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

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  • @Mr_Mabasa
    @Mr_Mabasa5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @alanpennie8013

    @alanpennie8013

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jamesscannell7951

    @jamesscannell7951

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ahyan14

    @ahyan14

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @joelellis7035

    @joelellis7035

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @arandomyoutubeaccount3166

    @arandomyoutubeaccount3166

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @simbachvazo6530
    @simbachvazo65303 жыл бұрын

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

  • @johnisaacfelipe6357

    @johnisaacfelipe6357

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sensible

  • @Velin_official

    @Velin_official

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @stevemc01

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @miketacos9034

    @miketacos9034

    3 жыл бұрын

    tbf his ruling about lawyers was pretty sensible.

  • @callmeethancallmeethan77

    @callmeethancallmeethan77

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @SacredCowStockyards
    @SacredCowStockyards4 жыл бұрын

    "How long is eternity?" "66 years"

  • @pississippian

    @pississippian

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @wet6902

    @wet6902

    4 жыл бұрын

    execute order eternity

  • @mr.haroldthetoaster6263

    @mr.haroldthetoaster6263

    4 жыл бұрын

    According to Justinian, it was only 8

  • @bakthihapuarachchi3447

    @bakthihapuarachchi3447

    4 жыл бұрын

    Aw man i ruined the perfect 200 likes

  • @davidvasquez08

    @davidvasquez08

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tinyman1144
    @tinyman11445 жыл бұрын

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

  • @yarpen26

    @yarpen26

    5 жыл бұрын

    Peter preferred picking his nose over picking his heir.

  • @robertkubrick3738

    @robertkubrick3738

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nose hair, that's what he meant.

  • @beybladeguru101

    @beybladeguru101

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @IsraelCountryCube

    @IsraelCountryCube

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@beybladeguru101 but its not.,

  • @TheRambunctious
    @TheRambunctious3 жыл бұрын

    “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

    @kentguiller

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @somedude5422

    @somedude5422

    3 жыл бұрын

    Monday the 4th of Never, last I checked.

  • @TitaniumSteelGreatest

    @TitaniumSteelGreatest

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @oliverkorte43

    @oliverkorte43

    2 жыл бұрын

    You will have tot wait until eternity

  • @semenpiter

    @semenpiter

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@oliverkorte43 u mean 66 years, right?

  • @TheOverlordTank
    @TheOverlordTank5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @damienfinnegan8272

    @damienfinnegan8272

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @TheBrickMasterB

    @TheBrickMasterB

    4 жыл бұрын

    "See ya later nerds" *drops over*

  • @fulcrum2951

    @fulcrum2951

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thud

  • @maxxlr8tion578

    @maxxlr8tion578

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @georgeamesfort3408

    @georgeamesfort3408

    4 жыл бұрын

    Shook off his mortal coil

  • @Shirokroete
    @Shirokroete5 жыл бұрын

    Why is every death in these videos so hilarious

  • @Toonrick12

    @Toonrick12

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@pississippian That's why.

  • @EpicRenegade777

    @EpicRenegade777

    4 жыл бұрын

    comedic timing

  • @bastard-took-the-name-I-had

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

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Case of the deads"

  • @shadow-monger5189

    @shadow-monger5189

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Fun fact; he died"

  • @jcavs9847

    @jcavs9847

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because he's british

  • @renatodutrarangel112
    @renatodutrarangel1122 жыл бұрын

    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

    @TheMagicAround

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Ruminations09
    @Ruminations095 жыл бұрын

    "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

    @paulohenriqueferreiradealm1893

    4 жыл бұрын

    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

    @planescaped

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @drpepper3838
    @drpepper38383 жыл бұрын

    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

    @ImperatorMatthew

    Жыл бұрын

    So He’s A Reverse Weeb?

  • @glebb..3416

    @glebb..3416

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @kaiserschweizer

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ImperatorMatthew He's a Dutch weeb

  • @ImperatorMatthew

    @ImperatorMatthew

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @kaiserschweizer

    @kaiserschweizer

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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
    @LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @igorsmihailovs52

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is 18th century man.

  • @fish5671

    @fish5671

    Жыл бұрын

    @@igorsmihailovs52 the based century

  • @johnnotrealname8168

    @johnnotrealname8168

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @johnnotrealname8168

    Жыл бұрын

    That was pretty brutal for the 18th Century.

  • @mism847

    @mism847

    Жыл бұрын

    @@igorsmihailovs52 It was the 17th century

  • @nonameuserua
    @nonameuserua5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tedbo1819

    @tedbo1819

    5 жыл бұрын

    Does ябтль mean anything?

