Russia wasn't colonized by a single foreign power; instead, its vast territory developed through internal expansion, assimilation of nomadic groups (Scythians, Khazars, Mongols), and conquest of its own diverse peoples, creating an empire that expanded eastward into Siberia and southward, with early Norse influence shaping the first state (Kievan Rus') before it became a vast colonial power itself, often described as "self-colonizing".
However, they also had a secret aim: to explore the possibility of annexing part of northern Russia and to set up an English colony in Muscovy. It was hoped that this colony could stretch along the river Volga and down to the Russian border with Persia.
Russia was ruled by the tsars from 1547 to 1917. However, Russia did not become a major European power until the time of Peter the Great (reigned 1689-1725).
Overseas colonies were just never of particular interest to the Russian state. The Tsars never really cared about colonial ventures or saw them as worthwhile investments. Most of the settlers in Alaska were fur trappers and traders, and there was never a concerted effort to properly colonize the territory.
The U.S.S.R. was the successor to the Russian Empire of the tsars. Following the 1917 Revolution, four socialist republics were established on the territory of the former empire: the Russian and Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republics and the Ukrainian and Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republics.
We find this in Ezekiel 38:1-2, “Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 'Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. '” So, Gog is the prince of Rosh, or we would say the leader of Russia. Some scholars believe Gog is a title rather than a personal name.
Ukrainians and Russians, (and Belarusians), trace their ancestry back to a medieval kingdom known as Rus. This kingdom was the largest territorially in medieval Europe, stretching from the Baltic in the north to near the Black Sea in the south. A map of Rus after the death of Yaroslav I in 1054.
Japan is usually mentioned as a rare case of a country that was never conquered or colonized. But technically, from 1945 to 1951, Japan was under the control of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers after WWII — and Okinawa stayed under U.S. administration until 1972.
Surprise that in this age of knowledge, African confusionists moles of russia, do not know that Russia colonized Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kirghistan, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, Georgia, and 4 others before they liberated themselves during Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika.
Defeat in the Crimean War further reduced Russian interest in this region. Russia offered to sell Alaska to the United States in 1859, believing the United States would off-set the designs of Russia's greatest rival in the Pacific, Great Britain.
In 1917, amid revolution and war, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, ending the dynasty. He and his immediate family were executed in 1918. However, many Romanovs survived in exile, particularly in France, the U.K., and the U.S., and their descendants still live around the world today.
Much of Russia's expansion occurred in the 17th century, culminating in the first Russian colonisation of the Pacific in the mid-17th century, the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) that incorporated left-bank Ukraine, and the Russian conquest of Siberia.
Orthodox Christianity is the most widely professed religion in Russia, with significant minorities of non-religious people and adherents of other faiths. Russia has the world's largest Orthodox population. St. Basil's Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Moscow is a World Heritage Site.
According to respondents, the friendliest countries are China (65%, +10 p.p. since 2022), Belarus (41%, −8 p.p.), India (26%, +4 p.p.) and North Korea (26%, +22 p.p.). Russia's top foes include France (48%, +27 p.p. since 2022), Great Britain (42%, +3 p.p.) and Germany (41%, +9 p.p.).
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Russia has both won (e.g., suppressing Polish uprisings in the 19th century) and lost such wars (e.g., the Crimean War, the 1919-1921 Polish War, and 20th-century wars with Finland).
The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917.
Was China colonized by any country? Yes, China was colonized directly by Britain, Portugal, Russia, and China. Many other countries had control over trade in much of China.
The French emperor—intent on conquering Europe—sent 600,000 troops into Russia. Six disastrous months later, only an estimated 100,000 made it out.
The European countries which had the most colonies throughout history were: United Kingdom (130), France (90), Portugal (52), Spain (44), Netherlands (29), Germany (20), Russia (17), Denmark (9), Sweden (8), Italy (7), Norway (6), Knights of Malta (6), Belgium (3), and Courland (2).
Between 1895 and 1945, Taiwan, including the Penghu Islands, was a colony of the Empire of Japan; following the defeat of Qing China in the First Sino-Japanese War, it ceded Taiwan to Japan under the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
While Iran was never formally colonized by Western powers, it's governing regimes before the Islamic revolution were loyal to both the East and the West; the country was therefore more or less a de facto colony of Russia, Great Britain, and the United States.
Because Russians are Slavs, but the rulers of the Kievan Rus were basically like the Norse who became the Normans, they assimilated into the local culture, even if their are a few Russian names that are Scandinavian in origin like Oleg (Helgi) or Igor (Ingvar).
Genetic studies show that Russians are overall closely related to other Eastern European and North European populations, such as Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, as well as Latvians, Estonians, Lithuanians, Finns and Swedes, but also display significant genetic heterogenity, evidence for multiple genetic ancestries and ...
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the term “White Russian” described ethnic Russians living in the area between Russia and Poland (today this includes Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia and Moldova).