Catherine the Great - The Complete Extra History Reaction Series (Parts 1-6)

See the original here - • Catherine the Great - ...
See my new channel Stories of the Great War here - / @storiesofthegreatwar
VTH Gaming - / thehistoryguy
VTH Extra - / @vthextra
Support VTH on patreon: / vth
Follow me on instagram here - / vloggingthroughhistory
Follow VTH on Facebook here - profile.php?...
#history #reaction

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Folks seem to like it when I upload an entire series as one video, and many others maybe haven't discovered some of the older stuff. While I'm recovering from Covid, enjoy this one from 2021!

[@brandonlovelady8659]

Get well soon Chris! It’s always handy to have supercuts like this.

[@alexsohn2474]

Get better soon!

[@MasaMasa-hv9fl]

That was the first video I watch

[@xenamorphwinner7931]

I was thinking of reposting one of my comments out of some videos, but now I’ll just say: get better soon and I hope you will be back up in no time.

[@lirisa1869]

Sorry to hear you have Covid. I wish you all the best!

[@bazil83]

20:44 talking about German heritage in the British royal family always reminds me of one of my favourite moments in Blackadder Goes Forth - Blackadder is interrogating Captain Darling: Darling: "I'm as British as Queen Victoria!!!" Blackadder: "So your father's German, you're half German, and you married a German!!!!?"

[@occam7382]

That show will never stop being hilarious.

[@SpicyPotato8675]

VTH tradition Take a shot when Chris pauses a video to talk about something that the video then mentions immediately after.

[@jkent9915]

Buh! ReCycLeD CoNtEnT!! Nice. It’s good to have these because I’m going to watch them all and it’s easier than hoping auto-play doesn’t run astray.

[@DylanHabibi]

I work at a family business and i spend a lot of time on digitizing software. Having these videos of the whole series are very conveniant for me. I just click once and have an hour and a half of content to watch while working!

[@briceoka5623]

Jeanne Calment the oldest person ever recorded lived to 122, Interesting to think that a human lifespan is what separates the end of Catherine the great and the Russian revolution.

[@gabrielethier2046]

Another woman "great" would be Tamar the great of Georgia in the 12-13th century

[@Mranferneehardaway]

we are kids of the cold war, we have a tendency of thinking that everything east of Berlin is eastern Europe love your videos 👍

[@interphatch]

At 1:25:10 really appreciated your comments, from yet another center-left atheist. I also always feel welcomed 👍

[@KsJudas]

@1:25:48 I am an atheist and it dosn't bother me at all that you are a pastor and I love this chanell.

[@DarthDread-oh2ne]

Peter iii had every right to hate his aunt. She forced him to come over.

[@justinalicea1590]

Which could also be true for Catherine, inviting the girl over so that she would be married to Peter. But unlike Peter, Catherine took being a ruler of Russia seriously and with the interests of Russia in mind. As said in the Vlad the Impaler series: politics isn't personal.

[@DarthDread-oh2ne]

That the difference:Peter never wanted to be tsar of Russia.

[@clmoss83]

You have such a relaxing, calm voice! I love binging your videos in the background while I am at work.

[@markadams7046]

The Great show on Hulu is more of a parody story line.

[@corinna007]

I have Russian Mennonite heritage. My ancestors were originally from the Netherlands and northwest Germany. Catherine the Great invited them to settle in the Russian Empire after they started being persecuted in Prussia, and they settled in the Zaporizhia region.

[@tonytouchz757]

1 hour in I understood the "c" on catherione was for her name and not the animator trying to make it look like she had "love handles" LOL

[@sirrilo7539]

One of my favorite extra history series! Thank you so much for covering it

[@TemoKuntchulia]

Current events in russia make the timing of this video very ironic

[@LordCraneo2]

Wait what happened?

[@marcusaurelius4941]

​@@LordCraneo2terrorist attack, a minimum of 70+ dead and likely more to be confirmed, hundreds injured

[@johnmcmanus2447]

​@LordCraneo2 Russia invading Ukraine. Er, sorry, performing a "special military operation" in Ukraine that looks an awful lot like an invasion

[@LordCraneo2]

@@johnmcmanus2447 oh that, I thought there was a new huge development on the war. I usually stay in touch to that kind of events like the Pregozin stuff or the current Russian elections.

[@arussianspy3114]

@@LordCraneo2 Rumor has it this election was legitimate but poling was only done on balconies. Real talk I find it interesting Putin gave himself 80% this time. He’s always been in the 50-70% range and at a time when he has such little grip on the country it seems like a gamble.

