I appreciate how this series doesn't just skip over the lesser-known rulers like other documentaries do. There's something to be learned from hearing about each of them, and gives you a better understanding of Russian history overall. For example, just how intertwined the German ruling families and the Russians were. Other documentaries treat Catherine II, the "obscure German princess" as some kind of one-off, when that's actually not the case at all.
It was a common practice in Russia (and Europe in general) for the aristocracy to speak German or French while the commoners spoke Russian. Alexander II was seen as a "hick" for his insistence on speaking Russian in court. This linguistic disconnect likely had a role in Revolutionary activities during WW1.
How can you guys afford to make all these outstanding documentaries? It is simply remarkable how well-made they are! Easily better than anything the History Channel puts out and more interesting.
Today, most of anything Russians make is top quality (a fact, among many other, even Mercedes-Benz recognizes, leading them, to establish a production unit outside Moscow, just like American cinema companies having set up shop in Russia).
Yeah, History Channel nowadays is too bloated with reality shows. Though the Vikings tv show is still great, but I already know its about to lose steam soon
This is without question the best history documentary series I've ever seen. Then again, most I saw were on the history channel back in the day...and we all know what that channel's credibility is now. Kudos StarMedia, you guys are AMAZING.
Stephany Lewis - It's much more complicated than that when it comes to that subject. The history channel loses its credibility mostly with the ufo series that they do.
I have seen tons of historical documentaries from war to presidents to kings to royalty but by far this is THE BEST documentary i have ever seen it shows me there is a lot more to the The Romanovs
Elizabeth made sure that Razumovsky lived comfortably after he departed from the imperial court, and Catherine offered him high titles after she came to the throne, which he refused because he wasn't interested in court intrigue.
Poor Peter II, the only person who cared about him was his sister. As a brother of 3 sisters, it makes me sad, our father passed away when we were little and they were looking at me with such admiration and hope. We have all grown up and well but every time I see this brother-sister dynamic it depresses me :(
@AJayQDR I had the same family dynamic , 3 sisters and a brother and our father passed when I was 3... My Bro did become our protector ; He done really well..I remember being stuck in a patch of stinging nettles and he came to my rescue. I've many memories of his protective & supportive ways...He stuck around until we had all grown up and moved on.. Then he married and got 3 daughters of his own x♡x
@@mummybunny331 @mummybunny331 thank you for sharing your story, incredibly just a year after posting that comment my first child was born, a girl, named Dunya after the character in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, then another girl last year. Greetings to your brother, we are made to protect the girls in our lives, the most noble thing a man can ever do.
Anna be like "well.. you gave me the power so I simply tested it - by kicking you out LOL" yaass queen 😂👌. Also "the league of three petticoats" sounds like a very promising movie plot
@@lucasbishop8437 He was neglected just like his father. His grandfather was a great leader but doesn't appear to be a great father. That why his son tried to run away from him.
@@blugaledoh2669 Alexei ran away... to gather allies in the hopes of overthrowing his father and undoing his reforms. Granted, even that can be blamed on Peter for allowing the boy to be raised by conservatives who actively encouraged him to hate reform.
It only took 13 hours of two Russian history series to finally see royals hunt and own Borzoi! Greyhounds and wolfhounds pop up all over any British show once you hit the late Middle Ages. As a greyhound owner and all sighthound aficionado, it always makes me smile. It’s really frustrating to see productions skimp it especially with royals who were well known to own and course Sighthounds like Henry VIII and the later Romanovs. I’ve always wanted a Borzoi but it’s far too hot here in Alabama for them. They are gorgeous, sweet tempered hounds.
Thank you for these GREAT documentaries I love watching and reading as much history as I can (all history) for I truly believe that to proceed forward a person needs to understand there beginnings (all races)As one other person stated earlier The History Channel was once decent to watch but now has become another reality show network devoid of history
This is an extremely fascinating historic documentary, one which gives us new information, including about rulers we had not been instructed in very thoroughly. There were some good rulers, alas, not long lived. I wish it had not been such cruel era, but we haven't done away with it in the world. I've subscribed to your channel, but I will have to pay to get away from those ever- present adverts. I paid money last month, yet now have to pay again, to be able to watch a program without irritating interruptions. It is so nice when you can find a video you can see from beginning to end and enjoy the absence of commercials.
Absolutely LOVE this series, someone here already said that back in the USSR era, the History was amended by the government, even in the Universities, so it is very interesting series and amazingly well done, I learned a lot of details that were not known to me, thank you very much.And, thanks to Sir Anthony Hopkins for narrating it for English speaking audiences ...if I'm not mistaken ( if it's not him, thanks anyway...well done )
Put subtitles please!!! My dad can understand english but finds it hard to keep up with what their saying with the accents and all 😃 i’d love to let him watch this as he doesn’t know much about Russian history.
+Rhyes2012 What does it say about wearers of pants, that is, breeches, when these petticoat wearers are the most powerful and influential persons in their respective countries during an age when women were little more than property?
