‘Very gruesome, shocking, unheard-of true new tidings of the cruel tyranny of the Muscovites...
The earliest illustrated Livonian War pamphlet – “Sehr grewliche, erschröckliche, vor unerhörte, warhafftige Newe Zeitung was für grausame Tyrannei der Moscoviter...
Veche Assembly of Kyiv Rus: Scandinavians had a similar tradition, Muscovites never did
Per Wikipedia, Veche was a popular assembly during the Middle Ages. The veche is mentioned during the times of Kyiv Rus and it later became a powerful institution...
Europeans perceive in Russians barbarians ‘rejoicing over the thought that something somewhere may be...
The quote is taken from The Diary of a Writer: "I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they...
Moscow was not founded in 1147 by Yury Dolgoruky. The name ‘Moskva’ is likely...
The Chronicle of Novgorod published in 1914 is an invaluable document for many reasons. One of them is that it was...
Russian Fervent Patriots and Finnish Buffet, – A. Kuprin’s observation of ugly Russian nature...
"I remember about five years ago I had to come to Imatra for a day with the writers Bunin and...
Muscovy-Russia, Ugly Replica of the Golden Horde
Famous travel-blogger of the 18th century Edward Clarke in his bestselling book 'Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey' repeated the facts...
Russian peasants are worn-out folks with emaciated faces, uncombed hair dressed in zipuns full...
In his 1898 short story “The Cossack Way,” Ivan Bunin writes: “I liked the khokhly very much at first sight. I...
Sharp difference exists between Ukrainians and Russians, – Ivan Bunin, the first Russian Noble...
Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933. He was noted for the strict artistry with...
Every Russian is responsible for creating ‘the stinking swamp of a society based on...
"This realm of darkness, of falsehood, or brute force, of justice denied and distrust of the good, this slimy swamp was...
Servile to superiors, haughty and cruel to their dependents – description of Russia 200...
The picture of Russian manners varies little with reference to the prince or the peasant. The first nobleman in the empire,...