How do I into /russian history/?

>free peasants
State-owned peasants.

They became state-owned after Peter the Great's "agrarian resolutions".He traded basically traded his people's prosperity for a navy.

>take a bunch of vikings
>mix them native slavs of the area
>make them convert to orthodox christianity
>let them get raped several times by the mongols
then apply this and you have russian history in a nutshell

Also, forger everything about strategy and technological superiority just throw masses of soldiers at it until your enemy can't take it anymore

Last but not least January and February are your best generals, forget about faggots like Suborov and the like

50 threads later and this vikingaboo is STILL buttfurious.

Peter the "Great" sounds like a fucking dick

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I am amazed this isn't the Vatnik edit.

There's a vatnik edit?

He really wasn't that great all things considered.

>Russia is backwards
>Need monies for modernization
>Tax the shit out of literally everything and everyone
>Smelt church bells because bronze is needed for cannons, among other things
>Seize the city of Azov because sea access in a fucking puddle of water
>Build a fortress at a strategic position
>Said position is in the swamp in the middle of nowhere
>Decide to move a capital there
>In typical Russian tradition force people to live there too
>Force Russians to adopt Western looks
>Create an army
>Piss off his greatest Ukrainian ally in the meantime
>Get cucked by Turks
>Give Azov back
>Defeat Swedes at Poltava
>Fuck around in Europe for ten years for literally zero purpose
>Finally defeat Swedes
>Peace treaty was so great Russia paid Sweden loads of reparations in exchange for territories
>Establish a true absolute monarchy
>Finish installing serfdom

Most of Peter's modernization policies were purely superficial too, but that's Russia so that was to be expected.

Glad no one posted this yet:
youtube.com/watch?v=TU1N8KTxIJU

Their videos are posted far apart and obviously take a lot of effort so part 2 may be awhile, but the wait will be well worth it.

>Battle of the Ice meme
>No mention of Andrei Bogolyubsky and the role of Vladimir-Suzdal Principality in Russian ethnogenesis

7/10 it's an ok introduction.

> Russian kholops were slaves to Germans in RE
> Russian kholops were slaves to Commies in SU
> Russian kholops are slaves to Pitun nowaday

I hate the Battle of the Ice meme too but he only talked about it for less than 10 seconds.

Start with the hyperboreans.

Then everything changed when the Finnish nation attacked.

WE WUZ MAMMOTHS N SHIET

God, that artist's pictures are so ridiculous it's amazing.

I've never seen so much historical illiteracy in a single post.

Are you American by any chance?

He wasn't a very good man,but he was a very effective ruler.He sacrificed his people's prosperity just so he could transform Russia into a truly competent Empire.

They weren't even remotely superficial,just downright cruel,which shouldn't be surprising considering that he was known for beating his son like a dog whenever he left the need to teach him a lesson in how to be a man.

Gives a bad name to the rest of us! You had better not be from the US- or at least from the north

That was the fate of serfs in every other Imperial and Monarchistic society,so what's the point of that statement?

Peter ruined Russian economy for 150 years. Thanks to him there were not economically free people for development of capitalism in Russia.

This. Also they provide a base for those who have no basic knowledge.