‘Kremlin’ derives from Tartar word for fortress

British traveler of the 18th century Dr. Clarke sounded very confident describing the etymology of the word 'Kremlin'. In his bestselling book 'Travels in...

Russian Orthodox Church: Imposters and Murderers

According to the Wikipedia page, "On 5 January 2019, Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, signed the Tomos that officially recognized and established...

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...

Europeans perceive in Russians barbarians ‘rejoicing over the thought that something somewhere may be...

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The quote is taken from The Diary of a Writer: "I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I...

Dostoyevsky: ‘Scratch a Russian and you will find a Tartar’

The quote is taken from The Diary of a Writer: "I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I...

Secret of Moscovy’s Extraordinary Expansion to current ‘Russia’ borders? Slavery

Harvard Professor Richard Pipes starts a new chapter of his book "Russia Under the Old Regime" with the following quote of Sigismund Herberstein, a...

‘Russians’ are the Volga Finns, not Slavs

Waiver: All nations are equal and the Finns are one of the most advanced nations in Europe these days. The reason for writing this...

Every Russian is responsible for creating ‘the stinking swamp of a society based on...

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"This realm of darkness, of falsehood, or brute force, of justice denied and distrust of the good, this slimy swamp was formed by us,...

Novgorod the Great was a ‘Ukrainian’ city founded by Kyiv a century later than...

Per Wikipedia, Valentin Yanin (1929 - 2020) was a leading Russian historian who authored 700 books and articles whose expertise was especially Novgorod the Great, where he...

Russia is a ‘cancer’ that could destroy the world, Lithuania’s first post-Soviet leader says

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The world needs to be cured of Russia, the first president of post-Soviet Lithuania said Friday. “Russia has become a cancer of Europe and the...