Dec 6, 2011 11:01:48 GMT -5 |
Post by muse on Dec 6, 2011 11:01:48 GMT -5
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I Feel Like We're Summoning The Devil
Nickname/Alias: Âàíÿ (Vanya), Ðîññèÿ (Russia)
Gender: Male
Character Type: Ñòðàíà (Country)
Country or Country of Origin: Ðîññèéñêàÿ Ôåäåðàöèÿ (Russian Federation)
Canon or Original: Canon
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When I look into all of your stupid faces
I think how fun it will be to pound them into dust
Hair: Blonde
Height and Weight: 182 cm/ n/a
Other Distinguishing Features:
- Big-boned
Overall Appearance:
Ivan is a tall fellow with a broad frame. It has been asked before if he was fat, but the reply came that he was simply "big-boned". He has a round, childish face with a prominent nose. Ivan wears a long, heavy tan coat, green pants, and boots with a long, tan scarf. His clothes are more-or-less a stylized reversal of a Red Army overcoat. Ivan's hair is cut short and a light-beige blonde and his eyes are wide and violet.
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Man up or I'll beat you with my peace prize!
+ Sunflowers
+ Vodka
+ His scarf (literally claims it to be a 'body part' that he cannot remove)
+ Sisters
+ Forests
Dislikes:
- Cold
- Disrespect
- Unfair economic practices
- Snow
- Loneliness
Strengths:
+ General Winter
+ Largest country in the world
+ World's largest reserve of mineral and energy resources
Weaknesses:
- Childlike
- Unpredictable
- Unaware of his own cruelty
Fears:
- Russia will one day disappear
- Belarus
- Finnish things
Secrets:
- Dreams of living in a land full of warmth and sunflowers
Any Quirks/Habits:
- Often seen carrying a faucet
- Always wearing his scarf
- Says "êîë êîë êîë" when upset
- Has a habit of ending sentences with "äà?"
- Has a habit of claiming "all will become one with Russia"
Overall Personality:
Russia is the kind of person you see with a sweet smile, but without a word you immediately feel intimidated. He is seemingly big-hearted and childish, but is actually rather childishly cruel. The way his demeanor comes off as such an innocent individual only heightens the dreadful aura hanging over him. Russia is often described as gentle and naive. He isn't malicious -- he's insane.
The history he has fought his way through has wore on his mentality. Russia is unaware even of his own cruelty. He suffers attacks from General Winter every year, yet holds him as one of his greatest allies. Despite this, Russia dreams of living in a warm place with sunflowers surrounding him. He dislikes Russian winter.
Russia loves his sisters, Belarus and Ukraine, but becomes depressed when he thinks about them. Ukraine tends to run from him when he approaches, and Belarus has an obsession with marrying him. Ukraine running off to make friends with other countries leaves a sense of betrayal in Russia, and Belarus is the only person known to put him in fear.
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I'm the hero!
- East Slavs
I. Appeared as a recognized group between 3rd century and 8th century A.D.
A. Slavic peoples speaking East Slavic languages
B. By 17th century they evolved into Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian peoples.
II. Little is known about these people until approximately 859 AD, the date from which the account in the Primary Chronicle starts.
A. The reason is due to absence of a written language
- Cyrillic script, created about 863 was specifically for Slavic adoption
III. The Early East Slavs gradually settled Western Russia in two waves: one moving from Kiev towards present-day Suzdal and Murom and another from Polotsk towards Novgorod and Rostov.
A. They slowly assimilated, though peacefully, with native Finno-Ugric tribes, such as the Merya, the Muromians, and the Meshchera. - Ancient Rus (Late 9th - Mid 13th Century)
I. Varangian named Rurik was elected ruler of Novgorod around 860.
- Successors moved South and extended authority to Kiev, which was previously dominated by Khazars.
II. The first East Slavic state, which appeared in the 9th century.
A. By the end of the 10th century, Norse minority had merged with the Slavic population.
- Absorbed Greek Christian influences in the course of the multiple campaigns to loot Tsargrad, or Constantinople.-
- One campaign took the life of former Slavic druzhina leader, Svyatoslav I, who was renowned for having crushed the power of the Khazars on the Volga.
