what is it for the neighbors of the Russian Federation and for itself?
Russian Federation between the Russian Empire and Muscovy
Why is the theme of the difference between the Russian Empire and Muscovy so important for adherents of “historical Russia”? And the second, related to, but having a much more practical meaning of the question, is why the Russian Federation initially rejected the borders in which it arose, which are recognized in the recognized world, and began to fight for the return of “historical Russia”?
The problem with building Russia as a state that broke away from the USSR was that it was simply recognized as a fact that generates interests, but not comprehended from a perspective. Meanwhile, it could be recognized as the theses of its opponents about the return to the borders of the XVII century of the Muscovite kingdom. But his childhood with a plus sign, and not a minus sign, was possible only in one case – if childhood, that Russia was enslaved was not in the Soviet Union, as the early Yeltsin said, but also in the Russian Empire.
How can such a thing be thought? Perhaps, if it turns out that it was in the Muscovite kingdom that (at that moment) another geographical core of peoples arose, the unity of presence, due to their intertwining, was preserved even when the peoples and lands annexed during the Russian Empire fell away from it.
But this, in turn, could be done only in one case – if you find that Russians in some cases have the meaning of this word, as an ethnos not in “Kievan Rus”, but on the territory of modern Russia or Great Russia, in the Oka-Volzhsky interfluve. And Muscovy in such cases could be set up as an original state of the Great Russians, while the creation of only the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union was not as subordination to the organic non-fixation of their peoples, but as the beginning of the enslavement of her choice of peoples.
But the Kremlin had neither the desire nor the opportunity to think so important, since this requires the presence of historians and ideologists, who even now in Russian society can be counted according to one hand. Others in the search for a “national idea” may begin to return familiar and familiar symbols of the sovereign history of the Soviet Union and the empire of the Russian Federation, which came as a surprise already under Yeltsin, and culminated under Putin.
It is not surprising that this impregnated Soviet-imperial spirit, its bearers and the state decided to build.