+I am an old woman I shall wear purple becouse its always funny when someone belonging to misandryst american culture which treated men like pieces of shit starts to say how bad women lived blah-blah-blah. hypocrisy much?
GRRM stole pretty much everything in his books from history, and most European countries have similar stories of dynastic conflict and confused successions.
Where all the money for expenses of this empress called Anna come from? It comes from the Russian people, the people who works. No wonder the people revolt against these situation. While the aristocracy and the wealthy "swim" in luxury and excess of rich food and wine, those who work die of exhaustion, hunger, diseases. Excellent documentary.
I commented on the last episode that Peter was something of a control freak. After seeing what happened when he died, I understand. These morons needed an iron fist.
@@laurarumpe6186, for some reason I have never seen your reply - pardon, that was an old mistake of mine. However, there is a phrase ― “ear to the throne” or “throne’s ear”.
Excellent done. The Russians are so talented in art, song, opera, writing, composing music ice dance and making movies. The Russian soul is so sensitive and deeply connected with divinity. Every body watching this video serie can see what talented people Russians are. Watch some of their movies on youtube and you will feel how they touch your soul.I hope America and Rusland will work together and Europe and Rusland. In the future it will be very importens that all Christian countries will unite against Islam. No I am not Russian, but something about the Russian soul is very touching and beautiful.
Yes you are right. Russian films are an unknown area. Even the old ones are interesting for me to watch today. Another world, other life values, a different mentality and way of thinking. I would summarize - Russian films are more emotional, they are not commercial, sometimes very tragic, which we are not used to. And it hurts the soul.
Peter : tortures his Son, tortures his people, exercises extreme control over his people and has a draconian tax policy. People: Peter the Great Anna: shoots crows People: she’s craaaaaaaaazy
What we see as a common thread through Russian history, even beyond the time of the Czars and through the years of Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet Communist era, right through to Putin today, is that the Russian people have always needed strong leadership, even forms of dictatorship - this also shows us that weak and inept forms of leadership are inherently dangerous for any country as we have seen right throughout history, that only firm and strong leadership is the only thing that works, including those forms of leadership based on a military dictatorship model or those of an absolute ruler, autocrat or martinet - dispensing with the deception of democracy and the democratic process is a vital keystone of truly effective leadership and governance
Actually, the reign of Anna I is not without merits and her frivolity is no difference from that of Catherine I, Elizabeth or even Peter the Great. Historian wrote badly of her mainly because her family lost the battle for the throne. Since the Romanovs today are descendants of Catherine I.
The speaker deliberately distorts Russian names as a foreigner would do. The real correct pronunciation of Russian names in Russian is poorly remembered by foreigners (I think the point is the difference in the purely mechanical movement of the tongue, lips, articulation of the Russian and English). Russians automatically make these sounds on a small beer by moving their tongue, lips, and vocal cords in a special way without noticing it (let's call this articulation technique). And just like that, any foreign language that has a very different technique from the Russian language has its own articulation and sound engineering technique. Foreigners also make their articulation characteristic of their language, do it automatically without noticing it. Therefore, it is easier to distort the Russian name, make it more familiar to an English-speaking person, pronounce the Russian name using the articulation technique of the English language for example - and as a result you get a name with an accent.
StarMediaEN, it is excellent documentary, but you are mention few times "Ukraine", but "Ukraine" didn't exist in 17 century! It was "The Edge of Russia" - russian word "Okraina or Kray".
+vann tedd I didn't say Ukraine was a state, actually it wasn't. But you can't deny the fact that Ukrainians as a nation began to form during the age of Tatar rule because the interaction between Russian Princedoms decreased, established trade and other connections were broken so two new nations began to appear: Ukrainians and Belarusians. They came from the East Slavic peoples from Kievan Rus, no doubt!, but they evolved into the independent ethnic groups living on their lands by the seventeenth century.
Juliya K Do not tell me history of Ukraine, it is anyway screwed up! In 17 century Ukraine didn't exist and west part of Ukraine was parts of Poland, Romania and Hungary. Ukraine must to thanks Lenin and Communists - they glue together Ukraine! Check up map of the World of 17, 18 and 19 centuries and you won't see Ukraine, but you'll see meddle part of Ukraine named Malorussia and East part was Novorossia. In Novorossia cossacks always were protecting Russia and Russian Tsar. Those west part of Ukraine, that use to be under Austro-Hungarian Empire got with Ukraine just after WWII and this is where all Nazi - Banderas and Shucheviches came from, and now they are trying to dictate cossacks to hate their Russian family and speak some kind of phony, made up ukrainian language?! Again, cossacks was, is and will be Russian people, Banderas will shit in their panties, but they will never dictate E.Ukraine! E.Ukraine will never kiss ass to Nazi-Banderas. Also, Kiev was build by Khazars, here is some more history: www.khazaria.com/khazar-history.html
vann tedd Your reasoning is rather naive - don't be offended. And it’s most likely your opinion was formed due to newspaper/internet articles and television debates. Though I see your point. And it is clear that all that situation when Russia is presented to the world as pure evil and Ukraine as an innocent victim - it relates to politics and somebody’s interests and it has nothing to do with the real state of things. But you simplify some things and exaggerate others. So if you really take interest in this issue read history textbooks. Good luck.
