Ten Minute History - Peter the Great and the Russian Empire (Short Documentary)

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Recommended reading:
Simon Dixon - The Modernisation of Russia, 1676-1825. This book covers the period in great detail (barring a few oversights or assumptions on the part of the author) but be aware that whilst it works well covering themes of change, Chronologically its all over the place.
Merry E. Weisner Hanks - Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789. Any video covering early Modern Europe will include this books it's just that good. Fantastic for broader context and examining things like the Orthodox Church will most other overviews aren't great at.

[@Mr_Mabasa]

'Peter banned lawyers from courtrooms because, and I'm not kidding here, they "talk too much" '😂😂😂

[@alanpennie8013]

If he hadn't been emperor he'd have been a great editor of a populist newspaper.

[@jamesscannell7951]

Nhlamulo Evidence Mabasa which has held true in Russia for 350 years. Ahh tradition in Russia more reliable then the winter being cold.

[@ahyan14]

Nhlamulo Evidence Mabasa Well yeah I would ban teachers from classes because they talk too much

[@joelellis7035]

Peter the Great: "What do you call 1000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? . . . ."

[@arandomyoutubeaccount3166]

"Stay out of court" "Also, shut up"

[@simbachvazo6530]

“...responsible for many sensible reforms...” Also Peter: *Beard Tax*

[@johnisaacfelipe6357]

Sensible

[@Velin_official]

Actually thats not all. After a few years he undertood that many boyars are willing to pay the taxes and will not shave their beards. So he publicly took their beards and shaved them himself. Thats a very famous fact in Russia.

[@stevemc01]

@@Velin_official "Fine. I'll do it myself." Thanos: "Damn this guy uses my quote better than I do."

[@miketacos9034]

tbf his ruling about lawyers was pretty sensible.

[@callmeethancallmeethan77]

@SailorMoon no no no stop right there this is the bad opinion police

[@SacredCowStockyards]

"How long is eternity?" "66 years"

[@pississippian]

i guess when peter didn't care about the old ways, that extended to the vocabulary...

[@wet6902]

execute order eternity

[@mr.haroldthetoaster6263]

According to Justinian, it was only 8

[@bakthihapuarachchi3447]

Aw man i ruined the perfect 200 likes

[@davidvasquez08]

Imagine if it lasted for 3 more years 😏😏😏🥶

[@tinyman1144]

"Lemme pick my heir" "Oh shit I forgot to pick one.. Nah, they'll figure it out."

[@yarpen26]

Peter preferred picking his nose over picking his heir.

[@robertkubrick3738]

Nose hair, that's what he meant.

[@beybladeguru101]

Robert Kubrick The word “hair” sounds similar to a Russian slang word for “penis.” So your comment sounds even worse with that knowledge.

[@IsraelCountryCube]

@@beybladeguru101 but its not.,

[@TheRambunctious]

“This led to Catherine the great, but that’s for another time”. What time man? I’m still waiting 🥺 Edit: Guys I know extra history exists

[@kentguiller]

Just wait 1 more millenia, I'm sure it will come.

[@somedude5422]

Monday the 4th of Never, last I checked.

[@TitaniumSteelGreatest]

It will come at 25:00 PM bro just be patient 🙄

[@oliverkorte43]

You will have tot wait until eternity

[@semenpiter]

@@oliverkorte43 u mean 66 years, right?

[@TheOverlordTank]

never stop making your death jokes, they are always funny.

[@damienfinnegan8272]

caught a bad case of the dead. I died laughing after hearing that.

[@TheBrickMasterB]

"See ya later nerds" *drops over*

[@fulcrum2951]

Thud

[@maxxlr8tion578]

As only the greatest leaders of history do, he stopped living.

[@georgeamesfort3408]

Shook off his mortal coil

[@nonameuserua]

>alphabet reform >ябтль As a Russian native speaker, I admire your choice of consultants

[@tedbo1819]

Does ябтль mean anything?

[@nonameuserua]

Ted Bo nothing. But an anagram of its *блять* does. You might have met the word’s corrupt transliteration *blyat* somewhere.

