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

Sensible

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.

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

tbf his ruling about lawyers was pretty sensible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday the 4th of Never, last I checked.

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

You will have tot wait until eternity

@@oliverkorte43 u mean 66 years, right?

Peter preferred picking his nose over picking his heir.

Nose hair, that's what he meant.

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

@@beybladeguru101 but its not.,

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

execute order eternity

According to Justinian, it was only 8

Aw man i ruined the perfect 200 likes

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

So He’s A Reverse Weeb?

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.

@@ImperatorMatthew He's a Dutch weeb

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

@@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

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

"See ya later nerds" *drops over*

Thud

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

Shook off his mortal coil

Does ябтль mean anything?

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

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

bladerun101 it is Russian, trust a Russian speaker

@@nonameuserua It is bulgarian

@@pississippian That's why.

comedic timing

"Case of the deads"

"Fun fact; he died"

Because he's british

This is 18th century man.

@@igorsmihailovs52 the based century

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.

That was pretty brutal for the 18th Century.

@@igorsmihailovs52 It was the 17th century

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."

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

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

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).

Nice

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im only 15 and almost as tall

Damn the guy was an absolute unit.

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

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

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

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

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".

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

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.

@@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.

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

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

Are you Russian?

So what did we learn? The Russians are wizards!

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.

@@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.

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

At least they didn't have her blinded.

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

@@alanpennie8013 Nah, that was a Byzantine thing

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

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

@@merrittanimation7721 this is why monarchy sucks

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

Lol

@@chongli8409 Britain isn't nearly as crazy.

Pay up fluffy

One of the stranger taxes in history I would think.

When you just cannot grow one yourself...

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

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

..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

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.

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

@@41BOT Simpleton

@@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

"See ya nerds"

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

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

Simp.

Protestant countries of Northern Europe upon the time used the Julian

@@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.

@@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.

@@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.

@@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:)

Very lethal

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

Extra Credits had a good one on Catherine the great IIRC

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

Go look up Extra Credits

Nearly every Russian war is about warm waters for ships.

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.

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

Bay-nul

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

@@HistoryMatters kinky...

The marks of a well read person are frequently mispronounced words

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

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.

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

@@fabricatorzayac is great

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

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

God be with you Henry!

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.

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

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

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.

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

Mongol empire is shit

@@danbaghoi4132 ok and ?

Daniel You’re shit

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

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 ).

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

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

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

@@napolien1310 I didn't

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

Thanks for confirming this.

😂😂 he won every war

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

@@nansisarifa I didn't sucked, fool

Be gone, commies!

Seleucus Came down with a case of the deads. Lol

I know 🤣🤣🤣