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According to Wikipedia, Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (c. 1600 – 1673) was a French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect. Beauplan served as artillery captain for the army of the Crown of the Kingdom...

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...

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...

"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...

According to the Early Slavs - Wikipedia page, “A 2025 comprehensive archaeogenetic study published in Nature on 555 samples out of which 359 from the...

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...

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 map was made by a famous German geographer and cartographer Johann Baptist Homann. The map is valuable not just because it can serve as...

In 2022, the civilized world shuddered with horror at the images of executed civilians in the city of Bucha. Then there was the bombed...

"The picture of Russian manners varies little with reference to the prince or the peasant. The first nobleman in the empire, when dismissed by...