‘Ukraine or the Cossacks Land’ map of 1720
The map was made by a famous German geographer and cartographer Johann Baptist Homann. The map is valuable not just because it can serve as...
Russian ‘Czar’ title is of Oriental origin, – Marquise de Custine
"The princes who now possess this sacred asylum of oriental despotism call themselves Europeans, because they have chased the Calmucs, their brethren, their...
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...
After the Warsaw Uprising in November of 1830, Moscow declared that the Poles form...
The editors of Edward Clarke's Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey published in 1839 in Edinburgh by William and Robert Chambers described the events...
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...
Russia should be renamed back to Muscovy, Ukraine insists
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...
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...
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....
How Russia brought about World War Two
After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles limited the German Army number to 100 thousand men and forbade Germany from producing or purchasing...
Mongolian slavery, NOT democratic Kyiv Rus, formed Muscovy-Russia
“The bloody mire of Mongolian slavery, not the rude glory of the Norman epoch, forms the cradle of Muscovy, and modern Russia is but...
