much more interesting than i expected!
Thank you. For the great video. I have been studying the Varangian Rus for some time and every bit of info I gain is a treasure. 👍
He didn't say anything new. He repeated the Norman theory of the Russophobe Germans, about calling the Swedes to Russia as masters over themselves ... "Come and own us as slaves" (this is how Rus was formed in the opinion of the Europeans) Whoever knows our mentality even a little, laugh at this nonsense. But you do not know us, are not interested, and believe in Russophobic fairy tales. Therefore, it is necessary to communicate with you only with the help of weapons.
Hello.
The basis of ancient Russian, ancient Ukrainian and ancient Belarusian history is the work "Tale of Bygone Years" (in the English version - "Primary Chronicle")
The author's video talks about him - 8:50 (Monk Nestor)
The Tale of Bygone Years is a huge work that began to be written in ~1100. After the death of monk Nestor, the rest of the Monks continued to supplement the "Tale of Bygone Years"
Thus, it is impossible to say exactly how many authors this work had and when exactly it was finished writing.
"The Tale of Bygone Years" is a creative interpretation of ancient Russian monks and is a synthesis of various historical annals, legends and traditions (many of which were subsequently destroyed or lost)
Therefore, if you are interested in ancient Russian history, first of all I recommend reading "The Tale of Bygone Years"
I can also advise you to watch the Soviet feature film "Alexander Nevsky" (1938)
This is exactly what the author of the video is talking about - 2:05 - 2:41
The film is old (and outdated in places) but in the USSR and Russia/Belarus/Ukraine it has a cult status.
There is also a Soviet cartoon "The Swans of Nepryadva" (1980)
It tells about the Battle of Kulikovo (a battle between the ancient Russian state and the Golden Horde in an attempt to get rid of the Tatar-Mongol yoke)
30:48 - 31:57 ( what the author of the video is talking about )
Прочитай сказку пушкина о царе салтане и остров буяне или руяне или рюген примерно северная германия побереже балтики принадлежало западным славянам и чехи и словаки и поляки и прочии населяли побереже контенентальной балтики с другой стороны наши друзья скандинавы у нас примерно одна мифология
I like how thorough your videos are! Thank you!
If you read Adam Olearius, a German traveler who was not loyal to Moscow and Russians in general, but was received by the Tsar of Moscow, you will see that he writes and quote: "it is wrong to call the inhabitants of Moscow Muscovites, they call themselves Russians." It was almost 150 years before the creation of the Russian Empire. This is just one example for you. There is much earlier evidence. You can open any Arab traveler and you will see that this traveler reached modern Astrakhan and said that Russ live next to Astrakhan in one day's journey. It couldn't be Ukraine. Not a single transport of those years could get you from Astrakhan to Ukraine in 1 day. But from Astrakhan to the Volga in 1 day on horseback you could get to the Middle Volga - modern Mordovia. Also, all the Turkic-speaking peoples - Russia's neighbors - have names for the population of Russia - Orus.
Rus-sia - was “Rus” in Greek. The ancient aristocracy in Rus wasn’t Scandinavian. Now even archeological data doesn’t support this.
There is no clear data where Rurik and his brothers came from.
Была. Подтверждают.
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Who confirms this and what contemporary documents they show as a proof that Rurik came from the lands of the Norse people (from Scandinavia)
That is not true 24:30 Ukraine as a state, and not as a land (from the Russian language Ukraine comes from “Okraina”, border lands, this is not the name of the state, but the name of the “edge of the state”, outskirts)
Ukraine as a State was formed by Lenin as a republic within the USSR and finally became an independent state after the collapse of the USSR!
Before this, there was no state called “Ukraine”!
And the lands of Ukraine belonged to Poland, Lithuania, and Rus', depending on the time period.
Thruthnuke.
I thought I was the only one who knew this. I think, now there are two of us. The truth is concealed well by propagandists.
@@df7217тогда КОГУРЁ это не Корея😂
@@df7217 Rus is Russia in Greek. In fact, these are just synonyms.
@@df7217 in the Western world this was the name given to the Russian state and all the lands that belonged to the Moscow state. Along with this name, the name Russia was also used.
Great video, very informative
The father of my son and exhusband is 50% -Swedish. DNA wise my son's ethnicity shows as far east as Belarus. His dad was told by his grandmother that they came from Estonia, Lapthal, and Lithuania.
