The Birth of Ukraine (1019-1492) -The History of Ukraine Part 2

We return after looking at the rise of the Rus in part I, this time to discuss how it fell and what came after...
Part I: • The Rise of the Kyivan...
Part III coming as soon as I finish writing it.
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Special thank you to ‪@violinali‬ for providing the recording of Oy Khodyt Son Kolo Vikon (The Dream Passes By the Window) as the backing music for a signficant part of this episode. Click the @ to check out her music.
References:
Chwalba, Andrzej, and Krzysztof Zamorski. "The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth." History, Memory, Legacy (2020).
Korolyshyn, Dan. "The PRIMARY CHRONICLE of Kyivan Rus' ПовЂсть временныхъ лЂтъ." (2020).
Lewis, Simon. "Cosmopolitanism as sub-culture in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth." In Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe, pp. 149-169. Routledge, 2019.
Plokhy, Serhii. The gates of Europe: A history of Ukraine. Basic Books, 2015.
Pritsak, Omeljan. "At the Dawn of Christianity in Rus': East Meets West." Harvard Ukrainian Studies 12 (1988): 87-113.
Putin, Vladimir. "On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians." President of Russia 12 (2021).
(This is a stupid source but it is important to read the rambling of Putin).
Sevcenko, Ihor. "The Christianization of Kievan Rus'." The Polish Review (1960): 29-35.
Subtelny, Orest. Ukraine: A history. University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Sysyn, Frank E. "Recovering the ancient and recent past: the shaping of memory and identity in early modern Ukraine." Eighteenth-Century Studies 35, no. 1 (2001).
TIKHOMIROV, MIKHAIL N. "The Origins of Christianity in Russia." History 44, no. 152 (1959).

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Special thank you to @violinali for providing the recording of Oy Khodyt Son Kolo Vikon (The Dream Passes By the Window) as the backing music for a signficant part of this episode. Click the link to check out her music. kzbin.info/door/zLUG_nscUkO-xyHBsfnoTA

[@ZillyWhale]

What did the Kyivan Rus call themselves?

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Generally speaking they refer to themselves as Rus

[@brianmead7556]

No “Ukraine” before the 1600s. The word didn’t even exist. It was a “Russia”, the “Wild Field”, a Khanate, and a Horde. The “U” “Kraini” the “By Edge” or “Borderland” we have now denotes the edge between Slavdom and Germania, or the East and West churches. This is affirmed by documents, such as the the Letter of Bogdan Hmelnytsky to Tsar Aleksey, pleading to him from protection, as fellow Slava and Orthodox. The Bereznevi articles, which acknowledge the right and authority of the Russian Tsar over the region, affirmed by a second correspondence with Bogdan Hmelnytsky. The overwhelming majority of these are written in the Russian language, regardless of who or where did the writing. And not wanting any of these will you find the word Ukraine or the concept of an independent Ukraine. The closest you get is a little Russia, Malorossiya, yes, a Russia, under the rule of Tsar of all the Russia’s in the great Russia, which we simply call Russia now. And yes, the people writing from the west of the regions directly refer to themselves as Russians, many times, and affirm their Russianness. Go on Eurodocs and look up the Cossack Hetmanate.

[@tamcon72]

@@brianmead7556 Hi, the language thing is due to forced Russification. Your comment, supported by Russian revisionist sources, is mostly Russian revisionism. Thanks for acting as an object lesson in what happens when one cannot distinguish credible from not credible sources, and doesn't know enough valid history about a place to understand cultural nuances.

[@brianmead7556]

@@tamcon72 These are the original documents in the original languages. Go tell the people who call themselves Russians and natively use Russian they aren't and don't. People speak the languages where the money and power are, and there, it's Russian. That's just how social dissemination of language works; there are more opportunities if you speak Russian than if you speak Lemko, Uzbek, Xie, Sami, Circassian, Nenets, Mariel, Ukrainian, and so on. And don't say "forced Russification", given all the WarPac countries kept their home languages, not Russian, and the SSR countries all kept their languages, not Russian. The Ukrainians have spoken and Identified with Russia for a very long time. They share dishes, religions, traditions, dress, origin, lore, culture, literature, and script. My Ukrainian language tutor is from Harkov from the Soviet times, and still calls herself a Russkaya and natively speaks Russian, and lived in Ukraine all the way to the 2010s. Our lessons are conducted in Russian as the language of instruction, though I am rapidly becoming good enough at Ukrainian to not need it. They are very close peoples, even closer than Bangladeshis to Indians or Scottsmen to Englishmen. The greatest consensus between Russians and Ukrainians is they are twin peoples separated by an arbitrary artificial border imposed upon them by outside forces, more alike with each other than anyone else. And if you look at the language prevalence charts for choice in surveys and online use, it's Russian. The top songs and memes and books and movies are in Russian, despite trying to legislate against that. They speak Russian even with their own government killing them with troops for it. Oh, and all the leaders in that same government preferentially speak RUSSIAN in private and with each other when they aren't acting for the camera! Nischo ni znae, nu tak, cholovik. Rosiya i Ukraina tse slovyani brati, napryamo i voedino z proschoi v buduschee naveki.

