Peter the Great

The lands of tsarist Russia once stretched from Scandinavia to the Pacific. The largest landlocked Empire in the world, stretching thousandths of miles across woods, plains, mountains, deserts, and the perpetual Siberian Taiga. 1 The Russian people consist one of the just about diverse ethnic groups in the world. In the west, descendants of Europeans known as the Kievan Rus founded Kyiv and the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Yet these former Europeans are distinctly different, two physic every last(predicate)y and mentally than westwarfared Europeans.The eastern Steppe consisted of various Central Asiatic races such as the Tatars, the Mongols, the Ugurs, and the Turks, who occupied various regions of what would become the Russian Empire. unrivalled aspect of the Russian Empire that unendingly seemed to remain constant was its mode of warfare, whether it was defensive or conquering other Empires. The Russian Empire always wanted to increase the size of their land for economic reasons . 3The political philosophies of the Russian people and State constantly changed due to the position that the Empire was in.The tarradiddle of Russia is dramatic, ruthless, and most mportantly a failure. Authoritarian governments have ruled the Russian people, since the base of Kyiv. 4Whether it was the Mongol Empire, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Russian Empire, The USSR, or the Russian Federation, all these governments oppressed their citizens. Peter the extensive is an independent thinker in the account of Russia, he saw Europe as the centre of knowledge and glossiness in the world. He, unlike so many of his countrymen, wanted Russia to be richly incorporated in European society.The Kievan Rus were the first to settle horse opera Russia. 5They established their mpire around their capital of Kiev in the 9th century. The Kievan Rus expanded their empire twain geographically and economically. They traveled long distances, reaching distant lands such as 6Central Asia, the Byz antine Empire, Western Europe, and the Arab world. Their empire expanded through various sections of Eastern Europe, in what is now Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Although they were masters of warfare and trade, intellectually, they were far behind Western Europe and the Arab world.Western Europeans viewed them as barbarians since they were not Christian and were constantly at war with one another. Since the creation of the Kievan Rus, in that respect has been a constant mistrust surrounded by Russia and Western Europe. During the Middle Ages, Catholicism dominated every aspect of Western European life. 7The Rus were mostly pagans, believing in Nordic mythology. They remained pagan until 988, when Vladimir the Great baptized Kiev. Vladimirs embassies had consulted with the Muslims, Jews, Catholics, and the Orthodox Church.The staggering beauty of the Hagia Sophia amazed Vladimirs envoys, the church represent the power and beauty of the Greek Orthodox Church. Vladimir then decided to metamorphose Kiev, the argest city in his Empire to Christianity. 8Politically, the Rus resembled Western Europe, except for the Papacy. The Monarchy of the Rus was oppressive and there was very little freedom among the peasants. The Rus developed a system of feudal system that remained in Russia until the fall of the Tsars and the introduction of the Soviet Union.