[@mechkota]

@@nonameuserua this video make great mistake. The alphabet is not russian

[@nonameuserua]

bladerun101 it is Russian, trust a Russian speaker

[@mechkota]

@@nonameuserua It is bulgarian

[@Shirokroete]

Why is every death in these videos so hilarious

[@Toonrick12]

@@pississippian That's why.

[@EpicRenegade777]

comedic timing

[@bastard-took-the-name-I-had]

"Case of the deads"

[@shadow-monger5189]

"Fun fact; he died"

[@jcavs9847]

Because he's british

[@renatodutrarangel112]

The fact that Peter decided he could choose the next heir regardless of whether or not it was his son to have a safer succession and forgetting to name an heir is hilarious. I can imagine in his final thoughts be "Now my heir need to... FUCK!"

[@TheMagicAround]

He changed succession to dump Alexei, but not only him - Alexei was pretty much legally married to european princess and had two children, boy and a girl. Peter has sent his first wife, the mother of Alexei from russian high-ranking noble family, to the convent to marry his lover. His lover was non-noble, not russian and of a wrong faith (which she changed) and they had two daughters before marriage. It was not only the boyars raising Alexei that made him dislike his father - it was the very threatment of his mother and his UNDERSTANDABLE fear for his position as a successor. Now this new wife of Peter in the years of marriage produced some children who died in infancy. Their son (and heir) died few years before Peter's death - so Peter really lost only strong option. By his doings there were left only his teenage daughters who were born out of wedlock and than ligitimised. His pre-teen grandchildren by Alexei, who's father he killed... and his nieces by his older brother Ivan (3 girls). So, his 2 girls were acceptable for him, the others were acceptable for the country, but not desireable for him. And all too young to show MUCH of a competence to rule (which his second daughter has later shown). He actually got his eldest daughter married to european prince and had written in marriage agreement that his grandson can be named Russia's Emperor. But at the time of his death the choice was very uncertain

[@drpepper3838]

Fun fact: peter liked European style ships so much that he ordered a ship from Amsterdam, when it arrived it ofcourse had the dutch flag. Peter saw this and liked the colours so much that he took them and switched them around creating the russian flag.

[@ImperatorMatthew]

So He’s A Reverse Weeb?

[@glebb..3416]

The colours existed in Russia before, he just took the style of the Tricolor which was new back then from the netherlands. Also the netherlands flag had orange instead of red (if I remember correctly) and peter did not use orange.

[@kaiserschweizer]

@@ImperatorMatthew He's a Dutch weeb

[@ImperatorMatthew]

@@kaiserschweizer yeah, also araki the creator jjba learned English from music, does that make him a reverse weeb?

[@kaiserschweizer]

@@ImperatorMatthew Only if he had an obsession with English. Since its the lingua franca, he may have just wanted to learn it in a more interesting way

[@LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit]

The torture of death of Alexei was downplayed. Everyone who even remotely seemed like he was friends with, were also tortured and executed. His servants were either beheaded or had their tongues cut out. Only THEN did he eventually die.

[@igorsmihailovs52]

This is 18th century man.

[@fish5671]

@@igorsmihailovs52 the based century

[@johnnotrealname8168]

Torture was being rolled back in that century. Peter did renege on actually signing a death warrant but clearly he did not let up on equality under the law if you get what I mean.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

That was pretty brutal for the 18th Century.

[@mism847]

@@igorsmihailovs52 It was the 17th century

[@Ruminations09]

"I'm changing the rules of succession, from now on the crown goes to the person I pick" "lol, jk, I didn't actually pick anyone, my b"

[@paulohenriqueferreiradealm1893]

Peter's father in the afterlife: "Peter, you had one job. One job that, I migth add, you choose to have. Of all your successes this was the easiest to achieve and the one you could not faill at. But, alas, faill you did. You're a disapointment, Peter."

[@planescaped]

"I choose me. You are hereby to conduct daily seance's."