[@awesomehpt8938]

Quite a coincidence that the founder of Ukraine was called Volodymyr and the leader of Ukraine today whilst in a struggle for survival is also called Volodymr

[@reynanlamsen2007]

Volodymyr gets reincarnated everytime Ukraine goes through a period of tribulation.

[@ayindestevens6152]

@@reynanlamsen2007 probably why he’s got a sense of humor

[@thepolishnz]

Legend tells that he will return when the people need him

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

When Ukrainian dudes have a 1 in 6 chance of being banned Volodymyr/Vladimir it’s not that great of a coincidence.

[@MouseTai1]

Unfortunately, so is Putin

[@Mate-vg2ft]

I feel like this ongoing series is gonna become a vital tool to dispel current tankie and Russian propaganda lies. Something akin to the anti-Nazi stuff the US government made after WW2. I just hope it will be much more effective.

[@stealthyfuck3217]

Oh sure, they werent nazi's before ww2 and even during it only half the ukraine. Read up on Bandera and his death squads comprised fully of ukranian nazi sympathizers

[@roo72]

Fun fact: Jadwiga was a king of Poland, not a queen of Poland for both political and linguistic reasons. The political reasons are many and complicated. The linguistic reason was a lot simpler, at the time there was no word in the Polish language for a female king. The modern word "królowa" (which now means the queen) at the time meant only "king's wife". Hence Jadeiga was crowned a king of Poland. Just a little historical titbit. Anyway, very nice series so far, well told.

[@qhu3878]

does that mean her husband was known as kings-wife then?

[@roo72]

@@qhu3878 She didn't have a husband when she was crowned the king of Poland but she became a queen when she married Jogaila

[@qhu3878]

@@roo72 ah, thanks

[@20chocsaday]

​@@qhu3878 Sounds a bit like Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.

[@jannowak711]

And Jogaiła was crowned the by election while queen Jadwiga was "naturally pre-borne to power"

[@cynthiaherbst3909]

May your studies and dedication to the truth of this history continue.

[@RoberttheJunker]

Keep going man. The world needs more quality history with a touch of humor.

[@Irobert1115HD]

three other names i can hand you: animarchie history, lord hardthrasher and lazer pig. well hardthrasher might be a bit hard to swallow if you are a wehraboo.

[@brianmead7556]

OMFG, those are my favorite fake history comedy channels!

[@Irobert1115HD]

@@brianmead7556 may it be that we found the bot?

[@piritskenyer]

During the pandemic I was occupying myself with things like rebuilding my kitchen and when I ran out of kitchen, researching and building nixie clocks. For building nixies, the best price/quality option you have, in my experience, is to buy soviet IN tubes. I ordered about 6 dozen IN-12, 8-2, 14 and 4 tubes in the course of 2020 and 21, most of them from Ukraine and Belarus. There was this one Belarussian guy who I ordered from so much, that he actually included a fridge magnet in one of the packets, and now, when you mention how they are almost completely russified it just makes me all the more sad and mad to think about them. Sorry for the tangent, I just wanted to share.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Very good,.very informative. About time Ukraine gets to be treated as having its own history instead of a footnote in russia's history.

[@nielsmichiels1939]

​@@brianmead7556bot

[@jorenvanderark3567]

​@@brianmead7556 Hilarious, you're using the exact Kremlin Propaganda that has been contextualised and disarmed in part 1. Who do you expect to fall for your BS?

[@brianmead7556]

@@jorenvanderark3567 Eurodocs is by the EUROPEAN UNION! Cry on, Nazi.

[@travissutherland8502]

Great work. Serendipitously started part one just as part two was dropping.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Part 3 will be out this time next week

[@zallia_]

I'd love for you to do a history of Moldova some time as well, especially the later parts of our history (1812 and on). In my humble opinion, Moldova is one of the clearest examples of Soviet russification (colonization, even), with some of the most devastating deportations (by % of the population) and resettlements both to and from the region. I think it'd be great to bring more awareness to our little country from the West, as well as helping my fellow countrymen with discovering the new, very much post-colonial identity of our peoples. (Also, another great video, as always)

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

I have toyed with the idea of attempting to get phd approval on the topic of Russification truth be told. So it is possible I'll make that video.

[@iris1224wwad]

@zallia_ I for one would be interested in the history of your country.

[@ayindestevens6152]

If he’s really in Brooklyn then they DEFINITELY sold him on a bridge view

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

This made me laugh

[@ayindestevens6152]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel I’ll give you a hint it ain’t the Brooklyn Bridge lol

[@MrRilarios]

Greetings fron Colombia!... This series has been a blast.. thanks for your efforts.

