Russia

Russia is complicated. They're was a Russian empire or even a kingdom the Kievan Rus. Kievan Rus was a powerful city state. Most people believe the settlers of the Kiev were Slavic people who migrated around the Black Sea but they're is an older theory that the settlers of Kiev were actually like Vikings. Trade was hugely important to the Kiev's. The Rus traded raw materials like fur, wax and also slaves. they relied on agriculture. The Kievan Rus were replaced by the Mongols. The Kiev's hated the Mongols. During the prehistoric eras the vast steppes of Southern Russia were home to tribes of nomadic pastoralists. In classical antiquity the Pontic Steppe was known as Scythia. Remnants of these long-gone steppe civilizations were discovered in the course of the 20th century in such places as Ipatovo, Sintashta, Arkaim,and Pazyryk. In the latter part of the 8th century BC, Greek merchants brought classical civilization to the trade emporiums in Tanais and Phanagoria. The Kiev's relied on agriculture. The ruler of Kiev was called the "Grand Prince". The Grand Prince became a model for future Russian kings. The early Grand Prince made a fateful decision that they all became Byzantine Christians. Ivan The Great created the first centralized Russian state. By doing that he probably deserves the title "The Great". Ivan The Fourth was better known as Ivan the Terrible. According to some sources, Ivan's spiritual adviser, the priest Sylvester, was also an influential member of the chosen council. Ivan enjoyed torturing animals when he was a kid. Evil, Evil person. In classical antiquity, the Pontic Steppe was known as Scythia. The ancestors of the Russians were the Slavic tribes, whose original home is thought by some scholars to have been the wooded areas of the Pripet Marshes. The Mongols were defeated by people from Moscow. Russian sounds more Slavic than Swedish. The Mongols did what Hitler and Napoleons couldn't do the Mongols Successfully conquered Russia. You can rule Russia like a boss even if your blind. The Russian Revolution in 1917 was triggered by a combination of economic breakdown, war weariness, and discontent with the autocratic system of government, and it first brought a coalition of liberals and moderate socialists to power, but their failed policies led to seizure of power by the Communist Bolsheviks on 25 October. Between 1922 and 1991, the history of Russia is essentially the history of the Soviet Union, effectively an ideologically based state which was roughly conterminous with the Russian Empire before the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Vladimir Putin knows karate, Judo, Tranquilizes tigers and flies jets. In the 15th century, the grand princes of Moscow went on gathering Russian lands to increase the population and wealth under their rule. The most successful practitioner of this process was Ivan III. Peasants fell into tax debt. The Mongols chose the the grand-princes. Russia wasn't Byzantine, European not really Mongol too. The Mongols rarely attack Moscow. Ivan was the son of Vasili III and his second wife, Elena Glinskaya. When Ivan was three years old, his father died from a boil and inflammation on his leg which developed into blood poisoning. Ivan was proclaimed the Grand Prince of Moscow at his father's request. At first, his mother Elena Glinskaya acted as regent, but she died of what many believe to be assassination by poison when Ivan was only eight years old. According to his own letters, Ivan, along with his younger brother Yuri, often felt neglected and offended by the mighty boyars from the Shuisky and Belsky families. Even today Russia shares many continuities of political culture and social structure with its tsarist and Soviet past. The various East Slavic principalities were united within the Russian Empire in the 18th century. The modern East Slavic states of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia all derive their identity from the early medieval state. Defeating the Mongols made Moscow look like the hero of Russia. The Russians saw the Mongols as Grizzlor. In the 11th and 12th centuries, constant incursions by nomadic Turkic tribes, such as the Kipchaks and the Pechenegs, caused a massive migration of Slavic populations to the safer, heavily forested regions of the north, particularly to the area known as Zalesye. The history of the Russian Federation officially starts in January 1992. Kievan Rus was a medieval polity in Europe, from the late 9th to the mid 13th century, when it disintegrated under the pressure of the Mongol invasion of 1237–1240. Vladimir rose to power in Kiev after the death of his father Sviatoslav I in 972.