So the council thought to write out a lengthy set of restrictions for the Empress but then gave her a household guard who hated them? Worst oligarchy ever.
This is the problem with kingdom ruling or tsardom: unworthy heirs come to power and rule the land... like Anna who did not care about Russia nor knew what to do.
And what makes you think democracy or socialism is the solution? Afterall people are stupid animals and they're dumb, people often chose liars and demons as rulers, like how the ignorant French folk chose that beast beheader Robespierre as ruler, or how Russian stupid peasants chose Lenin as ruler, or how brainless Iranians chose a Theocracy dictatorship over a generous monarchy. Monarchy isn't perfect, no ideology is perfect, but there isn't anything better, I'd rather be scarred than to die, how about you?
If there wasn’t so much pressure for male succession as a result of Peter III, likely the Russian monarchy could still be present today. Olga Nikolaevna would have made a wonderful empress.
Because she already toppled him as legal emperor from the throne in 1741. It was an illegal coup. And the name of this minor Emperor was seized everywhere... his name, image, and information about his reign has been erased from all records. And Elizabeth has successor as a nephew Peter, son of her sister Anna Petrovna. I think that her obsessive fear of loss the power was came from the coup, which victim was Ivan VI
***** At first she had such intentions, but then she forgot about it and the situation goes under control of her favorites and servants, that were rather cruel
It doesn't work that way. A potential heir, even as a baby, is a potential "ralying point" for any dissented faction of the court. Once they seized the power, then this baby would be a puppet on which behalf this faction would rule the state. The boy doesn't have to know who he is or who he was. It's enough for some courtiers to know, and there's a recipe for trouble.
It was a power struggle between Ivan and Peter's line, going back to Sophia and Peter himself. Elizabeth needed to keep power in her family, which didn't include Ivan IV. I think she felt sorry for him, but he was a threat to her legitimacy
Anna only had control over her OWN money and guards???!!!! WTF!! That made me so mad!!!! That’s basically fucking nothing! To hell with that I quickly would said “how about no, see ya!”
I dont understand how a persón would give away full control of their lives for ppl that will Never give a fuck about them we must get rid of all forms of government
I could see what was coming after 1st peter's reign. He was a horrible Tsar, his changes to the society made it possible for all of those clowns to come after him. He should 've been a military leader no more. I wasn't concerned about some like peter the 1st coming after 40 years...I wanted someone like the first three tsars !
The series is delightful but the music in this episode is way off. Showing Elizabeth and her court, clearly dancing a minuet or gavotte ala Mozart, but to 19th century waltz music ala Strauss, is a sad blunder in an otherwise good programme. Its a bit like showing kids in 2016 in a disco with 1940s music on the soundtrack !
william wright So...people didn't listen to music from the 40s in the disco era? I'm confused as to what your complaint is! There are children's movies that come out NOW with music from the 60s on it's soundtrack. What's the big deal? Music is music.
At this point, I understand the Empress Elisabeth have no children. Why didn’t he make her distant cousin ivan the sixth her hair instead of Peter the 3
Btw. the currency conversion is totally wrong. 8 million US Dollars in today’s money spend to maintain the academy of science. 🤔 That’s extremely cheap I’d say. 800 million would be more precise. If one were to rebuild the winter palace today it would cost over a billion dollars. The Berlin Stadtschloss is being rebuild and it costs over 600 million dollars, and that’s without a Barock interior.
Typical woman was Elizabeth. Instead of finery, millinery, jewelry, and confectionaries, the empress should have provided seed capital for cloth mills, iron works, research on steam engines, and improvements on public transport.
You know in the history of Kings, Queens, Emperors, ect ect, from any country, not one of them seems to have cared one wit about their people. For all of their “called by God to be the leader of the people” they didn’t even seem to remember they had people, except when they wanted money or someone to sleep with. The entire lot would have been better off if they had all been put on an island somewhere and left there.
Believe me, Europe was no better at these times. I am not talking about the Inquisition. Under Stalin, almost all European countries owned colonies. The mortality and ill-treatment of the local population surpasses the Stalinist Gulag by 10 times. So the communists are angels. By the way, the main idea of communism is no kings, all are equal, there are no rich and no poor. Stalinist Russia and North Korea are a parody of Marx's theoretical theory of communism. Nothing to do with the theory of communism. Look at communist China today.
i really hate elizabeth , she was cruel to anna's son,wasteful, hired out soldiers to fight battles for other nations to get cash, vain , aided corruption .all in all a very bad ruler . peter the 1st really had bad kids ,unsurprisingly cos he had very questionable morals despite winning lots of wars and building st petersburg and moscow
Troll God - To his defence, I think he would state that the traditions that he put a stop to were things that mostly caught on to society during the mongol/tatar invasion and occupation and were not truly Russian.