  • @nonameuserua

    @nonameuserua

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mechkota

    @mechkota

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @nonameuserua

    @nonameuserua

    4 жыл бұрын

    bladerun101 it is Russian, trust a Russian speaker

  • @mechkota

    @mechkota

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@nonameuserua It is bulgarian

  • @runescapeowns8734
    @runescapeowns87343 жыл бұрын

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

  • @christianbuffum-robbins8904
    @christianbuffum-robbins89045 жыл бұрын

    Russian history is one giant mess and I love it.

  • @merrittanimation7721

    @merrittanimation7721

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Nikola95inYT

    @Nikola95inYT

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@merrittanimation7721 this is why monarchy sucks

  • @chongli8409

    @chongli8409

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @bigboaharthurmorgan2109

    @bigboaharthurmorgan2109

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @Enchie

    @Enchie

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@chongli8409 Britain isn't nearly as crazy.

  • @Hawkathon
    @Hawkathon3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @CitrusyGuy

    @CitrusyGuy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @stantorren4400

    @stantorren4400

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @danielwordsworth1843

    @danielwordsworth1843

    Жыл бұрын

    nice

  • @resiliated9326

    @resiliated9326

    8 ай бұрын

    im only 15 and almost as tall

  • @RuiRuichi

    @RuiRuichi

    2 ай бұрын

    Damn the guy was an absolute unit.

  • @jonas1015119
    @jonas10151195 жыл бұрын

    *Beard tax*

  • @dr.vikyll7466

    @dr.vikyll7466

    5 жыл бұрын

    Pay up fluffy

  • @merrittanimation7721

    @merrittanimation7721

    5 жыл бұрын

    One of the stranger taxes in history I would think.

  • @firefox3249

    @firefox3249

    5 жыл бұрын

    When you just cannot grow one yourself...

  • @merrittanimation7721

    @merrittanimation7721

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Aviationlord7742

    @Aviationlord7742

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cheydinal5401
    @cheydinal54015 жыл бұрын

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

  • @KKKKKKK777js

    @KKKKKKK777js

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ahmmetb3h

    @ahmmetb3h

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @pgdunk12

    @pgdunk12

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @danukil7703

    @danukil7703

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @klarobskyr

    @klarobskyr

    5 жыл бұрын

    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".

  • @denizaydn8746
    @denizaydn87464 жыл бұрын

    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

    @kosmosyche

    2 жыл бұрын

    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).

  • @JackOfAllNerdsShow
    @JackOfAllNerdsShow5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @alanpennie8013

    @alanpennie8013

    4 жыл бұрын

    At least they didn't have her blinded.

  • @Martina-Kosicanka

    @Martina-Kosicanka

    4 жыл бұрын

    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

    @carltonleboss

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@alanpennie8013 Nah, that was a Byzantine thing

  • @IsraelCountryCube

    @IsraelCountryCube

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @PatrickAllenNL
    @PatrickAllenNL5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jeandurtal8404
    @jeandurtal84044 жыл бұрын

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

  • @geoffreycharles6330

    @geoffreycharles6330

    3 жыл бұрын

    Are you Russian?

  • @eternalturtle2439

    @eternalturtle2439

    3 жыл бұрын

    So what did we learn? The Russians are wizards!

  • @samiamrg7

    @samiamrg7

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @Hyperpotamus777

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @ksotar

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @HistoryMarche
    @HistoryMarche5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @RonJohn63

    @RonJohn63

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @BH-gh6qm

    @BH-gh6qm

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @limeboiler5471

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @jazzjj7665

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @coolguyishere8851

    @coolguyishere8851

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @karlwittenburg5868
    @karlwittenburg58682 жыл бұрын

    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
    @xaviersaavedra74425 жыл бұрын

    From Russia with love -Peter the Great

  • @CannedBread-mz2tx
    @CannedBread-mz2tx5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @fulcrum2951

    @fulcrum2951

    4 жыл бұрын

    "See ya nerds"

  • @Hundeputzmunter
    @Hundeputzmunter5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kentvesser9484

    @kentvesser9484

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Adrian_Martinez1261

    @Adrian_Martinez1261

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @richardthomas5362
    @richardthomas53622 жыл бұрын

    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

    @mr.goldenproductions_0143

    Жыл бұрын

    Simp.

  • @jamiefernandez7760
    @jamiefernandez77605 жыл бұрын

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

  • @thatfighterguy5846
    @thatfighterguy58465 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mamasnightmare1
    @mamasnightmare12 жыл бұрын

    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

    @gregmiller9710

    2 жыл бұрын

    ..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

    @41BOT

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @41BOT

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @clairevero

    @clairevero

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@41BOT Simpleton

  • @it.snowig

    @it.snowig

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @byzantinemapper6145
    @byzantinemapper61454 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mattapps4355
    @mattapps43555 жыл бұрын

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

  • @fanbuoy9234

    @fanbuoy9234

    5 жыл бұрын

    Extra Credits had a good one on Catherine the great IIRC

  • @mattapps4355

    @mattapps4355

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @AbdulGoodLooks

    @AbdulGoodLooks

    4 жыл бұрын

    Go look up Extra Credits

  • @pinkduke
    @pinkduke5 жыл бұрын

    A case of the deads, classic.

