Peter I was known as Tzar of Moscovy until he captured the heartland of...
In the previous article, we quoted a famous British writer John Evelyn whose property Peter I destroyed while living in it for three months. Notably, John...
Ancient Kyiv Spoke ‘Direct Ancestor’ of the Ukrainian Language, famous linguist A. Krymsky proved....
Agathangel Krymsky (1871-1942) was a polyglot who was fluent in 35 languages (some estimates put it at up to 60), including Arabic, Persian, Turkish,...
Ivan IV the Terrible was not a Tzar. Forged title credentials
The Wikipedia page on the Fire of Moscow in 1571, has the following information: "In 1561, Muscovites "received a letter from the Patriarch of...
Moscow appanage was insignificant until in 1276 the Mongols gave it to Nevsky’s son...
Richard Pipes (July 11, 1923 – May 17, 2018) was an American academic who specialized in Russian and Soviet history. In 1976, he headed...
Rurik, ‘Founder of Rus’ Dynasty’, Never Existed: Moscow may have invented the whole story...
Muscovy-’Russia’ clings to Rurik with such ferocity as if this figure affects not only its history, but the very right to be called a...
‘Dostoyevsky hated the Mongolian strain in the Russians,’ – Fyodor’s daughter Lyubov Dostoyevsky
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...
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...
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...
Original Rus was centered in Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Pereyaslavl only; Even Novgorod was NOT...
Academician Borys Rybakov (1908-2001) was a Soviet and Russian archeologist and historian who held a Chair in Russian history at Moscow University since 1939,...
Muscovy-Russia, Ugly Replica of the Golden Horde
Famous travel-blogger of the 18th century Edward Clarke in his bestselling book 'Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey' repeated the facts about Muscovy that...