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I appreciate how this series doesn't just skip over the lesser-known rulers like other documentaries do. There's something to be learned from hearing about each of them, and gives you a better understanding of Russian history overall. For example, just how intertwined the German ruling families and the Russians were. Other documentaries treat Catherine II, the "obscure German princess" as some kind of one-off, when that's actually not the case at all.
It was a common practice in Russia (and Europe in general) for the aristocracy to speak German or French while the commoners spoke Russian. Alexander II was seen as a "hick" for his insistence on speaking Russian in court. This linguistic disconnect likely had a role in Revolutionary activities during WW1.
@@billyaepicgamer8642 from the
@@ferdinandates2433 From the what?
Take a look at how entwined the royal families across Europe as a whole are. They overlap to such a large extent.
@@thefirm4606Hence all the inbreeding.
How can you guys afford to make all these outstanding documentaries? It is simply remarkable how well-made they are! Easily better than anything the History Channel puts out and more interesting.
Ben Bowman russian documentaries. star media channel
Today, most of anything Russians make is top quality (a fact, among many other, even Mercedes-Benz recognizes, leading them, to establish a production unit outside Moscow, just like American cinema companies having set up shop in Russia).
Safe to say Russians are perfectionist so anything they put out there is top quality. This is coming from a non Russian
Yuri Ramirez -- Agreed and im not Russian either.
Yeah, History Channel nowadays is too bloated with reality shows. Though the Vikings tv show is still great, but I already know its about to lose steam soon
This is without question the best history documentary series I've ever seen. Then again, most I saw were on the history channel back in the day...and we all know what that channel's credibility is now. Kudos StarMedia, you guys are AMAZING.
+5th_Progenator_Reesecobar The History Channel: Where the Past Becomes a Lie.
In 2013 there were 400 years of the Romanovs' house
They're still running down stories from the Bible like that shit is real.
Stephany Lewis - It's much more complicated than that when it comes to that subject. The history channel loses its credibility mostly with the ufo series that they do.
Anerican civil war -Ken Burns.
I have seen tons of historical documentaries from war to presidents to kings to royalty but by far this is THE BEST documentary i have ever seen it shows me there is a lot more to the The Romanovs
I love how whenever the emperor/empress doesn't like someone they just exile them to Siberia
I know if only it was that easy😥
Lmao
@@dianakiragu1660 lmao
it’s a mood hahahha
@@西嶋剣 ya it's tradition lol
The greatest documentary series ever.
Favorite history documentary series on RUclips the music and the acting on point 🙌🏼
What a incredibly fantastic documentary this is. Spellbound!! Thank you!!
Beautifully produced, and the actors look very authentic!
Elizabeth made sure that Razumovsky lived comfortably after he departed from the imperial court, and Catherine offered him high titles after she came to the throne, which he refused because he wasn't interested in court intrigue.
Poor Peter II, the only person who cared about him was his sister. As a brother of 3 sisters, it makes me sad, our father passed away when we were little and they were looking at me with such admiration and hope. We have all grown up and well but every time I see this brother-sister dynamic it depresses me :(
I'm SO sorry to hear that. I hope you heal from this traumatic experience 💓💕
🙏🙏🙏🤍💙❤
@AJayQDR I had the same family dynamic , 3 sisters and a brother and our father passed when I was 3...
My Bro did become our protector ; He done really well..I remember being stuck in a patch of stinging nettles and he came to my rescue.
I've many memories of his protective & supportive ways...He stuck around until we had all grown up and moved on.. Then he married and got 3 daughters of his own x♡x
@@mummybunny331 @mummybunny331 thank you for sharing your story, incredibly just a year after posting that comment my first child was born, a girl, named Dunya after the character in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, then another girl last year. Greetings to your brother, we are made to protect the girls in our lives, the most noble thing a man can ever do.
@ Some of us are made to be protectors of girls, I have two girls as well, say hello to your brother.
Anna be like "well.. you gave me the power so I simply tested it - by kicking you out LOL" yaass queen 😂👌.
Also "the league of three petticoats" sounds like a very promising movie plot
This is a fascinating series! Thank you for posting it. Makes the French royal history of the same era look rather dull and that’s saying something!
This is an incredible series - so happy I stumbled across it... :)
Does anyone else feel kinda sorry for Peter II? Poor baby just needed someone to care about him.
Unfortunately, the world of Palace intrigues is very harsh.
People should have loved him everyone needs love
@@lucasbishop8437 He was neglected just like his father. His grandfather was a great leader but doesn't appear to be a great father. That why his son tried to run away from him.