[@thomaslayton2110]

Oooh this will go very well with my morning coffee

[@LivingUnderRock]

Yes, The Cossacks! One of my favorite peoples across history.

[@LivingUnderRock]

Sorry I can’t edit so I type it down here: “I cant wait for the next one”is supposed to be at the end

[@jackplenty2064]

Glorious Mustache Men they are

[@20chocsaday]

​@@brianmead7556Please tell Putin to get out of what has been recognised as Ukraine so that Russia can have a peaceful country bordering it. Although I fear that sentiment is far too late. You will probably have notes on the old times when people speaking russian were Russian. And just as in present day USA they had a country to back them. But the times are past what Paul could escape a flogging by saying, "I am a Roman citizen". It is only airliners that have prevented the arrest of Russian agents for murder. And the same for others.

[@signorasforza354]

@@jackplenty2064 My ancestors would laught in their vusa(mustache in Ukrainian)😂

[@extragoogleaccount6061]

Russia acts like Ukraine is a little brother. But Ukraine is their daddy.

[@20chocsaday]

​@@brianmead7556This is rather interesting as it gives a date for the emergence of a russian language. Do you know if has changed much since then? Would my dictionary be useful for the translation?

[@just_inker2584]

@@brianmead7556 you just proved that history is indeed replaced by ideology in russia. Bohdan Khmelnytskyi would laugh his ass off if he heard words "russian tsar" 😂

[@Kobrag90]

@@brianmead7556 PIss off muskovite peasant.

[@mykhailo4472]

@@brianmead7556 First, word Ukraine existed at least since 1187 2. Names of the state tend to change. 3nd Ukraine\Kyiv can't be a borderland of Rus' , because it is metropole of Rus` ( also russia not equal Rus` ) 4d Hmelnytsky articles - we don't have complete list of this articles from originals. And its very controversial topic about what it was. 5. Moscovites came with translators at the meeting with cossaks..why is what ?* 6. It wasn't russian lang, it was Old Church Slavonic. Calling it as modern russian , it`s like calling Latin lang - Italic or English. 7. Also you know what Little Rus` and Big Rus` mean ? Look up Graecia Magna meaning , I`ll give you a hint great - it`s a colonies or like you saying 'borderland' 8. You have a mess with timeline or with concept of linier time in general..Tsar of all the "Russia’s" 😅

[@funki4896]

Nope. They are like unrelated neighbors. Moscovites aren't even indo europeans. They are partially finno-ugric and partially tatars

[@johnnywishbone831]

Very cool second installment. Jam packed with so much shit I had no idea about. Not that I had that much idea :) Love your work mate.

[@schoeni3140]

We still call our self's Franken here in North West of Bavaria

[@20chocsaday]

And I used to have a large drinking vessel called a Stein. That would leave Dr Frankenstein of monster fame a very interesting name. Was, perhaps, the inspiration for the book a large quantity of alcoholic liquor.

[@schoeni3140]

@@20chocsaday Stein means rock beause a traditonal Stein is made of a rock. Maybe there was a familie out of Franken who sold Rocks and became rich of selling lokal deposits of Sandstone and Limestone who became known as Frankenstein. That is why People called Frankenstein don´t live in Franken.

[@20chocsaday]

@@schoeni3140 It was probably made of fired and glazed clay. But if I still had it I would examine it.

[@al-sir]

I hope Anastasiya stays safe over there in Ukraine 🇺🇦 for the foreseeable future

[@JDBlack3347]

Looking forward to part 3

[@daladams]

These are great, You are great, Ukraine is great.

[@mmitak]

Cool to see the cathedral "Alexander Nevsky" in Sofia coming up in both episodes so far. Curio - it was renamed to "Saints Kiril and Methody" after 1916, when the muscovite empire tried to invade Bulgaria, but then renamed back in 1920. Same time when we switched to the Gregorian calendar and started celebrating Christmas in December. We share so much trauma in eastern Europe coming from the swampland.

[@20chocsaday]

Would you not like the opportunity to celebrate Christmas twice a year? It used to be easier but got risky after MH17.

[@signorasforza354]

@@20chocsaday He would like to have an opportunity never ever deal with ruzzia.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, it is appreciated

[@chadmicmac5029]

Thank you ❤

[@royjones1053]

Great work my friend, history can be so complicated, I am a Kiwi and I have ancestral connection to the step, thank you for your work. Keep it up.

[@Narses_the_aremnian]

Good night

[@wolfelite7362]

Once again an absolute banger thank you for the video and it was greatly informative and also for helping me survive the current exams much love from South-Africa and Slava Ukraine

[@atomm3331]

Oh fuck ya I’m so happy I just saw this pop up. The last one was amazing. Love the content and super appreciate the time and effort this takes to put together for everyone’s benefit.

