Unlike Rome (the first Rome), Moscow, Russia have in their imperial impulse a deep teleological, eschatological meaning. Hegel developed an interesting concept that the Absolute Idea in an eschatological situation should manifest itself in a final, “conscious” form in the form of the Prussian state. However, on a planetary scale, Prussia, and even Germany, taken separately, are geopolitically insufficient to be taken seriously in this concept. Russia, the Third Rome, both religiously, culturally, spatially, and strategically perfectly corresponds to a similar teleological view of the essence of history and clearly seeks to fulfill this very mission. The absolute idea of Hegel in the case of Russia is the spiritual root of Russian imperial construction, gravitating towards the civilizational development of the continent-Eurasia. It is absurd to apply such serious Hegelian criteria to a "nation-state", which obviously implies other "nation-states" next to it with their own goals, myths and interests. To communicate such a relative structure to the quality of absolute significance is rather absurd. But in the case of a gigantic Empire based on specific, largely paradoxical, and in some ways not entirely clarified principles, it’s a completely different matter, and it was not by chance that the ancient Empires were called “Holy Empires”: the quality of “holiness” was communicated to them by the?fulfillment of a special spiritual mission, tentatively representing the "Empire of the End," the continental Kingdom of the Absolute Idea. which obviously implies other “nation-states” with their own goals, myths and interests. To communicate such a relative structure to the quality of absolute significance is rather absurd. But in the case of a gigantic Empire based on specific, largely paradoxical, and in some ways not entirely clarified principles, it’s a completely different matter, and it was not by chance that the ancient Empires were called “Holy Empires”: the quality of “holiness” was communicated to them by the fulfillment of a special spiritual mission, tentatively representing the "Empire of the End," the continental Kingdom of the Absolute Idea. which obviously implies other “nation-states” with their own goals, myths and interests. To communicate such a relative structure to the quality of absolute significance is rather absurd. But in the case of a gigantic Empire based on specific, largely paradoxical, and in some ways not entirely clarified principles, it’s a completely different matter, and it was not by chance that the ancient Empires were called “Holy Empires”: the quality of “holiness” was communicated to them by the fulfillment of a special spiritual mission, tentatively representing the "Empire of the End," the continental Kingdom of the Absolute Idea.

The Russian people moved step by step precisely to this goal. At each stage of the expansion of their state, the Russians went to the next stage of messianic universalism, first rallying the Eastern Slavs, then including the Turkic stream of the steppes and Siberia, then moving south into the deserts and mountains, and finally forming a gigantic political bloc controlling in the Soviet period, literally, half the world. If you realize that the Russian people in their essence are this imperial-building process, the strong-willed?geopolitical vector of creating a “state of the Absolute Idea,” it will become completely obvious that the existence of the Russian people directly depends on the continuation of this process, on its development, on its intensification.