Yes
@@blugaledoh2669 Alexei ran away... to gather allies in the hopes of overthrowing his father and undoing his reforms. Granted, even that can be blamed on Peter for allowing the boy to be raised by conservatives who actively encouraged him to hate reform.
Beautifully done. I learned a lot and it was very enjoyable. Thank you!
It only took 13 hours of two Russian history series to finally see royals hunt and own Borzoi! Greyhounds and wolfhounds pop up all over any British show once you hit the late Middle Ages. As a greyhound owner and all sighthound aficionado, it always makes me smile. It’s really frustrating to see productions skimp it especially with royals who were well known to own and course Sighthounds like Henry VIII and the later Romanovs. I’ve always wanted a Borzoi but it’s far too hot here in Alabama for them. They are gorgeous, sweet tempered hounds.
Great!!
Thank you for these GREAT documentaries I love watching and reading as much history as I can (all history) for I truly believe that to proceed forward a person needs to understand there beginnings (all races)As one other person stated earlier The History Channel was once decent to watch but now has become another reality show network devoid of history
Elizabeth ruled for over 20 yrs. She deserved her own episode.
Greetings from Trenton, NJ..USA YOU HAVE A GREAT CHANNEL!
This is an extremely fascinating historic documentary, one which gives us new information, including about rulers we had not been instructed in very thoroughly. There were some good rulers, alas, not long lived. I wish it had not been such cruel era, but
we haven't done away with it in the world. I've subscribed to your channel, but I will have to pay to get away from those ever-
present adverts. I paid money last month, yet now have to pay again, to be able to watch a program without irritating interruptions. It is so nice when you can find a video you can see from beginning to end and enjoy the absence of commercials.
I have been using an ad blocker for many years. All sites and any video without ads.
Absolutely LOVE this series, someone here already said that back in the USSR era, the History was amended by the government, even in the Universities, so it is very interesting series and amazingly well done, I learned a lot of details that were not known to me, thank you very much.And, thanks to Sir Anthony Hopkins for narrating it for English speaking audiences ...if I'm not mistaken ( if it's not him, thanks anyway...well done )
out of all the Romanovs my personal favorite monarch would have to be the Empress Elizabeth
nemofan111 I still stand by Catherine the Great.
Katherine was the better monarch, but Elizabeth was far more interesting.
I idolize peter the great, alexandrovich the first Romanov king, Catherine the great and Nicholas II
@@Manuel-gu9ls Why Nicholas 2nd? He failed in the Russo Japanese war and ww1
Nikita Kuznetsov he's a exemplary father and a loving husband and I like his beard
Put subtitles please!!! My dad can understand english but finds it hard to keep up with what their saying with the accents and all 😃 i’d love to let him watch this as he doesn’t know much about Russian history.
Olivia Queen same same :( I can’t follow without captions
Ive been to Russia and Austria. so this alliance between Empress Elizabeth and Maria Theresa insterests me
It's amazing what some people do when power takes over their lives! They become totally unreasonable, selfish and unkind.
" The League of the three petticoats"...LOL :D @ 48:00
+Rhyes2012 What does it say about wearers of pants, that is, breeches, when these petticoat wearers are the most powerful and influential persons in their respective countries during an age when women were little more than property?
+abc64pan i think you watch too much so-called "gender history" which is not history, but propaganda
+I am an old woman I shall wear purple becouse its always funny when someone belonging to misandryst american culture which treated men like pieces of shit starts to say how bad women lived blah-blah-blah. hypocrisy much?
I love this series
For people who were confuse about the involvement of Mdme de Pompadour, she was made an unofficial company to the Austrian Ambassador in Versailles.
Love this documentary! Can they do one on the Hapsburgs next?
These episodes remind me of something out of Game of Thrones
GRRM stole pretty much everything in his books from history, and most European countries have similar stories of dynastic conflict and confused successions.
Where all the money for expenses of this empress called Anna come from? It comes from the Russian people, the people who works. No wonder the people revolt against these situation. While the aristocracy and the wealthy "swim" in luxury and excess of rich food and wine, those who work die of exhaustion, hunger, diseases. Excellent documentary.
Ivanoe Cubillos ever heard of the French Revolution
if you guys don't watch this series till the end - I will send you to Siberia !
I'd LOVE to have met Empresses Anna and Elizabeth. :(
+Thomas Harding I'd love to have met Empress Catherine the Great. I know, I know, she comes in a latter episode.
+Thomas Harding They would beheaDED YOU
Highly informative and extremely engaging. I enjoyed it ! :D
Samah Sabreen you are a beautiful girl on planet earth.
I commented on the last episode that Peter was something of a control freak.
After seeing what happened when he died, I understand.
These morons needed an iron fist.
You should be more careful, when you talk about a whole nation. It's very rude.
His youth started with a Streltsy revolt. He was hellbent on keeping things straight.
“Sometimes changed multiple times in a single evening.”