[@cheydinal5401]

Wow, so he went from "Czar" (=>"Caesar"=> "Roman Emperor") to "Imperator" (=> "Roman Emperor")

[@KKKKKKK777js]

I belive the title was czar imperator. So Emperor Emperor :).

[@ahmmetb3h]

Ceasar was a Dictator and not an Emperor to be more correct, hence Tsar and not Imperator.

[@pgdunk12]

Caesar means emperor, romans called Augustus "Ceaesar Octavianus Augustus" and all the following emperors just adopted the title "caesar"

[@danukil7703]

@@pgdunk12 In the time of Augustus, "Caesar" was still just a cognomen. Augustus mainly used the title "Princeps"

[@klarobskyr]

The difference is that the term "emperor" was now formally recognized by the other certain emperor in the west. When Ivan IV proclaimed himself a czar/caesar in 1547 the rest of Europe was like "lol, Ivan, whatevs, good for you, but you're not really an emperor".

[@jonas1015119]

*Beard tax*

[@dr.vikyll7466]

Pay up fluffy

[@merrittanimation7721]

One of the stranger taxes in history I would think.

[@firefox3249]

When you just cannot grow one yourself...

[@merrittanimation7721]

​@Friendly Neighborhood Neocon That's not strange, that's just messed up in an unfortunately standard sort of way.

[@Aviationlord7742]

Do the half dozen strands of hair on the chin count enough to get taxed?

[@runescapeowns8734]

"the legislators will decide your fate" Peter: "I *am* the legislator"

[@denizaydn8746]

He loved ships so much, he even worked in dock yards in both Arkhangelsk and London which is one of the reasons why he was keen on ships. He even made some people make ships in the Volga River.

[@kosmosyche]

Yeah, he was so dedicated to the idea of building the Russian Navy he personally worked in the docks of Amsterdam and London as an apprentice for months (under the disguise, of course, although it seems everybody knew he was some sort of Russian Prince or Tsar or whatever lol).

[@christianbuffum-robbins8904]

Russian history is one giant mess and I love it.

[@merrittanimation7721]

Christian Buffum-Robbins So much murder of close relatives in order to keep or gain the throne.

[@Nikola95inYT]

@@merrittanimation7721 this is why monarchy sucks

[@chongli8409]

you can say this about any country (that is or was a great power)

[@bigboaharthurmorgan2109]

Lol

[@Enchie]

@@chongli8409 Britain isn't nearly as crazy.

[@Hawkathon]

Something that isn’t often remembered is that Peter the Great was about 206 cm (6’9”) tall.

[@CitrusyGuy]

Nice

[@stantorren4400]

Nice

[@danielwordsworth1843]

nice

[@resiliated9326]

im only 15 and almost as tall

[@RuiRuichi]

Damn the guy was an absolute unit.

[@PatrickAllenNL]

I just love the dark toned humour about death in these videos

[@HistoryMarche]

Outstanding concise presentation. Your videos never fail to impress and give a few chuckles.

[@RonJohn63]

You could call them the "epi-tome" of concise presentation.

[@BH-gh6qm]

except he failed to mention that Kiev only belonged to Poland because they had invaded and took it. Kind of misleading when he trys to make Russia sound like the bad guy for taking their land back.

[@limeboiler5471]

@@BH-gh6qm This man is not trying to make anyone sound like 'the bad guy'. He's an aspiring teacher and this channel solely exists to assist students. I can assure you that, if true, is not even vital to students in the first place.

[@jazzjj7665]

@@BH-gh6qm doesn’t matter, good setup for a joke

[@coolguyishere8851]

@@BH-gh6qm that’s a small thing in a huge video filled with info.

[@jeandurtal8404]

"Preobrazhenskoye" means "Transfiguration" in Russian, in case anyone cared.

[@geoffreycharles6330]

Are you Russian?

[@eternalturtle2439]

So what did we learn? The Russians are wizards!

[@samiamrg7]

It was also home to many German-speaking mercenaries employed by the Russian army. This is why Peter became fascinated by the military and western ways of doing things. He particularly liked Prussia and idolized Frederick the Great.

