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...
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...
How Tzar of Moscovy Peter I displayed his barbarism in London
In 1698, Peter I was in London to acquire some personal insights into how the shipbuilding industry could be organized and run. A large...
George F. Kennan’s Essay on De Custine’s ‘Russia in 1839’: the Best Book about...
George F. Kennan (1904 – 2005) was an American diplomat and historian. He was best known as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet...
Stalin-Hitler similarities and joint aims in WWII. Does Putin’s Russia have those traits now?
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...
Moxel, ‘race of pure pagans’ to the north of Rus described by Willliam of...
William of Rubruck was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer. In 1248, he accompanied King Louis IX of France on the Seventh Crusade. On...
‘Ukraine’ and ‘Muscovy’ names in the 1669 issue of The London Gazette
The London Gazette - Wikipedia is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and...
Russians hurl accusations at their victims in order to justify their own rancor; They...
"During his change of horse-relays, Turgenev asked to see Custine. There then ensued, presumably at the postal station, a most curious verbal exchange, the...
Voltaire described the effect of Muscovite Orthodox religion: Encouragement to Wickedness
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.
Majority of Russians are Tartars fond of destruction, – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I believe, this no one will dispute. Inter alia we, all...