[@rokumaygo7134]

Awesome compilation. I enjoy your historical context. Keep up the good work and keep getting better man.

[@matthewcollins5871]

Australia’s capital Canberra, is also a purposely built capital city in the early 20th Century.

[@NiwatiX]

I love you, please never stop, your videos are amazing, I learned so much history with you in the past couple of years, I started to do research and lookup stuff because I want to know more. You're absolutely fantastically interesting.

[@MsCherryKiss]

hooray VTH reaction movie! :D near 2 hours of quality content!

[@MsMiss-lm4ws]

It's funny that I just watched your reaction series to Extra History's Catherine the Great via the playlist yesterday. I didn't realize this video was out until today.

[@loukenstein3569]

A TWO HOUR LONG EPISODE??? Chris you are spoiling us!!

[@samrevlej9331]

It's a compilation of already posted episodes

[@ThetrueKidGoku]

Fun fact: She roasted Ivan the Terrible on Epic Rap Battles of History.

[@pebblebrookbooks4852]

That was so much fun and I loved the cosplay: Empress to Tsar 8, b!tch - Checkmate!!

[@cynicalcitizen8315]

Your videos are what I listen to while playing games. Because history videos make days of recovering more tolerable.

[@captainthorrek262]

It makes you wonder if Rapunzel and Mother Gotha were based on Catherine and her mother

[@IDKeffect82]

I absolutely love your channel my man. Great reactions and your content is absolutely amazing. Thank you Chris. And doughy of features is messed up. Lol

[@drow_Lilith9940]

just got done re-watching this series like an hour ago for fun than you post the complete version guess i am watching it again lol

[@jacobduncan2142]

I think Elizabeth II may be known by future generations as the Great.

[@aether3697]

any case of reasoning why?

[@gabrielethier2046]

Well she oversaw the collapse of her country's empire, so probably not, also the British monarchy has been defanged for a long time.

[@occam7382]

@@gabrielethier2046, yeah, that moniker usually only goes to monarchs who were actually capable of... you know... DOING something.

[@gabrielethier2046]

@@occam7382 indeed

[@DerekWitt]

My family has an indirect connection to Empress Catherine II. In 1762-1763, she published manifestos inviting many Europeans to come and colonize in Russia. My Volga German ancestors were among those who were invited to Russia in the later part of the 18th Century. They settled a few miles upstream from Saratov. Many years ago, I emailed the Catholic Bishop of Saratov. He was also the Bishop of Munich. He actually understood my broken German. I asked him whether he knew of any remaining records of the Volga Germans who lived along the Volga River. He said he didn't know. We both suspected those records were destroyed by Stalin during or before WWII. My ancestors were thankfully able to escape persecution by the Russian Imperial government (and came to America in the 1870s). They settled in western Kansas. I have read stories of persecution of German immigrants here in the States from the later 19th through early 20th Centuries, but I don't know whether they were subject to this.

[@occam7382]

If you can only speak broken German, that's a pretty good sign of how exactly German-Americans were treated during the World Wars.

[@DerekWitt]

@@occam7382 I read about the treatment received by Americans of German descent during both World Wars. Anti-German sentiment was unfortunately prevalent on both sides of the Atlantic during World War I. I’m 5 generations removed from being from Germany or Russia.

[@coachgoltzbizpro23]

Feels like after Peter III and Catherine The Great, you could argue that the Russian Tsardom is just as German as the British Monarchy at the onset of World War I...

[@andypham1636]

Empire*

[@cltottles9512]

It’s way worse 😂😂 beginning of ww1 the German king English king and Russian Tsar were all part of the same family they were cousins sharing the same grandmother. Queen Victoria of England 😂😂😂😂

[@andypham1636]

@@cltottles9512 British king* Russian emperor* No, Russian emperor was cousins to George V through Christian IX

[@twylanaythias]

In another Extra History series, about the beginning of WWI, they talk about how Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Nicholas were cousins. In the madness pushing Europe to implode, they spent several days telegraphing with each other, trying to find some way to prevent a war in which "every crown shall fall". They weren't Tsar and Kaiser; they weren't even Nicholas and Wilhelm - it was Nicky and Willy, childhood compatriots, driving themselves to the brink of destruction as they fought arm-in-arm trying to prevent the world from destroying itself. They gave their utmost and came SOOOO close.