[@Hyperpotamus777]

@@samiamrg7 Frederick the Great was a teenager at the moment of Peter's the Great death. It is Peter III who admired Prussia and Frederick.

[@ksotar]

@@samiamrg7 he was more facinated in Holland seafarers and their jolly parties.

[@JackOfAllNerdsShow]

I was about to say, "I wonder why you never hear about Sophia." Then, "Convent, got it."

[@alanpennie8013]

At least they didn't have her blinded.

[@Martina-Kosicanka]

This video missed a great oportunity for telling the story of Peter peasant wife, later empress-regnant Catherine I. and his African adopted son Abrham Gannibal. Also his daughter, another empress-regnant Elisabeth I was badass

[@carltonleboss]

@@alanpennie8013 Nah, that was a Byzantine thing

[@IsraelCountryCube]

@@Martina-Kosicanka nah not thaat badaasss.. and also why the hell would he adopt a african kid

[@karlwittenburg5868]

One of my favorite parts of Civilization 4 is in the Leaders section of the Civilopedia. At the very end of Peter’s entry where it talks about his death and burial it ends with the line “presumably under the heaviest rock they could find” I read that and probably couldn’t stop laughing for 15 minutes

[@xaviersaavedra7442]

From Russia with love -Peter the Great

[@CannedBread-mz2tx]

“Shook off his mortal coil.” God I love this channel.

[@fulcrum2951]

"See ya nerds"

[@richardthomas5362]

I read that Sophia was actually pretty smart and decisive, especially in a male dominated Russia. I wonder how history would have changed it she had stepped down as regent but Peter kept her on to help him rule, and both managed to not undermine each other. I suspect she would have been able to keep up with him and, essentially, watch his back.

[@mr.goldenproductions_0143]

Simp.

[@Hundeputzmunter]

As soon as I heard 'choose his own successor', I just knew he'd fail to choose one

[@kentvesser9484]

Yeah, because the second you choose one they are probably conspiring for your demise.

[@Adrian_Martinez1261]

For some reason it's so predictable for European rulers but it makes for a great laugh

[@mamasnightmare1]

I have exstensively studied Peter the Great. His impact to the modern world is fastly underrated. He made Russia a western country and therefor stopped Carl the twelfth, and later alexander stopped Napoleon and Stalin Hitler. It was never possible without him. And saint Petersburg is magnificant.

[@gregmiller9710]

..not quite stopped...they just went further in the woods and denied them battle....oh, and scorched the earth so they couldn't hang around...:D

[@41BOT]

Hold on... take a little pause with Stalin. He was literally same or even worse than Hitler. Stalin and Hitler both are equally responsible for starting WW2, it is just that Russians were more sneaky and lucky to come out as "winners". Result - they continued to be provocative during cold war, continued committing crimes against humanity till the fall of USSR. Then with Putin regime Russia has now been restored into same inhumane backwards structure that it was under Stalins dictatorship.

[@41BOT]

@Complexus Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. One example of many. Not even talking about Cold War. How much you get paid, Russian troll ? LMAO

[@clairevero]

@@41BOT Simpleton

[@it.snowig]

@@gregmiller9710 stop /stäp/ verb past tense: stopped; past participle: stopped 1. (of an event, action, or process) come to an end; cease to happen. Thought you could use this

[@thatfighterguy5846]

8:33 you should have had Peter dance through a field of flowers with the caption "Bureaucracy".

[@jamiefernandez7760]

"He was a bit dead" - Oh British humor how I love you.

[@mattapps4355]

This just makes me want a video on Gustavus Adolphus or Catherine the great more...

[@fanbuoy9234]

Extra Credits had a good one on Catherine the great IIRC

[@mattapps4355]

@@fanbuoy9234 i thought Catherine and their genghis khan videos was actually one of their worse ones

[@AbdulGoodLooks]

Go look up Extra Credits

[@byzantinemapper6145]

"Tsar Michael of Russia, is a bit dead." I just love the dark jokes about death

[@pinkduke]

A case of the deads, classic.

