Russia: a mixture of ideologies Russia. The biggest country in the world. Every text or presentation, conected with the russian state, is suposed to begin with this sentence. And there are a lot of reasons for that. Russia has not only the biggest territory but also a history, which contains plenty of changes, which led to the succes of the russian people. The christianization of the Rus set up the begining of the existence of the most east state in Europe as equal to the others, which have the honour to call themselves part of the christian civilization. The russian tsardom was wroten down in the history books as the succesor of the byzantine empire, being the only independent orthodox state in the world. After the win against Sweeden Russia become an empire. That was officialy recognized by the church, which was reformed a bit later by the first emperor Peter I. Under the ruling of the Romanov house the russian empire got more stronger than ever. The more glorious the name of the russian state and emperor was becoming, the more the western enemies and "allies" were trying to conquer this land. However they did not succee. The empire fell after the revolution and several years later there was formed the soviet union. The USSR developed the infrastructure of the lands between baltic sea and the pacific, it reached the space, won the greatest war in the human history, but some errors just like the politic against the religion, the unefective work of some not so good educated leader led to the colapse of one of the greatest countries in the 20. century. The USSR was followed by the Russian Federation. Its first decade was not succesful but in the new century it is devloping faster and faster. In the near future I would like to write a serie of notebooks about the most significant people in the history of Russia, starting with knyaz' Vladimir and ending with the current leaders of the RF. If something offends your nationalities, I am not responsible. And just do not offend yourself, because everything I am going to write is from a subjective point of view.