- The Byzantine Empire was experiencing a major military and cultural revival; despite its later decline, its culture would have a continuous influence on the development of Russia in its formative centuries.
B. Eastern Orthodox religion
-Kievian Rus is important for introducing a Slavic variant.
- Synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that would define Russian culture for the next thousand years.
C. 988-- region adopts Christianity by public baptisim of Kiev villagers by Prince Vladimir I.
- First codes of law, Russkaya Pravda, came a few years later and ensured the Church and states were closely linked.
III. 11th Century
A. Kievan Rus displayed an economy and achievements in architecture and literature superior to those that existed in the western part of the continent.
- Particularly during the time of Yaroslav the Wise.
B. Russian language was little influenced by Greek and Latin of early Christian writings.
- Church Slavnic used directly in liturgy instead.
C. Kipchaks (nomadic Turkic people) replaced Penchenegs as a dominant force in the south steppe regions neighboring Rus.
- They founded a settlement along the Black Sea.
- Repelling their regular attacks on Kiev was a heavy burden for the southern areas of Rus.
- Caused a massive influx of Slavs to the safer, heavily forested area regions of the north. Particularly to the area known as Zalesye.
IV. Kievan Rus disintegrated as a state.
A. In-fighting between members of the princely family that ruled it collectively.
B. Kiev's dominance waned
- Vladimir-Suzdal in the north-east (later dominated by the Mongols)
-Novgorod in the north
-Halych-Volhynia in the south-west (which was eventually absorbed into the Polish-Commonwealth)
C. Conquest by the Mongol Golden Horde in the 13th century was the last straw.
-Kiev was destroyed.
- Novgorod and Vladimir-Suzdal would set the basis for the modern Russian nation. - Mongolian Invasion (1237–1240)
I. Mongolian invasion fragmented Rus rapidly.
A. In 1223, 2 disunited southern princes faced a Mongolian raiding party and were easily defeated.
B. 1237-1238, the Mongols burnt the city of Vladimir (February 4, 1238), and other major cities of northeast Russia.
- They then moved west into Poland and Hungary.
- By then they'd conquered most of the Russian principalities.
-Novgorod Republic escaped occupation and continued to flourish in the Hanseatic League.
II. Impact of Mongolian invasion
A. Was uneven
B. Advanced city culture was completely destroyed
C. Kiev and Vladimir never recovered
D. New cities of Moscow, Tver, and Nizhny Novgorod began to compete for hegemony in the Mongol-dominated Russia
E. Although a Russian army defeated the Golden Horde at Kulikovo in 1380, Mongol domination of the Russian-inhabited territories, along with demands of tribute from Russian princes, continued until about 1480.
"The Mongols left their impact on the Russians in such areas as military tactics and transportation. Under Mongol occupation, Russia also developed its postal road network, census, fiscal system, and military organization. Eastern influence remained strong well until the 17th century, when Russian rulers made a conscious effort to modernize their country. In popular memory, this period left a very unpleasant impression, and is referred to as the Tataro-Mongol Yoke." -- Wikipedia, History of Russia. - Grand Duchy of Moscow
I. Rise of Moscow
A. Founded by Daniil Aleksandrovich
B. Would eventually expel the Tartars from Russia
- Was, at first, only a vassal to the city Vladimir
- Major factor in the ascendancy of Moscow was the cooperation of its rulers with the Mongol overlords, who granted them the title of Grand Prince of Moscow and made them agents for collecting the Tatar tribute from the Russian principalities.
- Center of Russian Orthodox Church
B. By the mid-14th century the power of the Mongols declined.
- Grand Princes felt ready to openly oppose them.
-1380-- Kulikovo on the Don River, the Mongols were defeated. This hard-fought victory did not end Tatar rule of Russia, but it did bring great fame to the Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy.
-Moscow's leadership in Russia was now firmly based and by the middle of the 14th century its territory had greatly expanded through purchase, war, and marriage.
II. Ivan III, The Great
A. 15th Century
- Grand princes of Moscow gathered Russian land to increase population and wealth under their rule.
B. Ivan III
- Was most successful and laid foundations for a Russian national state.
-Ivan competed with his powerful northwestern rival, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, for control over some of the semi-independent Upper Principalities in the upper Dnieper and Oka River basins.
