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,...
After Warsaw Uprising of 1830, Moscow declared that the Poles form one nation with...
The editors of Edward Clarke's Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey published in 1839 in Edinburgh by William and Robert Chambers...
The Rus are a Great Nation living on the coast of the Black Sea...
al-Masudi (c. 896–956), was a historian, geographer, and traveler. He is sometimes referred to as the 'Herodotus of the Arabs'. A polymath and prolific author of over twenty...
Novgorod the Great was a ‘Ukrainian’ city founded by Kyiv a century later than...
Per Wikipedia, Valentin Yanin (1929 - 2020) was a leading Russian historian who authored 700 books and articles whose expertise was especially Novgorod the...
‘In Russia cannot be even one man who would not be addicted to lying,”...
Lately, I was suddenly struck by the thought that in Russia, among our educated classes, there cannot be even one man...
Voltaire described the effect of Muscovite Orthodox religion: Encouragement to Wickedness
Philip II of Moscow (1507 - 1569) Russian Orthodox monk, who became Metropolitan of Moscow during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. He was one of a few Metropolitans who dared openly to contradict royal authority, and it is widely believed that the Tsar had him murdered on that account.
