Before I even start in on this what looks to be sensational video let me just say for me personally Turgenev's works represent the apogee of human tragedy love desire suffering amidst a Garden of Paradise it's all so beautiful and so true to my life my lost love my poets soul of nature love that I just want to fcking die. He may even surpass Herman Melville as such both are the stuff of legends .👑👑❤️❤️💔💔

Personally I think that Michael was a coward he did not stepped up after his brother resigned or abdicated in gis favor , if he had had some backbone he would have prevented the Communists from taking over Russia .

Very nice. It is indeed a wonderful feat to do and a prophetic message as such to this passing world. Tolstoy however was not Orthodox though, just to be clear.

What kind of medicine do you practice, Mr Arndt?

Absolutely loved this and will definitely consider getting the book. Thanks so much! ☦️

Thanks for this its absolutely fantastic! I was aware of a lot of this but it's great to have it so neatly summarised in one video and the images are great. Tragic how the Church can be so grievously wounded by such a vain and inconsequential decision. If only Patriarch Nikon had repented when confronted with the will of his flock. Things might've been so very different today. Oh well, glory to God in all things! 🙏☦️

This is fascinating! It's interesting how people in older cultures lived their lives as we do, but in many different ways, that are now almost forgotten. Kudos for the research and presentation.

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The scaffold hierarchy structure was disspiriting so they set out only for spiritual experience - straniki. Ascetic and penitential their credo in the ejaculation " lord Jesus christ have mercy on me a sinner " . Purification hope bringing them to an aeshatological end.

Western Catholic here - that was absolutely fascinating. Thank you!

I just found this channel and this topic appeals to me personally. i had a Greek Orthodox father and an Irish Catholic mother. Baroness Catherine de Hueck Doherty wrote a book on the subject 'Strannik' I tried posting the link but my comment gets deleted Consider future topics for videos 'Urudivoi' (Holy Fools for Christ) and Poustinia. Since reading 'Poustinia, i have lived, in some form, most of my adult life. Serafim of Sarov and Francis of Assisi lived a similar intimacy with Christ. Timothy Constantine Fronimos

Very interesting. Thank you. I didn't know that there was such a tradition in Russia. Have you seen any similarities with other Eastern traditions, like the wandering Hindu sadhus, or the Islamic darwish and malangs?

A little more detail than I strictly needed on this esoteric subject (and I'm normally all about esoterica), but still interesting.

This is an excellent in-depth presentation.

In WW1, The King of England, the Kaiser of Germany, and the Tsar of Russia were all first cousins who ended up fighting each other. The "imperial families" of the world have plotted against each other in the most tragic way it seems...competing to be the wealthiest and most powerful. "Heirs" to the thrones were often killed by their relatives. The "Wars of the Roses" between the Houses of York and Lancaster in England are one example. There is evidence that the British Crown financed the Bolsheviks to destroy Russia and the Tsar who they viewed as a rival in world power. I'd rather be a "commoner" !

Fascinating history. And so sad in many ways.

NB: In the matter of the translation of N2's diary entry on hearing the news of "Misha's abdication": "Чушь!" is not correctly translated as "Rubbish!" It literally means, "Nonsense!" - which has far less vituperative sting to it than "Rubbish!" In 2024, some would find a closer equivalent in the modern English locution, "word salad," meaning "stale, meaningless phrases with no power to persuade anyone." "Rubbish!" is a far stronger expletive, that in Russian would be expressed as "дрянь, тупизм, идиотизм, дурь, кретинизм, помёт [guano], белиберда" (or a few obscenities popular with people from the ex-USSR).