-Through the defections of some princes, border skirmishes, and a long war with the Novgorod Republic, Ivan III was able to annex Novgorod and Tver.
- Grand Duchy of Moscow tripled in size under his rule.
C. The Fall of Constantinople and the death of the last Greek Orthodox Christian emperor contributed to this new idea of Moscow as 'New Rome' and the seat of Orthodox Christianity.
D. Ivan proclaimed absolute soveriengty over Russia.
- Refused further tribute to the Tartars
-Series of attacks on the Golden Horde, now divided into several Khanates and hordes.
- For protection along southern boundaries he constructed the Great Abatis Belt and granted manors to nobles, who were obliged to serve in the military. The manor system provided a basis for an emerging horse army.
E. 16th Century
- rulers of Moscow considered all of Russia to be their territory.
-Various semi-independent princes still claimed specific territories, but Ivan III forced the lesser princes to acknowledge the grand prince of Moscow and his descendants as unquestioned rulers with control over military, judicial, and foreign affairs
- the first Russian ruler crowned was Ivan IV. - Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721)
I. Ivan IV, The Terrible
A. Strengthened his monarchy to an unprecedented degree
-exiled or executed nobles at the slightest provocation.
B. Seen as a farsighted statesman
- Made a new code of laws (Sudebnik of 1550)
- First Russian fedual representative body (Zemsky Sobor)
- Curbed influence of clergy
-Introduced local self-management in rural regions
C. Ivan annexed the Khanates of Kazan, Astrakhan, and Siberia.
-Complicated migration of aggressive nomadic hordes from Asia to Europe through the Ural and Volga.
-Aquired a significant Muslim Tartar population and came out as a multiconfessional and multiethnic state.
- Stroganov family established firm foothold at the Urals and recruited Russian Cossacks to colonize Siberia.
C. Ivan divided this realm into two.
-In Oprichnina, Ivan's followers carried out a series of bloody purges of the fedual aristocracy.
- Treachery was suspected after betrayal of princ Kurbsky
- Turned into the Massacre of Novgorod (1570)
- Military losses, epidemics, and poor harvest weakened Russia enough that Crimean Tartars were able to sack central Russia and burn down Moscow (1571).
D. 1572
- Ivan abandoned the orichnina
E. End of Ivan IV's reign
-Polish-Lithuanian and Swedish armies carried out powerful intervention in Russia, devastating its nothern and northwestern regions.
II. Times of Trouble
A. The death of the sonless son of Ivan IV's -- Feodor-- was followed by civil wars and foreign intervention.
- This became known as Times of Trouble (1600-13)
-Cold summers led to the Russian famine of 1601-1603 and caused further disorganization.
-Reign of Boris Godunov ended with civil war, devastated cities, foreign intrusion, and depopulation of rural regions.
B. Polish-Moscovite War (1605-1618)
- Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth made it into Moscow and placed False Dmitriy I in 1605 and then supported False Dmitriy II in 1607.
- Decisive moment came when Russian-Swedish army were routed by Polish forces in Battle of Klushino.
- Seven Boyars desposed of tsar Vasily Shusky and recognized the Polish prince Władysław IV Vasa as the Tsar of Russia on 6 September, 1610.
- Polish entered Moscow, and riots took place. Riots were suppressed and city was set on fire.
- Provoked a patriotic national uprising against the invasion, both in 1611 and 1612.
- Volunteer army led by a merchant named Kuzma Minin and prince Dmitry Pozharsky expelled foreign forces from the capital in 1612.
C. Russian statehood survived
-Rule of weak/corrupted tsars survived because of the strength of the government's central bureaucracy.
- the "Time of Troubles" provoked by the dynastic crisis resulted in the loss of much territory to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Russo-Polish war, as well as to the Swedish Empire in the Ingrian War.
III. Romanovs
A. Mikhail Romanov I elected to throne
-Romanov dynasty lasted until 1917
- Immediate concern was restoring peace
B. Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth and Sweden in a bitter conflict.
-Russia had the opportunity to make peace with Sweden in 1617 and to sign a truce with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1619.
-Recovery of lost territories started in the mid-17th century, when the Khmelnitsky Uprising in Ukraine against Polish rule brought about the Treaty of Pereyaslav concluded between Russia and the Ukrainian Cossacks.
