Thing is, conquest is one thing, keeping stuff another. And to rule - that is where it gets hard. Sure, you occasionally pay tribute to the distant king IF his tax collectors make it alive. But he is very far and you are very powerful _ right here_ Imagine marching into a forest and declaring it yours. Your city is far away so to get recourses, you need to either travel, wait for merchants or establish your own city - which leads right back to the problem of distant rulers. To say that these lands were actually conquered when compared to actually settled land that out up actual resistance is does the word _to conquer_ as in forcefully take over a disservice. Even though nominally, these regions eventually became part of the same empire and later country, you can bet that, as in many other parts of the world, the idea of them being actually "conquered" must have sound quite amusing to many of the locals.
If you believe youtube videos... In fact Russian colonization of Siberia and Central Asia cost millions of lives of indigenous peoples and nations throughout centuries. (btw Russia's origins are not in Kyivan Rus. Kyivan Rus and the Vikings are the origins of Ukraine. Russia started to form after the Mongols and the Golden Horde swept across Eastern Europe in 14th century, that's where Russian idea of ruthless, merciless ruling comes from)
@@Felix-kp7wr The history of Russian colonialism and genocide of indigenous peoples isn't a story of kings, knights and princesses... (btw Russia never had a king in its history)
The Russians firing at the horde troops with cannons and muskets must have been like how Hannibal's elephants terrorized the Romans in the Second Punic War.
By the time they fought against Hannibal the Romans were already familiar with elephants , think a more apt comparison would be when they fight encountered them like 50 years before Hannibal when they fought against Pyrrhus of Epirus or the use of horses in the Conquest of Mexico and others parts of the continent by the Spanish conquerors.
@@g.sergiusfidenas6650 I am failing to understand the relevance of either comment? The Mongols were the first to use caboons in warfare. The Golden Horde certainly had cannons.
Yeah. I know that Russia expanded eastward and conquered MASSIVE amounts of land, but this is the first in-depth description of it I've seen. I want more.
Something you forgot to mention or maybe you didnt know was, that Yermak main source of motivation to conquer Siberia was revenge. He seeks revenge as one of the Khans stole his future bride and he didnt stop till he got here back.
Hell yes! I have always wondered how the Russians started out from Europe to somehow controlling the vast territory of Siberia! I knew there was the Mongols but after they fell apart who controlled all that wasteland? Russians expansion eastward was due to the demand of furs, would have never thought!
Russia had no sources of silver before the annexation of the Urals, but even after that, specialists from Europe were needed to develop the deposits. So the main source of money was furs and also well sold hemp, timber, flax, honey and wax.
After the fall of Golden Horde, many Turkic military elites stated serving Moscow. Half of Russian nobilities are of Turkic origin. Ermak is a turkic name Yermek. He also had Turkic roots.
Informative, good to find out how Siberia was conquered. I always found Ivan IV "the Terrible" to be a interesting man, he had his own inquisition apparently and he even put the city of Novgorod to the sword! Keep up the good work!!
The centralisation of power was very important for Russia, we could not afford what we had in England where the lords had great weight in politics, because from the south we were attacked by nomads and ravaged the land.We had to gather all possible forces to fight against the steppe. The name in English slaves from the word Slavs. The Crimean Khanate sold an awful lot of slaves to the Islamic world; the word "katorga" even survives in Russian and means the worst kind of slave labour. In Turkey the main ship was the galleys called katorga. And also in Venice there is a Slavic naberezhnaya, where it seems the Christian brothers also did some slave labour, business is business.
Russia's wars in the west are poorly covered in the video. Ivan the Terrible, when he conquered Kazan and Astrakhan, went west against Livonia, and when he defeated it. All the surrounding countries realised that a great power was emerging in the region and the Russians had to be appeased. Lithuania and Poland united into a single country and went on a campaign against Russia, and Sweden joined them. They even reached Moscow and burned it down.
