Catherine's major influences on her adopted country were in expanding Russia's borders and continuing the process of Westernisation begun by Peter the Great. During her reign she extended the ...

The Russian Armed Forces are one of the most powerful militaries in the contemporary world, molded over centuries of ...

18 at 6:17 a.m. American officers have parlayed their military experience into ... and fame as a war hero to command a Russian warship for Catherine the Great. Jones, a native of Scotland, arrived ...

Gifted at political calculation and shrewd in military strategy ... Often referred to as the “Russian Hamlet”, Paul is a tortured figure who struggles to cope with his father’s death and his mother’s ...

future Catherine the Great. Peter reigned for just over half a year, from December 1761 to June 1762, when he was overthrown by his own wife. During his reign, he managed to turn the military ...

MOSCOW, March 14. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has conferred the Order of Saint Catherine the Great Martyr upon Naina Yeltsina, widow of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin ...