How Peter I of Russia capitulated to Turks: Pruth Campaign

After the Poltava defeat, the wounded Charles XII of Sweden and Hetman Mazepa of Ukraine stayed in Moldova which was under the protection of...

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 works on theology, history (Islamic...

Kremlin, Sacred Asylum of Oriental Despotism, Palace of Tyrant, – Marquis de Custine in...

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"The Kremlin is not like any other palace, it is a city in itself; a city that forms the ioot of Moscow, and that...

‘Dostoyevsky hated the Mongolian strain in the Russians,’ – Fyodor’s daughter Lyubov Dostoyevsky

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Lyubov Dostoevskaya is best known for the book Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter, originally published in Munich in 1920. The quotes below are from the 1922...

Russians are semi-Asiatic, drilled, but not civilized; they resemble ‘trained bears who make you...

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"Russians… tread in the steps of European elegance, without knowing that refinement of habits has no value except as it announces the existence of...

Anthropology of Indigenous ‘Russians’: A. Uvarov’s excavations of Meryan settlements near Moscow

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Starting in 1851, Count Aleksey Uvarov, a Russian archeologist often considered to be the founder of the study of the prehistory of Russia and the...

Muscovy-Russia paid tribute to Crimean Khans until the Treaty of Constantinople was signed in...

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The Treaty of Constantinople was concluded on 13 July 1700. The Tsardom of Russia and the Ottoman Empire agreed on a truce set to expire...

Muscovy-Russia on the map of the Mongolian Empire

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Ex-Mongolian Leader Shares Empire Map to Mock Putin's Ukraine Claims Putin has relied on historical borders to argue Ukraine is part of Russia and to...

‘Keeping Pledge to Hitler’: How Moscow allied with Nazis and started WW2

Harvard Professor Robert C. Tucker, a political scientist and historian in his second Stalin biography, Stalin in Power: The Revolution From Above: 1928-1941, wrote:...

Russia should be renamed back to Muscovy, Ukraine insists

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Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova made a propaganda statement about the transformation of Ukraine into “anti-Russia.“The man in the bunker (that Zakharova calls...