The Romanovs had evolved into an effete elite that had little understanding of the forces they were up against. The discovery of lucrative uses for petroleum sealed their fate, a good 50 years before the Revolution itself... Having grown up in a militarised Palace, they lacked street smarts & psychological insights. By the time 1905 rolled around, they were like putty in the hands of interested parties. It was an obvious requirement, in order to take possession of Russia's oil & gas resources (and other resources) that also already included Baku - then being developed by the Nobel Brothers, the Romanovs being principal shareholders of course! - that toppling an entire government was necessary, in order to sweep away all of its laws, all of its property rights and deeds, etc. This was rather easily achieved, first, by duping the Romanovs themselves (including via the Fake "Mystic," Rasputin, a debauched scion of the notoriously debauched Khlysty [хлысты] sect); second, by deploying ambitious, but incompetent & mentally disordered politicians (such as Rodzianko, Milyukov, Kerensky); thirdly, by relying on equally coddled elite "lawyers" such as Nabokov & Nolde - with their extremely limited understanding of economics, war, and the vast tapestry of a multi-tiered society dispersed over many millions of square kilometres, a Folk they scarcely interacted with; fourthly, by leveraging Russian supremacist propaganda and mythology about "the great, devout, loyal & 'naturally noble' Russian people," which was utter rubbish, as the Revolution quickly revealed. Anarchy and mayhem ensued, because of a handful of men (and a few cunning & unscrupulous women, such as the self-obsessed Brasova, whose principal motivator had been money from the moment she set her sights on a Mamontov only to discover that he was not as rich as his rich uncle; and the Rasputin-besotted Vyrubova, an obvious viper & security risk if there ever was one!) taking advantage of an eminently civilised, not at all ruthless, and far too trusting Nicholas II. His mistakes, besides not allowing his younger brother to marry his first love (as he had been allowed to marry his own true love, even though Alexandra was also a close cousin), included allowing the craven, arrogant militarists and bad diplomats - and extended family - to wade into 2 terrible wars. And we now also know that it was the 2 Toxic Montenegrin princesses who whipped up a frenzy of hysteria in the Palace over "the Serbian Orthodox cause." And that's another huge, epic historical scandal! Russia was brought down by the weight of its own poorly managed Imperial Dynasty & Court System, too many irresponsible princes who were easily manipulated + too many courtiers who lacked education & skills but inherited their prominent roles by being related to the "correct" ancestors... And all of that antiquated institutional complexity was hampered - as the entire population of the REmp was - by inadequate education, insufficient humility (it is humility that teaches us to work hard instead of to "try our luck" at taking what is others'!) and too much luxurious living. (And does that sound familiar?) Thank you for this excellent lecture. And now, Russians, do yourselves and everyone else a favour by GETTING THE BLAZES OUT OF UKRAINE, INCLUDING CRIMEA.

Thank you very much for such an informative presentation. Could you please clarify what is the Circassian library ? Couldn’t find any information about it in Google . Thanks

“The constantly wanted to know what is going on home” is so disrespectful I don’t find words

What an incredibly handsome man he was

As a decendant of House of Sheremetev. I grew up with many second hand accounts of the brutality my family have suffered. Thanks for everyone who shed a light on it. According to Yelena Sheremetev there were at least 300 of her family just murdered or gone missing. Also RIP Nikita Cheremeteff.

fantastic!

Just found your channel after watching a video with him about his book on Rasputin. Fascinating. Thank you.

Hi, thank you for the great lecture. In class, It has always been asserted that the Russians despised the west, particularly the Americans, so it is interesting that my teachers have excluded teaching me about this ongoing companionship Alexander shared with Lincoln! The Tsar really must be commended for his efforts.

Wonderful lecture!! Thank you!

Very well done video! The grand duchess' memoirs are very interesting.

Russian history is incredibly boring

Industrial activity in 16th Century Russia? Furs were the most important trade goods.

Love this

I’m so happy he made another one I love these!

Only showing now... Great channel 😊Спасибо.

Famine? Where was Stalin and his Bolsheviki in 1615?

Gudunov as Sergei Witte? We have heard it all before.

Evidence of Ivan killing his son????????

It really is amazing how people can make it to adulthood and care infinitely more about defending the supposed right of adults to publicly express and normalize their sexual preferences in front of children, than the duty of protecting children from an ideology that leads to them literally being dismembered. As for democracy, it's also remarkable that people make it to adulthood thinking that democracy (the rule of the people) sooner looks like a country whose leaders always have approval ratings below 50%, and not one where the leader maintains the support of over 70% of the population. Did CERN discover that it's written on the side of the atom that leaders need to be changed every four years? And if it's discovered that the cross over Paustovsky's grave was put their by his family, can we expect an apology from Mr. Smith to the Russian people?

Great presentation. Would love to hear more on the mid-17 century Raskol Old Believers schism alluded to in the final minutes.

Excellent!

Watching from Bangladesh🇧🇩.❤ Thanks.

Thank you for this wonderful presentation. I'm so grateful that it was posted on KZbin so soon since I was in hospital during the live presentation.

Thanks to Dr. Palmer for a detailed and fascinating presentation, and thanks to the museum for yet another opportunity to learn and share Russian history.

Fascinating presentation. This adds so much depth to my rather cursory reading. I can access the (clumsy) youtube Transcript but is there a way that the Russian History Museum could link a PDF for the transcripts of these talks?

Thanks for the fascinating presentation.

Спасибо 😊Interesting...