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@user-cv1uu5sx4y

4 жыл бұрын

Winter Palace in Saint-Petersburg not in Moscow.

@random_Nobody

3 жыл бұрын

Extra Credits epic

@manjotgrewal4439

3 жыл бұрын

Russia strong 🇷🇺🏳️🏴🇪🇪☦️☪️✝️✡️🔯

@Soyjakgamingbutawesome

2 жыл бұрын

@@manjotgrewal4439 meh kind of

@DefenderoftheOctoberists

Жыл бұрын

@@manjotgrewal4439 Rossiya

"Not quite empress yet" I suppose you could say that I'm . . . not empressed.

@karelvansteenhuyse3522

7 жыл бұрын

Kuddly Kennen you should be empressond for that punn

@devincolborn523

7 жыл бұрын

karel vansteenhuyse l what are you talking about? these puns are very (*looks around nervously*) EMPRESSIVE! :D

@yaldabaoth2

7 жыл бұрын

Count me in. I hope they duke it out next time.

@karelvansteenhuyse3522

7 жыл бұрын

Devin Colborn​ don't make me tsart a pun war guys.

@mr.cypher604

7 жыл бұрын

Don't peter out on us. We're not as empressionable as you think to a pun war.

"rushin' to learn Russian" Yeah, was wondering if that pun would show its face anywhere.

@extrahistory

7 жыл бұрын

We had to! It was our destiny.

@emmywillow6599

7 жыл бұрын

DragoniteSpam amazin

@evogames3687

7 жыл бұрын

puns never stop

@Tin4ht

7 жыл бұрын

Remember....No rushin'...

@SaviorSwords

7 жыл бұрын

Rush Russian, don't stop for flashes or incendiaries.

I don't know why they didn't mention it, but Peter was obsessed with the Prussian military. He thought they were a bunch of badasses and the toys he constantly played with were suppose to be Prussian soldiers. That's one of the reasons he declared peace with Prussia, and makes it even more absurd.

@ethanhatcher5533

5 жыл бұрын

Well, they were badasses

@Sandouras

5 жыл бұрын

They were indeed space marines. SPAYS MAHREENS, ADVANSSSS!

@VergilDarkslayer

5 жыл бұрын

the 2nd reich were badasses

@R00siable

4 жыл бұрын

@@tika5635 In no way Peter was a douche. He was actually too nice in many ways. And many people were fanboys of Frederick at that time. He was just lucky enough to be able to ally with him as a fellow royal.

@kishinumaayumi

4 жыл бұрын

I mean consideringn the ages. He was still a child was he not?

Russians: I much do you love us? Catherine: I study your culture until I was half-dead, literally. Russians: SHE IS ONE OF US!

@citronvannalemon

2 жыл бұрын

*ok*

@beefyblom

Жыл бұрын

Maybe not born russian, but born to be russian.

"Sophia began to realize that it wasn't Peter she had to please, but rather the Empress, Elizabeth." Clever girl. "Sophia, with what little strength remained to her, asked for an Orthodox priest instead [of the Lutheran one her mom requested]." Clever, clever girl. "And at the center of that plot [to supplant him] was his replacement - his wife." I like you, -Sophia- Catherine.

@VengefulLeprechauns

7 жыл бұрын

Landis963 Eh, not that clever. I'm pretty sure most people would have quickly realized the peter was not exactly right in the head and his aunt held real power.

@Landis963

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe, but with Peter and her mother dragging her down, it takes real competence to stay afloat. (And no small amount of dumb luck - what if Elizabeth hadn't been where Sophia expected her to be, when she was rushing to plead her case?)

@Landis963

7 жыл бұрын

hentropy Actually, in all likelihood it was Sophia sticking it to her mother in the best way possible. But it's more fun to believe that she had greater motives beyond Johanna's discomfiture (IMO).

@dynamicworlds1

7 жыл бұрын

+hentropy lol

@iiiiitsmagreta1240

7 жыл бұрын

+hentropy Did you _see_ the previous episode? That woman was a b*tch.

Catherine:I'm pregnant with a another man's child Peter:Girl,i don't give a fu...

@youhobosarereadytohaha6050

3 жыл бұрын

As long as he has his toys, everything is alright

@nguyenhoanglong420

3 жыл бұрын

@@youhobosarereadytohaha6050 SOUNDS LIKE COMRADE LENIN BUT OK :)

@halfway7690

2 жыл бұрын

Literally.

@K9TheFirst1

2 жыл бұрын

"So? You know how many bastards I have running around?"

@sphereyahya

2 жыл бұрын

Catherine: this marriage is horrible and I'm pregnant with someone else Peter: *lmao L*

According to Cathrine the Great's memoirs, one time she walked in on Peter sentencing a rat for the death of hanging. The rat was on trial for eating his toy soldiers. He wanted the rat to hang for several days for the other possible "offenders" to see...

@potatogod975

Жыл бұрын

just another tuesday in mother russia

@SpaceBattleshipYamato-ps2jc

Жыл бұрын

Whelp, that's just Tuesday afternoon in Russia

@th1v5

Жыл бұрын

the fact i cant copy pase this is a crime

@DachshundDogStarluck19

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like Peter was an even weirder person than a typical 18th-century Russian nobleman.