I am 100 % Swedish for thousand of years If I can belive my dna
Interesting. I took a DNA test and was 10% Russian and 10% Swedish.
@@macandfire5477 and 80%?
@@markmillward9733 65% Scottish and 15% Irish 😉
@@petereklund9681Highest dna test is under 100% no one is 100%
Iam 110% sure if you are Swedish with aorund 80-90% you would have Danish/norwegian dna as well, since our ancestry mixed with each other for a very long time.
❤Срби и Руси браћа заувек❤
Then stop your brother from killing Ukraine
Or we will come help Ukraine and there will be no more brother for you
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@@4elovechishe 😘🥰
wow your country is so beautiful its also my dream country
I also must add this is a wonderful and well thought out video
This is an excellent and informative video.
I find it puzzling is the fact that it is well known in Russia and neighboring nations that Russia occupied Paris in 1814, however, most Western people are unaware of it.
No Russia did not occupy Paris lol. It was a coalition consisting pretty much the whole of Europe fighting against napoleon. And even the frenchmen were against him by then.
@@LatePerkele I know the details, I checked the reference before I posted. The Russian army WAS the significant army that occupied Paris. If you Google search "Russian occupation of Paris" you get 12,000,000 hits. You are going to be busy telling all those sources that "Russia did not occupy Paris"!
Yes, you’re correct. It was a coalition that occupied Paris for a very short time not the Russians.
@@margarettaft7362 An I suppose you would correct someone who said "the Russians occupied Berlin in 1945" by saying: "no they didn't, the Allies occupied Berlin and only after April 1945"!
In any case the Russians were a part of both groups, so technically you are wrong (in terms of Set theory) since you want to get pedantic!
I figured it was Rich people regardless of where they sprung from playing their games 🤔
rarely see a neutral video on East Slav/all-rus on TH-cam but this one is up there with kings and generals and epic history in quality 👍🙏
🙈🙈🙈 Russians - not Slavs, russians - ugrofins
@@roman-zq9zn Ukropatriot detected lol
@@roman-zq9znсам ты финно-угр, а точнее турок. Так что помолчал бы.
@@roman-zq9znRussians are typical Slavs, both genetically and linguistically. Study the ethnology and anthropology of Europeans.
@@roman-zq9znSlavs are just balts and sarmatians who mixed , slavs are young lingvistic grup who was not mentioned big part of history in europe , from north Ukraine to north Latvia lived baltic peoples and peoples have baltic genes and look (north europeans) aslo varagians were baltic and finnic vikings
I really liked it. I didn’t expect to learn things that i had not yet known, and in such a short video thank you very much!
Vladimir is equivalent to the name Raymond (Regimundus)
- which means: "ruler of the world".
So it,s Ray the impaler?
OH MY GOD! YAAHS!@@benperkins9237
No it's not. Ray and regi is not the same. Also mund and mond doesn't mean the world, it means protector/ruler.
Vlad means rule, mir means peace
Impaler is the British crown. They have impaled and are still doing so politically
Such a fascinating complicated history that people should realy do far more research on. Great video and very easy to understand with your use of maps, pictures of relics etc.
richard goudge in order to know what really happened in the past, for this you need to be a decent person . because the official allied victorious "history" is an absolute lie and falsification of the past
Thank you for your work.
Thank you great videos❤
So few would know this without your video, thank you so much.
This is incredible. I wish it was 3hrs long.
That was outstanding! Very well researched, and was especially good for such a short presentation. Thank you for your hard work!
Stop Siberia colonization
@@crapisnice You idiot?😅
@@crapisnice I saw a video on that and I was so shocked! Your northern people who are so closely related to our northern people, the Inuit, look so much related. And they (or you?) have gone through such a similar experience.
But it seems that what your people suffered through is even worse than what the Canadian Inuit suffered, if that can even be imagined!
I'm so sorry. My heart really goes out to them, and to you, if you are among the Siberian people who had their land and way of life stolen.
That is such a tragedy! And it affects people for many, many generations afterwards! The damage that is done becomes intergenerational. It would do so even if the present circumstances were fair and equitable and happy. But they are not!
The present treatment of those people is unfair and horrible! It always has been, ever since the people from the western part of Russia realized that there were plenty of fur bearing animals there. Just as happened in North America, those people were greedy. They knew Europeans would buy those furs, so they set out to steal them all from the people who had lived there in harmony with nature for possibly as long as 100,000 years. They invaded and treated the people as badly as they treated animals, which is what Europeans are known to have done everywhere they went, world wide.
