Q: Are you interested in Russian Empire?

[Mortheim]

So, atm i'm reading a lof of sources on Russian Empire in 19th century. I thought: "Maybe people would be interested in its history without those stupid parts about that it was better than any other European country or that it was a s**thole". I will be honest - in reality it was much more closer to the latter.
You would learn about Volga Germans, why good liberal emperor Alexander II The Liberator was killed by liberal terrorists, what is peasant colonisation, why even 15% literacy is too high, why it isn't as bad as it sounds (SPOILER - higher population) and how fast can russians breed

 

[Gurkhal]

Sure, I'm interested. But what is it that you intend to do?

 

[Mortheim]

But what is it that you intend to do?

It is either question about my goals or format

I have two goals:
1) to educate people in history of my country;
2) to help developers with source material on Russian Empire 19th century for Victoria III;

And on format...I think i will create thread with posts. Every now and then (i think it will be period of 3 days) i will write about some important topic in one or more posts. And everyday i will drop small information as "Number of the day" using interesting facts that could be wrapped up in few sentences and somehow correspond to last or future text.

 

[Gurkhal]

It is either question about my goals or format

Ш have two goals:
1) to educate people in history of my country;
2) to help developers with source material on Russian Empire 19th century for Victoria III;

And on format...I think i will create thread with posts. Every now and then (i think it will be period of 3 days) i will write about some important topic in one or more posts. And everyday i will drop small information as "Number of the day" using interesting facts that could be wrapped up in few sentences and somehow correspond to last or future text.

Sure, sounds good. Write it up we'll see how it goes.

 

[Gurkhal]

Sorry for double posting.

This may or may not be what you're looking for but here are a few topics which interest me, at least, regarding the Russian Empire of the 19th and early 20th century.

- The Cossacks (you probably knew this would come up sooner or later )
- Women's history in the Russian Empire (from top to bottom)
- The Russo-Japanese War (I'm pretty interested in this particular war, for some reason which I can't explain)
- The Baltic Germans and their role in the Imperial Russian Army
- Russian expansion/imperialism/interests/whatever in the Far East
- The Great Game between the British and the Russian empires in Asia
- Social history of the Russian empire (from top to bottom)
- Situation for non-Russian (or perhaps non-Slavic) minorities in the Russian Empire
- Role of the Orthodox Church within the Russian Empire

 

[RELee]

This conversation is better suited in the History forum.

 

[Andre Bolkonsky]

With a name like this? What interest would I have in Russia.

 

[Graf Zeppelin]

How much ?

 

[Henry IX]

Yes. But then again I am interested in just about everything.

 

[mayorqw]

Sure, I'm game

 

[Mr. Capiatlist]

Expanding on what my demi-moderator said: this thread is best split in two.

1) If you want a thread purely on Russian history, regardless of time period, to open frank discussion on the history itself - please use the OT History forum.
2) If you have specific suggestions to improve the accuracy of Russian history in Victoria II - please start a thread in the Suggestions forum.

Thank you.

 

[Had a dad]

2) If you have specific suggestions to improve the accuracy of Russian history in Victoria II - please start a thread in the Suggestions forum.

Victoria II is not in production, don't start a thread about how to improve V2 in the V2 forum.