>>511304787 (OP)If you're asking why it's not as wealthy as the United States, there is a variety of reasons for that, mainly geography. While the United States has two oceans which separates it and protects it from war and capital destruction, Russia is in the middle of Eurasia and has suffered from two major land wars that entailed massive capital loss and human losses in the 8 digits figures.
Its lack of access to warm seas, its permanent rivalry with the Anglo-American Empire which had a first mover advantage in industrialization as well as the Communist revolution which suppressed its booming markets on the early 1900s have all contributed in the divergence of trajectories between Russia and the US in terms of wealth despite Russia having all the ingredients to become the wealthiest nation ever with its massive territory, population and resources.
Now, it is worth mentionning that wealth is not everything. Russia remains a great power and a major European country with accomplishments in many fields that dwarf those of its resentful neighbors. Russians sent the first man and woman to space, developed the first satellites, produced world class litterature, etc. I never really understood the arrogance and pettiness of their resentful neighbors whose rhetoric mimics that of brownoids seething because they got colonized by their sophisticated European overlords. If Russia is a '' shithole '' and you got conquered by a '' shithole '', what does that make them ? Inside their Empire, they could vicariously share in the accomplishments of Russians. Alone they have nothing. Today, balts are dying out with some of the worst TFRs on the planet, funnily enough, their population boomed under the Soviets, which means that under Russian dominion, there has never been as many balts existing in the entire cosmos.