[@fulcrum2951]

Very lethal

[@nickschallick5259]

First case to have a 100% death rate... unbelievable

[@BS-vx8dg]

I think it would have been good to note that Peter's adoption of the Julian calendar made Russia the only nation in the world to adopt the Julian calendar AFTER the creation of the Gregorian calendar. Very odd.

[@user-bf1yq6oj8z]

Protestant countries of Northern Europe upon the time used the Julian

[@BS-vx8dg]

@@user-bf1yq6oj8z Okay, but hadn't they been using it since *before* 1582? My point was that Russia adopted the Julian calendar *after* the creation of the Gregorian in 1582. Yes, those Protestant countries were using Julian when Peter adopted the Julian, but they had been using it for centuries already. By the way, it appears that there may have been one country that adopted the Julian even later than Russia. By some accounts, Turkey adopted the Julian in 1840 as a way of getting off the Muslim calendar.

[@user-bf1yq6oj8z]

@@BS-vx8dg Peter was a ruler of an absolutely non-catholic country. Naturally between two European calendars in use he had chosen a Julian one, as not “spoiled” by the idea of subjugation to the Pope’s authority.

[@BS-vx8dg]

@@user-bf1yq6oj8z Yes, I *get* that. But Peter was also committed to modernizing Russia, and he chose the less accurate calendar. I just think that's notable.

[@user-bf1yq6oj8z]

@@BS-vx8dg whether do you know that the only rationale for Gregorian calendar was a concern of the eventual Easter dates shifting from the spring to summer? Nothing more:)

[@Ajvt-ux4ec]

7:23 well that escalated quickly

[@dmitriygryaznov9210]

In the end, these wars were mainly about sea access to increase trade profits. (Still, very informative for 10 mins.)

[@Khajiidaro]

Nearly every Russian war is about warm waters for ships.

[@wederMaxim]

The whole policy of the Russian Empire can be described as follows: I am looking for warm water. Otherwise, Russia with its resources would have taken over the whole world.

[@McGliga]

9:31 - epitome - NOT "Epi-tome" but rather "Epi-tuh-mi"

[@HistoryMatters]

Whoops. Still beats that way I used to pronounce Banal.

[@HistoryMatters]

Bay-nul

[@Fudz4]

@@HistoryMatters When I was a kid playing Monopoly I used to loudly say I "FOUR-FEET" instead of forfeit.

[@The_Call_Up]

@@HistoryMatters kinky...

[@TheTfrules]

The marks of a well read person are frequently mispronounced words

[@elzabethtatcher9570]

It should be noted that although Peter did a great job at transforming Russia (for better of worse), many of his achievements stand on the shoulders of his predecessors. For example, the first modern ship in Russia was constructed during rule of his grandad. The first 'modern style' regiment was created by his dad. And Sophia did a significant amount of war with Poland and Turkey. The Peter, however, was the first to be successful atthe task of transforming Russia's military.

[@alexv1190]

That's how it always is. That's why we shouldn't worship any one person

[@TheHiredgoon0]

The upsidedown sinking ship captioned as "This seems wrong" is probably your best animation yet!

[@Orthane]

I can't believe I never knew St. Petersburg was named after Peter the Great. I always thought it was some sort of Orthodox thing.

[@Godslayer5656]

It kind of is actually, officially it was named after an Apostle named Saint Peter. Of course, this also could be a reason Peter gave to cover up the fact that he named it after himself.

[@vulpes7079]

It's named after Saint Peter the Apostle, who Peter the Great was dedicated to. He didn't name it after himself

[@TransformersBoss]

Peter: “ok, new settlement, and I want to name it after myself!” Advisors: “sir, wouldn’t that seem prideful? Maybe pick a more devout name for it?” Peter: “I’ll name it after my favorite Saint.”

[@thatfighterguy5846]

I love this series so much. Your dry humor is so much fun!

[@bificommander]

I'm not angry, son, I'm disappointed. Okay, I'm actually livid. Thumb screw time!

[@chrisphoenix77]

Ottoman Empire: "Can you stop invading me!? FOR FIVE! MINUTES!?!?"

[@erik-7255]

Russian winter sets in. Mongols: winter coat. Russian winter: shit.