@jasonjerusalem

9 ай бұрын

@@DachshundDogStarluck19 He was the weirdest of Romanov house. Mentally unstable since childhood, he couldn't help to escape to the land of make believe. Wish they had video games back in the day lol.

I like Elizabeth's sense of humor (assuming the thing with Johanna getting sent to her own room is true). Good way of humiliating this woman with such a mind-boggling sense of self-importance without insulting anyone else.

@kevinli1438

6 жыл бұрын

Heh, thats what Johanna gets for sloppily speaking ill of Russia and the Empress

@ihatetobethatguybut7175

5 жыл бұрын

She gets to be seated with people who are of HER own wealth, HER own intellects,HER own status. Don't see anything wrong with that.

@aniladema8946

5 жыл бұрын

@@kevinli1438 3ćf

@Nocturne22

5 жыл бұрын

@@ihatetobethatguybut7175 The absolute shade of it alll!

@malcolmslade4796

5 жыл бұрын

What's also humiliating is the fact that Prussia couldn't get Russia on their side, so without allies, they got absorbed by naboring countries

Peter was definitely a bad emperor. Anyone who plays as Russia knows that the manpower pool is almost unlimited, waging 2 wars at once is possible.

@Ashaira

7 жыл бұрын

as opposed to your own wars. eh duke?

@rjfaber1991

7 жыл бұрын

+Ashaira - Well, you say that, but Lorraine lasted for a bloody long time, all things considered. Almost every one of its neighbours was conquered by France in the late 17th century, while Lorraine was never conquered by the French, instead being gained by the French kings through the inheritance of Duke Stanislaw I.

@Duke_of_Lorraine

7 жыл бұрын

Actually it was given to France by Austria when they had a succession crisis, so that they appease the Big Blue Blob. King Louis XV put his father-in-law (who had just been kicked for the second time from the Polish throne) to rule the duchy because the local population wasn't very fond of France at the time (having been occupied half of the time for the last century). But yes, Lorraine was officially annexed when Louis got the duchy by inheritance when Stanislas died.

@rjfaber1991

7 жыл бұрын

***** Exactly, and Stanislaw wasn't exactly a paper monarch either; he did genuinely care about his new throne and tried to be as good a Duke as he could, by all accounts.

@Duke_of_Lorraine

7 жыл бұрын

he did a great job

*TSAR WARS*

@hollyhandgrenade42

7 жыл бұрын

*I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!*

@Crlarl

7 жыл бұрын

hentropy *AT-ШT!*

@Crlarl

7 жыл бұрын

***** Я2-Д2!

@yatinexile7144

7 жыл бұрын

С3ПО!

@billwilliamson388

6 жыл бұрын

Alpharius and Rich Evans? Boner.

"Elizabeth obliged her and set her in a totally seperate room... by herself." This is proof that comedy is timeless.

@SpaceBattleshipYamato-ps2jc

Жыл бұрын

Totally rekked

As I'm taught, Peter III of Russia ceased any military action against Prussia also because he was a great admirer of Frederick the Great (to the point of being seen kissing Frederick's portrait)

@isprikitikburkabush6200

7 жыл бұрын

Borlumi that guy is nuts. his country is winning a major war and he chose to withdrew because he has a crush on his enemy. cant believe someone like him is even real

@Blazo_Djurovic

7 жыл бұрын

Except Friedrich was not anywhere near defeating the Russians, and in fact was rarely able to get better of them and one of his MAJOR defeat was at their hands because he did not respect them. At this point he was against the ropes counting days before his utter annihilation. It's not for notheing that the death of Elisabeth of Russia was hailed as a miracle, because a miracle was the only thing that could have saved him at that point.

@rjfaber1991

7 жыл бұрын

+Isprikitik burkabush - Ehm, not entirely. While the latter part of your comment is entirely true, it is worth bearing in mind that sudden reversals of alliances were not uncommon in this time period. After all, just a few years earlier there was the Diplomatic Revolution, possibly the greatest and most sudden such reversal in history. As for Russia winning against Prussia, that is true if you look at the battles they fought against one another, but if you look at the war as a whole, it was more a matter of Russia taking a chance to invade Prussian territory while the Prussian army was busy fighting the Austrians and the French further south. If any country gets to take credit for the Franco-Austro-Russian alliance doing relatively well at this point in the war, it'd be Austria, not Russia.

@Blazo_Djurovic

7 жыл бұрын

Robert Faber I'm not as informed on this war, but skiming through some articles, while the Russians did have massive logistical problems and Austrians did pull their weight a lot, the Russian army was KEY to several victories including Friedrich's probably greatest defeat where 40k Russians and ~15k Austrians broke his army. They were akin to a BIG stick. Kind of unwieldy but devastating if it connects and a threat that forced F to divert forces. And at the point where Elizabeth died, Prussians were on the ropes, the Russians finally had secured their logistical situation via Baltic and Berlin was about to fall AGAIN. It seemed even the Brits were seeing the writing on the wall and were threatening to pull out. With all those tens of thousands of RUssians gone F was on a much more equal footing with his enemies.

@rjfaber1991

7 жыл бұрын

Блажо Ђуровић Oh, absolutely. I wouldn't for a moment say that the Russians had little or no impact on the war, because they most certainly did. However, they were not in my view the most important of the opponents of Prussia. They certainly could have been, and by saying Austria was more important I don't mean to imply Austria was inherently superior to Russia at this point, but the Austrian front was where Frederick sent the bulk of his army, so they got to have a much bigger role to play.