[@brianmead7556]

It’s lies. No “Ukraine” before the 1600s. The word didn’t even exist. It was a “Russia”, the “Wild Field”, a Khanate, and a Horde. The “U” “Kraini” the “By Edge” or “Borderland” we have now denotes the edge between Slavdom and Germania, or the East and West churches. This is affirmed by documents, such as the the Letter of Bogdan Hmelnytsky to Tsar Aleksey, pleading to him from protection, as fellow Slava and Orthodox. The Bereznevi articles, which acknowledge the right and authority of the Russian Tsar over the region, affirmed by a second correspondence with Bogdan Hmelnytsky. The overwhelming majority of these are written in the Russian language, regardless of who or where did the writing. And not wanting any of these will you find the word Ukraine or the concept of an independent Ukraine. The closest you get is a little Russia, Malorossiya, yes, a Russia, under the rule of Tsar of all the Russia’s in the great Russia, which we simply call Russia now. And yes, the people writing from the west of the regions directly refer to themselves as Russians, many times, and affirm their Russianness. Go on Eurodocs and look up the Cossack Hetmanate.

[@atomm3331]

@@brianmead7556 So why did they need translators in the 1600s to talk to each other? Oh I guess you missed that lesson at Moscow university for the feeble and moronic.

[@user-hs9in1wi7e]

I really would appreciate more maps, evolving maps, to reflect the changes spoken about. It would make it easier to picture...

[@compromisedssh]

Thanks for these videos. I know I gave you a bit of a hard time by saying that you were trying to squeeze every last drop of juice out of Russia's hilariously incompetent navy (which is actually fine-- those are some of my favorite KZbin videos of all time), but I'm thrilled to see you making great content that has no relationship to said navy. Keep it up. Your channel rules.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

I have one more of those in the pipeline. Have to cover Sablin afterall... But thank you

[@tomaszmankowski9103]

Overall pretty decent video. Very informative when it comes to the period after the Mongol invasion. I see two major flaws. One is protestantism. In general religion in the XVIth century and later were affected by Reformation and its consequences. In the Commonwealth for example at that time a sizable majority of nobility was protestant, the king catholic just like many senators in the parliament while other parts of the population were mostly catholic, orthodox, protestant or jewish. Here is where Ukrainian nobility played important part because many legal documents and a large part of contitutionalism during this period was supposed to secure a balance of religions protecting freedom of religion to avoid disastrous civil wars like in the western part of Europe, especially in France (important because the first elected king was French). It is nowadays assumed that the Ruthenian nobility from so called Red Rus (western Ukraine) played a very important part in securing those freedoms. It is also important to note that control of orthodox religion was exploited by Moscow - that led to the Union of Brest which both expanded catholicism to the east and was supposed to secure the Commonwealth from Moscow centred influence. Was supposed to, but instead it lead to tensions between catholic and orthodox christianity. Two is is the complexity of the Lublin Union. Ruthernian nobility in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania wanted protection from the aristocracy of the Duchy and desired laws which were protecting rights and freedoms in the Kingdom of Poland (the part of the Commonwealth called the Crown). This shift started very early because Polish parliamentarism was being formed during the personal union with the GDL, so started two centuries before the Lublin Union. While it happened Ruthenian nobility in the GDL's Ukraine could observe their Ruthenian cousins in Poland receiving for example legal protection they lacked in the GDL. GDL remained more despotic, which was exploited by local aristocracy and often by the Grand Duke when he felt strong enough to exert this power. Because of that lower nobility tried to align with the King of Poland who was also the Grand Duke of Lithuania. He had to deal with powerful oligarchic powers of princes in the GDL, with strong families with great wealth and power and that could be very problematic. Lower nobility seen a chance to change that in extending the borders of the Crown to territories more to the east. Of course turning Ukraine into the third, equal part of the Commonwealth was seen as a much better solution (and it certainly was), but in general Ruthenians had more agency in the Commonwealth and that involved a larger share of the population than many famous houses with large wealth. This might be pretty interesting, but it is in Ukrainian: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4mzlXR9mtOBaLM Take care you are doing splendid work!

[@tomaszmankowski9103]

@@brianmead7556 Go away troll. You have no idea what you are even talking about.

[@MouseTai1]

You should pronounce "ch" at the end of Halych the same way as at the beginning of Chernihiv.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Thank you

[@leftnoname]

Very interesting. Keep up the good work, Sir.

[@stormlord2178]

Yes a great video to help me get a better overview about the world

[@brianmead7556]

You’re being lied to; get some real history complete with primary sources you can look at. No “Ukraine” before the 1600s. The word didn’t even exist. It was a “Russia”, the “Wild Field”, a Khanate, and a Horde. The “U” “Kraini” the “By Edge” or “Borderland” we have now denotes the edge between Slavdom and Germania, or the East and West churches. This is affirmed by documents, such as the the Letter of Bogdan Hmelnytsky to Tsar Aleksey, pleading to him from protection, as fellow Slava and Orthodox. The Bereznevi articles, which acknowledge the right and authority of the Russian Tsar over the region, affirmed by a second correspondence with Bogdan Hmelnytsky. The overwhelming majority of these are written in the Russian language, regardless of who or where did the writing. And not wanting any of these will you find the word Ukraine or the concept of an independent Ukraine. The closest you get is a little Russia, Malorossiya, yes, a Russia, under the rule of Tsar of all the Russia’s in the great Russia, which we simply call Russia now. And yes, the people writing from the west of the regions directly refer to themselves as Russians, many times, and affirm their Russianness. Go on Eurodocs and look up the Cossack Hetmanate.

