Was Imperial Russia the peak of Central/Eastern Europe?
>>221879258Unironically yes
>>221879258>EasternYes.>CentralNo.
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>>221879258They had Tchaikovsky so maybe yes
>>221879258In fact, they are the only one historically relevant country in Eastern Europe
>>221879368ukraine was part of an europe
>>221879258No. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was.
>>221879534ranjeep, the floors are still dirty
>>221879258It was a shithole where only 2 cities mattered and everything else was dirt and peasants. But that was the case all over Europe. What matters is that it's still a shithole where only 2 cities matter, while the rest of Europe moved past that.
>>221879258i'd say ussr tsarist russia was a shithole, modern russia is basically a reincarnation of it>>221881090most jewish state in modern history
>>221879258backwards shithole. the true backwardness of this painting is not understood before you realize there on the right in the background is a german made steam barge
>>221879258Imperial russia was a shithole peasant state with neverending violence to eachother
>>221882840>>221885237It kind of makes a lot more sense if you look at it as a colonial empire ruled by Sankt Petersburg rather than a "Russian" Empire, more like a Baltic German Empire rather then "Russia". Russians were one the many nations subjugated by it. It wasn't until WW1 and the first republic when a Russian national sort of existed.