Catherine the Great's life story is like a mix of Disney's Cinderella, with Game of Thrones.

@Exeggutor_Enjoyer

Жыл бұрын

And that’s why I love it

@nooneinparticular5256

Жыл бұрын

@@Exeggutor_Enjoyer And I want an animated series of it.

@thomasfoster4370

Жыл бұрын

@@nooneinparticular5256 there's already a live action one

@robben4days569

Жыл бұрын

Cinderella and Game of Thrones and many other things have been inspired by this part of history.

@jasonjerusalem

9 ай бұрын

@@thomasfoster4370 There's a dozen actually. But I enjoy EH version much more😄

There's nothing wrong with having a childish side, but when you're the Grand Prince of Russia or even the Tzar of Russia then you need to have a mature side as well.

@Tytoalba777

7 жыл бұрын

He did. Don't believe the propaganda. Peter III was actually a pretty good ruler that, in his less half a year as ruler, reformed Russia immensely (including adding Freedom of Religion, abolishment of the Secret Police, and reforming the Military), being one of the most forward thinking of all European rulers at the time, but Catherine subsequently dethroned him and either rode on the success of these reforms or just revoked them (goodbye Freedom of Religion, hello Secret Police again!). (yes, I will copy-and-paste this on every comment hating on Peter III)

@1987MartinT

7 жыл бұрын

James A Clouder I'm not hatin' I'm just sayin'. There's a difference.

@Tytoalba777

7 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I just needed to get all of that off my chest, and I just blasted about 10% of the comment section with that as well. It's just that, Peter III was a rather good ruler, one that most just forget about and push to the side because he's usually just summed up as the punch-line of the 7 years' war. You are right that if one is to be Emperor. President, Prime minister, or what have you, you do need to be mature, and I just read it as you saying that Peter III wasn't

@1987MartinT

7 жыл бұрын

+James A Clouder I think it would be accurate to say that he was a multifaceted man. Positive sides(his desire for reforms, bringing an end to the 7 years war). Negative sides(his alcoholism, his inability to be mature in situations that really demanded it, and one of his reasons for ending the 7 years war was to start yet another war that for Russia was pretty pointless). There's a saying I'm quite fond of which describes most people in world history: Truth resists simplicity.

@Borderose

7 жыл бұрын

@James A Clouder I sympathize with you, mate. I felt the same way during the Sengoku Era videos in regards to Nobunaga. Kinda annoying when a historical figure you know rather well gets reduced to a punchline or a one-note caricature.

"Elizabeth obliged her and sat her in a totally separate room, by herself." I had to stop the video for a moment and say, "style points." It just felt right.

I've finally worked up the nerve to actually post a comment, and you can't imagine how happy I am when I get a notification for one of these videos. It reminds me of the best History professor I ever had, who used to weave these events into stories because he felt the "how" and "why" were as important as then "when" and "where". This is an especially long-winded way of also saying thank you for making these, and that I look forward to all future episodes.

@extrahistory

7 жыл бұрын

Boldness is rewarded with

@BlackBirdSweep

7 жыл бұрын

Adrian Pienaru butts.

@mr.cypher604

7 жыл бұрын

Adrian Pienaru Keep being brave, man/woman. It'll get you far.

@e-jg9719

7 жыл бұрын

Perfectly Said :)

@lindenshepherd6085

5 жыл бұрын

Did you go to high school in Dallas, Texas, perchance?

"He had just given up on the most imprtant war in the world in order to turn all of Russia's might against Denmark". *Laughs furiously*. Oh, by the way, Denmark also owned Norway back then, so that should also be painted blue. Great series though, I love it!

@rjfaber1991

7 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if I could find somebody else who'd already pointed that out or if I had to comment myself... Also, the phrasing there is rather funny, because while Peter III might have had "all of Russia's might" on land, the Russian navy in the Baltic Sea wouldn't have stood a chance against the Dano-Norwegian navy, which at this point was stilll one of the most powerful navies in Europe. That seems to me rather a key point, as Peter intended to invade Denmark by sea from Pomerania.

@adamcommenting7848

7 жыл бұрын

That sounds very interesting! I hope they will cover it in the 'Lies' episode.

@rjfaber1991

7 жыл бұрын

Adam Commenting It was actually the reason why a few decades later, Britain pre-emptively declared war upon Denmark-Norway just in case they would align themselves with Napoleon. The British Royal Navy was easily the most powerful navy in the world at that point, but they were afraid that if Napoleon could command the French, Spanish and Dutch navies (which he already did), which were arguably the second, third and fourth most powerful navies in Europe, and he also managed to get his hold on the Dano-Norwegian one, then the combined force of those navies would be too much for even the Royal Navy to deal with. Suffice it to say that Britain managed to fight the Danes on their terms, and Denmark never again recovered as a naval power.

@adamcommenting7848

7 жыл бұрын

*Sheds tears* Damn Brits! I'm actually studying Napoleon at the moment. Big fan.

@HxH2011DRA

7 жыл бұрын

Adam Commenting Napoleon the AWESOME!

For some reason, the imagery of Catherine and Death waving amicably at each other is very striking.

In CK2, if I had a wife that is both a Genius and Attractive, I would not question the father of the child as well. Especially if my ruler is Slow, Weak, and Celibate.