[@sr7129]

Let’s go, Congress is finally starting the slow process of getting their shit together. For this singular package…

[@brianmead7556]

It better be the last fucking one as just by itself it’s bigger than the entire Russian military budget! I paid more than $1000 more in taxes this year, I better see some results.

[@nielsmichiels1939]

​​@@brianmead7556it's mostly just equipment that already existed in depos, you payed for that equipment decades ago.

[@sr7129]

@@brianmead7556 Someone doesn’t know how military aid works

[@ChiefFalque]

At 18:41 there's this weird cut after "in" going straight to a "but", as though you intended to cut after "vanished" in the middle of a "vanished in its entirety" or something similar. Should be a pretty quick fix if you ever decide to do a re-edit for a re-upload. Loving the series.

[@TheShorterboy]

nicely done

[@Telsion]

Fantastic episode once again. Well done, and thank you

[@ethanblackthorn3533]

Thank you for this series!

[@yourneighbourhooddoomer]

Thank you for mentioning Belarus! 🤍❤🤍 Hopefully one day we'll be able to unshackle ourselves from Muscovite rule and live in peace next to our ukrainian friends!

[@OrdinaryDev]

I am very hopeful for the Belarusian language. Know few young people who speak it and maybe will have time to learn it myself.

[@brianmead7556]

White Russia, why on earth are you signing up to join the same people who massacred your grandparents and destroyed 60% of the population? Anyway No “Ukraine” before the 1600s. The word didn’t even exist. It was a “Russia”, the “Wild Field”, a Khanate, and a Horde. The “U” “Kraini” the “By Edge” or “Borderland” we have now denotes the edge between Slavdom and Germania, or the East and West churches. This is affirmed by documents, such as the the Letter of Bogdan Hmelnytsky to Tsar Aleksey, pleading to him from protection, as fellow Slava and Orthodox. The Bereznevi articles, which acknowledge the right and authority of the Russian Tsar over the region, affirmed by a second correspondence with Bogdan Hmelnytsky. The overwhelming majority of these are written in the Russian language, regardless of who or where did the writing. And not wanting any of these will you find the word Ukraine or the concept of an independent Ukraine. The closest you get is a little Russia, Malorossiya, yes, a Russia, under the rule of Tsar of all the Russia’s in the great Russia, which we simply call Russia now. And yes, the people writing from the west of the regions directly refer to themselves as Russians, many times, and affirm their Russianness. Go on Eurodocs and look up the Cossack Hetmanate.

[@Waldo_Wedger]

Haven't heard one major detail about fall of Kyiv. During one of the crusades Constantinople was heavily hit by crusaders and it lead to degradation of "from Variags to Greeks" trade rote (connected Scandinavia and Byzantium, where Dnipro river was one of the core parts of the route). Since Kyiv prospered as sort of tax-point on that route, its degradation caused economical impact on the city as well and decreased its value. Also, as I remember, either Volodymyr or Yaroslav implemented quite tricky inheritance law. If older brother died Kyiv was given to the next in chain, but if that next in chain was sitting i.e. in Chernihiv, Chernihiv was passed to the next after him and so on. And this way all cities could be passed via the whole chain after only 1 death. That's why for quite a long time princes didn't have strong attachment to their current domain (which could change many times during their life), since they always expected "promotion".

[@nightshade4873]

6:40 i found myself bursting in laughter for unknown reasons.....

[@jvsv_5602]

ambatublow - some random russian t72

[@funki4896]

The "ch" in "Halych" is pronounced the same as in "chair", "catch" or "Charles".

[@SK_2521]

Modern Russia claiming that "Prince was from Novgorod which is now in Russia => He's russian" is essentially the same as modern Turks claiming that Justinian was a Turk as he was from Istanbul. Moscovy conquered and put to the sword Novgorod.

[@Ciech_mate]

Great job mate!

[@darksnakenerdmaster]

Unlike Mel Brooks, a part 2 has been made

[@Daniel-de2jh]

cant wait for part 3!

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

I've edited about 20% of it. It'll be here Monday

[@michaelogden5958]

21:52 Ya don't often see flags flying into the wind. Slava Ukraini!