The people were subjected to the very worst kinds of violence, rape, and genocide. Those who survived wished they had not. Diseases and abuse caused them to suffer so much, right up until today. Moscow still treats them as second or third class citizens today. And the Siberian cities are badly neglected as far as funding goes, even though Siberia supplies Moscow with a lot of wealth.
I saw a video about the plight of those people. It seemed so strange to me, to see people who look just like the Inuit, but speaking Russian. I imagine that they also have a language of their own. Maybe it is similar to the language of the Inuit, if it hasn't become lost, due to being supressed by Russia. Since everything else was stolen from them, I'm sure Russia did it's best to steal their language too.
According to the video, their men have literally been snatched off the street by Russia to be sent to the front in Ukraine, which is being called a meat grinder. But what problem could those people possibly have with Ukraine? There are no issues that they could have! But the whole war is based on lies. Yet the poor from the villages, and from the east, and Siberia are Putin's cannon fodder!
While there are many healthy, young, trendy men with lots of money walking around Moscow and St Petersburg who could certainly fight, there seem to be more than twice as many per capita being taken from the villages, the eastern areas, and Siberia! The unfairness is hitting me so hard in my heart!
Putin doesn't want the oligarchs to lose their sons and get angry at him, or he will be in big trouble! And he doesn't want the city dwellers in those 2 cities to see how many are dying, because the "Special Operation" was only supposed to last 3 days! If they start to feel in danger of being sent to die, they might start protesting. Maybe even lose their fear of the police.
It's been a year and a half now, and Moscow is so clearly losing! Putin is in great danger and the more Moscovites feel like the war is lost, which it is, the greater his danger becomes. When they figure out that he has totally wrecked Russia forever, he will be deposed or killed. I say it's better that he killed, and the sooner that happens the better!
Russia seems to be on the brink of a civil war, and of breaking up completely. If it doesn't let the colonized areas go on their own, they will just take their freedom. If Russia tries to fight that, Europe will force Moscow to let them go, and even to help them. Because it's very clear that Moscow's armed forces are a joke! The most unbelievably pathetic army in existence!
Russia has to be broken up and all it's nuclear bombs destroyed, to prevent it from ever stealing land again, and to stop it from any more genocides! So I am certain that you will get your wish. And I hope that comes very VERY soon. All of the best to you, your family, and all of your people. 😁 ✌🏼
@@cattymajiv Russia will prevail, as it allways did
@@cattymajivтвоя голова забита лживой пропагандой сша. Впрочем, ничго удивительно. Канада это колония США. Жаль, что ты до сих пор веришь придуманный для твоего народа истории и лживой пропаганде.
Loved this video. First heard the term "Rus" on the Vikings series. This video tied it all together nicely.
Great work as always!
Well put together :)
Excellent presentation!
This was a great episode!!!
Very good presentation. Pleasant to listen to it and full of historical knowledge. Thanks.
Thank you for this video ! During the Mongol rule, the Russians lived in the grasslands and wooded regions, while the Mongols themselves lived hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away in the steppes to the south of present-day Volgograd, in Tartary, which would later become part of Tatarstan and also the region corresponding to Kazakhstan, but not within Russian territory. The capital of the Golden Horde, Sarai or Sarai Batu, founded in 1240, was located in the present-day Astrakhan Oblast.The Mongols did not live among the Russians but rather kept to themselves and lived at a considerable distance. When the Mongols came to Russian territory, it was usually the Khan and his court for tribute purposes, or there were tax collectors. There was little intermingling, except perhaps in Tartary. Captured slaves were taken either to Sarai (capital of the Golden Horde in the Pontic steppe region) or to Kazan (current capital of the Republic of Tatarstan) and these slaves were dissolved into the Tatar population. The majority of present-day Tatars have a European appearance, often with light hair and light eyes. Furthermore, Russia played a crucial role in saving the rest of Europe from the Mongols, especially the victory of the Russian principality troops under the command of Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy in the Battle of Kulikovo on September 8, 1380.