It was a question of deciding who would be in charge in Eastern Europe. Russian tactics with a very centralised government won out, but with neighbouring Poland, fragmentation led to a collapse, and even Poland ceased to exist as a country for a time. That's because the Poles had to settle the major issues of the country in debates, for example the choice of the king could take years, all because if one member of the council didn't like something he could veto it, and the law couldn't be passed without the consent of all. They were also fond of declaring war on each other within the country. Some prince would get upset with another for a trifle or just because he was bored, and start a massacre on the lands of the enemy. So we can conclude that Poland is a war-fighting nation. But the Poles, after uniting with Livonia, got the Russian lands and even the ancient capital of Russia, Kiev.
@Cetacea Ivan the Terrible created a Russian infantry of Streltsov, unlike in western Europe, where at the time the backbone of the infantry was pikiners covered by arquebusiers. The main task of Streltsy units was a gunfight, and their cover from the enemy's cavalry was provided by slingshots and gudgeon. The Russian army was simply specialised to fight the Tatars, who were poorly defended and armed with bows. And so was one of the most powerful artillery arsenal, on a par with the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. This is despite the fact that as I said before the conquest of the Urals, Russia had no iron, copper and tin, so everything had to be bought from Sweden and the Holy Roman Empire. And also one of the best defence systems against nomads, fortified by the frontier together with a lot of fortresses. All this was not possible without centralization, because for example Spain had the Americas they exported silver to pay for tertians and all sorts of mercenaries from Germany, Flanders, Italy and the Balkans. Russia did not have such an abundance of money, so the scarce funds had to be distributed very precisely and efficiently. During the time of Ivan the Terrible, Russia fought two devastating wars in the west with Livonia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. And in the south with the Tatars, who reached Moscow and burned it down, and only at the cost of huge efforts in the next year when the Tatars again went on a campaign against the Russians, the Russian army defeated 30-35 thousand Tatars at the village of Molodi. Yet there were bloody battles in the west as well. This would later badly affect Russia's military capacity for many years, because entire families of the nobility perished in these battles, and there was no substitute for them. But Ivan the Terrible's tax collection and army system made russia the strongest country in eastern europe.
Hopefully, these shorter videos will link together to create longer stories. Then, maybe after an entire series, he can make an additional video putting all of them together into a longer video for those who just found it and want a full-length feature. (As it is with me, I only have bits of time on any given day, so this style works for me, but I also understand your point, so maybe we can have the best of both worlds.)
@@Rationalific They will, probably a 4 part series. I just like long videos with lots of detail. I now it's a lot of work, it's a lot to ask. Great stuff tho
For searching a Gold, i find a Diamond. This channel is so underated and i see so much potential in it. Bro Just keep posting this type of content and if god wills it i know your channel will boom someday.
Russia became an Empire only during Peter the Great s rule. You've didn't mentioned that during the siege of Kazan, tatar leader Yedyger Mohhamed's forces were with Ivan's and against usurper Kul-Sharif. Yedyger became the Tzar of Russia after Ivan and before the Romanovs. Stroganov's and Yermak's expeditions are two centuries apart!
It must be said that in short frame you have offered to many people a good understanding on this important period of the regions history and it's effects on a larger scale and modern history.
Fascinating. I never knew any of this. (BTW, the quiet parts of the narrative is barely audible compared to the rest. Makes it difficult to understand. )
Russians should’ve went all out with their eastward expansion, they were at peace with Poles after-all, they could’ve used a huge portion of their army, they were unrestricted in their conquest, they could’ve fought for better warmwater ports with Chinese!
5:57/9:56 So the STROGANOVS became famous for their PIECE DE RESISTANCE "BEEF STROGANOV!", as a Metaphor for ? when RANDY STEIGER suddenly spoke it out at the dinner table.
I don't understand how only a few hundred men armed with muskets could beat armies of stepp nomads that have always been the conquerors of even the strongest empires, muskets are heavy are take a very long time to reload, they are only an advantage when used in large formations and against non hight-quality armors. Outside of that it is simply better to uses bows and arrows
Not necessarily. There’s a few more advantages early firearms had over archery. For one using a bow takes a lot of strength to use. It will wear you down over the course of a battle, and can affect your accuracy. Bows also takes years to master, while firearms only took a couple weeks at most.
I don't have a problem with speakers with a foreign accent, indeed I have a foreign accent myself. BUT I find it unbereable when the accents gets in the way of understanding. In this video the problem is compounded by the very low quality of the audio, so that high frequency sounds, like shhhh, fffff, jjjj, when they are associated with darker vowels (O U ) make words simply incomprehensible. And it gets worse: proper nouns, names of places and people, which are completely unpredictable, become totally fuzzy and impossible to decipher. The narration is sheer torture. Too bad because the content is well done.