[@brianmead7556]

Bud zdrova, MaloROSSIYA! No “Ukraine” before the 1600s. The word didn’t even exist. It was a “Russia”, the “Wild Field”, a Khanate, and a Horde. The “U” “Kraini” the “By Edge” or “Borderland” we have now denotes the edge between Slavdom and Germania, or the East and West churches. This is affirmed by documents, such as the the Letter of Bogdan Hmelnytsky to Tsar Aleksey, pleading to him from protection, as fellow Slava and Orthodox. The Bereznevi articles, which acknowledge the right and authority of the Russian Tsar over the region, affirmed by a second correspondence with Bogdan Hmelnytsky. The overwhelming majority of these are written in the Russian language, regardless of who or where did the writing. And not wanting any of these will you find the word Ukraine or the concept of an independent Ukraine. The closest you get is a little Russia, Malorossiya, yes, a Russia, under the rule of Tsar of all the Russia’s in the great Russia, which we simply call Russia now. And yes, the people writing from the west of the regions directly refer to themselves as Russians, many times, and affirm their Russianness. Go on Eurodocs and look up the Cossack Hetmanate.

[@baneofbanes]

@@brianmead7556Russian propaganda.

[@leotka]

Very arguable comments about transfer capital from Kiev to Volodymyr city. Mitropolit of Russie was in Kiev so Kiev still was official capital of Russie. Volodymyr on Klyazma river was established by Duke Andrei Bogolubskiy who asked Konstontinopole Patriarkh about separate Metropoly for Volodymyr city but was rejected.

[@Sza_]

With my limited knowledge of medieval history, I can only say two things about this video. First of all, thank you for making such videos, as this one, which debunk propaganda and educate people. And second of all, you could have mentioned where Ukraine got its national colours from, as it falls in between the years in the title. From what I know it was from a Silesian prince who ruled Galicia for a short time.

[@manonational]

The frankish culture still exists in germany, they live in northern bavaria. Most bavarians insist on differentiate between them and franks and vice versa

[@Syndr1]

Hi History, Part 3 should cost about 60 Billion i think. 🧐

[@avaxapon8031]

🎉🎉

[@Coole000]

Everything is nice but it seems you don't understand that Halyc is pronounced like HalyČ. Took me some time to understand what you trying to say

[@vapsa56]

I am blown away from this history lesson. I have many friends that are of Ukrainian decent. Their culture and resilience is just amazing to me. The largest Ukrainian enclave outside of Ukraine is in Brazil. They speak the Ukrainian language as it was spoken 200 years ago. Without the Russian influences. Their culture is strongly Ukraine of 200 years ago. You would love it. It would be a great trip for you on a historical and Anthropological interest. My visit to the State of Parana BR was an eye opener. History is a hobby of mine. Especially why people enbark on migration.

[@OniksR]

The largest in Canada, it was there that Hitler’s followers settled after the Second World War. The Ukrainian language is approximately 130 years old, it was then that it was invented from Russian, Polish, and others.

[@tamcon72]

@@OniksR This is not a fact-based comment. There is evidence of written Ukrainian or proto-Ukrainian, in medieval architecture and writing.

[@OniksR]

@@tamcon72 This is all the old Russian language or the old church language, well, not like Ukrainian.

[@tamcon72]

@@OniksR The differentiation of Old Slavonic had already resulted in a Ukrainian language separate from Russian and Belarusian (the latter is also not a dialect of Russian) by the middle ages. It would help you if you actually watched the video before posting your opinions.

[@OniksR]

@@tamcon72 This video was made by a Ukrainian, why should I watch it? What historical document is written in Ukrainian?

[@guttosmile]

Regarding the “Bogolyubsky” pronunciation - no, you have not butchered it.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

I was sure I had...

[@fxandrei]

Great stuff

[@michaelvnuk]

Why do so many show flags flying with reverse footage

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

As in the footage is reversed?

[@michaelvnuk]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel watch the ripples in the fabric. it starts at the end and moves to the pole

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Ah yes. Because stock footage to fight copyright

[@michaelvnuk]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel okay that's been bugging me for a while. I keep seeing it everywhere

[@DeyanKostov]

Good video, but why do you show the biggest Bulgarian church :) 22:36 in this video. It's named after Alexander Nevsky, that you mentioned in the video - a prince of Novgorod, who was canonized by the Orhtodox Church as a saint. Also... possibly a Muslim? Bring your asbestos pants, if you join a discussion on the topic of his real faith, or whether he had any :)

[@20chocsaday]

Interesting point about faith there. As heir to the British throne Charles said he would be 'defender of faiths' although the monarch has been for centuries the head of the protestant English church. He is king now, I wonder what is written on the coinage.

[@sagewerk5025]

There are still "Franken" in northern Bavaria

[@eineperson9849]

Stimmt scho, aber die heutigen Franken sind schon recht anders als die karolinger😅

[@ModernDayMarcoPolo]

God Shit as always keep it up :)

[@fabovondestory]

🇺🇦

[@brianmead7556]

Z

[@just_inker2584]

You depict history of Ukraine the best and I really thankful for your hard work, but there is one thing I must mention. Initially, the the only slavs that called themself Rus' were Ukrainians in Kyivan Region, that's why viking princes called themself Rus' princes. This Ukrainian tribe conquered other slavic and Finno-Ugric tribes and collected tribute from them, so you can't really say that Kyivan Rus' has multiple successors, the birth place and it's culture were clearly Ukrainian, like British Empire was British.