Just as the French have Charles Martel, Russia has Dmitry I.Many testimonies support this, including that of Archdeacon Paul of Aleppo, who visited Russia and specifically Muscovy between 1654 and 1656. He left detailed descriptions of Russia, noting that in every man's house, there were ten children or more with white hair on their heads, and for their great fairness, they were called old men. He also mentioned that the women in the land of the Muscovites were beautiful in appearance, and their children resembled those of the Franks but with rosier complexions.
Mongols ran over Russia without any problem. Nevsky the prince of Novgorod was smart enough to go to Horde and start paying tribute. Nobody even in Europe could resist Mongols at the time. Western Europe was probably just too far away. they even left Russia be as long as it payed tribute. why would they go farther. and at the time of Donskoy Horde started to decline because of economic reasons and internal struggles amongst nobility. by the way, battle at Kulikovo pole was part of internal politics of Golden Horde. another interesting fact is that they didn't found anything at all at Kulikovo field. no armor, no rusty sword, nothing.
@@Qvadratus. "nobody EVEN in Europe" LMAO what a sore angloid
@@TheBinaryHappiness I didn't even think about anything like that. there is just a misconception that advancement of Mongols was stopped by defeat. it didn't happened.
you said that the Tatars are lighter, and you mean the Kazan Tatars. Keep in mind that after the collapse of the Horde, the khanates fought among themselves; It is known about the rivalry between the Kazan and Siberian khanates. As for Siberia, the Tatars there are dark-haired and more Asian. I have Tatar friends, and they say that a Tatar today can be anyone - the most diverse nation. You may also notice that Siberian Russians themselves look different from Western Russians. They have a darker red hair color, a rougher appearance, thicker hair, and sometimes you can notice characteristic Asian eyes; they even often call themselves Siberians when they see their differences.
Also, Russians and anyone else should not worry about skin color, as light skin and hair is a mutation due to a lack of melanin. And since this is a mutation, it means the late gene is more stable and will dominate, and will prevail approximately 70 to 30.
Russians often have low level Turkic admixture. All the Finno-Ugric populations in Russia received Turkic DNA as well, as evident by the fact that Finns and the Saamis don't (this means Uralic originally weren't related to Turkic). Turkic DNA is identical to Mongol and Tatar DNA.
Thanks for all your research and good presentation of rather complex issue! You can easily tell that you certainly have done your research, and taken part of several different sources from different cultures - very well and balanced.
It is a particularly impressive accomplishment, considering you managed to cram all this info in into such a (relatively) short video. (To me at least).
Keep up the good work - and cheers from Sweden.
Stop the colonization of siberia and Urals NOW
This video is totally wrong, it is compilation of russian "alternative" history.
First of all, Rus - it is a union of tribes around Kyiv. Geographically it is north of Ukraine, very small territory. It is proved by antient writtings.
After mongol invasion, there was a period of Kingdom Rus (around 100 years) to the west from Kyiv. Moscovia was part of Golden Horde.
After Golden Horde collapse, Moscovia become independent and started war with Novgorod, independent "state" of that time.
@@avishnevsky7394 you’re delusional and brainwashed
@@avishnevsky7394 Woodpecker! Russia begins with Ladoga. Then Novgorod and only then Kiev. Which the Russians took from the Khazars. By the way, your coat of arms is a Khazar tamga. Fabulous idiot...
@@avishnevsky7394 Ukraine was just smaI region of Russia, founded by Russians. That is just the reaIity
Fantastic and accurate job!
Fantastic work❤
Absolutely loved this doco. All the way from Australia. Much respect to mother Russia.
Спасибо!
Very interesting, helpful, etc. Thank you.
I agree with the other positive comments. 👍❣️🌍
Part of ibn Fatlan’s account of the Rus funeral was to show the difference between Islam’s cemetery burial vs cremation. The Rus were proud of their ritual because the King had his God deliver him to heaven on the wind quickly, versus Caliph’s who rotted in the ground and are brought to heaven in pieces/slowly according to the pagan beliefs at the time.
У нас до сих пор много курганов с пяти этажные дома захоронения войнов так же есть и небольшие с кувшиноми и прахом и оружием сабли разогревали и сгинали в рулет типо чтоб либо заберали с собой либо чтоб личная часть мужщины.
