User blog comment:GunsnadGlory/Common Misconceptions of History Part 2: Great Empires/@comment-3528888-20140318221634/@comment-4727448-20140321040817

Let's count the major Russian victories. Since it is such a failed state, there should be few, yes?

1500s

Russo-Turkish War

Russo-Swedish War

1600s

Russo-Polish War

Russo-Turkish War

1700s

Great Northern War

Russo-Persian War

Russo-Austro-Turkish War

Russo-Swedish War

Bar War

Russo-Turkish War three times

Polish-Russian War

Persian Expedition

1800s

Russo-Persian War again

Finnish War

Wars of the Sixth and Seventh Coalitions

Russo-Persian War again again

Russo-Turkish War again again again again again again

and then again

1900s

Unification of the USSR

First Sino Soviet Conflict

Soviet-Japanese Conflict

Winter War

Conquest of Poland

World War II

Soviet-Japanese Pacific War

Baltic War

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Ethio-Somali War

East Prigorodny Thing

Georgian Civil War

Dagestan

Second Chechen

Russo-Georgian

Not to mention all the countless feats the Russians pulled off in wars they lost

They captured Berlin as previously stated.

They kicked Napoleon off his high horse and pretty much started the endless downward spiral for the French Empire.

They also got rid of the Nazis while keeping the Japanese at bay at the same time.

Also all those little guerilla conflicts during the Cold War.