[@danbaghoi4132]

Mongol empire is shit

[@andreacapuano585]

@@danbaghoi4132 ok and ?

[@xanshen9011]

Daniel You’re shit

[@maxim7269]

nah russia didn't exist back then when the mongol empire invade europe

[@karpyakin2171]

What a stupidity to justify all the defeats in the Russian winter. The Battle of Poltava was on July 8 on the territory of present-day Ukraine (there was no such state then, it was part of Russia ).

[@jamesscannell7951]

The idea of a 6 ft 10 inch Czar in disguise is hilarious and especially with that fake nose, glasses and mustache.

[@OttomanHistoryHub]

Another great video! The Ottomans devastated Peter The Great during the Pruth River Campaign of 1711. An Ottoman army commanded by the grand vizier Baltaji Mehmet Pasha actually managed to incircle Peters army during the war so thus Peter entered negotiations with the pasha. I remember Peter actually successfully bribing Mehmet Pasha to let his army unharmed and return to Russia. Imagine how different Russian history would be if Peter was captured by the Ottomans.

[@bizkitii821]

Curiosity: Tsarytsin is actually Volgograd (former Stalingrad)

[@nikolaytsankov9066]

Cover Great Moravia and The First Bulgarian Empire Edit: Or just more slavs in general

[@paritoshd]

1378, and King Charles IV of Bohemia, is dead...

[@peet556]

God be with you Henry!

[@user-py5gc5dn7t]

Shin91 No, the Bulgars weren’t turkic and either way the concept of the state at that time is that it was made out of an union between the slavs and the proto-Bulgarians. It became the cradle of slavic culture in the 9th century.

[@hunterbg7531]

@Shin91 if you call the bulgarians tyrks again i will buy you a ticket for gulag

[@hunterbg7531]

@Shin91 wait youre serbian ops sorry mate i tought you were another daim tyrk that is sayin the same shit

[@peterchasten2790]

6:26 RODE TO CERTAIN DEATH AND PAIN SWEDISH SOILDERS MET THEIR BANE SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN VAIN POLTAVA!

[@ArousedRat1]

@@fabricatorzayac is great

[@Danil4890]

Russian armies blocked their way, 20 000 died that day! They bled the ground, Peace they found.

[@BunsofSteel22]

Love the speed at which these new videos are being released at.

[@TommyTheWalker]

I love these videos, also funny. "A bit dead", "She came down with a case of the Deads" LOL

[@timothyrice1621]

A lot of the Old Believers went to Russian Alaska, and they still have villages there now. Seen them myself in the Kenai Peninsula, nice people.

[@annecampbell148]

PLEASE DO THE SWEDISH EMPIRE!

[@pbibbles]

One of the many reasons I love your videos is your perfect cadence. Most other content providers could condense their 10 minute videos to 7 by simply using 1.5x playback speed, or, shockingly, speaking a little faster.

[@KelarGridal]

Thoroughly enjoy all of your videos. Just cracks me up when you throw a bait and switch in such a serious tone.

[@chrisdesett2935]

Feodor, Ivan, and Peter were all children of Tsar Alexis, hence the patronymic Peter Alexeeivich, not Feodorivich. Feodor and Ivan were born from Alexis's first wife, and Peter was born from his second wife. In your video, it seems you implied that Peter and Ivan were children of Feodor, but as you said, Feodor was only 21, and Peter was 10 at the time of the first Streltsy Revolt spearheaded by his half-sister and the rest of the Miloslavskies, which means that Feodor would have had to have been 11 years old to father Peter. It may seem like a small error, however, it is exceedingly important in the dynastic dynamics and familial power struggles that had ensued between Peter's mother's family, the Naryshkins, and the family of Feodor and Ivan's mother, the Miloslavskies, even before the death of Alexis concerning the right of succession and the balance of power between the two camps.

[@Champion_of_Vlaakith]

Thanks for confirming this.