Это здесь кубань кавказ да и вплоть до каспия астрахани но это могли быть и скифы и сарматы которые размешались с нами Геродот описует их в четвертой книге мельпомена. По находкам также светло волосые и судя по качеству изделий оседлые как предки
I'm Asian appreciated much how you delivered historical origins on your YOU TUBE CHANNEL...good narrator...and well presented....compared to those vloggers who are more showing of their faces while talking that we cannot fully understand the story of what they're featuring into...that makes me bored and search for more informative just like yours...GOD BLESS
In Russia do not like the story of the subjugation of the Slavs by the Normans in the 9th century, because the Germans still say that the Swedes gave the wild Russians statehood. I also studied history at Moscow University and I can say that the Swedes did not found the state of the Eastern Slavs (because they themselves were the same barbarians as the Eastern Slavs). But they gave a princely dynasty from which their heirs appeared - Russian princes. The Normans themselves assimilated with the Slavs by the 10th century, because they were similar in appearance and professed paganism. Therefore the grandson of Rurik - Svyatoslav (the son of Norman Igor and a resident of Pskov - Olga) already had a Slavic name meaning "holy glory" and considered himself a Slav, not a Varangian. His heirs are Vladimir (in Slavic - owning the world), Yaropolk (bold) or Boris, Gleb, and so on. they also considered themselves Slavs. Although they were descendants of Norman Rurik. The real state of the Russians arose with the adoption of Christianity in 988. It is well shown in the film that Prince Vladimir chose the faith - Christianity, ordered the idol of Perun to be knocked to the ground and beaten with whips, thrown into the Dnieper River. For which he received the title of Saint from the Orthodox and was popularly called "The sun is clear". Although Vladimir (the son of Svyatoslav from a simple maid, named Malusha, (translated as "younger")) himself, who had previously ruled in Novgorod, seized power in Kiev, thanks to the military assistance of Swedish relatives. But to create a new state, Vladimir invited not relatives from Sweden (they became his boyars - military generals), but the Byzantines. Because the Greeks represented civilization at that time. And it was the Greeks who gave the Eastern Slavs the Cyrillic alphabet (based on the Greek alphabet), taught the Slavs the Orthodox faith, as well as the basics of architecture, culture and painting.
Все частично так. Но абсолютно неисторично . Русь и Россия - абсолютно разные государства. Из Руси вышло три народа в последствии. И только один из них (московиты) решили снова себя назвать русскими. Чтобы претендовать на захват остальных земель двух других народов.
Могу сказать так.
Бабушка рюрика была славянкой из княжеского рода. В семях было много детей, и дочерей также выдавали замуж. По времю и обстоятельствам возможно не осталось наследников. Или он подходил на место князя по праву Вече тоесть собрание слова и решение каждого из народа на управление. В том числе и по роду.
Второе буквица возможно имела более сильный смысл как 3д язык таблица 7×7 которая до сих пор нам о многом может сказать.
Например верхняя строка горизонталь - аз бога ведает глаголя добро что есть жизнь.
Вертикаль - аз живет как слово цельное и утвердилось повсеместно.
Диоганаль - аз весма мудр устои творя родовые во времени.
Есть еще цифры о которых писал пушкин три девятое царство три десятое государство. И оно имеет тоже очень большой смысл.
Уневерситет не достаточно собрал мазайку чтобы чтото сказать.
Потом мы приняли христианство православие первую церковь от Иисуса Христа. Византия греция на територии современной турции приняла первой христианств и большинство писаний или писем были написанны на греческом и мы приняли нашу православную веру.
@@KrokoDildosбыли они евреями и навязали славянам христианство огнём и мечом. Все эти Ольги и Рюрики потомки верхушки хазар. А варяги русы ( шведы) им служили и грабили для них окружающие народы, словян брали в полон и продавали на невольничьих рынках. Ну посмотрите на Грозного ну какой он балт или скандинав? Смешно
Except the whole idiotic nonsense about "normans" is a baseless fairytale that was invented in the 18th century by an unqualified nobody and was immediately opposed by all real historians of the time (M. Lomonosov, V. Tatishev.) There were never any Scandinavians in medieval Russia. This indisputable fact is clearly demonstrated by a complete absence of any Scandinavian loanwords, customs, cultural influences, etc. Rurik and Varangians were all 100% Slavonic people themselves.
в ПВЛ однозначно написано, что варяги-русь не были шведами или норманами
I listened to this while driving and it was highly engaging, colourful and entertaining. Might try to watch it on TV with grandad here in Ireland, we both love maps and cool stories ❤
excellent history, you do most fantastic jobs sir...