Sorry to disappoint but Streltsy were not armed with Bardiches at first. Also, Ivan Grozny had Tatar blood and actually some measure of claim over those lands. Anyway, fun video.
Now I understand why the Russians are such aggressors from the beginning of time until today! You can see it in their current leader, the bloody Mr P! All he can think of is war and conquer back lost territories! I am excited to go watch Part 2 now! Thanks!
@@RemoveChink The eradication of the local population during the conquest of Siberia and the Far East was not purposeful, had economic reasons (collecting yasak for the fur trade) and was often justified by the protection of local tribes subject to Russia. The tribes subordinate to Russia helped to fight against the more rebellious: the Khanty against the Mansi, the Yukaghirs against the Koryaks. Some peoples (Shors, Teleuts, Khakases, Baraba Tatars) paid both the Russians and the Dzungars at the same time. The Cossacks used both diplomatic methods and hostage-taking and terror. In addition, the Russians treated the local tribes much better than their own people.
So strange that the greatest land conquests have been made by an handful of desperadoes and not by huge armies.
same story with spanish colonisation of america
Thing is, conquest is one thing, keeping stuff another. And to rule - that is where it gets hard.
Sure, you occasionally pay tribute to the distant king IF his tax collectors make it alive. But he is very far and you are very powerful _ right here_
Imagine marching into a forest and declaring it yours. Your city is far away so to get recourses, you need to either travel, wait for merchants or establish your own city - which leads right back to the problem of distant rulers.
To say that these lands were actually conquered when compared to actually settled land that out up actual resistance is does the word _to conquer_ as in forcefully take over a disservice.
Even though nominally, these regions eventually became part of the same empire and later country, you can bet that, as in many other parts of the world, the idea of them being actually "conquered" must have sound quite amusing to many of the locals.
If you believe youtube videos... In fact Russian colonization of Siberia and Central Asia cost millions of lives of indigenous peoples and nations throughout centuries. (btw Russia's origins are not in Kyivan Rus. Kyivan Rus and the Vikings are the origins of Ukraine. Russia started to form after the Mongols and the Golden Horde swept across Eastern Europe in 14th century, that's where Russian idea of ruthless, merciless ruling comes from)
Because no king was eager to send his best soldiers into unknown lands.
@@Felix-kp7wr The history of Russian colonialism and genocide of indigenous peoples isn't a story of kings, knights and princesses... (btw Russia never had a king in its history)
The Russians firing at the horde troops with cannons and muskets must have been like how Hannibal's elephants terrorized the Romans in the Second Punic War.
By the time they fought against Hannibal the Romans were already familiar with elephants , think a more apt comparison would be when they fight encountered them like 50 years before Hannibal when they fought against Pyrrhus of Epirus or the use of horses in the Conquest of Mexico and others parts of the continent by the Spanish conquerors.
@@g.sergiusfidenas6650 yeah, It was mostly like Spaniards in the Latin America. Siberia was colonized by the Cossacks and gunpowder.
Strange comparison not very accurate...
@@g.sergiusfidenas6650 I am failing to understand the relevance of either comment?
The Mongols were the first to use caboons in warfare. The Golden Horde certainly had cannons.
How are these comparable?
The Mongols were the first to use cannons in warfare.... They had cannons themselves.
This part is so unknown in history, i always wonder why russia is so big today, thanks to this video i get it.
Pls do a serie of this.
Yeah. I know that Russia expanded eastward and conquered MASSIVE amounts of land, but this is the first in-depth description of it I've seen. I want more.
I always assumed it was a Catherine the Great project never realized it started so much earlier.
That's why I'm here.
@@ZillyWhale She expanded it later on. Its really the most uninhabited land in the world, its the wilderness of the world!
@@MrRobfullarton Even today. Even the hospitable southern parts where actualky melons and horses can eke out an existance.
Is it wrong that I learned all of this history, names, and nations from just playing hundreds of hours of Europa Universalis 4.
Yes.