[@Syndr1]

Ps. Im still going with Viking's season 5 on this.

[@lucashinch]

11 hours?n fmsl

[@leosharman8630]

Please do Poland next!

[@BlahBlah-np2fp]

Good video, would be nice to see history of Finland after you done with Ukraine series :D

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

I've been getting a few requests from nations in eastern Europe for video series like these. I'm considering it heavily

[@brianmead7556]

I can’t wait for the part where he hast to deal with the fact that Mannerheim was a mega Russia simp. He was a native Russian speaker, a self identifying Russian and also by nationality, a Russian army General, fought for Russia, preserved the Russian empire in Finland, didn’t learn Finnish until his 50s, and was even best friends with the Tsar. Mannerheim was so Russian his pimples popped smetana!

[@20chocsaday]

Many kings of England could not speak English. The commies killed the Tzar. So, he is unlikely to be best friends with the USSR.

[@BlahBlah-np2fp]

@@brianmead7556 He was officer in the Russian army during Russo Japanese and ww1 wars, it would be surprising if he didn't knew the language. He also was very ruthless to Bolsheviks during revolution and war of finish independence and under his command fins left Soviets with a bloody nose. I wouldn't call that simping. A guy in Soviet uniform teplica - now thats a Russian simp, well not to discredit many Russians - a Soviet/imperialistic Russia simp.

[@thepolishnz]

Fleeing mongol rule by fleeing deeper into mongol territory shows the way russian logic works

[@20chocsaday]

I can appreciate that.

[@StryKhymorodnyk]

Thank You! You are the best! You have even mentioned about term 'Kyivan Rus' as a recent invention! If I had more likes, I would give them to this video.

[@hermatred572]

Oh nice

[@christianmartinez6161]

Oh just saw I accidentally disliked this. Fixed that didn’t mean that keep up the good wirk

[@sebastianthomsen2225]

slava ukraine ! 💙🔱✌:)

[@whyukraine]

shared this on my channel

[@aaronator4d633]

3:35 not trying to get conspiratorial but, wouldn’t make more sense for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to hide it in Canada as Canada at the time and now has the second largest amount of ethnic Ukrainians other than Ukraine itself?

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Probably but remember it was easier to get into the US via New York at the time cause boat

[@POCKET-SAND]

I thought the US had more immigrants. Canada may have more Ukrainians as a proportion of their population, but America received more in terms of raw numbers. I could be wrong though, so do not quote me, but correct me if I am wrong.

[@signorasforza354]

Because Roosevelt was a buddy with Stalin. USA built all the factories in ussr receiving Holodomor money.

[@RedDotChiliPepper96]

Look, it's the Rus, the Kievan Rus. Are they Vikings? No, said the Kievan Rus.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Watch episode 1. I got over that

[@RedDotChiliPepper96]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel oh I know, I just wanted to quote Bill Wurtz from "The History of the entire world, I guess?" 😊

[@brianmead7556]

No “Ukraine” before the 1600s. The word didn’t even exist. It was a “Russia”, the “Wild Field”, a Khanate, and a Horde. The “U” “Kraini” the “By Edge” or “Borderland” we have now denotes the edge between Slavdom and Germania, or the East and West churches. This is affirmed by documents, such as the the Letter of Bogdan Hmelnytsky to Tsar Aleksey, pleading to him from protection, as fellow Slava and Orthodox. The Bereznevi articles, which acknowledge the right and authority of the Russian Tsar over the region, affirmed by a second correspondence with Bogdan Hmelnytsky. The overwhelming majority of these are written in the Russian language, regardless of who or where did the writing. And not wanting any of these will you find the word Ukraine or the concept of an independent Ukraine. The closest you get is a little Russia, Malorossiya, yes, a Russia, under the rule of Tsar of all the Russia’s in the great Russia, which we simply call Russia now. And yes, the people writing from the west of the regions directly refer to themselves as Russians, many times, and affirm their Russianness. Go on Eurodocs and look up the Cossack Hetmanate.

[@nielsmichiels1939]

​@@brianmead7556bot

[@jorenvanderark3567]

​@brianmead7556 OMG, not only are you using previously contextualised and therefore disarmed Kremlin BS... you're copy-pasting it all across the comment section... hilarious. Pathetic but hilarious.

[@SK_2521]

Grand Duchy of Lithuania is not modern Lithuania just like Franc empire is not modern France

[@napalmholocaust9093]

The Mongol horde was real. You shouldn't compare it to a schizophrenic rant about eating flying zombies.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Que?