[@andypham1636]

no, they weren't. Wilhelm II + Nicholas II were third cousins, sharing descent from Frederick William III of Prussia + Queen Louise @@twylanaythias

[@genericyoutubeaccount579]

I do not agree that the previous monarch must die for the new regime to live. The execution of Francisco Madero during the Ten Tragic Days was a huge mistake. Charles I was beheaded. Cromwell's commonwealth didn't last a generation. Louis XVI was guillotined. The 1st French Republic collapsed.

[@Carno_Yujia]

I wonder why that's the case 🤔

[@occam7382]

@@Carno_Yujia, yeah, I never thought I'd say this, but Mao actually had the right idea when he spared Puyi (the last Chinese emperor) and had him "re-educated" instead of outright executed. A rare intelligent move on post-civil war Mao's part.

[@jkent9915]

Like you, I enjoy the imagery they include: doughy and fish-like. I feel like they only add that when they it’s in an actual contemporaneous account. I think you mentioned this in the “Winged Hussars” video when they said something like, “sweat running through the dirt on their faces.”

[@ExcretumTaurum]

That timespan comparison at the end with the 120 years between Catherine & Nick II being the same as Wright Bros and now - that set my head spinning.

[@TheWinty]

1:40:39 we learned at school about them as east and west prussia divided by poland. After last partition of poland it became Prussia and we take them same as Austrians. (czech history)

[@edwardcardenas92]

I owe a lot of my historical knowledge to VTH 👌

[@kobeslaughter4671]

Oh I get VTH for 2 hours. Let's go!!!!

[@icheesey1685]

Loving the videos! They really are great. I hope you don't mind me asking, but would you be able to react to "Blackadder Goes Forth?" It's a british comedy series at life in the WW1 trenches. It's somewhat similar to Philomena Cunk and it would be really interesting to hear your thoughts.

[@MainMan10]

42:52 the story of nero playing the fiddle when rome burned is purely myth. First, the fiddle wasnt invented untill the 1500s. Second, there is good reason to belive that he wasnt even in rome at the time. What he did next though was some most horrific things of any roman emperor.

[@user-ko5tz9jr6f]

1:00:38 that's why called her the Great, otherwise she could have been ruthless dictator

[@user-el1qj4ij3l]

Definitely watch the great. I watched it myself and it captures most of the life of Cathrine.

[@8100CAS]

But keep in mind it is only “occasionally true.”

[@user-el1qj4ij3l]

@@8100CAS Which is what I mean by 'most' Some parts they got wrong. Especially with the 'beauty' of Peter's mistress.

[@mrjukeboxparty4563]

Oooooh now this I like to see

[@coreynusser4782]

Get well soon!

[@user-ko5tz9jr6f]

1:26:56 the reason it wasn't for religion purposes,he wasn't in the same peer as her ,he was a commoner

[@blackleon1708]

Oh, finally, my queen

[@katelynnarn8743]

There's a story about Catherine meeting Fredrick the Great when she was about 4 or 5. Her father told her to greet him with a peck on the cheek and wanted to lift her so she could. She, as any sassy 4-5 year old would, said she didn't need to be picked up and that Fredrick should kneel down to her so she could reach. I don't exactly remember if she was told to greet him that way or that's how he wanted to greet her, but the end result was the same either way.

[@katelynnarn8743]

I got a small thing wrong after going back and finding the story. It was Fredrick's hand and not his cheek. She still did tell him to kneel so she could reach though. My bad..😅

[@96gh0st]

very great, maybe next time a reaction of epic history about Khosrau the persian king

[@claytondosier6197]

Grigory Potemkin makes me think of Teddy Roosevelt

[@bstylesv1]

I feel like they would've made great pen pals 🤔

[@TheCosmicGuy0111]

Nice

[@baddnerves3321]

thank you for your videos. i appreciate your talk about welcoming people of different ideas. i always feel welcomed at your channel, as a queer person. its hard for me sometimes to find youtube channels hosted by people who embrace faith and dont have at least an unspoken antagonistic attitudes towards LGBT people. but i never felt that way with your videos. thank you so much for fostering a kind community.

[@t3hmaniac]

the "This Is Fine" meme is from the old webcomic Gunshow.

[@LadyGeckoFoot]

I love the Majora's Mask nod. What a bada** lady.

[@Qwr141]

Sam o' Nella posted :D

[@gkjaerby2441]

Maybe do this with their policing London Series?

[@SJC-ty7jp]

There were many new cities that were built. But mostly in the colonies. I cannot say about others but the foundation of my city Kolkata was laid in 1686 by Job Charnock.

[@tommcdonald1873]

The Evil Stepmother in Cinderella was Catherine's Mom!