Eu4 and my intrest for the Russian and Mongolian empire is the thing why I know these eastern countries lmao
Nah, you have to start somewhere.
The king hast returned
A lot of historian CZcams channels do similar topics, but this is definitely new. Learned something new today. Great video!
A lot of historian youtube channels spreads fake slavic history,real slavic history is much more glorious and overvelming.
New map, new style, more new things to come. Enjoy!
Gr8 work! Keep going!
Is the dish named after the Stroganoff family?
@@ZillyWhale Yes
@@user-oi8if4iq2m That is a level of fame I hope to achieve.
@@ZillyWhale Fun fact: Stroganovs were still an influential family in 1917.
But not after that...
In case anyone is wondering, the name Siberia comes from the name of the Sabir tribe, which means "northern".
The Russians are very lucky, Siberia does not have a general ethnic group like Tibet and Uyghur
@Addy Raj According to your logic, Pakistan should become part of India
@Addy Raj it's not for you to decide
Addy Raj Siberia should be part of Mongolia, not China.
@@yeshiyangzom8532 siberia belongs to us Russians
Something you forgot to mention or maybe you didnt know was, that Yermak main source of motivation to conquer Siberia was revenge. He seeks revenge as one of the Khans stole his future bride and he didnt stop till he got here back.
Any credible sources you can share
Did he get her back?
False Fabricated to justify invasion.
This channel is so underappreciated!
Hell yes! I have always wondered how the Russians started out from Europe to somehow controlling the vast territory of Siberia! I knew there was the Mongols but after they fell apart who controlled all that wasteland?
Russians expansion eastward was due to the demand of furs, would have never thought!
Russia had no sources of silver before the annexation of the Urals, but even after that, specialists from Europe were needed to develop the deposits. So the main source of money was furs and also well sold hemp, timber, flax, honey and wax.
@@user-oi8if4iq2m Very interesting! Thank you!
@@user-oi8if4iq2m Da, coinage was not struck up until much later...
@@PewPewPlasmagun 😂 в 9 веке русские уже монеты делали
Nice story, I love Russian history! Greetings from Serbia!
After the fall of Golden Horde, many Turkic military elites stated serving Moscow. Half of Russian nobilities are of Turkic origin.
Ermak is a turkic name Yermek.
He also had Turkic roots.
Informative, good to find out how Siberia was conquered. I always found Ivan IV "the Terrible" to be a interesting man, he had his own inquisition apparently and he even put the city of Novgorod to the sword! Keep up the good work!!
He, like all good rulers, simply wanted to centralise power
The centralisation of power was very important for Russia, we could not afford what we had in England where the lords had great weight in politics, because from the south we were attacked by nomads and ravaged the land.We had to gather all possible forces to fight against the steppe. The name in English slaves from the word Slavs. The Crimean Khanate sold an awful lot of slaves to the Islamic world; the word "katorga" even survives in Russian and means the worst kind of slave labour. In Turkey the main ship was the galleys called katorga. And also in Venice there is a Slavic naberezhnaya, where it seems the Christian brothers also did some slave labour, business is business.
Russia's wars in the west are poorly covered in the video. Ivan the Terrible, when he conquered Kazan and Astrakhan, went west against Livonia, and when he defeated it. All the surrounding countries realised that a great power was emerging in the region and the Russians had to be appeased. Lithuania and Poland united into a single country and went on a campaign against Russia, and Sweden joined them. They even reached Moscow and burned it down.
It was a question of deciding who would be in charge in Eastern Europe. Russian tactics with a very centralised government won out, but with neighbouring Poland, fragmentation led to a collapse, and even Poland ceased to exist as a country for a time. That's because the Poles had to settle the major issues of the country in debates, for example the choice of the king could take years, all because if one member of the council didn't like something he could veto it, and the law couldn't be passed without the consent of all. They were also fond of declaring war on each other within the country. Some prince would get upset with another for a trifle or just because he was bored, and start a massacre on the lands of the enemy. So we can conclude that Poland is a war-fighting nation. But the Poles, after uniting with Livonia, got the Russian lands and even the ancient capital of Russia, Kiev.
