I've been reading your Twitter feed and trying to share it with others, but most of them don't have Twitter and don't want to sign up and don't know how to get around the blocking "sign up please" dialog box. It would be awesome if you could "unroll" all of your threads here.
Each and every thread and long post I read from you is utterly incredible and goes beyond thorough into areas I kinda knew about, but also some that I had no clue about ie. this article. It's awesome understanding what makes russia tick.
Спасибо большое за вашу работу. Я о вас узнала из интервью с Юлией Латыниной и теперь регулярно читаю ваш Твиттер и телеграмм канал. Я также русский эмигрант проживающий в США. Я рада что вы с нами. У вас большое будущее!
Я надеюсь вас будут приглашать на интервью наши телевизионные каналы и газеты. Здесь не полностью понимают Россию и ваши знания очень пригодятся в грамотном разруливании ситуации в Украине. Я надеюсь советники президента Байдена понимают то о чем вы пишите в своём твиттере.
> The Neva delta would be a natural spot for that. And yet, this ‘rotten swamp’ as it was called by local Finnics was a terrible place to build a city.
This is a popular tale in Russian popular history (or national myth-making, same thing) and I'd bought into it too. However it turns out that the facts are a little different. The Neva delta was such a natural spot that during all of XVII c. there existed a sizeable Swedish town (Nien) and fortress (Nienschantz) within what by early XIX c. was city limits of St. Petersburg (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ниеншанц). The town was burned down by retreating Swedes during the Northern War, but parts of the fortress were reused by the Russians, and the villas of local Swedish nobles and rich people were reportedly taken over by high ranking Russian settlers. The high mortality of St. Petersburg construction workers is likely better explained by the typical Russian approach to forced labor, later exemplified in Soviet labor camps.
I'm very much loking forward to this substack. Your twitter threads have been one eye-opener after another.
I've been reading your Twitter feed and trying to share it with others, but most of them don't have Twitter and don't want to sign up and don't know how to get around the blocking "sign up please" dialog box. It would be awesome if you could "unroll" all of your threads here.
Love your skill of writing a difficult subject into a compact and easy to understand form.
Huge respect for you
Each and every thread and long post I read from you is utterly incredible and goes beyond thorough into areas I kinda knew about, but also some that I had no clue about ie. this article. It's awesome understanding what makes russia tick.
I learned sooo much from this piece, a lot of history that is generally neglected in curricula. Manyyyyy thanks! :v
+ 1 for adding your twitter threads to your Substack. Your writing on Russia / Ukraine is great but twitter isnt the ideal platform.
Неймовірно глибока та проаналізована публікація. Продовжуй в цьому ж дусі!
Great one, many thanks. Respect from China. One typo though - Taiping rebellion not Taping (太平天国)
Great stuff. Your Twitter is essential reading for the war. Thanks a bunch.
Спасибо большое за вашу работу. Я о вас узнала из интервью с Юлией Латыниной и теперь регулярно читаю ваш Твиттер и телеграмм канал. Я также русский эмигрант проживающий в США. Я рада что вы с нами. У вас большое будущее!
Я надеюсь вас будут приглашать на интервью наши телевизионные каналы и газеты. Здесь не полностью понимают Россию и ваши знания очень пригодятся в грамотном разруливании ситуации в Украине. Я надеюсь советники президента Байдена понимают то о чем вы пишите в своём твиттере.
Great , thanks
> The Neva delta would be a natural spot for that. And yet, this ‘rotten swamp’ as it was called by local Finnics was a terrible place to build a city.
This is a popular tale in Russian popular history (or national myth-making, same thing) and I'd bought into it too. However it turns out that the facts are a little different. The Neva delta was such a natural spot that during all of XVII c. there existed a sizeable Swedish town (Nien) and fortress (Nienschantz) within what by early XIX c. was city limits of St. Petersburg (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ниеншанц). The town was burned down by retreating Swedes during the Northern War, but parts of the fortress were reused by the Russians, and the villas of local Swedish nobles and rich people were reportedly taken over by high ranking Russian settlers. The high mortality of St. Petersburg construction workers is likely better explained by the typical Russian approach to forced labor, later exemplified in Soviet labor camps.
On that 1682 assessment map I did not see Arkhangelsk. Were Arkhangelsk citizens exempt?
Very well written!
typo: "contagious" -> "contiguous" :)