>>196251Pure cope.
>Novgorod > MuscovyIt literally lost and its population was entirely genocided. Though both Novgorod and Muscovy were northern, Finno-Ugric-adjacent, principalities.
>St. Petersburg > Moscow1) the modern St. Petersburg is just a mediocre big city, no different from Novosibirsk or Kazan or Sochi, 2) the city itself is populated entirely by Slavs, only the countryside (extremely poor and depressing) retains the native folks.
>Finno-Ugric Russians > Slavic Russians (basically hohols thoughbeit)This is not true. The Finno-Ugric population characterizes the poorest regions of the country (the Urals, southern Siberia, European North) while the highly Slavic population characterizes the richest (the Far East, the Extreme North) ones. Ukrainians are also overrepresented in Russian politics and business.