[@pazuzuhsp]

Just a minor note on her marriage to Potemkin, in the orthodox church of the time getting remarried in general wasn't really acceptable. If you check out Byzatine history it becomes clear that it was a problem when an empress died without leaving an heir, the emperor could remarry maybe once but the general rule was that marriage is an eternal bond

[@gabrielethier2046]

Yeah I think Constantine VII had to have an exception made to be considered legitimate, because his dad Leo VI had him out wedlock because the patriarch of Constantinople refused to marry him for a third/fourth (I forget) time

[@Nikolaj11]

Can't recall if I commented this in the original video, but in some Danish non-academic texts and videos we refer to Margaret 1 as "the great," as far as I can tell this is mostly done in popular media like podcasts and school books and from searching google I don't think it's ever done in English. She did rule Scandinavia at its greatest unified extent, so perhaps it is warranted, but it's not a traditional moniker I think any serious historian would use when referring to her.

[@occam7382]

I don't think most English-speaking people even know who Margaret l was.

[@Nikolaj11]

@@occam7382 Fewer than who know about Catherine probably, but most people only know history up to a highschool degree level, so I don't think that difference would be too huge either.

[@occam7382]

@@Nikolaj11, oh yeah. Absolutely.

[@felixgisse2265]

Hey! It would be fun if you reacted to "This is Sweden's JFK Mystery" by Spectacles. It is pretty similar to Lemmino and I thought you would think it was interesting. Anyways great video, keep up the good work.

[@samhouston1979]

Cyrus the Great

[@jkent9915]

5:08 Charles missed an opportunity by not choosing “Arthur” so we could debate over whether he’s “Arthur” or “Arthur II”.

[@ExcretumTaurum]

I was quietly hoping he’d go for Victoria II

[@dbilly121]

Was probably on the original or comments here, but Constantinople was another city built to be a capital.

[@Toofunktoodrunktion]

You should do a reaction to zoomer historian, he’s an…interesting channel

[@WHATTHEWHAT322]

Sam O'Nella posted a new video.

[@FortyWink]

Haha, Google thinks O'Nella is a foreign word. 😂

[@junecaffyn357]

I once watched an old black and white film called Queen Victoria the Great, I mention this as you were thinking about women rulers - that there not many called “the Great!” Obviously it was the title of the olde film I watched but I think Victoria should be “The Great!” Just my humble opinion as am biased - love Victorian history!ps Also would be wonderful if our late Queen Elizabeth the 2nd was made “the Great” in the future, again I am biased !!!

[@antoinedoyen7452]

If I say in French to another French person "I'm going to Eastern Europe", he will think of all the countries east of the German-Polish border. In Central Europe, Germany, Austria, Czechia, Croatia... strangely we would say Northern Europe for the Scandinavian countries. Not central or west.

[@rickfield710]

Regarding Prussia as being 'Eastern Europe' - at the time, the capital of Prussia was Königsberg - present day Kaliningrad. So, yes, Prussia at the time could be considered 'Eastern European'. At least, in this particular European's view.

[@scrawnytony3174]

Babe wake up Slammin nella

[@tonygrencho7121]

akhenaten of Egypt, tutankhamun fathers created his capital city named "akhenaten". Alexander the great founded the city of Alexandria in Egypt, but also many others also named Alexandria.

[@occam7382]

Like Alexandretta in Turkey, or Alexandropol in Armenia.

[@shawnpilgrim2355]

Question: is there a way to message or email you directly? I have an idea for content I think people would love, and could help the channel. I’m a new subscriber.

[@user-ko5tz9jr6f]

Part of Prussia,that time was eastern Europe

[@michaelmoon3429]

Please do the EH series on Suleiman the Magnificent

[@MissyChelle]

@vloggingthroughhistory (addressing subscriptions) I am a recent subscriber to this channel so when I checked I still subscribed. Until you brought it to light were the pieces connected for me. I've had an account with KZbin for 12-14 years & my activity on the service has ebbed & flowed throughout that time. Only recently, when the algorithms suggested a video from one of the first channels I subscribed to, did I realize that I was no longer subscribed to. So of course I quickly corrected that. Since then from time to time if I think of a channel I go search to see if they are still posting videos. And double-check if I am subscribed. I just decided I had only thought I was subscribed when I hadn't done so. Maybe it's a product of how long Ive had an account, a glitch from an update, or changes to the algorithms. I would suggest, despite your findings on this matter, adding “and if you are already subscribed double check that subscription button to be sure you are still connected. Let us know in the comments ... & thank you” There is a chance Gremlins have invaded KZbin. 😉

[@Pipemurillo12]

Elizabeth the great

[@yanx4797]

43: 02 It's not Adventure time...

