Napoleon’s View of His Russian Campaign: only extreme and premature winter spoiled our triumph
Discourse at the Opening of the Legislative Body. Palais des Tuileries, Feb. 14, 1813. "I entered Russia. The French armies were constantly victorious on the...
Russia’s Modus Operandi in Exterminating Smaller Nations: Poland, Baltics, Ukraine
Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) was a British traveler whose book 'Travels in Russia' became a bestseller in Europe and was republished several times even...
‘Russia, Prison of Peoples’ term was coined by de Custine in 1839
Marquis de Custine in his La Russie en 1839 coined the description of Russia as the prison of the peoples. Below are the quotes from...
Every Russian is responsible for creating ‘the stinking swamp of a society based on...
"This realm of darkness, of falsehood, or brute force, of justice denied and distrust of the good, this slimy swamp was formed by us,...
Catherine II, the butcher of the Polish Commonwealth: Suvorov troops and Warsaw Massacre of...
The painting of Aleksander Orlowski portrays the massacre that the troops of Russian General Suvorov committed in one of the suburbs of the Polish...
‘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...
‘Russia’ has the same relation to Kyiv Rus as the Guinea Pig to the...
According to Wikipedia, "despite their common name, guinea pigs are not native to Guinea, nor are they closely related biologically to pigs, and the...
‘In Russia cannot be even one man who would not be addicted to lying,”...
"Lately, I was suddenly struck by the thought that in Russia, among our educated classes, there cannot be even one man who wouldn't be...
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...
The Rus are a Great Nation living on the coast of the Black Sea...
al-Masudi (c. 896–956), was a historian, geographer, and traveler. He is sometimes referred to as the 'Herodotus of the Arabs'. A polymath and prolific author of over twenty works on theology, history (Islamic...
