ap world civ what is a multinational empire and why was russia more successful than the other multinational emmpires of the early modern peiod?

A multi national empire is a sovereign state that is made up of two or more nations.

Explanation:

Russian empire was successful because it was created through a mix of diplomacy and war. This happened when ivan 4 devastated the nobility by means of a secret police while gaining the loyalty of commercial classes by giving them positions in the new state bureaucracy.