@christiandauz3742

7 жыл бұрын

It is implied that during the Thirty Years Wars, the French King was not the biological father of his son, but rather an Italian person

@ValerianSantosa

5 жыл бұрын

You need a ruler made from aluminium

@deanholderde5959

2 жыл бұрын

Video game eugenics combined with feudal succession laws good.

@Chadius_Thundercock

Жыл бұрын

CK games are just eugenics programs for dummies

@jesseberg3271

5 ай бұрын

​@@deanholderde5959In CK2 you play as some kind of immortal spirit of the dynasty. In real life, you are that slow, weak, and celibate ruler, if your opinion on this matters.

Normally, I disapprove of adultery, but Katya's situation wasn't exactly normal. As the wife of the soon-to-be Emperor, her primary role in court was to produce an heir, and the longer she took to do so, the less she'd be able to rely on her intellect and love of country to retain favor. Her husband didn't exactly help things along, either, if her accounts are to be believed, but unlike her, he had the luxury of actually being the Emperor, so his failure to produce an heir wasn't as bad for him. As the Church forbade divorce (and still does), that wasn't an option, either. Swearing a monastic oath would have gotten her out of the marriage, but considering what her mother had shown her in Episode I, I think most people could forgive her for not being keen on following that route.

@extrahistory

7 жыл бұрын

Crowns have historically driven some... "exceptional" partnering behavior.

@sarasamaletdin4574

7 жыл бұрын

And you know her husband cheated her and their sex life was horrible.

@wryginger2307

7 жыл бұрын

A bad sex life generally results from placing procreation over pleasure.

@roberteriksen6434

7 жыл бұрын

u rasist oh no

@zsl1256

6 жыл бұрын

General Luigi I

Question: Do you think Petah here was a better or worse Czar than old Nicky of World War 1 fame? Also, Elizabeth gets major brownie points for that god-tier troll moment on Johanna.

@Rert

7 жыл бұрын

I mean he would have sided with Germany so make of that what you will.

@aarynminyard6446

7 жыл бұрын

Rert 78 So he's better.

@shaun7142

7 жыл бұрын

Actually, both of those Tsars are probably overly hated in history. Both lost, and had their reputations trashed. Tsar Nicholas was simply an ineffective ruler in a time of great turmoil. Peter, was assassinated by his wife and she had to come up with a reason for it. Needless to say I do not buy everything she wrote about Peter (she is the exclusive source of information about their relationship). Here is what I wrote earlier- Maybe when y'all do a "lies" video on Catherine, y'all could mention the other side of the story. Catherine is the one who wrote the history, because she won. But her interpretation of the history and what happened do not make much sense. For one, she called Peter lazy. In his 6 months of rule he issued over 200 edicts (that is more than 1 edict a day, and some of those edicts vastly changed Russia), reformed the Russian army, concluded a peace treaty, and launched a new war. That is a lot to do in several years. Also, it could be argued that the war against Denmark was much more valuable than the war against Prussia. If Russia had beaten Denmark then that would have given Russia valuable access to western Europe. Beating Prussia would have given Russia .... farmland (mostly). Not to mention, keeping a regional superpower, like Prussia, in place to counter the power of Austria, Sweden, and France, would be valuable for Russia. Plus, the peace treaty put the English (then the most powerful nation on earth, and a massive trading partner) on the Russian side. In addition, many of Peter's reforms pissed people off because he was trying to modernize Russia. He did things like, make it illegal for a nobleman to kill a serf. Obviously that pissed the nobility off. Unfortunately, history is generally written by the upper class so we cannot tell how popular Peter was among the poor. In all honesty, no matter how great Catherine ended up being, (spoilers) she assassinated her husband to take power, and likely told outright lies about him in order to spoil his reputation, and make her seem like the good guy.

@Tytoalba777

7 жыл бұрын

Definitely agree with you Shaun. If it hadn't been for Catherine, who knows how much he could have done, he could have been another Peter the Great

@GeneralLuigiTBC

7 жыл бұрын

I'm going to say Kolya was the better Emperor. Don't get me wrong, he was far from a good ruler, and I agree with the position that his general political views were obsolete, but at least he didn't tick off his own court and spouse so badly that they assassinated him less than a year after his coronation. His lack of pragmatism was his downfall, too, just as was the case with Petya, but my take on him is that he had a better grasp on court politics than Petya did. It's easy to talk about lofty ideals and good intentions, but none of that matters if your court hates you so much that you're assassinated mere months after becoming Emperor. Also, personally, I think Liza deserves a series of her own. Her own rise to power is quite a story. Heck, the entire period between Peter the Great's reign and Catherine the Great's reign (called the Age of Palace Coups in some circles) could make for an interesting series. I'm more interested in an EH series on the Time of Troubles, though.

Great one guys! Cant wait for the next part! Also wasnt Cathrine's husband the guy who said "I'd rather be a general in the prussian army rather than tsar of russia"?

@Blazo_Djurovic

7 жыл бұрын

Eh. From the Russian Army standpoint, at that time, they weren't really too impressed by the Prussians. They just got done whooping Prussians all over Central Europe, and the fact that not only did their new non Russian speaking Emperor pull out of the war just as they were about to destroy Friedrich, he helped him AND started introducing or threathening to introduce/force Prussian customs on them. They were LIVID!.