  • @fulcrum2951

    @fulcrum2951

    4 жыл бұрын

    Very lethal

  • @nickschallick5259

    @nickschallick5259

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @BS-vx8dg
    @BS-vx8dg2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @user-bf1yq6oj8z

    Жыл бұрын

    Protestant countries of Northern Europe upon the time used the Julian

  • @BS-vx8dg

    @BS-vx8dg

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @user-bf1yq6oj8z

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @BS-vx8dg

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @user-bf1yq6oj8z

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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:)

  • @bificommander
    @bificommander4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Ajvt-ux4ec
    @Ajvt-ux4ec2 жыл бұрын

    7:23 well that escalated quickly

  • @dmitriygryaznov9210
    @dmitriygryaznov92105 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Khajiidaro

    @Khajiidaro

    Жыл бұрын

    Nearly every Russian war is about warm waters for ships.

  • @wederMaxim

    @wederMaxim

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @TransformersBoss
    @TransformersBoss Жыл бұрын

    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.”

  • @TheHiredgoon0
    @TheHiredgoon03 жыл бұрын

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

  • @McGliga
    @McGliga5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @HistoryMatters

    @HistoryMatters

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @HistoryMatters

    @HistoryMatters

    5 жыл бұрын

    Bay-nul

  • @Fudz4

    @Fudz4

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @The_Call_Up

    @The_Call_Up

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@HistoryMatters kinky...

  • @TheTfrules

    @TheTfrules

    5 жыл бұрын

    The marks of a well read person are frequently mispronounced words

  • @Orthane
    @Orthane3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @Godslayer5656

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @vulpes7079

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @elzabethtatcher9570
    @elzabethtatcher9570 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @alexv1190

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @chrisphoenix77
    @chrisphoenix773 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jamesscannell7951
    @jamesscannell79514 жыл бұрын

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

  • @thatfighterguy5846
    @thatfighterguy58465 жыл бұрын

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

  • @BunsofSteel22
    @BunsofSteel225 жыл бұрын

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

  • @TommyTheWalker
    @TommyTheWalker2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @nikolaytsankov9066
    @nikolaytsankov90665 жыл бұрын

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

  • @paritoshd

    @paritoshd

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @peet556

    @peet556

    5 жыл бұрын

    God be with you Henry!

  • @user-py5gc5dn7t

    @user-py5gc5dn7t

    5 жыл бұрын

    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

    @hunterbg7531

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @hunterbg7531

    @hunterbg7531

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @OttomanHistoryHub
    @OttomanHistoryHub5 жыл бұрын

    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
    @bizkitii8215 жыл бұрын

    Curiosity: Tsarytsin is actually Volgograd (former Stalingrad)

  • @erik-7255
    @erik-72555 жыл бұрын

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

  • @danbaghoi4132

    @danbaghoi4132

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mongol empire is shit

  • @andreacapuano585

    @andreacapuano585

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@danbaghoi4132 ok and ?

  • @xanshen9011

    @xanshen9011

    4 жыл бұрын

    Daniel You’re shit

  • @maxim7269

    @maxim7269

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @karpyakin2171

    @karpyakin2171

    2 жыл бұрын

    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 ).

  • @peterchasten2790
    @peterchasten27905 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ArousedRat1

    @ArousedRat1

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@fabricatorzayac is great

  • @Danil4890

    @Danil4890

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Deadbass_
    @Deadbass_2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mylesmorell7625
    @mylesmorell76255 жыл бұрын

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

  • @KelarGridal
    @KelarGridal5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @zachs1870
    @zachs18705 жыл бұрын

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

  • @timothyrice1621
    @timothyrice16214 жыл бұрын

    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
    @annecampbell1485 жыл бұрын

    PLEASE DO THE SWEDISH EMPIRE!

  • @pbibbles
    @pbibbles2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @CluelessHomesteaders
    @CluelessHomesteaders5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @napolien1310
    @napolien13103 жыл бұрын

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

  • @axlr8deathpls294

    @axlr8deathpls294

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @napolien1310

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @BritishRepublicsn

    @BritishRepublicsn

    Жыл бұрын

    @@napolien1310 I didn't

  • @napolien1310

    @napolien1310

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @DaisyGeekyTransGirl
    @DaisyGeekyTransGirl5 жыл бұрын

    4:16 My typical Victoria II game.

