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According to some authors, the traditional geopolitics can be seen as a tool to legitimize the expansion of powerful states. Tsarist Russia was in the 19th century undoubtedly one such powerful state. This paper deals with the geopolitical ideas that originated in Russia before the 19th century and its aim is to analyze the ways in which the expansion of the state in the 19th century can be interpreted, using the ideas of geopolitics.