@PyrusFlameborn

7 жыл бұрын

Блажо Ђуровић how would you think history might have gone had he not pulled russia out of the war with not even a single gain?

@Blazo_Djurovic

7 жыл бұрын

Pyrus FlameWielder Who really knows. On one hand Prussia would have suffered a pretty big blow to it's drive to expand, Austria would have probably regained some if it's authority in Germanies and Russians would have probably gotten their piece of the pie. On the other hand despite it all Peter would still be on the throne and while his handling of the war was one reason for his eventual removal it was not the only reason. He was simply too weak a ruler and completely disconnected from the people he was ruling. In a way it might have turned out worse in the long run because he could have clung to the power longer, fucked more things up and prevented Cat from getting her hands on power.

DAMN IT PETER! YOU HAD ONE JOB!

@kevinli1438

6 жыл бұрын

YEAH! YOU WERE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA AND YOU JUST WANTED TO BE DUKE OF HOLSTEIN!!!!

@Poffean

5 жыл бұрын

Technically, you can be both

@nathaniel1207

5 жыл бұрын

So did johanna

At 3:04 it seems like catherine and peters relationship was so healthy and wholesome and then you realize she was speculated for his assassination after overthrowing him 💀

The quickest 8:54 min of my life >.

@dylanlunney4623

5 жыл бұрын

I knowwwww

@chemical7547

5 жыл бұрын

👌

@savageshrek3738

5 жыл бұрын

You suck

@avarieee

5 жыл бұрын

Savage Shrek awww they said you too!

@solartii7133

5 жыл бұрын

Quintiax My dumbass clicked on the time stamp thing

"Got any more leeches?" almost made me do a spit take. XD

@kevinnorwood8782

5 жыл бұрын

Andrew Meyer The image that made me laugh was when Death is telling her "Later!", and she's waving goodbye to him as though they're now friends or something.

I've been in Sophie's shoes growing up with a mom that felt having given birth to me is what made her a failure... it sucks and it's not fair... but that's just life. Kudos for little Sophie!

Oh MAN I loved this one. It's basically "Antagonist A finally gets their deserved comeuppance...Antagonist B goofs things up, ends up in crosshairs for deserved comeuppance volume 2, electric boogaloo". Every time that Johanna got into trouble, I was cheering. Seriously, she had it coming, and that "got to eat alone in a separate room" bit was perfect.

3:43 Elizabeth was a savage

Umm, sorry I hate to be that guy, but the capital wasn't Moscow, it was Saint Petersburg. Saint Petersburg had the court and Moscow hadn't been the capital since the time of Peter the Great.

@GeneralLuigiTBC

7 жыл бұрын

Probably something we'll hear more about in the Lies episode. I can't say for certain, but the palace on the left around the 0:34 mark looks to me like the Summer Palace. If I could find more pictures of it, I could be more certain, but that's kind of hard to do when dealing with a building that was demolished before cameras were around. As a side-note, there actually was a brief time after Peter the Great's reign that Moscow was the capital. Peter II moved the capital there in 1728 only for it to be moved back to St. Petersburg in 1732 by Anna.

@extrahistory

7 жыл бұрын

While this is true, Empress Elizabeth was in fact staying in Moscow at the time that Sophia went to meet her for the first time. Several of my sources confirmed that Sophia's exact route was Riga to St Petersburg to Moscow, because she was trying to catch up with the court. In Moscow, Empress Elizabeth was staying in the Annenhof Palace (and she made my life difficult by changing its name to the Golovinsky Palace literally five days after meeting Catherine - I had a heck of a time verifying the name of the place!). That palace burned down in the 1900s so I couldn't find a picture, so we modified our Winter Palace design to approximate it. -Soraya

@mattabesta

7 жыл бұрын

You repeated Moscow though towards the end when in fact Peter had moved to St. Petersburg when he became Czar.

@hanna-justinawalliarosalin8769

7 жыл бұрын

Technically the title Peter the Great and all those after him adopted was Imperator of Russia, as per his decree in 1721, and not Czar. The only country to have a Czar after 1721 was Bulgaria from 1908 to 1946.

@abaddonabaddon374

7 жыл бұрын

Extra Credits There are actually pictures of 2 Annenhof palaces, have a look ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%84_(%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0)

I wonder how long Peter would have lasted if Catherine had never intervened.

@shaun7142

7 жыл бұрын

Possibly quite a while. The nobility and the secret police hated him. Unfortunately, regular people in those days do not write histories. Freedom of religion (granted by Peter). Popular among the multitude of religions in Russia (Peter was hardly the only non-Orthodox Russian). Not so popular among the exclusively Orthodox Nobility.

@prashantchaudhary2569

7 жыл бұрын

John Alexander what Catherine did to poor serfs & sanctioned liberalism, bec of fear of might be like French revolution like situation can happen ! Peter was good for his ppl,like hated Orthodoxy wanted to have Lutheranism which was Secular at those times

@Askhat08

4 жыл бұрын

You can look what happened to his son Pavel when he became an emperor. He was a lot like his father, also a huge fan of Prussia, also hated almost universally. After 5 years of ruling, he got assasinated by high-rank nobility.

