Russia and Ukraine have historically been separated and merged, and I really don't know where to start.
Today, paper dust try to talk about the history of Xiong Da and Xiong Er, throw bricks and jade, and please correct more where it is wrong.
Part I: Homogeneity.
The East Slavs, who lived on the European plains of Eastern Europe at the beginning of the century, were the ancestors of the three ethnic groups of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, and their close blood, geographical relations and long-term common life laid the foundation for the historical, linguistic and cultural closeness of the above three peoples.
In the middle of the 9th century AD, the foreign Viking Rus, also known as the Vikings or Varyags, established the Ancient Rus' State in the Eastern European Plain with Kiev as its capital, known historically as Kievan Rus' in history.
Kievan Rus' is considered the predecessor of three modern East Slavic states: Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
Part II: Divide and Merge.
From the middle of the eleventh century to the 1230s, the state power of Kievan Rus' was disintegrating.
At the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Mongol Empire invaded and established the Khanate of Chincha in Eastern Europe, and Kievan Rus' was first conquered by the Khanate of Chincha and then died in the Batu Crusade.
Russia and Ukraine in this period, let's talk about them separately. Speaking of Russia, the former Kievan Rus' was broken into eighteen principalities, of which the Grand Duchy of Moscow, in the 1420s, accepted the canonization of the Khanate of Chincha and collected taxes and tributes from the former Kievan Rus' principalities on behalf of the Khanate of Chincha, and became increasingly powerful.
Later, after several twists and turns, the Russian Empire was finally established. King Ivan IV was crowned Tsar and renamed "Tsarist Russia".
Let's look at the situation in Ukraine. After battus conquered Kiev, Ukraine was ruled by the Khanate of Chincha, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and Poland.
By the middle of the seventeenth century, Eastern Ukraine was formally merged with Tsarist Russia, and all but a few areas were under Russian rule.
The third part: combined and divided.
In 1922 the Soviet Union was formed, eastern Ukraine joined the Soviet Union, and western Ukraine was incorporated into Poland.
In 1939, Poland was partitioned and Western Ukraine merged with Eastern Ukraine to enter the Soviet family.
In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine, like Russia, became an independent state.
Creation is not easy, dust on paper thank you for watching, see you in the next issue!