This is an interesting read from Foreign Affairs magazine setting the current situation in Russia in it's historical context:

"Russia’s New Time of Troubles - It’s Not 1917 in Moscow—It’s 1604"

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/russias-new-time-troubles

#Russia #VladimirPutin #RussianHistory

#OnThisDay, 28 June 1762, Russian Empress consort Catherine forced her husband Peter III to abdicate in her favour. She was crowned Catherine II (aka the Great) in September 1762.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #RegnantQueens #RussianHistory

#OnThisDay, 28 April 1730 OS*, Anna Ivanovna is crowned the Empress of the Russian Empire.

Anna was picked by the Privy Council as the next ruler as she was widowed and childless. The council imposed a set of Conditions through which they would control her. She literally tore them up, and continued her uncle Peter the Great’s modernisation.

Like many Russian rulers, men and women, she could be cruel and abuse her power.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #RussianHistory #RegnantWomen

I did an article a while back on the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. I'm still dumbfounded that so much of the world misunderstands Putin, what he wants and how he thinks. The key to understanding him is seeing him in the context of Russian rulers of the past. He's losing the war, and that's good, but it will still be a long haul til it's over. His best option is to wait out the West. It might work. #ukraine #putin #russia #russianhistory #histodons https://www.gardenofmemory.net/frozen-giant-putins-options-one-year-into-the-ukraine-war/

«On Russia, Moral Clarity and Strategic Empathy» by Keir Giles. #BookReview #Russia #RussianAffairs #RussiaGeopolitics #RussianHistory

https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/on-russia-moral-clarity-and-strategic-empathy

This open-access book examines the concept of the Rus’ Land and how modern Russian nationalism made it the equivalent of “Russia.” It looks at how this myth developed during the medieval and early modern periods. https://www.medievalists.net/2023/01/new-medieval-books-the-rise-and-demise-of-the-myth-of-the-rus-land/ #medieval #books #history #Russianhistory

#TodayInHistory Vladimir Lenin breaks away from the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1912, during the Prague Conference, to form the more radical Bolshevik movement that would drive the October Revolution.

#lenin #russianhistory

RT @whatisrussiaorg
What Catherine ”the great” did to Ukraine: #RussianColonialism #russianImperialism #russianhistory #StandWithUkraine https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1608254191918522368

http://chehov-lit.ru/chehov/vospominaniya/knipper-nardov.htm "#Knipper-Nardov: I saw A.P. #Chekhov for the last time in the spring of 1904 in Berlin with my sister. ..When I expressed hope for the victory of the #Russian troops in the war with #Japan,.. Anton Pavlovich said: “.. our victory would mean the strengthening of the #autocracy and the oppression in which we are suffocating. This victory would stop the impending #revolution. Is that really what you want?.. #russianHistory

https://chekhovwrites.blogspot.com/2022/12/19-30-1875-1904-epub.html NEW! 29.12.2022
19-#Letters-1875-1886 - Anton #Chekhov-#GoogleTranslated.#epub #ebook download - to be continued.. "4. M. M. CHEKHOV January 1, 1877 Taganrog. Exactly 12 o'clock, 1877. Night.
Dear Brother Misha! …There is a crack, and along with the smoke the following words fly straight to Moscow: “Let this shot dissipate like smoke, all your hardships and let peace and money come to replace them!”
#nonfiction #russianLiterature #russianHistory
https://mastodon.social/@omdaru/109595791030320331

From one army / nightmare into another. Join Mikhail's story where we last left off in Laryssa's #DiarySeries @MyUkrainianHeritage@https://podcasts.roamancing.com/, with his forced conscription into the worker's army and a one way ticket to Siberia to work under the Gulag.

https://roamancing.com/2022/06/siberian-workers-army-to-wwii-soldier-my-ukrainian-heritage/

#HistoryTravels #UkrainianHistory #RussianHistory #StandWithUkraine #MyUkrainianHeritage #podcast

“Remember the Romanovs,” 24” square, oil on board. #romanovs #czarnicholasii #russianhistory #redarmy #constellation #execution #czar #oilpainting

#TodayInHistory The Siege of Ryazan ends in 1237, with Mongol Horde led by Batu Khan, capturing the city after breaking down the walls using giant catapults. Prince Yuriy with his wife was killed, most of the population were massacred and the city was looted.

#mongols #russianhistory

#TodayInHistory The Siege of Ryazan ends in 1237, with Mongol Horde led by Batu Khan, capturing the city after breaking down the walls using giant catapults. Prince Yuriy with his wife was killed, most of the population were massacred and the city was looted.

#mongols #russianhistory

Historian Oleksandr Polianchev (Stockholm) published a fascinating thread in late August about where Putin's notion of Ukraine as an "anti-Russia" as his justification for war came from. Polianchev identifies links to both the early post-Soviet and the late Imperial periods. The genocidal intention is also clear. 🧵 https://twitter.com/opolianichev/status/1563146619486232576
#Russia #Genocide #Ukraine #Histodons #RussianHistory

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chekhov-becomes-chekhov-book-review-the-great-listener-11671208764 "Bob Blaisdell’s “Chekhov Becomes Chekhov” does exactly what its title promises: It tracks—story by story, month by month, sometimes day by day—how Anton Pavlovich #Chekhov (1860-1904), the Moscow doctor whose caustic stories changed the face of modern fiction, found his literary voice... Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius
by #BobBlaisdell #nonfiction #RussianLiterature #books #bookstodon #RussianHistory

In an effort to build new networks - I'm a scholar of #publichealthhistory #soviethistory #russianhistory #medicalhistory #tobacco
My 2 vol hist of smoking in Russia/USSR was just completed:
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501765483/cigarettes-and-soviets/
Use the code "09TRENDING" to get the book for $19.78
I am currently working on a history of Russia's demographic concerns as a crisis of masculinity. #demography #masculinity #history #ussr #soviet I toot history, unions, health and dogs.

#TodayInHistory The Siege of Kolberg in 1761 during the 7 Years War, ends in a victory for Russia after 4 months, as Prussia loses it's last major port on the Baltic, it would however later be returned back by Russian Tsar Peter III.

#prussia #russia #russianhistory

https://reference.jrank.org/biography-2/Zamenhof_LL.html ..#Zamenhof applied to the University of #Moscow to study #medicine and was accepted. Arriving in Moscow in 1879, Zamenhof became a classmate of the great Russian playwright Anton #Chekhov, but because Jewish and Christian students rarely mixed, the two never became acquainted. ..
#russianHistory
L. L. Zamenhof (15 December 1859 – 14 April 1917) the creator of Esperanto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof

Anton Pavloviĉ ĈEĤOV en Esperanto
https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_%C4%88e%C4%A5ov

@SocraticEthics I totally agree with #Kuleba and I would even say that many western countries are extremely naive with respect to #Putin and Russia. #Macron and #Scholz are the lighting examples of behaving childish naive towards Putin. To end this #BrutalCriminalWar and useless #war Russia has to be #defeated otherwise Russia will find somewhere in the near future another silly excuse to attack. Just dive in the #RussianHistory and you will understand the real intentions of Russia. #StopRussia