I love learning about this. I’m Australian, but since meeting my partner who is russian I’ve started to study the language and history. It’s inspiring how Catherine was also so dedicated to studies, it’s not easy but I practice everyday

I love how you explain things simply without dumbing them down. You manage to explain things in a way even a child could understand, without condescending your audience. I really enjoy these I’ve been binging the past few days.

3:42 that "mere lady of the court is cute AF, yo. Elizabeth's troll is inspirational.

E is pronounced like "ye".

@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX

7 жыл бұрын

They don't even attempt to be accurate.

@Kinoksis

7 жыл бұрын

Oh god, I'm having flashbacks of that stupid dinosaur meme

@wahlex841

7 жыл бұрын

Yeeeeee!

@Tioko

7 жыл бұрын

Gertrude Smeetheens No, they got it mostly right. I know, I'm Russian. It's only when a word starts with an E that it's pronounced "Ye". And they didn't screw up the inflexion either, which is good.

@Tioko

7 жыл бұрын

Catriona I'm talking about the cyrillic E, of course. Not Э. Same rule goes for Ё, Ю, Я - they are always pronouced "yo", "yu", "ya" if they start the word.

Johanna: "I WILL NOT BE SEATED WITH LOWLY LADIES OF THE COURT!" Elizabeth: "Oh, funny how you say that, I know just the place for you!" Johanna: "Oh really?" Elizabeth: "Yes, enjoy your seat...by yourself." *Door shuts*

4:50 She waited, alone. 4:51 And, she waited. 4:53 And, waited. Peter really needs to learn that Catherine can't wait forever

I dont think tsar was a official title after Peter the Great even though everyone does use it for later Russian rulers.

@extrahistory

7 жыл бұрын

Yup! Good catch! It's technically Emperor/Empress (or if we want to get really technical Imperator ; ), but I wanted a chance to talk about this in Lies. Basically as I understand it many many people at the time continued to call the rulers Tsars, both in Europe and in Russia. In fact Catherine will actually style herself as Tsaritsa of everything but Russia proper (For example when she takes of Crimea she becomes Tsaritsa of Tauric Chersonesos). So technically technically she's both an Empress and a Tsaritsa! -JP

@MarquisForneus

7 жыл бұрын

Did....Did you just love you own comment?

@Lady_in_Yearning

7 жыл бұрын

So you deliberately LIED just so you can bring it up later, tsk tsk tsk... I approve.

@Blazo_Djurovic

7 жыл бұрын

Tsar means Emperor in Slavic languages. It's read with a hard C as in Cesar which is the word from which it stems since it's a title patterned along the Roman Imperial titles. It's part and parcel of the whole thing where Russia took up the title of defender of Orthodox Church after the fall of Eastern Rome and considered itself in a way inheritor of the Constantinopleian Roman Empire. Peter started calling himself probably Imperator so that Europeans could not use the Russian version of his title Tsar and translate it as King and treat him as another King or even prince when in fact he considered himself an Emperor and therefore equal to the likes of the Hapsburg Emperor's of the Holy Roman Empire and an inheritor of the Eastern Roman Empire.

@DeathRipper97

7 жыл бұрын

I'm a Serb and we use words for emperor and tsar interchangeably to this day. I assume Russians do too.

I watched a documentary called “The Romanovs a History of a Russian Dynasty” it was very good documentary. Episode 5 tells the history of both Peter III and Catherine the Great

the little tiny solders are just too CUUUTTTEE

Anyone watching this over while watching “The Great”?

At last, Sophia (soon-to-be Catherine) met her gallant prince! Well. Maybe not so gallant. Maybe more like "galling." PLUS! Vote for Extra Credits in the Shorty Awards up to 3 times per day: shortyawards.com/9th/extracreditz

@emmywillow6599

7 жыл бұрын

Extra Credits unfortunately due to my age I can't really support on patreon, but could you do some more videos on the Viking age? After the lindisfarne video, I'd like for you guys to elaborate on that part of history more

@emmywillow6599

7 жыл бұрын

S. I. V. I'm not sure if my parents would be ok with paying through patreon

@shaun7142

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe when y'all do a "lies" video on Catherine, y'all could mention the other side of the story. Catherine is the one who wrote the history, because she won. But her interpretation of the history and what happened do not make much sense. For one, she called Peter lazy. In his 6 months of rule he issued over 200 edicts (that is more than 1 edict a day, and some of those edicts vastly changed Russia), reformed the Russian army, concluded a peace treaty, and launched a new war. That is a lot to do in several years. Also, it could be argued that the war against Denmark was much more valuable than the war against Prussia. If Russia had beaten Denmark then that would have given Russia valuable access to western Europe. Beating Prussia would have given Russia .... farmland (mostly). Not to mention, keeping a regional superpower, like Prussia, in place to counter the power of Austria, Sweden, and France, would be valuable for Russia. Plus, the peace treaty put the English (then the most powerful nation on earth, and a massive trading partner) on the Russian side. In addition, many of Peter's reforms pissed people off because he was trying to modernize Russia. He did things like, make it illegal for a nobleman to kill a serf. Obviously that pissed the nobility off. Unfortunately, history is generally written by the upper class so we cannot tell how popular Peter was among the poor. In all honesty, no matter how great Catherine ended up being, (spoilers) she assassinated her husband to take power, and likely told outright lies about him in order to spoil his reputation, and make her seem like the good guy. Also, on a side note, the shaving beards thing is attributed to Peter I not Peter III.

