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, when dismissed by...
Phony ‘Potemkin villages’ explain a lot about Russian mindset, – Marquis de Custine in...
"In the midst of the fetes of Petersburg, I cannot forget the journey of Empress Catherine into the Crimea, and the facades of vilages,...
Russians looted toilets in Western Ukraine during WW1 already
Battle of Galicia also known as the Great Battle of Galicia, was a major battle between Russia and Austria-Hungary during the early stages of World War I in 1914. In the...
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 in Russian cities...
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 which he carried...
German leaflet of 1561 depicting Russian/Muscovite war atrocities in the area of present-day Latvia...
"The earliest illustrated Livonian War pamphlet – “Sehr grewliche, erschröckliche, vor unerhörte, warhafftige Newe Zeitung was für grausame Tyrannei der Moscoviter ...” which translates...
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 are disliked, I...
Ungrateful Russians forget how many times Americans saved them: Russian Povolzhye Famine of 1921-22
In The Russian Job, Douglas Smith’s account of the American Relief Administration’s effort to alleviate the catastrophic famine that afflicted Russia from 1921-23, Smith tells...
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 redacted by Prof....
Catherine II (‘the Great’) employed utmost artifice to keep secret the true history of...
Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) wrote in his famous book 'Travels in Russia' which became a bestseller in 19th-century Europe: "There is nothing in which the...
