Why We Should Think About The Third Rome
Channel: Empire-Builders
Date: 2024-02-20

"In 882 Rurik's successor, Prince Oleg, who was actually playing the role of regent at Rurik's yong son. Because Rurik had died by that time, came to Kiev. He ousted two brothers who apparently had once been members of Rurik's squad..." 

Sources & further reading:
The Story of Russia (Orlando Figes)
Peter the Great: His Life and World (Robert K Massie)
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 (Simon Sebag Montefiore)
Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair (Simon Sebag Montefiore)
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Simon Sebag Montefiore)
Young Stalin (Simon Sebag Montefiore)
The Cambridge History of Russia: From Early Rus to 1689 (Kollektiv Avtorov)
The Cambridge History of Russia: From 1689 to 1917 (Kollektiv Avtorov)
Napoleon: A Life (Andrew Roberts)

Footage:
-Tucker Carlsen Interview with Vladimir Putin (2024)
-Ivan the Terrible Parts I-II, Sergei Eisenstein (1944, 1958)
-Alexander Nevsky, Sergei Eisenstein (1938)
-War and Peace Parts I-IV, Sergei Bondarchuk (1966-67)
-The Scarlet Empress, Josef von Sternberg (1934)
-The Youth of Peter the Great, Parts I-II (1980)