Ethnographische Karte des Russischen Reiches 19. Jahrhundert

Do you have a high def source? Thank you

*according to the tzar

Nationalism has caused closely related groups of Russians to become divided and hostile. Despite cultural and linguistic similarities, just over 100 years after its founding, Little Russia considered itself a distinct nation from Greater Russia, even though DNA analysis suggested otherwise. Just like Germany and Austria, it’s as ridiculous as the South Slavs considering themselves Macedonians.

Mobile version pls? 🙏
This looks great!

Yeaaah i don’t exist

I know the post itself has a legend, but it’s all blurry. Do you have one to read?

Of course a russian wants to spread more of their antique russian narratives.

Everyone speaking about ukraine, ukranians are little russian people from the territory of malorussia and the “little” is not a dispregiative term as we can see it being used by the ukranians themselves (read the citation of Ataman skoropadskii about the importance of union between little and great Russians.) the thing is that ukraine and ukranian are geographical concepts wich correspond to at the border and habitant of the border, in fact even Chechens and Caucasian defined themselves as ukranians even thought being quite obviously a totally different etnicity. Ukraine and concept of ukranians are pure fruit of the soviet work of ukraninisation done in the first years of the Soviet Union were people were forced to speak ukranian and a “history” was created based on fact actually derived from Russia. So yes there is nothing wrong in this map

Us Poles are so powerful that we bended the reality and the map allowed us to exist on a liminal plane.

I have to say that it is what it is. Most of my family is from the Center and South of Ukraine. They all considered themselves Russian in the 19th and 20th century. I have asked my grandmother, who in her youth has asked her relatives. I was recently there (before the war) and one granny (older than my grandmother) said – „We used to be Russians, Soviets, Ukrainians – whatever. Our labels change, but we are still the same people here and our children didn’t change their blood. So now we are Ukrainian. Go explain that all of your (or almost all) ancestors were ethnic Russians and that you speak Russian. Now my grandchildren and their children study in Ukrainian, they have new documents, where my oldest grandson turned from Mikhail to Mikhailo. What are you going to do? That’s life“

I am paraphrasing her and translating, but this is the essence of what she said with all the points she made. It struck me.

Ethnographic map of an empire renowned for it’s ethnic cleansings and displacement of native peoples. I bet that’s very reliable.

Prison of nations