In our cognition, Russia is the largest country in Europe, especially the most elite region of Russia is in Eastern Europe, which is definitely a European country that has not run. However, European countries do not want to see their neighbor, and they also expel him from Europe every day, and they join hands to target Russia at every turn.
Many people may not know that before the unification of Russia, the first state in the land of the East Slavs was not created by the locals, but by the vikings from outside. Around the second half of the 9th century, the Vikings first occupied Novgorod and then established the "Kievan Rus'" in Kiev, the co-lord of the Rus' kingdoms in Russian history, which was roughly similar to the Zhou Tianzi, and all the princes were required to pay tribute to the Grand Duke of Kiev.
The Viking tribes that ruled the Rus' were known as the "Waglians" by the Eastern Roman Empire, a group of fierce warriors who plundered Romania and often served the Eastern Romans as mercenaries. It was also because of this relationship that Eastern Roman culture gradually entered the Ukrainian region and then spread to Belarus and Russia, and the Orthodox Church also replaced the traditional religion of the Slavs and became the mainstream belief of the Eastern Slavs.
What were the nobles of the Rus' principalities proud of at that time? Of course, he was proud to have the approval of the Orthodox Patriarch and the canonization of the Eastern Roman Emperor. But there was another thing that interested them more, and that was to marry a girl from an aristocratic family in Eastern Rome. Especially the Grand Duke of Kievan Rus, he had to find a way to get a girl from the Royal Family of Eastern Rome, so that his descendants could also be regarded as Romans.
However, this wish is not easy to achieve, why? It was not the Mongols who had run all the way through Khalazimo, stepped through Siberia, captured the Chincha steppe, and swept through the entire Rus' Principality, beating a number of Rus princes to their knees and singing conquest. Even the Grand Duke of Kievan Rus, who was indispensable among the Rus' princes, had to climb into The Khan's tent and lick the Khan's boots to save a small life.
The East Slavs were also real, adhering to the principle that whoever cattle I mixed with, they called the Khan of the Golden Horde the Tsar. Needless to say, some of the descendants of Shuchi really married an Eastern Roman royal girl, so the Princes of Rus were proud to marry the royal girls of the Golden Horde.
For example, the descendants of Alexander Nevsky once married a girl from the Badu family, and although the wedding was ruined by other Rus' princes, this did not prevent the princes from rushing to talk to the girls of the Mongolian noble families in order to show loyalty and hold their thighs.
In the eyes of the Western European nobility, this virtue of the Princes of Rus is to desire jurisprudence, to desire status, and to desire madness. Studying the Eastern Romans is not like learning, and holding the thighs of the Mongols. In the eyes of the European nobility, the Mongols suffered a setback in their attacks on Croatia and Austria, and had to retreat, belonging to their defeated generals.
The Austrian Grand Duke once said in a letter that the Mongols' field combat ability was still relatively weak, and their siege ability was simply crotch- Therefore, European countries looked down on the Rus' princes who were flattering to the Mongols, believing that they were soft eggs without faith and spinelessness.
Moreover, the East Slavs were unified with the help of the Mongols, which was simply a slippery slope in the eyes of the Western European nobility. In the 16th century, Ivan IV eliminated the Kazan Khanate, the Great Horde, the Siberian Khanate and other Mongol states, and finally eliminated the invaders who ruled the East Slavs for nearly three hundred years, and successfully crowned the Tsar of all the East Slavs.
Ivan IV's success had much to do with his lineage, as he had the blood of both the Byzantine royal family and the Golden Family of the Golden Horde, and thus supported by the exiled Eastern Roman remnants of Eastern Europe and the Orthodox Mongol nobles. It was with these two powerful foreign forces that he was able to destroy the enemy and become the Tsar.
Although the East Slavs defeated the Mongols, folklore was also clearly influenced by the Mongols, such as the prevalence of serfdom, such as the kneeling with the Mongols, and the national costume style, although influenced by the Eastern Romans, was also influenced by the Mongols. The national character is even more unrestrained and conservative, kind and barbaric, enthusiastic and fierce at the same time vividly expressed.
For East Slavs in particular, the covenant and armistice were just scraps of paper that could be torn apart at any time, arguably the same as mongolia. In this case, being expelled from the West by Europe is easy. In contrast, although the West Slavs' clothing was more or less influenced by the Mongol and Balkan peoples, their national culture was closer to Europe, and they also regarded Catholicism as the state religion, which was recognized by Europe.
On the other hand, the Tsaric title of the East Slavs was imposed on their own head and was not recognized by the Eastern Romans. Of course, Eastern Rome had long since perished, and even if you wanted to admit it, there was no drama. However, the Byzantine royal family in Eastern Rome did not perish, and if it was to break the inheritance, greece, Romania, and Bulgaria had something to say. And the Eastern Romans are expelled from rome every day by the Western Rome, and you East Slavs call themselves the Orthodoxy of Eastern Rome, the Third Rome, which is also the life to be expelled.
In order to be recognized by Western countries, Russia has also sharpened its head to carry out Westernization reforms, such as Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, who have absorbed European immigrants and culture in order to transform the traditional culture of East Slavic culture, hoping to join the ranks of Europe.
At the same time, Russia has a simpler and more brutal way, that is, to expand its territory to the west and conquer the bordering European countries, and it will realize its dream of joining Europe. With the improvement of Russia's national strength and military strength, although European countries recognize Russia as an Eastern European country, they are also more afraid of Russia, and naturally they will gang up to exclude Russia.
Especially after the establishment of the Soviet Union, its expansion ambitions and military power reached an unprecedented level, and even after the end of World War II, it dismembered Germany and seized the territories of Western Belarus and Western Ukraine, which Poland had sworn sovereignty, which made European countries more afraid of the Russian Slavs.
Although the Soviet Union finally fell apart and tragically withdrew from the stage of history, Russia, which inherited half of its businesses, is still an opponent that cannot be underestimated. Later, after Russia annexed Crimea and divided Ukraine, European countries were worried about the return of the Soviet Union and naturally wanted to unite against Russia.
epilogue
The concept of Western Europe and Eastern Europe has been changing for hundreds of years, and at first Spain and France were Western Europe, and Both Shinra and Poland were Eastern Europe. After World War I, the concept of Western Europe extended to eastern Germany, while Poland became Central Europe, Ukraine and Belarus, the Baltic States became Eastern Europe, and Russia eventually joined the ranks of Eastern Europe. However, there has always been an inertial estrangement and antagonism between Western European countries and Russia, and the two sides cannot use a consensus that cannot be reconciled.
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Feudal Russia and Mongolia
Kievan Rus'
The Formation of the Russian Nation