While the Europeans were settling in the America's the Russian Empire was also expanding and becoming "one of the great empires of the modern era." The creation of this empire was a conquest for Russians and similarly to the Europeans conquest of the Americas, it brought with it the deaths of many natives, such as in Siberia, whose immunities could not withstand what was coming for them. If they were not killed off, most likely the Siberians adopted the lifestyle of the Russians, even converting to Christianity and learning their language to survive.
Russia was a great power of Europe as well as Asia, and although it was powerful, being stuck between Europe and Asia did give Russia somewhat of an "identity crisis" that they are still figuring out in the 21st century. It's interesting to find out that of all the Empires/colonies that came about in the modern era, it was the Russian Empire that lasted up until 1991.
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