Absolutely well researched and presented.
I have just found this video! Thank you so much for creating this. We know so little about Russian history! Where did you find the beautiful artwork?
bare in mind some of this artwork is wrong.
There are so many pictures from 12 and 13 century in Rus. Most of them were drawing by monks. And many of them are from letopis. Wich means an old texts
Wrote a very long comment praising you with specific compliments, but it got weird and long so I'll just keep it at I am a very big fan of your style and your content 😊
Very informative…. Educational … appreciated 👍🏼
Fantastic video - a wonderfully complex and nuanced history 👍
6:30 to be fair he was describing a warband in the middle of travelling, not the Rus in their homeland, similar how backpacking tourists have a stereotype of bad hygiene during travel, imagine this was even worse with traveling before modern times
Could be, but their practices seem markedly Norse.
Yep
@@FortressofLugh why didn’t the main allies of the Britons, the Khazars (the so-called Russians), leave the old name when they founded their state, the super aggressive USSR in 1922? or at least they could call their first state russia or rus
@Imaginary Unicorn they met them half way to Volga Bulgaria, they were like 1000km away from the nearest Rus city...
@Imaginary Unicorn re read it again then, and realize that the location he met them in has nothing to do with Rus land, it was beneath the lower end of the Volga, very deep in Turkic-Khazar territory. The settlement-camp was not theirs
Excellent, excellent video.
I absolutely love this documentary. Subscribed
Their rather interesting pagan groups are worth observing for anyone interested in Celtic or Germanic pantheism. There’s much that could be learned from the Russian pagan.
Slavic Paganism does seem more developed (in terms of real-world contemporary folk-groups) than Heathendom. I suppose their society's just less pozzed.
@@rythnuhh It means infested by leftism and political correctness
@@rythnuhh in lockstep with the Marxist-Leftist new world order
Actually, I think it is more successful specifically because eastern Europe was under Communist rule for several decades, which destroyed much of the existing culture and dominance of Christianity, allowing for paganism to succeed much better.
@@rythnuhh …. You’re boringly obvious
Excellent content and I really like your intro.
I found this today June 9th 2023...Really fascinating. Going on the history i can better understand what is taking place now in that region..Many thanks for teaching me something i did not know before. Cheers from Australia.
Australian watching here too 7.2023, much understanding for Russia today as well.
Bear in mind it is just a rough estimation on the subject of the history of Russia, there's alot of speculative things and some things he gets wrong too. But is a good starting point for understanding the Russian history, just don't take everything at face value, as Russian history is extremely complicated...
I'm Australian too!
Killer presentation. Grazie pi lu video, Salutamu!
I was surprised you ve mentioned the fact that we czechs call german německo and it really has a meaning of mute people. Interesting fact.
the german are kinda mute even if they speak cuz they talk like stone xD
@@wewenang5167 Because the Germans do not understand the Slavs, and the Slavs understand each other, and therefore they call themselves Slavs (Slovyane- Slovo- (Word) - who know the words), and all foreigners are dumb (Niemec), because they do not know the words.
@@wewenang5167 Grow up.
See that's odd because Bavaria is close to Czech lands. So you think There would of been some interaction like trade. My last name Secrest is bavarian but we have slav blood also. According to my grandmother.
@@paulsecrest9427 almost all German words in the Czech language come from Bavarian dialects (from Bavaria and Austria), especially in craftsmanship. This means the Czechs and their Southern neighbours did talk a lot, also most Austrians and Bavarians have some Czech blood in them. The first railroad (still pulled by horses, not steam engines) in Austria went from Linz to Budweis/České Budějovice, not to Vienna.
A very good documentary….and very good graphics.
We russians call our country Rossiya with the stress on I: Ross-ii-ya. The word Russia sounds foreign to us.
Because we use the word of Greek origin 'Ρωσία' that sounds like 'Rosiya'. But our word for russian nation is 'russkiye' from Rus
I remember getting "corrected" in school by my teacher when I was a kid for saying it the way you stated, I didn't understand why in my English that ss would make a sh sound
Very interesting vid. Subscribed.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you! I've always been curious about Russian history and its origins.
its origin is Tartaria
@@evgeniam685заткнись.
@@evgeniam685No. Hiperborea
@@interpretolog No. Scythia
you got attacked by ukrainian comments lmao
very informative and interesting
Very good, accurate, and simple (for such a complex history) narrative that summarizes hundreds of years in a half an hour history lesson. Thank you!
