For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III — understood ...

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III — understood that ...

Petersburg, Russia, is one of the most iconic masterpieces of imperial Russian architecture. Originally built in 1717 by order of Catherine I, the second wife of Peter the Great, the palace was ...

The USSR lost twenty-seven million people during WWII, and it is estimated around 8.7 million of these deaths were Russian military members ... talks about the Great Patriotic War 2.0 or the ...

Last week, after 50 years of tyranny and repression, the government of Bashar Assad fell in Syria. It fell thanks to a ...

A large-scale Russian attack on the city of Kherson on 20 December damaged a significant architectural landmark and one of the city's oldest Orthodox churches, St Catherine's Cathedral.

Patriarch Kirill has upheld his side of the devil’s bargain, frequently preaching in support of Mr Putin’s culture wars as well as his military ones. Mr Putin urges Russian women to have seven ...

De Madariaga wrote her classic Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great (just republished by Phoenix Press ... He then embarks on the modernisation of Russian society and the military with an ...