Same
Eh, Elizabeth - my favorite historical figure… it is sad that you died without giving an heir.
👂🏻?
She should have called on her friends, romans, and countrymen to lend some to her
@@laurarumpe6186, for some reason I have never seen your reply - pardon, that was an old mistake of mine. However, there is a phrase ― “ear to the throne” or “throne’s ear”.
I believe she had and heir (or heirs) however this is not spoken of
Excellent done. The Russians are so talented in art, song, opera, writing, composing music ice dance and making movies. The Russian soul is so sensitive and deeply connected with divinity. Every body watching this video serie can see what talented people Russians are. Watch some of their movies on youtube and you will feel how they touch your soul.I hope America and Rusland will work together and Europe and Rusland. In the future it will be very importens that all Christian countries will unite against Islam. No I am not Russian, but something about the Russian soul is very touching and beautiful.
Yes you are right. Russian films are an unknown area. Even the old ones are interesting for me to watch today. Another world, other life values, a different mentality and way of thinking. I would summarize - Russian films are more emotional, they are not commercial, sometimes very tragic, which we are not used to. And it hurts the soul.
divine angelvoice Iam from India 🇮🇳 and I completely agree with you,now you take a lead to start Revolution.
Thank you 🥰
I don't have anything intelligent to say about this fine documentary. I just felt like wasting five seconds of your life by making you read this
@Alex F 🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤪🤪🤪 mission accomplished!
A russian Emperess who shoots crows above her guards? Thats my kind of woman!
You mean a retarded woman?
Dietpepsiahh she's hot right?!
each Royal had some loose screws
Peter : tortures his Son, tortures his people, exercises extreme control over his people and has a draconian tax policy.
People: Peter the Great
Anna: shoots crows
People: she’s craaaaaaaaazy
@@angryowl5972 👍👍👍👍👍
Ivan's line are all incompetent. Better stick with peters line
Both line didn't survived. Beside Ivan VI never managed to become Tsar and confined.
Where can I get the soundtrack!? I'm sure it would make for great studying!
Kamaljeet Dhiman It will be on our channel soon.
That's awesome. Thanks!
Kamaljeet Dhiman Soundtrack from "The Romanovs. The History of the Russian Dynasty"
ruclips.net/video/B6_PAPkvJYo/видео.html
Awesome! Thank you so much!
Holy. Everyone rich went to Siberia for vacations.
Peter was a genius, but like all geniuses he had a reckless and dark side personality...
Yeah him ruining his relationship and just being plain spiteful to his son and his grandchildren really made the line of succession go out of order.
Gj starmedia. Respect from N.Novgorod.
This stuff is completely diffrent from the Catherine the great and Elizabeth stuff, but was still fun to learn
Look up the portraits of the real Empress Anna on Google. The real Anna resembles the actress portraying her in the documentary. She was quite chubby.
3rrlia Yes, none of them were exactly sylph-like were they! 😂😅
What we see as a common thread through Russian history, even beyond the time of the Czars and through the years of Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet Communist era, right through to Putin today, is that the Russian people have always needed strong leadership, even forms of dictatorship - this also shows us that weak and inept forms of leadership are inherently dangerous for any country as we have seen right throughout history, that only firm and strong leadership is the only thing that works, including those forms of leadership based on a military dictatorship model or those of an absolute ruler, autocrat or martinet - dispensing with the deception of democracy and the democratic process is a vital keystone of truly effective leadership and governance
Actually, the reign of Anna I is not without merits and her frivolity is no difference from that of Catherine I, Elizabeth or even Peter the Great. Historian wrote badly of her mainly because her family lost the battle for the throne. Since the Romanovs today are descendants of Catherine I.
I can't understand why did empress Anna brought her lover's wife to live with her, I found it
unusual.
Menages a troi are not unheard of, and I don't mean that merely as a euphemism for a threesome.
while i do understand it is a british voice over, it would be nice if the narrator could have pronounced the russian names correctly.
i agree for instance the Neva is not the "neeva" as he says but the "Nevar" although spelt the Neva
The speaker deliberately distorts Russian names as a foreigner would do. The real correct pronunciation of Russian names in Russian is poorly remembered by foreigners (I think the point is the difference in the purely mechanical movement of the tongue, lips, articulation of the Russian and English). Russians automatically make these sounds on a small beer by moving their tongue, lips, and vocal cords in a special way without noticing it (let's call this articulation technique). And just like that, any foreign language that has a very different technique from the Russian language has its own articulation and sound engineering technique. Foreigners also make their articulation characteristic of their language, do it automatically without noticing it. Therefore, it is easier to distort the Russian name, make it more familiar to an English-speaking person, pronounce the Russian name using the articulation technique of the English language for example - and as a result you get a name with an accent.
StarMediaEN, it is excellent documentary, but you are mention few times "Ukraine", but "Ukraine" didn't exist in 17 century! It was "The Edge of Russia" - russian word "Okraina or Kray".