[@Elmarby]

Huzzah!

[@ege-sucu1]

41:20 Ankara after 1923 as a new capital city rather than the old Istanbul

[@mechaboy0226]

Put Napoleon and Catherine in the same room how would the two interact

[@ThisTrainIsLost]

This series is both informative and entertaining, including your input but the video you are watching has what I consider to be a problem. The video gives us a lot of information on the life of Katerina the Great (I just prefer that version) but it doesn't give us much that would justify her elevation to the relatively small group of people we describe as being Great. (Btw, is "The Great" a title she held while alive or was it bestowed upon her posthumously? Reasons that actually elevate her to a position appropriate for a "Great" are given but only within the video's last five minutes.)

[@beerme2096]

I guess he's never played Majora's Mask

[@TheLordOfNothing]

Sam O'Nella posted today. Gotta get your foot in the door.

[@joshuahunt3032]

1:05:00 And to think, the only form of address I’ve heard for the US president today is “Mr. President” (partly because we have yet to have a president who isn’t a man)

[@michaelaburns734]

The series is Catherine the Great on HBO or MAX I believe.

[@Starwaveomg]

Can you do black Panther history

[@danadnauseam]

18:30 The "Great" description usually implied military success, which limited the potential for it to be applied to women.

[@JudazRex]

Okay listen the english are danish😡😂 (21:00)

[@erinhowie3103]

Was Justinian a "great"?

[@kezhere]

Could you review and fact check Zoomer Historian take on WWII?

[@youtubebane7036]

Who gives a s*** about her rank?Dude she's catherine the fucking great that says it all

[@turnip1744]

Did you ever tell the story about the white windowless van in D.C. ?

[@ShHeMiLeRe]

I cringe whenever I see someone call Catherine II "the Great." Typically this moniker gets created after you die if you earned it not because your flaterers wanted to suck up to you while you were still alive. I mean maybe not but typically it doesn't get recognized like it's "official" but I don't think it caught on in every country.

[@marcusaurelius4941]

Here in Russia I think I hear her being referred to as simply Catherine the Second more often

[@occam7382]

I find "All Wise Mother of the Fatherland" to be a more unique title. Of course, that probably wouldn't gel well with Russian tendencies to refer to their country as the "motherland".

[@marcusaurelius4941]

@@occam7382 "Motherland" only went mainstream in the Soviet Union. Before that, it was Fatherland

[@occam7382]

@@marcusaurelius4941, ah, I see. That makes sense.

[@irondwarf66]

The great is terrible. It's like someone got a cliff notes of Catherine and Peter's marriage and decided to not learn minor details like if he was czar when they got married

[@Losty2023]

Can you react to the Moscow Crocus City Attack?

[@youtubebane7036]

I love Catherine and until Vladimir Putin.She is russia's greatest leader and perhaps still with putin coming in the close second

[@occam7382]

I really don't like most Russian leaders. Catherine was still an absolute dictator who sought of cleanse her realm of any non-Russians, and she played a direct part in the destruction of Poland. I wouldn't blame the Crimean Tatars and Poles for despising her, because she frankly deserves it.

[@youtubebane7036]

@@occam7382 You sound as if those are bad things

[@occam7382]

@@youtubebane7036, because they ARE bad things. They're very bad things.

[@youtubebane7036]

@@occam7382 as if those people weren't just as bad or worse! Lol the pols and the tartars were just as bad or worse!

[@youtubebane7036]

@@occam7382 I just watched a video about the history of the tarttars they were much worse than slavic people and the polish were catholic. That says it all

[@wannabecar8733]

Jesus is the Son of God. Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead after three days. His death secures the forgiveness of those who believe in him. He is alive, and reigning in heaven at the right hand of the father. Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life, He endured a crown of thorns and was suffocating for hours and willingly gave up his spirit before he died he was beaten to the point of his ribs being visible, so that we may be healed. He went to hell and came back, preaching the truth to those in there and taking a few of them out. God the father raised him from the dead, not being corrupted in any way. He endured a crown of thorns and was suffocating for hours and willingly gave up his spirit before he died. After the three days were past, he showed himself to many people, minimum five hundred of his disciples, not counting the people he reveals himself to today. Angels proclaimed to several people that Jesus is alive. He will come back and raise the dead; he is coming back; He is the resurrection of the dead.

[@Testimentsnow]

The show has very little historical accuracy

[@claudiaclark6162]

Apparently Catherine wasn't so Great