Why does Russia have so few castles?

There was no reason for Russians to fortify because nobody wants to invade Russia.

>>78312628
because if they had castles, mongols would have never been able to conquer them

useless for such strong and huge country, most castles are in Central Europe and its not a coincidence

>>78312628
Removed by commies or earlier

Mongols dont need a castles

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>>78312628
people do not like when russia takes their castles

>>78312628
That's because of low population number in medieval times.

>>78312956
We had less medieval population though and we still built a few castles in Finland

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It is actually quite easy. Russian laws of succession worked in a way that required feudal lord to regularly move from one place to another, so they never invested in something beautiful or linked to their family.
So we had a lot of kremlins cities and monasteries, but castles - very rarely.

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>>78315261
kremlins IN cities and monasteries*

Kremlin is basically a fortress

>>78312628
Woodland without easy accesible quarries твн. So old buildings were mostly wooden, with few exceptions of brick kremlins, churches and monasteries, and had ruined long ago

Winter tho

>>78312628
Medieval Russian architecture was primarily wooden, because our building technique sucked and building with stone was very expensive. Virtually all castles were made of wood and burnt down at some point.