+Elena Perroni Ukraine existed in the 17th century but not as an independent state but as a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
+vann tedd I didn't say Ukraine was a state, actually it wasn't. But you can't deny the fact that Ukrainians as a nation began to form during the age of Tatar rule because the interaction between Russian Princedoms decreased, established trade and other connections were broken so two new nations began to appear: Ukrainians and Belarusians. They came from the East Slavic peoples from Kievan Rus, no doubt!, but they evolved into the independent ethnic groups living on their lands by the seventeenth century.
Juliya K Do not tell me history of Ukraine, it is anyway screwed up!
In 17 century Ukraine didn't exist and west part of Ukraine was parts of Poland, Romania and Hungary. Ukraine must to thanks Lenin and Communists - they glue together Ukraine! Check up map of the World of 17, 18 and 19 centuries and you won't see Ukraine, but you'll see meddle part of Ukraine named Malorussia and East part was Novorossia.
In Novorossia cossacks always were protecting Russia and Russian Tsar.
Those west part of Ukraine, that use to be under Austro-Hungarian Empire got with Ukraine just after WWII and this is where all Nazi - Banderas and Shucheviches came from, and now they are trying to dictate cossacks to hate their Russian family and speak some kind of phony, made up ukrainian language?!
Again, cossacks was, is and will be Russian people, Banderas will shit in their panties, but they will never dictate E.Ukraine! E.Ukraine will never kiss ass to Nazi-Banderas. Also, Kiev was build by Khazars, here is some more history: www.khazaria.com/khazar-history.html
+Elena Perroni you are correct
thank you for the link.
vann tedd
Your reasoning is rather naive - don't be offended. And it’s most likely your opinion was formed due to newspaper/internet articles and television debates. Though I see your point. And it is clear that all that situation when Russia is presented to the world as pure evil and Ukraine as an innocent victim - it relates to politics and somebody’s interests and it has nothing to do with the real state of things. But you simplify some things and exaggerate others. So if you really take interest in this issue read history textbooks. Good luck.
So the council thought to write out a lengthy set of restrictions for the Empress but then gave her a household guard who hated them?
Worst oligarchy ever.
Some of them they had the premonition that they would die amazing i think
This is the problem with kingdom ruling or tsardom: unworthy heirs come to power and rule the land... like Anna who did not care about Russia nor knew what to do.
And what makes you think democracy or socialism is the solution? Afterall people are stupid animals and they're dumb, people often chose liars and demons as rulers, like how the ignorant French folk chose that beast beheader Robespierre as ruler, or how Russian stupid peasants chose Lenin as ruler, or how brainless Iranians chose a Theocracy dictatorship over a generous monarchy. Monarchy isn't perfect, no ideology is perfect, but there isn't anything better, I'd rather be scarred than to die, how about you?
@@НиколайРоманов-л6ю Empress Elizabeth wasn't no good Empress. She imprisoned A infant and forced A man who did not want to come to Russia.
18th century imperial Russian court- not Russian enough...
Is it just me or does Russia have a ton of female Monarch's.
In 18 century - yes, Russia was ruled mainly by females.
Yup. Until Paul I outlawed it out of spite.
If there wasn’t so much pressure for male succession as a result of Peter III, likely the Russian monarchy could still be present today. Olga Nikolaevna would have made a wonderful empress.
I wonder why Elizabeth didn't just make Ivan VI her heir. Even if they weren't very closely related, it might have solved a lot of issues.
Because she already toppled him as legal emperor from the throne in 1741. It was an illegal coup. And the name of this minor Emperor was seized everywhere... his name, image, and information about his reign has been erased from all records. And Elizabeth has successor as a nephew Peter, son of her sister Anna Petrovna. I think that her obsessive fear of loss the power was came from the coup, which victim was Ivan VI
***** At first she had such intentions, but then she forgot about it and the situation goes under control of her favorites and servants, that were rather cruel
It doesn't work that way. A potential heir, even as a baby, is a potential "ralying point" for any dissented faction of the court. Once they seized the power, then this baby would be a puppet on which behalf this faction would rule the state. The boy doesn't have to know who he is or who he was. It's enough for some courtiers to know, and there's a recipe for trouble.
It was a power struggle between Ivan and Peter's line, going back to Sophia and Peter himself. Elizabeth needed to keep power in her family, which didn't include Ivan IV. I think she felt sorry for him, but he was a threat to her legitimacy
LOL I'm learning to read Russian, watching this series.
Don't teach. Give it up ..)
Gluttony, greed, selfishness, corruption, grandiosity, frivolity rampant within the hierarchy.
what's the ost playing at 50:11
5:02-5:05 when my grades get sent home
Why were so many people exiled to Siberia
Hooray. First ruler in this series to live past 50. Lol.
Anna only had control over her OWN money and guards???!!!! WTF!! That made me so mad!!!! That’s basically fucking nothing! To hell with that I quickly would said “how about no, see ya!”
when ana rips the parchment YAS QUEEN
Хочу субтитры, но их нет.
