Phony ‘Potemkin villages’ explain a lot about Russian mindset, – Marquis de Custine in...
"In the midst of the fetes of Petersburg, I cannot forget the journey of Empress Catherine into the Crimea, and the facades of vilages,...
How Moscow Became Capital in 1327 and what the Golden Horde had to do...
Harvard academic Dr. Richard Pipes who specialized in Russian history described in his most famous book published almost 50 years ago, the way Moscow...
‘Ukraine or the Cossacks Land’ map of 1720
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...
Russia is a ‘cancer’ that could destroy the world, Lithuania’s first post-Soviet leader says
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...
‘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...
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,...
‘Ukraine’ and ‘Muscovy’ names in a 1650 book title by French engineer Beauplan
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...
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...
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,...
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...