This video is totally wrong, it is compilation of russian "alternative" history.
@@avishnevsky7394 Oh Gosh.. We have ukro here. With their "version" of history, where Buddha originated in Sumni region (Ukraine)... And they want us to beIieve their story and just take them seriousIy
@@zvonkobogdan9634
Enjoy your eternity 🔥 in h311 nazi
This is false history, it is Kremlin propaganda
Great vlog. The border between The kingdom of Norway and Novgorod was singned on the 2nd of 1326 and has been upheld since then. In the same area in Norway it has the name The «Varanger peninsula» The Russians liberated the same place in oct. 1944, and withdrew in early may of 1945. The Danish island of Borholm was not handed back to the danes until 1948!
Novgorod had no relation to Moscow Duchy, they’ve conquered Novgorod republic in 16 century and killed everybody. Same as there are almost no any Swedish people around S-Petersburg after they’ve grab that land from Sweden.
Also ussr was not just russia.
@@signorasforza354 It was a lot of places. I was told by my grandparents we are Germanic last name on moms side Endres in germany were there from. But the name goes back to Sweden and was Anders. Then on my dads side its Secrest which was common in Bavaria. Which borders Czech lands. So many germanic people have slavic blood to but don't even kno it. And middle eastern peoples. So the kingdoms were huge back in the days.
Excellent comments here - thanks for the info!!
Politically only Russia is soviet heir
Amazing documentary 👏
Amazing video!
Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge of Russia.
Great content, and the images .. loved the art work.
good video containing all the major facts
Pre-Soviet Russian history is so fascinating.
Pre-Soviet Russia is 1000 years. Soviet period was just a small part of Russian history.
@@user-gm7lc8lt1h Sure, Mykola, whatever you say
@@user-gm7lc8lt1hkievan rus is just a period, not the state..nothing in common with nowadays ukraine
This knowledge is well know in Russia and neighbors in area but many of us have not I enjoy learning and about history this video interesting ✨
Serbian here, so true about Slava, Slovo, nem (Nemci). Good video.
Thanks I learned so much.
Great video
There are also runs in Haigia Sophia in Istanbul that says "Halfdan was here."
I wonder how many different Vikings were named Halfdan
I don't know.
Always half dan never full dan.
@@DavidValdezBigWaveDave It could be interpreted as "half done" or halvdan as we say in swedish, so perhaps a nickname of someone not considered quite "full" in either body or mind. Like they might have some handicap or be a little bit crazy.
It could also be interpreted as a nickname for someone who was notoriously bad at finishing what they started and therefor left things half done. But I don't think the expression "halvdan" dates back that far so it's unlikely.
Another more likely meaning could be that they where half danish, perhaps known in the group as the half-dane and taking it as their name.
Or it could just be an old name I've never come across beforexD
@@joilisch Or Halfdane.
The bathing habits at ~ 10:00 is interesting because growing up in Czechia we’d bathe in the bathtub more often than shower.
Excellently done, I subbed
Are you familiar with uhlan warriors?
Awesome. Thank you.
Swedish did not enslave Slavonic people!!! The Baltic ones mainly. Finno-Ugric people lived on a large territory of modern Russia, but not the Swedish! They used the trading varrangian- Greek route for trading, that's correct.
Thank you for the historical video about my country. Friendly greetings from Russia, Moscow.
Really enjoy your history telling style you used on this video
This is indeed a well considered retelling of Rus history, which is supported by available historical evidence. Perhaps in later series, you can delve into the history of Russian relations with the Khazars, Turks and the Crimean khanate...
there are definitely more connections between Russians and Norse people (not just Swedes ) if you look at Russian wood carvings on houses up until modern times they definitely look similar to Scandinavian and The Rurikids (descendants of Rurik) ruled all the Russian states until the Romanov
The Romanovs are also relatives of Rurik 😊
Слышал что бадушка рюрика была дочь славянского князя и ееотдали замуж за тоже благородного скандинавского князя из семьи как дочь и рюрик как из рода приехал обратно править по собранию что называлось Вече типо голосования что должно быть единословно. Желанию собрания от молодого до старого.
И еще слышал что у славян нас небыло среднего возраста словесно был либо молодой либо старый среднего небыло интересная особенность взвешивания энергии сил )