There is a mistake Peter II mother is not that you are saying
49:39 poison?
Does Moskva have a cloud district?
Have you ever been to the cloud district........what am i talking about of course you hav'nt.
Can not believe an elephant in Russia ?How did they transport an elephant from the South ?An ice palace ?Did not the ice melt ?
Through Caspian See, perhaps.
Am I listening to the orchestra cover version of the "Tron:Legacy" soundtrack?
our music ☭
Chissà perché non si dice mai nel 1700 vi è anche elisabetta Farnese ultima regina che esporta il stile italiano all estero.
I dont understand how a persón would give away full control of their lives for ppl that will Never give a fuck about them we must get rid of all forms of government
Why no russian music i wonder , more english music for narration sake
Am I the only one who wished that Prussia had lost the war?
I mean...didn't they?
@@НиколайРоманов-л6ю I HATE Empress Elizabeth and the Romanovs. Glad, they were overthrown; Ivan the Sixth should have reign longer.
22:20 dont fuck with peter
I could see what was coming after 1st peter's reign.
He was a horrible Tsar, his changes to the society made it possible for all of those clowns to come after him.
He should 've been a military leader no more.
I wasn't concerned about some like peter the 1st coming after 40 years...I wanted someone like the first three tsars !
27:43 ahead of her time
Póngale subtitulos
The series is delightful but the music in this episode is way off. Showing Elizabeth and her court, clearly dancing a minuet or gavotte ala Mozart, but to 19th century waltz music ala Strauss, is a sad blunder in an otherwise good programme. Its a bit like showing kids in 2016 in a disco with 1940s music on the soundtrack !
william wright So...people didn't listen to music from the 40s in the disco era? I'm confused as to what your complaint is! There are children's movies that come out NOW with music from the 60s on it's soundtrack. What's the big deal? Music is music.
Ok if he was barely tutored in german and Latin and he barely spoke russian....what effing language did he speak?
Russia! Land of the great tsars
At this point, I understand the Empress Elisabeth have no children. Why didn’t he make her distant cousin ivan the sixth her hair instead of Peter the 3
Because she wanted her line to continue and Peter III was the closest from her line.
7:52
Wut.....
Btw. the currency conversion is totally wrong.
8 million US Dollars in today’s money spend to maintain the academy of science.
🤔
That’s extremely cheap I’d say. 800 million would be more precise.
If one were to rebuild the winter palace today it would cost over a billion dollars.
The Berlin Stadtschloss is being rebuild and it costs over 600 million dollars, and that’s without a Barock interior.
Typical woman was Elizabeth. Instead of finery, millinery, jewelry, and confectionaries, the empress should have provided seed capital for cloth mills, iron works, research on steam engines, and improvements on public transport.
You know in the history of Kings, Queens, Emperors, ect ect, from any country, not one of them seems to have cared one wit about their people. For all of their “called by God to be the leader of the people” they didn’t even seem to remember they had people, except when they wanted money or someone to sleep with. The entire lot would have been better off if they had all been put on an island somewhere and left there.
Fascinating how the communists were just as vile in torture as the old Russian Tsar's reigns.
Believe me, Europe was no better at these times. I am not talking about the Inquisition. Under Stalin, almost all European countries owned colonies. The mortality and ill-treatment of the local population surpasses the Stalinist Gulag by 10 times. So the communists are angels. By the way, the main idea of communism is no kings, all are equal, there are no rich and no poor. Stalinist Russia and North Korea are a parody of Marx's theoretical theory of communism. Nothing to do with the theory of communism. Look at communist China today.
The music? Urgh. Like background to Desperate Housewives.
Anna and elizaveta, Feminism at its finest.
i really hate elizabeth , she was cruel to anna's son,wasteful, hired out soldiers to fight battles for other nations to get cash, vain , aided corruption .all in all a very bad ruler . peter the 1st really had bad kids ,unsurprisingly cos he had very questionable morals despite winning lots of wars and building st petersburg and moscow
Москва since 1147
Films of Ukraine
disease.... disease everywere
The most dangerous player in all of history. It's safe to say that monarchs were fighting each other, but disease fought everyone and won.
+Theturtleowl Disease was an equal opportunity killer. Still is.
Just to much damn disease
All the kids rule Russia
My crown
What a great introduction to Russian history--then Communism came along
She reminds me of Hillary Clinton.
MrJuot234 stupid
+Dikaya Koshka Look, I'm voting for Bernie if it makes you feel any better. 😂
+MrJuot234 stupid anyway
So basically Peter destroyed Russia's culture
Troll God - To his defence, I think he would state that the traditions that he put a stop to were things that mostly caught on to society during the mongol/tatar invasion and occupation and were not truly Russian.
Troll God pretty much) since that time Russian aristocracy stopped speaking Russian