The Early Problems the Russian Empire Faced

During the early years of the 17th century when Russia wanted to form a sense of unity, there were about 220,000 people speaking over 100 various languages. The early development of the Russian Empire faced numerous problems when trying to unite their nation as one, including the language barrier talked about in the line before. When the officials would go around to these various tribes talking about uniting Russia, almost none of these tribes would speak the same languages. The representatives of "Russia" would need to be able to expert all of these 100 languages if they wanted to negotiate with these tribes. Another problem they faced was the fact that all of these tribes were hunter gatherers.

They did not want to settle down into communities and cities, but they just followed where ever the food went. Even with bribing these tribes to settle down into communities, the tribes would still follow their natural instincts of following and hunting the meat.

There was also a very large power struggle issue when the nation of Russia was emerging. With all of these tribes having a separate leaders all of whom had gained their respective positions through years of warfare, were not willing to just surrender their power to some official walking into their tribe. They had spilled their blood to get to where they were and this would not be an easy task for the officials to convince these leaders to withdraw their power and give it to these officials. Another point is these tribes had rival tribes that they fought for years and years, and they were not going to unite under one name with these very tribes that hated each other. These officials that went around through out the Russian boarders trying to unite Russia under one name had a very difficult task, but they eventually where able to do it after numerous years.