Veche Assembly of Kyiv Rus: Scandinavians had a similar tradition, Muscovites never did

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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 in Russian cities...

Europeans perceive in Russians barbarians ‘rejoicing over the thought that something somewhere may be...

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The quote is taken from The Diary of a Writer: "I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I...

History of Rus-Ukraine, history of Muscovy-Russia

The "Gardariki, Ukraine" e-book below explains why it is so.

Future ‘Russians’ attacked Germany in the ranks of the Golden Horde in 1240’s

In the year 1254, King of France Louis IX sent an emissary to Batu Khan, who had his camp at the Volga River. The...

‘Russians’ are the Volga Finns, not Slavs

Waiver: All nations are equal and the Finns are one of the most advanced nations in Europe these days. The reason for writing this...

German leaflet of 1561 depicting Russian/Muscovite war atrocities in the area of present-day Latvia...

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"The earliest illustrated Livonian War pamphlet – “Sehr grewliche, erschröckliche, vor unerhörte, warhafftige Newe Zeitung was für grausame Tyrannei der Moscoviter ...” which translates...

Russia created a gigantic Jewish ghetto in Ukraine and Belarus 232 years ago: the...

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"On December 23, 1791, Catherine II (“the Great”), the empress of Russia, authorized the creation of the Pale of Settlement, an area in the...

The Russians of our times are the worthy children of the subjects of Ivan...

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"The social, intellectual, and political state of present Russia is the result, and, so to speak, the resume, of the reigns of Ivan IV.,...

How Tzar of Moscovy Peter I displayed his barbarism in London

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In 1698, Peter I was in London to acquire some personal insights into how the shipbuilding industry could be organized and run. A large...

Kyiv Rus vs. Golden Horde: Catherine II’s curious details about the first battle at...

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After Catherine II "the great" of Muscovy, died in 1796, among her papers, the 'Reflections on the Project of History of Russia' written in...