@Cetacea Ivan the Terrible created a Russian infantry of Streltsov, unlike in western Europe, where at the time the backbone of the infantry was pikiners covered by arquebusiers. The main task of Streltsy units was a gunfight, and their cover from the enemy's cavalry was provided by slingshots and gudgeon. The Russian army was simply specialised to fight the Tatars, who were poorly defended and armed with bows. And so was one of the most powerful artillery arsenal, on a par with the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. This is despite the fact that as I said before the conquest of the Urals, Russia had no iron, copper and tin, so everything had to be bought from Sweden and the Holy Roman Empire. And also one of the best defence systems against nomads, fortified by the frontier together with a lot of fortresses. All this was not possible without centralization, because for example Spain had the Americas they exported silver to pay for tertians and all sorts of mercenaries from Germany, Flanders, Italy and the Balkans. Russia did not have such an abundance of money, so the scarce funds had to be distributed very precisely and efficiently. During the time of Ivan the Terrible, Russia fought two devastating wars in the west with Livonia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. And in the south with the Tatars, who reached Moscow and burned it down, and only at the cost of huge efforts in the next year when the Tatars again went on a campaign against the Russians, the Russian army defeated 30-35 thousand Tatars at the village of Molodi. Yet there were bloody battles in the west as well. This would later badly affect Russia's military capacity for many years, because entire families of the nobility perished in these battles, and there was no substitute for them. But Ivan the Terrible's tax collection and army system made russia the strongest country in eastern europe.
Love the new series. You always do interesting subjects. Ever considered making longer, more detailed docs?
Hopefully, these shorter videos will link together to create longer stories. Then, maybe after an entire series, he can make an additional video putting all of them together into a longer video for those who just found it and want a full-length feature. (As it is with me, I only have bits of time on any given day, so this style works for me, but I also understand your point, so maybe we can have the best of both worlds.)
@@Rationalific They will, probably a 4 part series. I just like long videos with lots of detail. I now it's a lot of work, it's a lot to ask. Great stuff tho
For searching a Gold, i find a Diamond. This channel is so underated and i see so much potential in it. Bro Just keep posting this type of content and if god wills it i know your channel will boom someday.
"how"
step 1: send a few guys with guns
step 2: step 1 good enough
Thanks for making some of the best historical content on the website
finally someone delves into this
Thank you for the content you produced. It continues to enlighten
'Expansion eastward is no longer an option, but a necessity.' Yeah right, the eternal justification of empires.
Yeah like people always sat in their comfort zone waiting for oppurtunities to come to them.
Love the one-offs between series. Keep up the great work!
Great content, bravo!
Your programs are a marvel...
Great video and great subject, you're the best
I regret so much you now have somebody to narrate. You have real talent, and your versions are much livelier them the new ones.
brilliantly made
Russia became an Empire only during Peter the Great s rule.
You've didn't mentioned that during the siege of Kazan, tatar leader Yedyger Mohhamed's forces were with Ivan's and against usurper Kul-Sharif.
Yedyger became the Tzar of Russia after Ivan and before the Romanovs.
Stroganov's and Yermak's expeditions are two centuries apart!
Amazing quality and a unique voice!
Very cool, in depth but succinct thanks!
Amazing video!
It must be said that in short frame you have offered to many people a good understanding on this important period of the regions history and it's effects on a larger scale and modern history.
Thanks, u always show how History start from small to big.
How?
By spamming the "Siberian Border" button of cause!
Cool video, looking forward to the followup.
Yermak, what a badass name
Very great video👍🏻👍🏻
Nice visuals my man
Fascinating. I never knew any of this. (BTW, the quiet parts of the narrative is barely audible compared to the rest. Makes it difficult to understand. )
dude ive been looking for videos like this about russia thank you.
Great idea for a video!
great stuff!
If anyone wanted to know the background song from 1:49 - 5:40 it's "the Way " by Zack Hemsey of the album of the same name
very interesting
Thank you!
Russians should’ve went all out with their eastward expansion, they were at peace with Poles after-all, they could’ve used a huge portion of their army, they were unrestricted in their conquest, they could’ve fought for better warmwater ports with Chinese!
Actually, there were a little Russia-China war. It known as Albazin war or Albazin siege.
6:50 what
The empire's employed cossacks at first were not cavalry at all, but musket-armed.