@mr.cypher604

7 жыл бұрын

Shaun Such is history. But yeah, my best bet is that James will note it during Lies.

@Pat097

7 жыл бұрын

Extra Credits Voted for ya! 🙂👉🏼

that queen sounds amazing. she is empathetic and knows a spoiled brats tantrum when she sees it and acts in kind.

Fantastic video, I remember we covered so very little about Catherine in world history back in school. Her history is astounding, not to mention how she greatly influenced the future of Russia. Keep bringing more videos.

I stumbled upon this channel on accident and boy am i happy i did. I thoroughly enjoy animation and I enjoy history, this is like the perfect mash up to me. Thank you!! Def Subbed!

you guys are starting to make me want to learn history for real.

@Ashaira

7 жыл бұрын

civ 5. catherine is one of the best leaders with a well rounded industry.

@HxH2011DRA

7 жыл бұрын

Elena Beatrice Martinelli GOOD

Catherine: C'mon c'mon c'mon have a child with meeeeeeeee! Peter (making lego bionicles and star wars action figures fight) : Y tho?

6:35 The good thing about being a history channel is that sometimes history gives you a chance to plug

I feel sorry for Catherine. We both seem similar, and we definitely agree on lots of things, so I could only imagine how she felt.

I really loved the drawing at 4:43. Keep up the good work Extra Credits!

I said this once and I'll say it again (because I doubt you'll add it here) that Miranda was among those who met Catherine. A very interesting thing to think about considering that she even asked him to stay in Russia under her protection and he preferred to go into the liberation of Latin America.

@Ashaira

7 жыл бұрын

who's miranda and what he are you talking about?

@LuccianoBartolini

7 жыл бұрын

Ashaira Watch the Series on Bolívar that EC mentioned here.

@Borderose

7 жыл бұрын

Lin-Manuel, of course.

Love watching all these extra history. Thank you guys for doing them!

5:30 "This continued for 7 years" So this 18 yo dude kept asking a maid to play with his dolls during the night? What was wrong with people back then?

@o76923

4 жыл бұрын

I mean, it's not really all that different from when I play Hearthstone on my phone while I'm in bed. Servants are basically primitive computers, right? I have no idea what was going on with him that, despite being straight and married to one of the most popular celebrities in the country

@christinegatto7426

2 жыл бұрын

Peter sounds like he was developmentally disabled.

@stupidkaijucrazy5548

6 ай бұрын

*sweats nervously in 327 hours of HOI4*

@williamlabadie6470

2 ай бұрын

Idk dude

@elizahamilton5599

6 күн бұрын

@@christinegatto7426sounds like he never got to be a kid, it’s no wonder he turned out the way he did

I think diocletian's story would be great for Extra History. It is the story of a man who, with every sinew in his body, attempted to keep the empire he won stable but ultimately failed. His legacy is seen until the end of the middle ages with his military reformations and there are some funny stories about his taxation policy which i guess you can add in lies.

"Who caused Peter's mistakes?" *clicks* "It was Walpole." Goddamnit... Great video, guys! Also, I have actually heard, that Catherine maybe faked her illness and THEN she proceeded to do such a things like sending for an orthodox priest, could this be true?

@zeroangelmk1

7 жыл бұрын

Walpole is like the IRL version of littlefinger from Game of Thrones.

@robertjarman3703

6 жыл бұрын

He could have actually met in real life with Empress Elizabeth.

@theresahall6197

5 жыл бұрын

Even she had medicine back then was so bad that you could die from the treatment.

This series is so awesome. I've watched the whole thing through like 4 times already

2:37 Wow. Death be all like, we're cool now, so see ya.

1:50 Me studying for my exams be like:

She married her cousin. *SWEET HOME ALABAMA*

@Gallade082

5 жыл бұрын

guyana ball AKA thecomebackkidtj lol

@ninjaked1265

4 жыл бұрын

Her adopted cousin

@arandomcomment1092

4 жыл бұрын

On the bright side, she probably never fucked him

@MusicGamesEverything

3 жыл бұрын

That is actually super common in royal families and nobility. The Hapsburgs and the Egyptian Pharoahs were probably the most notorious with the former being so inbred that they produced kings that had severe deformities, and the latter were known to even marry and have children with their own siblings

@eef1271

3 жыл бұрын

@@MusicGamesEverything yikes that's nasty

4:50 I couldn’t help but laugh at how this sequence of waiting when then a drunken prince waltz in and was knocked out at the foot of the bed.

1:16 that translates into "i do not understand."

If they taught history at school like this, i would be the most present and attentive student in the class

@bboi1489

4 ай бұрын

Sure

"going to *balls*" Lol! Hilarious! (Even if not intended!) Take it as a compliment Extra History!

You guys kind of rushed through Cathrine's years before Elizabeth's death. There was some serious political drama going on during that period, including amongst things a conspired coup attempt against Elizabeth by Bestuzhev that Cathrine was involved in, which in turn almost got her banished to a monestary. Not to mentione some of the shenanigans that went on within her private court.