[@connorsimmonds9698]

*Lenin wants to know your location.*

[@nansisarifa]

@Алексей Савицкий exactly but peter offspring nicholas II just suck so hard at being a tsar,and they have enough of him

[@nicholasiiofrussia1662]

@@nansisarifa I didn't sucked, fool

[@thunderbird1921]

Be gone, commies!

[@Irrkie]

@ 7:16 nice touch with the anti Gustav II Adolph painting i Austria

[@henriksongaming9051]

You forgot to mention that Peter the great modernized the Russian army. He added bayonets in the army. Made a more organized army and introduced new tactics & strategy's

[@declanjarvis7344]

7:33 he mentions army reforms, not much detail but he's only got 10 minutes.

[@toddatisme8063]

“A case of the dead’s” 😂😂😂👌🏿

[@napolien1310]

"Russia's Baltic fleet is larger than the swedish entire navy" Good one lol

[@axlr8deathpls294]

Not true nowadays lol. Though it doesn't really matter much but the baltic sea is essentially just NATO's backyard playground and the combined nordic fleets could definitely secure naval dominance with the arrival of sweden and finland into nato

[@napolien1310]

@@axlr8deathpls294 did you not get the joke "history matter" did?

[@BritishRepublicsn]

@@napolien1310 I didn't

[@napolien1310]

@@BritishRepublicsn because Russia only had one fleet and it was stationed in the Baltic.

[@zachs1870]

Great video. Love the humor! keep it up, defiantly my favorite channel on YT rn!

[@Champion_of_Vlaakith]

As someone who has a Russian history half-yearly exam tomorrow about Peter the Great, this covered all the content involved, thanks mate!

[@kingusernamelxixthemagnifi3488]

Doesn't the word tsar mean emperor in Russian language ?

[@Nikola95inYT]

No. Tsar means basically king, so during tsar era Russia's official name was kingdom of Russia. The Emperor was a different thing.

[@kingusernamelxixthemagnifi3488]

@@Nikola95inYT Thanks for the information. In my ,also Slavic language, tsar (spelled car) means emperor.

[@patrick8358]

Император (Imperator) is the Russian word for Emperor, while Король (Kah-ROLL) is the Russian word for King. I think they used Царь (Tsar) because it sounds like Caesar. At one point Moscow considered itself "The Third Rome". If you have the means and ever have the opportunity, I highly recommend you come visit Russia, especially Moscow and Saint Petersburg. They are beautiful cities with breathtaking architecture, and there is history everywhere.

[@rettican]

It means ceaser. Russia was a tsardom (somewhat empire) on russian terms but peter changed his title to emporer to match western european terms, an emporer ( and his empire) would be seen in the west as higher status than tsar, slavs were generally seen as backward, so a move to western terms was good for russian status.

[@plummye005]

Tsar is russian for Cesar, Cesar and Agustus in short made the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. (and while we're at it before the roman empire emperor meant victorious general). Anyways 300ish years after the birth of the empire shit hit the fan and to fix it Dioclecian reinvented the power structure by spliting the empire into 2, east and west and giving both the east and west each one Agustus (senior emperor) and one Cesar (junior emperor). This didn't last long but the name Cesar was still handed out to the second most important person and continued until 1453 when eastern rome finally fell. So for a russian to call themselves and emperor would not make any sense because there was only one emperor and he was in rome, (or the holy roman empire depending on who you're talking to). So russia shared a lot of things with the eastern roman empire, mainly religion and common enemy so Peter saw themselves as the natural sucessor to the title emperor when they fell

[@DaisyGeekyTransGirl]

4:16 My typical Victoria II game.

[@zvank]

5:16 хороший выбор букв))))))

[@CluelessHomesteaders]

Just found your channel and subbed. Can’t wait to consume some of the back episodes!

[@Deadbass_]

Person: *dies* History Matters: “She caught a bad case of the dead” *thuds*

[@penta3292]

“In 1649 though, alexis issued a law code which freed agricultural slaves, and then made them serfs” God damnit alexis “He also sought to give better defined legal to agricultural peasants” “By making them serfs” *GOD DAMNIT ALEXIS*

[@au-contraire]

Entertaining and informative. Thanks!