  • @nohabloemojislosiento4930
    @nohabloemojislosiento49302 жыл бұрын

    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

    @Delightfully_Bitchy

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @nohabloemojislosiento4930

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Irrkie
    @Irrkie4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @toddatisme8063
    @toddatisme8063 Жыл бұрын

    “A case of the dead’s” 😂😂😂👌🏿

  • @penta3292
    @penta32923 жыл бұрын

    “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*

  • @Champion_of_Vlaakith
    @Champion_of_Vlaakith Жыл бұрын

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

  • @au-contraire
    @au-contraire5 жыл бұрын

    Entertaining and informative. Thanks!

  • @MrProtopopescovici
    @MrProtopopescovici5 жыл бұрын

    4:01 brilliant

  • @wfcoaker1398

    @wfcoaker1398

    5 жыл бұрын

    Seleucus Came down with a case of the deads. Lol

  • @henriksongaming9051
    @henriksongaming90515 жыл бұрын

    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

    @declanjarvis7344

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @fionnkelly1355
    @fionnkelly13555 жыл бұрын

    keep up the great work

  • @RomanS401
    @RomanS4015 жыл бұрын

    These videos are hilarious and educational, keep it up!

  • @chrisdesett2935
    @chrisdesett29355 жыл бұрын

    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

    @Champion_of_Vlaakith

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for confirming this.

  • @shibzy0tennant
    @shibzy0tennant4 жыл бұрын

    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

    @Adrian_Martinez1261

    Жыл бұрын

    I know 🤣🤣🤣

  • @azlanadil3646
    @azlanadil36462 ай бұрын

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

  • @billbixby8698
    @billbixby86985 жыл бұрын

    What a great video, quite enjoyable indeed!

  • @connorsimmonds9698
    @connorsimmonds96985 жыл бұрын

    *Lenin wants to know your location.*

  • @nansisarifa

    @nansisarifa

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @nicholasiiofrussia1662

    @nicholasiiofrussia1662

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@nansisarifa I didn't sucked, fool

  • @thunderbird1921

    @thunderbird1921

    3 жыл бұрын

    Be gone, commies!

  • @mrunseen3797
    @mrunseen37975 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sohca6162
    @sohca61623 жыл бұрын

    I love these longer videos he makes

  • @doggedout
    @doggedout2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @zvank
    @zvank3 жыл бұрын

    5:16 хороший выбор букв))))))

  • @johnkeefer8760
    @johnkeefer87603 жыл бұрын

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

  • @GeometricMason
    @GeometricMason2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cheknauss9867
    @cheknauss98672 жыл бұрын

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

  • @swedichboy1000
    @swedichboy10003 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ilykeandre3898

    @ilykeandre3898

    Жыл бұрын

    😂😂 he won every war

  • @simonbach3618

    @simonbach3618

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Puckosar

    @Puckosar

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @raunce91

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @geronimo8159
    @geronimo81593 жыл бұрын

    "Pay up, Fluffy!"

  • @mademoiselleria1412
    @mademoiselleria14124 жыл бұрын

    you make learning so much easier

  • @kingusernamelxixthemagnifi3488
    @kingusernamelxixthemagnifi34885 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Nikola95inYT

    @Nikola95inYT

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kingusernamelxixthemagnifi3488

    @kingusernamelxixthemagnifi3488

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @patrick8358

    @patrick8358

    5 жыл бұрын

    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

    @rettican

    5 жыл бұрын

    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

    @plummye005

    5 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @--julian_
    @--julian_5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @TravisBroski
    @TravisBroski2 жыл бұрын

    “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*

  • @ChanceKearns
    @ChanceKearns2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @JGHinton1989
    @JGHinton19895 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @unbrokenbrony5618
    @unbrokenbrony56183 жыл бұрын

    "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!"

  • @hungarycountryball1056
    @hungarycountryball10565 жыл бұрын

    I like these documentaries about certain people.

  • @shanzaez1675
    @shanzaez16752 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jamesirving484
    @jamesirving4845 жыл бұрын

    You know it’s a good video if it starts with things being tense or somebody killed

  • @tereedo
    @tereedo5 жыл бұрын

    Could you do a video about peter II of Brazil?

  • @vaiyt

    @vaiyt

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @felps1917

    @felps1917

    5 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Anders-ps5wj
    @Anders-ps5wj2 жыл бұрын

    It’s funny how one of the greatest Russian rulers ever banned lawyers from courts and created a beard tax

  • @tomkelly8827
    @tomkelly88273 жыл бұрын

    I love these funny little video's! Can you do one for Canada too?

  • @justinwolf7490

    @justinwolf7490

    3 жыл бұрын

    He talks about Canada in some of the videos like the American Revolution.

  • @Kzummo
    @Kzummo2 жыл бұрын

    Probably one of History Matter's best videos