Why did most Europeans think of Russia as being more Asian than European, even though most of its population lived within Europe’s borders?
a) Russia’s vast Siberian lands, autocratic government, and weak protections given to private property seemed to resemble places like China or Turkey more than European nations.
b) Europeans had always seen Russia as Asian, particularly because of its adherence to Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
Consider This: Russian tsars claimed service from every noble or peasant. See 5.6: Narrative: The Great Embassy.
c) The Slavic language of Russia seemed too foreign to most speakers of the Romance or Germanic tongues of Western Europe.
Consider This: Russian tsars claimed service from every noble or peasant. See 5.6: Narrative: The Great Embassy.
d) Most novels about Russia unfairly painted it as an alien Asian nation, an idea many Western European readers adopted.
Consider This: Russian tsars claimed service from every noble or peasant. See 5.6: Narrative: The Great Embassy.
a) Russia’s vast Siberian lands, autocratic government, and weak protections given to private property seemed to resemble places like China or Turkey more than European nations.
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