History of Russia - Rurik to Revolution

"But then Russia fought back" feels like it could be the national slogan.

Sorry for my English. I am from Russia, Siberia, I live near Lake Baikal. I like to watch videos about foreigners in Russia, their opinions, stories, reactions, and so on. We very often hear that the West and America do not like history, but more and more often I began to come across such foreign channels where they show and tell our story. And there are a lot of views on such channels and what else pleases, reading the comments, it is clear that you are very interested in it. Thank you to all of you, the authors of the channel, the authors of the comments, to all those who just watched these and other videos about Russia... It's a scary time right now, and I'm really pleased to know that so many people in the world want to know history.

I am a Chinese college student, and I really love history, especially Russian history. I'm delighted that the blogger shared this historical content with us. I enjoyed watching it very much. Keep up the good work, and I will continue to support the blogger!

Imagine if you filmed a series in 8 seasons of 15 episodes of Russian history in the style of Game of Thrones, with all the battles, poisoning of the kings, all these pre-court underhanded games, intrigues, secrets

Russian history is simply hardcore survival at all costs.

Russian history, it's can be hectic, chaotic, bloody and traumatic, but no one can say that it was ever boring.

19:10 I’m Russian and Volga Germans are still present in Russia! 200K as of now. At my workplace I know a lot of people with German last names.

I can’t believe this was done 7+ years ago!! The quality and detail even back then is still 10/10. I’m Surprised I missed this- going to go back through all these older videos for such gems.

Battle of the Ice is probably one of the coolest names given to a medeval battle in my opinion

His voice is so epic, dramatic and catastrophic, graceful and great - just like Russian history!

Russian history is truly fascinating. I never get bored learning about it.

Being an Indian Historian I have never been thought that then British India was in Cold War with Russia, its feels so good to watch history from every country's Perspective.. it opens up more dimensions for analysis

Game of Thrones is a joke compared to this

I think stylistically this is one of the best documentaries about any country, people, or civilization.

"Kievan Rus'" - combination of words, invented in 19th century. It indicates a time period, when Kiev was a main city on Rus's lands. There were other Ruses, named after main city of time period. It was ended as russian tsardom.

Absolutely no one: Putin in his interview:

My professor in political science stood infront of the whole class and said that if we choose his course because we wanted to know more about politics then we were better of quitting the course. He said "if you want to know about politics you shouldn't study political science, you should be studying history"

When he said Poland and Russia signed the Pact of Eternal Peace I almost spit my coffee out

I think im ready to pass Mr. Vlad’s history test now!

Also interesting to realize how many countries actually got independent through Russia's expansionism. Starting with Greece, over Bulgaria, Romania etc.