[@fxshlein]

​@@HistoryofEverythingChannel I think "napalm holocaust" (lol?) is maybe taking issue with you saying the mongol horde is comparable to something the bible warns of? At 6:16. "schizophrenic rant about eating flying zombies" could be the book of revelation? 😄

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

If so, that's a proper reddit moment right there

[@waltzingmahtilda]

first

[@DutchSkeptic]

As much as I appreciate the effort to present Ukrainian history from a Ukrainian perspective, I am afraid that this video has given too much and incorrect attention to, and interpretation of, the 1169 Sack of Kyiv by Andrey Bogolyubsky. This event has been exaggerated and distorted in Russian Imperial and nationalist history to signify the "moving of the capital of Rus' from Kyiv to Vladimir", and thereby asserting that Vladimir (and later Muscovy and Russia) were thus "superior" to Kyiv (and later Ukraine). This idea is appealing to modern Russian nationalists, but not historically accurate. Kyiv had been captured, conquered, sacked and devastated many times throughout Kyivan Rus' in the midst of dynastic wars of succession between the various clans, but that had nothing to do with which city was the "capital" of the whole realm; everyone knew and recognised it was Kyiv, including Andrey, who put his brother Gleb on the throne and went home. He was not acting "against Kyiv", but rather in favour of his own clan, the Yurievichi of Suzdalia. The fact that Andrey's successors focussed more and more on their own patrimony in Vladimir-Suzdal had to do with the fact that in 1210 they lost the dynastic eligibility to sit on the throne in Kyiv, and lost interest in Kyivan (southwestern Rus') politics.

[@buddyluv584]

Another pseudo-historian repeated bs

[@POCKET-SAND]

How so?

[@signorasforza354]

Another petuch where is your shkonka?)

[@TastySlowCooker]

Check his other comments on this channel… he’s a masochist coming back for more punishment

[@brianmead7556]

No “Ukraine” before the 1600s. The word didn’t even exist. It was a “Russia”, the “Wild Field”, a Khanate, and a Horde. The “U” “Kraini” the “By Edge” or “Borderland” we have now denotes the edge between Slavdom and Germania, or the East and West churches. This is affirmed by documents, such as the the Letter of Bogdan Hmelnytsky to Tsar Aleksey, pleading to him from protection, as fellow Slava and Orthodox. The Bereznevi articles, which acknowledge the right and authority of the Russian Tsar over the region, affirmed by a second correspondence with Bogdan Hmelnytsky. The overwhelming majority of these are written in the Russian language, regardless of who or where did the writing. And not wanting any of these will you find the word Ukraine or the concept of an independent Ukraine. The closest you get is a little Russia, Malorossiya, yes, a Russia, under the rule of Tsar of all the Russia’s in the great Russia, which we simply call Russia now. And yes, the people writing from the west of the regions directly refer to themselves as Russians, many times, and affirm their Russianness. Go on Eurodocs and look up the Cossack Hetmanate.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

The correspondence from the Hetmanate on file in Russian archives are translations. The cultural groups had diverged at this point.

[@besconst]

«ѡ нем же Ѹкраина много постона» 1187 год

[@just_inker2584]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel but why do you think they were the same before that point?

[@baneofbanes]

He literally address all of these points you make in the video and shows that they’re all bullshit.

[@brianmead7556]

@@baneofbanes He doesn't address anything, all he does is post fallacious Nazi propaganda, blatantly ignoring the prevalence of Russian in Ukraine, the Russian cultural tightness with Ukraine, the number of Ukrainians who PREFER to speak Russian, ARE Russian, IDENTIFY as RUSSIAN, and see RUSSIA and RUSSIANS as their brother nation.

[@user-xp5to1gz1o]

Stop lying.

[@signorasforza354]

Stop burning as Proletarskiy😂

[@TastySlowCooker]

когнитивный диссонанс

[@allag5795]

Really great content, thank you very very much! The only problem - and I am very sorry to say this - is the way you speak. For somebody who does not speak really good English it is IMPOSSIBLE to understand you. You speak too fast and it is difficult to understand your prononciation. I would love to post your video on my social media page, but I am afraid people will not understand you since they are not native English speakers. Would it be possible for you to make subtitles to it? The automatically generated subtitles are not good, not precise etc... Thank you!

[@tamcon72]

You can go to the Settings icon below the viewing window, and set the speed to slightly slower.

[@RectalRooter]

"" So then russia is the only true successor "" In my opinion these are to politically charred... Did you just -- It's my channel -- So I get to say what I want ? lol Something like -- It's my book ( mein kampf ) I get to say what I want.. OMG !!!! Does that mean her agrees with hitler I told you I'm more funnier than I think I am.

[@tamcon72]

Would this make more sense in your native language?

[@RectalRooter]

@@tamcon72 I don't know. Maybe. Give your insights in the comments below. I wonder how the native language changes things. Interesting. Possibly. What do you think.

[@Shadeem]