We need a video on amakusa shiro a Japanese catholic unjustly murdered,and betrayed

@alexanderthegreat6109

7 жыл бұрын

Arturo Sanchez I hate the fact they attached the locals,and I don't care whether they were oppressed or not they shouldn't have.Though his story is still one of interest

@jellybean358

7 жыл бұрын

all topics are voted for by patreon supporters

@vitaliybakal7356

7 жыл бұрын

i would rather have one about Nicotine Caffeine

@alexanderthegreat6109

7 жыл бұрын

Floki an unjust action is unjust whether one is worse than an other still doesn't Change either being unjust.

@JoshSweetvale

7 жыл бұрын

Not really. Morally right and morally wrong, sure. But things that are unjust are injustices and injustices typically have a single injured party. You're using arguments for apple to defend the egg.

Thank you so much for doing a series on my favorite monarch ever!

I'm sorry I lost it at "Peter offered Prussia 'peas' " 😂

Peter III was certainly interested in Russian state affairs. He was the first to criminalize the killing of serfs!

@Tytoalba777

7 жыл бұрын

Yay! Someone gets it!

@uria3679

5 жыл бұрын

We just need to learn to live with what was written

@jesurenbnb

8 ай бұрын

And he was terrible at being an emperor of other affairs

I never realized how clever Catherine was, wow

Me: mom I'm gonna do some history homework Mom: okay Me:

Love the lil visual gag at 6:52. It’s little things like that which make me love this channel even more.

Lol the art about mom being put in a corner... I love Elizabeth.

*"WE HAVE AN HEIR GET OVER* IT"* Well geez

5:30 Poor Catherine “Babe I’m trying to SLEEP”

thank you, I have been waiting all week for this. It is very nice that you guys do very diverse subject like Simon Bolevar and this.

Great episode. I'm really liking this series about Catherine. Can't wait for next week

could you do one on Friedrich the Great?

@williamsledge3151

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Stütelberg yes pls do it pls

@weebshit1048

5 жыл бұрын

Vote on patreon

Stayed up all night for this in Australia 🇦🇺

@AndyG94

7 жыл бұрын

TheMegaDriveKid Beware of pneumonia

@Dave_Sisson

7 жыл бұрын

Ah, but it's mid summer here in Australia. We are in danger of pneumonia if we stay up all night to watch new eps of Extra History in July and August.. at least in the frostier southern parts of Australia.

Excellent choice of subject. Catherine is one of those mysterious historic figures that we don't know enough about in the States. Thank you.

There’s something about this story that just flows so well like everything goes wrong or right at the right time

Enjoying this series a lot! I just finished a great biography about Catherine -- nice to a 700 page biography wrapped up in like... 30 minutes!

This makes history fun to learn

always love how you narrate things.

Extra History is really some of the best content that KZread has to offer.

i love this u guys make it easier for me to learn about history

6:51 Peter offered Prussia peas :D Seeing as Peter was not in his full mind, I could see that happening :)

You make this as exciting as an action movie! I love it!

Best series yet, congrats!

You forgot to mention that she was met by the real-life Baron Munchausen at the Russian border.

History is so much stranger than fiction. It's also so much more interesting!

Love your videos! Its quick, point and very helpful. Tried to watch full pbs documeteries about the topics you cover but i always get everything and names mixed up. Keep making more!!

Love the narration and animation!

Peter sounds like the average hoi4 player

You make history a lot more interesting if I was reading this in a book after the first page I would throw it away

I love these animations and the storytelling.

Peter: im an emperor, weeee! Cathrine: yeah, not the choice I would’ve gone with

5:06 Ok that's just sad.

4:05 Well, that was kind of horrifying. "So your husband-to-be has just got over a massive disease and is disfigured from it to the point you're iffy about him? WELLP, WE NEED THIS WHOLE HEIR THING BEFORE THAT GETS WORSE. GET UP ON THAT." Ew.

@TheMorlun

7 жыл бұрын

Gonestly, it's way more understandable with Elizabeth's backstory and Russia in 1721-1762. She was the daughter of Peter the Great and, when her mother died, her will said that she will be the next empress after Peter II.But the throne was given to her cousin, Anna. And Anna hated her. During Anna's reign, Elizabeth was in half-exile, but was still running some family bussiness. When Anna died, she left Empire to 1 year old Ivan IV and her lover Biron, who was pretty open about not being the biggest fan of Russia (but was still smart enough to hide it, unlike Peter) and was often portrayed as an evil genius of Cardinal Richelieu level, but without all good parts (he probably wasn't, but he wasn't exactly good guy either). All that shit happened in 12 years. All that shit happened because Peter didn't have a son that could've taken a throne.

@rossmallo

7 жыл бұрын

...Shit. TIL. While it's still kind of icky, Iiiii can totally see her point. Thank you for that, man. Very informative.

@TheMorlun

7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Romanovs' history is interesting and shows how screwed monarchy can be when there's no conrete heir. I also forgot the most important point. Peter the Great was the first emperor to declare that current emperor should write the will, where he declares their heir. Peter being Peter, he was pretty much the only emperor who didn't write one until Paul the First (Catherine's son mentioned in this video) decided 'Nothing good come out of this law. DELETE!'. Which pretty much banned girls from the throne. Not helped by the fact that Paul apparently decided to put all the work in making children his predecessors didn't and had 10 (!) children, four of which were boys and only one girl died during childhood.

@theresahall6197

5 жыл бұрын

Well she had to have an heir to secure her link to the throne. And with him almost dying the risk of no heir was probably feeling pretty scary.

Can't wait for the next episode!