Cossac literaly means "mercenary"
So, the destruction of the Khanate of Kazan was very beneficial and advantageous at any aspect for Russia. Thanks, it's good to know this.
What is the name of the painting shown at 8:30?
Russians shouldn’t feel guilty for this magnificent accomplishment
this is so f * * * ing good!
is it just me or is your voice really going strong soft strong soft strong soft all the time? It's kinda distracting...
Before hunnic, indoeuropeans like tocharians and scyhtians ruled the lands. Russians bring it back to indoeuropean 😎
That voice / accent complements the video :)
Please make more videos on russian during this time period
A big reason Moscow rose was because they were upriver of everyone else in a place where what little logistics that are depended on riverboats.
5:57/9:56 So the STROGANOVS became famous for their PIECE DE RESISTANCE "BEEF STROGANOV!", as a Metaphor for ? when RANDY STEIGER suddenly spoke it out at the dinner table.
Listen also to the russian music video on Yermak theme "Игорь Растеряев. Ермак." :)
Russia used runaway peasants to expand during the 16th-17th centuries.
I don't understand how only a few hundred men armed with muskets could beat armies of stepp nomads that have always been the conquerors of even the strongest empires, muskets are heavy are take a very long time to reload, they are only an advantage when used in large formations and against non hight-quality armors. Outside of that it is simply better to uses bows and arrows
Not necessarily. There’s a few more advantages early firearms had over archery.
For one using a bow takes a lot of strength to use. It will wear you down over the course of a battle, and can affect your accuracy.
Bows also takes years to master, while firearms only took a couple weeks at most.
I don't have a problem with speakers with a foreign accent, indeed I have a foreign accent myself. BUT I find it unbereable when the accents gets in the way of understanding. In this video the problem is compounded by the very low quality of the audio, so that high frequency sounds, like shhhh, fffff, jjjj, when they are associated with darker vowels (O U ) make words simply incomprehensible. And it gets worse: proper nouns, names of places and people, which are completely unpredictable, become totally fuzzy and impossible to decipher. The narration is sheer torture. Too bad because the content is well done.
I see a lot of complaints about this, but even though I'm pretty deaf I can still understand everything the narrator says
@@lopedeaguirre1 Speak for yourself. Apparently I am not the only one having this problem.
What kind of accent is this?
simply just use siberiant frontier
why do you put emphasis on every 4th word that you say. it is distracting. you should opt for a linear pronounciation
To be fair, English doesn’t seem to be his first language.
The siberian route
The conquest of Siberia by Moscow is full of mysteries.
Zaporizhzhya Cossacks used to help Moscowians in conquering those vast lands in Northern Asia.
I read that these were mostly Don cossacks, but of course they weren`t asking passports at the time
Just like in Age of Empires 3.
Sorry to disappoint but Streltsy were not armed with Bardiches at first. Also, Ivan Grozny had Tatar blood and actually some measure of claim over those lands. Anyway, fun video.
With English guns
Rosja nigdy na nikogo nie napadala !!!!!!
Patriarcha Cyryl.
Now I understand why the Russians are such aggressors from the beginning of time until today! You can see it in their current leader, the bloody Mr P! All he can think of is war and conquer back lost territories!
I am excited to go watch Part 2 now! Thanks!
Another sad chapter. What followed was centuries of Russification. To the point where language and customs were forgotten.
languages have survived, stop misinforming
@@Zapper-kq1zg 12 languages in kamchatka alone were wiped out through genocide. stop lying.
@@RemoveChink proof
@@RemoveChink firstly, they are dying out because there are few of them left and we didn't do it and secondly, stop comparing us with you
@@RemoveChink The eradication of the local population during the conquest of Siberia and the Far East was not purposeful, had economic reasons (collecting yasak for the fur trade) and was often justified by the protection of local tribes subject to Russia. The tribes subordinate to Russia helped to fight against the more rebellious: the Khanty against the Mansi, the Yukaghirs against the Koryaks. Some peoples (Shors, Teleuts, Khakases, Baraba Tatars) paid both the Russians and the Dzungars at the same time. The Cossacks used both diplomatic methods and hostage-taking and terror. In addition, the Russians treated the local tribes much better than their own people.
A real shame what happened to the native peoples of Siberia
They are still there the natives