It also went through an enlightenment within the same window as the rest of Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Enlightenment https://en.wikipedia.or

It also went through an enlightenment within the same window as the rest of Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Enlightenment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Enlightenment I wouldnt argue it in isolation, but among other things, having experienced a transformative enlightenment, is largely what we use to label a country as Western. Russia Westernized under Catherine the Great.