Moxel - Muscovy - Russia

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...

Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) was a British traveler whose book 'Travels in Russia' became a bestseller in Europe and was republished several times even...

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

The painting of Aleksander Orlowski portrays the massacre that the troops of Russian General Suvorov committed in one of the suburbs of the Polish...

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...

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.

According to Wikipedia, "despite their common name, guinea pigs are not native to Guinea, nor are they closely related biologically to pigs, and the...

"Their voices are hollow, primitive. The women have Chuvash and Mordvinian faces; and the men have criminal features that make them look like a...

William of Rubruck was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer. In 1248, he accompanied King Louis IX of France on the Seventh Crusade. On...

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: “On...