[@fionnkelly1355]

keep up the great work

[@mylesmorell7625]

I like how the videos start off with someone dying and then they just fall over🤣

[@MrProtopopescovici]

4:01 brilliant

[@wfcoaker1398]

Seleucus Came down with a case of the deads. Lol

[@cheknauss9867]

"____.... and made them surfs" has to be one of my new favorite sayings.

[@azlanadil3646]

This Peter guy seems like excellent evidence that no one, no matter how competent, should have absolute power.

[@swedichboy1000]

Coming from a Swede, big respect to Peter the Great for being a worthy opponent.

[@ilykeandre3898]

😂😂 he won every war

[@simonbach3618]

Comming from a Dane to bad we wer on his side.

[@Puckosar]

Coming from a Swede, fuck that. I wouldn't call a barbaric despot that halts invasions by burning his own lands and people as "worthy". Russia won due to it's immense territory and manpower and Swedish overconfidence and naivety. That and the fact that Sweden was at war with like 2-3 other nations and massively overextended at the time whilst having a relatively tiny population

[@raunce91]

As an Estonian, Swedish empire was rather more fun than the the Russian ones

[@DanielgtaLaw]

6:21 Winter in Russia in a nutshell

[@RomanS401]

These videos are hilarious and educational, keep it up!

[@sohca6162]

I love these longer videos he makes

[@mrunseen3797]

Peter: Stop! His son: Hammer-Time? Perer: No. Thumbscrew-Time.

[@nohabloemojislosiento4930]

Peter didn't have his son "tortured to death." He had him tortured, but while Peter was deciding if he would kill him or not, the son died. There's a difference.

[@Delightfully_Bitchy]

You literally just said, "He wasn't tortured to death, he was tortured to death!". There wasn't even any special emphasis, you were just incorrectly pedantic.

[@nohabloemojislosiento4930]

@@Delightfully_Bitchy You should just change your screen name to "Bitch."

[@billbixby8698]

What a great video, quite enjoyable indeed!

[@GeometricMason]

Filicide... GREAT word! Never heard it used before, yet I knew exactly what it meant. I love this channel.

[@--julian_]

Best history channel ever!!!!! . . . . . . . . Google, recommend it to more people!!!

[@JGHinton1989]

I'm crushed that we didn't get to Catherine the Great. GET TO CATHERINE THE GREAT!!! I'd like to generally see more videos on central, northern, and eastern european history.

[@doggedout]

"..,came down with a case of the deads" (thud). Love this channel.

[@geronimo8159]

"Pay up, Fluffy!"

[@johnkeefer8760]

Russia: Adopts Julian calendar when Gregorian calendar already exists. Never change Russia. Never change

[@TravisBroski]

“So, the next heir isnt your blood, right?” “NO. I get to choose the next one!” … … “So who’s the next heir?” “I’m think-“ *dies*

[@shanzaez1675]

this is the best medium of learning Russian history please never stop

[@mademoiselleria1412]

you make learning so much easier

[@unbrokenbrony5618]

"Don't worry son. I won't punish you!" *Alexis comes home* "Ha-ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!"

[@danieltoro4917]

Wanna hear a joke? 3:33 Treaty of Eternal Peace with Poland

[@Kzummo]

Probably one of History Matter's best videos

[@ChanceKearns]

The “and then ____ died” jokes are the best parts of these videos

[@tereedo]

Could you do a video about peter II of Brazil?

[@vaiyt]

Peter I would be cool too, with being king of two different countries with different reputations in each

[@felps1917]

@@vaiyt this was Peter the first, Peter II was his son

[@meganmaherrose8442]

I actually look forward to when a monarch “becomes one with the dead” or “had a small case of death” cuz the death jokes get better and better

[@shibzy0tennant]

I love this series but I usually have to rewind each video a lot because I'll end up missing a decade or two because I'm laughing so hard. Like "this was meant to be temporary but fun fact: no." 😂

[@Adrian_Martinez1261]

I know 🤣🤣🤣

[@hungarycountryball1056]

I like these documentaries about certain people.