<span>The climate has played a crucial role in Russia in all its epochs; and
while the history books tell us about the defeat of the armies of
Napoleon and Hitler in the Russian winter, also this cold weather,
together with the great borders of Russia, which kept it sufficiently
distant from Western Europe, so as not to to be carried away by the influences of the Renaissance and the industrial revolution; has made Russia a country that has been able to stay out of the most important historical events. But
also, the cold has played against the Russians, who have always had
serious agricultural problems, lack of land, little livestock, few
months to cultivate and terrible famines. <span>Life in
Russia, leaving aside wars, although isolated from the rest of the world
at times, has been hard simply because its inhabitants, always had to
fight to eat and survive the terrible cold.</span></span>