-According to the treaty, Russia granted protection to the Cossacks state in the Left-bank Ukraine, formerly under Polish control. This triggered a prolonged Russo-Polish War which ended with the Treaty of Andrusovo (1667), where Poland accepted the loss of Left-bank Ukraine, Kiev and Smolensk.
C. Serfdom
- State gradually curtailed peasant's rights to move from one landlord to another. With the state now fully sanctioning serfdom, runaway peasants became state fugitives, and the power of the landlords over the peasants "attached" to their land had become almost complete.
-State and the nobles placed the overwhelming burden of taxation on the peasants, whose rate was 100 times greater in the mid-17th century than it had been a century earlier.
- Middle-class urban tradesmen and craftsmen were assessed taxes, and, like the serfs, they were forbidden to change residence. All segments of the population were subject to military levy and to special taxes.
- Citizens, even those from Moscow, rioted against the Romanovs in the Salt Riot (1648) and Copper riot (1662) and in the Moscow Uprising (1682).
D. Free settlers of South Russia, the Cossacks, reacted against the growing centralization of the state, serfs escaped from their landlords and joined the rebels.
- Cossack leader Stenka Razin led his followers up the Volga River, inciting peasant uprisings and replacing local governments with Cossack rule.
- The tsar's army finally crushed his forces in 1670; a year later Stenka was captured and beheaded.
- Less than half a century later, the strains of military expeditions produced another revolt in Astrakhan, ultimately subdued.
- Russian Empire (1721–1917)
A. Peter the Great
I. brought autocracy into Russia and played a major role in bringing his country into the European state system
-Russia had become the largest state in the world by Peter's reign. Three times the size of continental Europe, it spanned the Eurasian landmass from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean
-Much of its expansion had taken place in the 17th century, culminating in the first Russian settlement of the Pacific in the mid-17th century, the reconquest of Kiev, and the pacification of the Siberian tribes
-Russia remained isolated from the sea trade, its internal trade communications and many manufactures were dependent on the seasonal changes
II. Peter's first military efforts were directed against the Ottoman Turks.
-Peter still lacked a secure northern seaport except at Archangel on the White Sea, whose harbor was frozen nine months a year. Access to the Baltic was blocked by Sweden, whose territory enclosed it on three sides.
III. Peter's ambitions for a "window to the sea" led him in 1699 to make a secret alliance with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Denmark against Sweden resulting in the Great Northern War.
-The war ended in 1721 when an exhausted Sweden sued for peace with Russia
"Peter acquired four provinces situated south and east of the Gulf of Finland, thus securing his coveted access to the sea. There, in 1703, he had already founded the city that was to become Russia's new capital, Saint Petersburg, as a "window opened upon Europe" to replace Moscow, long Russia's cultural center. Russian intervention in the Commonwealth marked, with the Silent Sejm, the beginning of a 200-year domination of that region by the Russian Empire. In celebration of his conquests, Peter assumed the title of emperor as well as tsar, and Russian Tsardom officially became the Russian Empire in 1721." -- Wikipedia
IV. Peter reorganized his government on the latest Western models, molding Russia into an absolutist state.
-He replaced the old boyar Duma (council of nobles) with a nine-member senate, in effect a supreme council of state. The countryside was also divided into new provinces and districts.
"In 1722 Peter promulgated his famous Table of ranks. As part of the government reform, the Orthodox Church was partially incorporated into the country's administrative structure, in effect making it a tool of the state. Peter abolished the patriarchate and replaced it with a collective body, the Holy Synod, led by a lay government official. Peter continued and intensified his predecessors' requirement of state service for all nobles." -- Wikipedia
-Russia, by the end of Peter's reign, had become a great power. Peter the Great died in 1725, leaving an unsettled succession.
B. Ruling the Empire - Russian Revolution (1917)
info soon - Russian Civil War (1917-1923)
info soon - Soviet Union (1922–1991)
info soon - Russian Federation (Modern-Day)
info soon
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You've got it backwards! Backwards!
Hurry up and throw it! If you don't hurry up and throw it, you'll go "boom"!
Lazy admin is indeed lazy.
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I Summon thee from far away lands, come forth!
You called?
Timezone: Wherever Cheboksary is according to time zones.
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