[Fiji Hill]

The Russian state may not yet have formed in the 1200’s, but Russians were definitely around. The Teutonic Knights learned about them during the Battle of Lake Peipus in 1242. The depiction of that battle in Sergei Eisenstein’s movie Alexander Nevskii is one of the greatest battle scenes that I have ever seen.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

The Russian state may not yet have formed in the 1200’s, but Russians were definitely around.

In the 1200s, Russia was occupied by and parts of it were ruled by various slavic tribes, ancestors to modern Russians.